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At 17:48 on March 16, 2024, Ronald Drysdale said…

Also, your Alexander Drysdale and Christian Donaldson couple are about 100+ years down the line.

regards

Ron

At 23:42 on March 15, 2024, Pauline Baker said…

Thanks for the add everywhere, William. I am looking forward to meeting some people! 

At 16:21 on January 17, 2024, Nicholas Timothy Pink said…

Thanks for your help, that looks interesting. I will read that when I get a moment to myself. Thanks for your help on my behalf. 

At 11:44 on January 17, 2024, Nicholas Timothy Pink said…

Hi William, sorry about the delay in getting back to you but I am busy at work. I run a Financial Consultancy in the South of England and still work full-time, even at my age.

I am 2/3 viking by DNA and 25% Celtic, which is where I think the Douglas link comes from. I guess some of my viking ancestors had relations with people in the North of the UK i.e. Scotland now. I have not as yet traced things back, but I am aware my family name were big land owners in the Yourkshire area years ago, which makes sense with the viking bit as that is mostly where they landed. I need to sit down and do a bit of ancestry tracing one day if I can.

At 16:00 on January 16, 2024, Terry Douglas Irons said…

It is definitely Orval Douglas. He is my paternal grandfather. His father is James David Douglas. They are from West Virginia. I can track back to a John Dowgals married to Bethia Dennis.  I am then stuck.  Thank you for the welcome! Terry

At 20:37 on January 6, 2024, Sarah Douglas said…

Thanks William.  I will try and upload the family tree as far as I have got.  There's one place where there were about three "George"s to choose from so will try and add my reasoning for choosing the one I did!

At 3:07 on December 19, 2023, Karon "Jeni" Davis said…

I've tried to research this area too. My adopted uncle was a Lutz. There's a Freeland Camp in Saginaw, MI. where a woman named Adele Lutz did nurse mission flight to France and died there. He wasn't her child but info says she had several siblings. Wallenburg and Lutz (You can just put in your search bar) were in MI and Wisconsin for some reason. I don't know if there's a connection. My DNA shows a Cherinawski cousin and one was allowed to stay in England after the war for privacy reasons. There's more but this is things i've read over the years and my only connection is mostly names. My grandfather and his brother retired from Ford. His brother was in the corporate and mine was tool and die.or dye?

At 3:01 on December 19, 2023, Karon "Jeni" Davis said…

I also have pictures. One is on a carboard type substance. It says Grandma LaPointe on the back. My grandfather was in WWII- America - Navy. He had a funeral with the flag, etc. Gun Salutes but I don't know what he did. I had another letter from his dad to Clara. he asked her how much more weight did he need to lose to fly. I don't think he was in WWII. He and Clara divorced. He moved to Galveston, TX. They did bring him back for his burial - I think I was told that. I wonder how we could be related to the Cheverie boys that died in WWII. I think I read there was 3. One weird thing and I have no idea where it is. There was a social security card that had the name, Cora Rodgers. My great grandmother was Clara and none of her sisters were named Cora. There was also a "Brother Archer' that Elizabeth wrote about visiting in a letter.

At 2:54 on December 19, 2023, Karon "Jeni" Davis said…

William,

I'm not desperately trying to connect them. Mine says William from Ireland but I do have 14 letters from the mid 1800's my grandfather kept in a locked room. One letter, written by Elizabeth Matthews, Elizabeth states that she is taking care of Mr. Whitworth. I'd be happy to share. Most of the letters are from the sisters. Clara, Elizabeth's daughter and her sister wrote to each other about how their hens were laying. I do have letters from John II and Clara. He does write, "To My Favorite Cousin." I was trying to see if it's possible that there's a mishap because my grandmother's side is also Canada on her dads side. His was Kimmerly, Anderson, Aquire, Maxson. There's one letter written by Clara. She is in a Catholic hospital and says she's going to be very good to John. She wrote that she could hear "Sister Euphrasia praying in the next room." I have the family line. We are Joseph Lapointe and Nancy Fox. Our Cheverie was from PEI, Canada.

At 1:18 on October 27, 2023, Simon Daniel Owen said…

Hi sorry for the delayed reply, regarding Daniel Douglas and 

Letitia Dorsett (Dossett) they are my paternal 2nd Great-grandparents born 1854 and 1849 respectively. They are also my current brick wall as i have been unable to find any birth or baptism records for either of them, So far! 

May i ask how their names came to be listed on your site?

I actually came across the listing on your site while doing my research which prompted me to “bite the bullet” and join up, TBH i should of joined sooner,

Thanks also for the group suggestion, gonna have look tomorrow, if i can be of assistance regarding rural St Andrew Douglas’s let me know. 

 Simon

At 10:34 on September 11, 2023, Nicholas Timothy Pink said…

Hi William, 

Thank you for your welcome. I just discovered this last week through spending time with my eldest brother (middle name Douglas, same as our father) that my mother's parents were from Ireland. I had no idea. I never had a grandmother as one died 6 months before I was born and one died six months after I was born in 1952. News to me this week that I had Irish ancestry as well, must be the Celtic side of me. 

I know I am 2/3rds Viking by DNA and our family surname Pink is linked to the Douglas Clan and we use the Douglas tartan as and when appropriate. Roughly about 25% comes via the Douglas route as far as I can tell.  I did get my mother to write out her family tree as much as she could remember whilst still alive, not sure what book I put it into now. I need to do a search of books to find it again.  

At 14:25 on July 17, 2023, Sidney Anthony Baynes (Tony) said…

I have found Mr Edwin T. Douglass...the man in the picture you sent and the man after whom the ship was named. Here is a link to show it:

https://www.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/GreatLakes/Documents/Scanner/10/01/default.asp?ID=s006

My next step is to identify where the ship sailed to and from on its 6 monthly trips.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Tony Baynes

At 13:47 on July 17, 2023, Sidney Anthony Baynes (Tony) said…

1944%20death%20John%20William%20Anderson%20S.S.%20Edwin%20T%20Douglas.png1944%20death%20J.W.%20Anderson%20re%20Edwin%20T.%20Douglass.pngRe earlier conversation:

ANDERSON John William, Chief Engineer 8736, S.S. ‘Edwin T. Douglas’, Merchant Navy.

His parents John William, a harbour pilot, and Annie lived at Leazes Street with his siblings. Born at Amble, he lived at Panhaven Road with his wife Janet. He died 19/05/1944, of a coronary thrombosis, aged 56 and is interred in Amble West Cemetery.

At 8:25 on July 17, 2023, Sidney Anthony Baynes (Tony) said…

Good Morning William,

The information you sent has put me on a new track which changes my supposition sent earlier of the Edwin T. Douglass being permanently in the harbour at Lyness. I have my father's Log Book and below are the dates of him signing on and off ship. Each voyage was 6 months. The question now is where did he go to. Wherever it was, you will see that he was with J.W. Anderson.   Incidentally, Engineer Anderson was married to a woman from Amble where he was buried. I shall continue to follow up later in the day. As I mentioned earlier, I am on holiday in Austria and must go sight-seeing with the family....

South Shields 10/02/1944  Sign On Edwin T. Douglas 146334 ***

Lyness 08/08/1944  Sign Off Edwin T.Douglas

 

Lyness 09/08/1944  Sign On Edwin T. Douglas

Lyness 07/02/1945  Sign  Off Edwin T.Douglas

Lyness 08/02/1945  Sign   On Edwin T.Douglas

Lyness 08/08/1945  Sign   Off Edwin T.Douglas

Lyness 08/08/1945  Sign  On Edwin T.Douglas 

Kirkwall 05/02/1946  Sign  Off Edwin T.Douglas 

Kirkwall 06/02/1946  Sign On Edwin T.Douglas 

Kirkwall 06/05/1946  Sign Off Edwin T.Douglas

Kirkwall 07/05/1946  Sign On Edwin T.Douglas 

Blyth 25/08/1946  Sign Off Edwin T.Douglas

At 20:10 on July 16, 2023, Sidney Anthony Baynes (Tony) said…

Apologies for the typos. I am on holiday with a poor internet signal and a poor keyboard.

At 20:06 on July 16, 2023, Sidney Anthony Baynes (Tony) said…

WoW! Many many thanks for your immediate reply. The picture is a great help as ius the extra "s" in Douglass.

FYI , I was the former Chieftan of the Athens (Greece) St Andre's Societyabout ten years ago. My mother was a McMillen, my father a Baynes.My DNA is 53% Northern Scotland, Highlands and Islands, 17% Viking, 14% Irish with the balance North West Europe and England. During the war, my father was one of only 3 survivors on a ship called the Empire Airman when it was torpedoed in a convoy in the Atlantic Ocean.

A few months later after a spell at home, he was on another convo, this time to Murmansk in 1943 onboard a ship called the Empire Portia. She was hit by a Stuka dive bomber. at ancorage in Murmansk. Again he survived and returned home to South Shields on the north east coast. He was discharged and the Empire Portia saild to the south coast where she hit a mine and was sunk. Lucky Baynes lived again!  Then for some reason his next shipwas the Edwin T. Douglass which lay in Lyness then later Kirkwall. In all he spent more than 2 year there on the same ship which I do not believe ever left the harbour except for the journey from Lyness to Kirkwall. I want to know more. Why was this ship there, who was Edwin T. Doiuglass, did it ever leave harbour etc etc. The other reason is that whilst in Orkney, he apparently fathered a child. I would like to find out who that child was and what happened to them.

Any tiny clue, like the letter 's' would be more than helpful.

A final note, my son it currently attending Glasgow University to become a vet.

I am trying to find more information about the Edwin T. Douglas.

At 21:00 on June 10, 2023, Garrett Stephen Douglas said…

Update: If the information on familysearch and ancestry is correct, then James Monroe Douglas was born James Monroe DouglasS!!

At 20:35 on June 10, 2023, Garrett Stephen Douglas said…

Hi William, thank you for your message! Here is what I have found in addition to a few other census records

At 15:48 on May 17, 2023, Phillip Ammar said…

I don't know any exact dates. I was told that my family on my Mother's side (Douglas) came over from Scotland during the Puritan era here in America. Before that they lived in the Douglas Castle and Glasgow area of Scotland. That's about all I know, unfortunately. 

At 19:06 on April 25, 2023, Marilyn Trent said…

Yes, this is my family from Gallatin, Tennessee. I have to dive into this when I have a bit more time but the family of Walter Abraham Douglass who was born in 1853 is my Great-Grandfather and it is missing my grandmother, Helen Augusta Douglass and other information. My mother, who is 97 is assisting with some fo the gaps also.

Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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