Seeking Parentage Archibald Douglas (1695-1756)

[Julie Bauer]

I have been trying to establish the father of my Lancaster, Pennsylvania ancestor, and have had no luck. Can anyone confirm the parentage of:
Archibald Douglas (1695-1756)
Married Jean or Jane (?)
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 11/26/1756 in Lancaster, PA
Interred at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Gap, PA

The LDS' Family History Library (familysearch.org) in Salt Lake City state his father was Archibald Douglas-Hamilton (1673-1756). https://relativefinder.org/#/main

I also have another Archibald Douglas as his father (1665-1728), who married Elizabeth Louise Daly and came to Kent, Delaware, USA in 1726.

[Julie Bauer]

Thank you Shannon! I’m attaching a screenshot of my family tree. My descendants come from Archibald’s daughter, Jean.

[Richard William Maginis Douglas]

Julie,

Wondering if you have made any progress on this line? I'm stumped on my 3rd G-Grandfather in N. Ireland and so have turned to DNA for possible lineage. I have strong Y-DNA matches to two descendants of Thomas Douglas (1721-1794), son of James Douglas (1697-1741), who appears to be a brother of Archibald (1695-1756) and my research indicates their father as Archibald (1665-1728) married to either a Margaret Smith or Elizabeth Daly. My DNA further indicates a Douglas-Hamilton connection that would make the LDS History interesting, but I haven't found any evidence of that being the likely father. Hope that you're keeping safe in this current situation.

[William Douglas]

Another researcher has popped a message into my in-box regarding this family.

She asks:

This concerns the so called children of the unknown Lord Archibald Douglass that came to Lancaster about 1726.  If the  system of naming children in Scotland was highly developed with the oldest son named after the paternal grandfather  and the 2nd the maternal grandfather and the 3rd son the father why does none of this connect to Lancaster?

[Richard William Maginis Douglas]

I have a strong DNA connection to this family and am currently working with the Hamilton Clan DNA project because that is where all of us intersect rather than in the Douglas DNA Project. Consequently, we're trying to validate an Archibald family tree, and the first naming issue test is that we cannot identify the parents of Archibald Douglass (1665-1728) so have no idea of whether he followed the naming system with what we believe to be sequentially Thomas, Archibald, James, William, and Andrew (some researchers also add a John in there). What occurred in America with his sons were primarily repeats of Thomas, Archibald, James, and Andrew with a John and George added. I don't think it would be surprising for the naming system to break down in the 1700's. I have a documented Scottish line from the 1600's on my maternal side where the system was not strictly followed. Best answer I can provide.