This passage is causing me some difficulty: Having established himself in New York, he sent for his wife and children. His wife died mid-passage and was buried at sea. Upon being told this on the Jersey Piers, which were the Ellis Island (immigration and excise point) of the day, the father suffered a stroke and died. Young Josiah Dugliss and his sister were orphaned in a strange land. He was apprenticed and became in time a noted fine-cabinetry mirror maker, executing among other commissions the (original) New York Opera in an era when mirrors were the heart of illumination.
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Seems I already have a bit about him!
This passage is causing me some difficulty:
Having established himself in New York, he sent for his wife and children. His wife died mid-passage and was buried at sea. Upon being told this on the Jersey Piers, which were the Ellis Island (immigration and excise point) of the day, the father suffered a stroke and died. Young Josiah Dugliss and his sister were orphaned in a strange land. He was apprenticed and became in time a noted fine-cabinetry mirror maker, executing among other commissions the (original) New York Opera in an era when mirrors were the heart of illumination.
William
One of our brick walls! I wonder when we will find more about Hosea.
https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Familytrees/decesendantsofhoseadugliss.htm
A mirror maker in New York; I think I should write up his story. Can you provide any information on him?
Yours aye,
William
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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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