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Comment by Ronald Drysdale on March 26, 2025 at 17:59

Hi William

This could be who you are looking for:

Douglas River was gazetted as a locality in 1968. The name was in use by 1902. It is possibly derived from an 1830s Survey Department draughtsman named Henry Douglas.^[2]

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_River,_Tasmania

Alternatively could he be a reformed convict?

Douglass, Hugh. Convicted at Edinburgh Court of Justiciary for a term of 7 years on 29 March 1831. Mangles 08 December 1832. New South Wales. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 501 (251) Hugh Douglass, one of 236 convicts transported on the Mangles, 08 December 1832. Canberra [A.C.T.] :Australian Joint Copying Project,[1948-1990] This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). Convicts--Australia--Registers. Australia--Genealogy.

Douglas, Hugh. Convicted at Inverness Court of Justiciary for a term of 7 years on 5 September 1833. Hive 15 January 1834. New South Wales. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 287 (145) Hugh Douglas, one of 250 convicts transported on the Hive, 15 January 1834. Canberra [A.C.T.] :Australian Joint Copying Project, [1948-1990] This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). Convicts--Australia--Registers. Australia--Genealogy.

Douglas, Henry. Convicted at Surrey Quarter Session for a term of 14 years on 03 April 1832. York 11 August 1832. Van Diemen's Land. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/8, Page Number 392 Henry Douglas, one of 200 convicts transported on the York, 11 August 1832. Canberra [A.C.T.] :Australian Joint Copying Project,[1948-1990] This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). Convicts--Australia--Registers. Australia--Genealogy.

Douglas, Henry. Convicted at York. Doncaster Quarter Session for a term of life on 23 April 1833. 50330. Aurora 03 July 1833. New South Wales. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/9, Page Number 161 (82) Henry Douglas, one of 300 convicts transported on the Aurora, 03 July 1833. Canberra [A.C.T.] :Australian Joint Copying Project, [1948-1990] This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). Convicts--Australia--Registers. Australia--Genealogy.

Best regards

Comment by William Douglas on March 26, 2025 at 16:11

Editied
Looking for a Surveyor in Tasmania in the1830s - H. Douglas. So Henry or Hugh?

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I have been supplied with further advertisements of this nature from 1934 to 1838

Also a Find-a-Grave entry 

Henry Douglas
BIRTH 1801
DEATH 13 May 1878 (aged 76–77)
BURIAL Cornelian Bay Cemetery And Crematorium
Hobart, Hobart City, Tasmania,Australia
PLOT
Pauper, A, Number 218
MEMORIAL ID
212750989
Gravesite Details
Age: 77, Last Residence: Dept, Death date listed is the interment date

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Investigating if it was he for whom the Douglas River was named.

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Comment by William Douglas on March 5, 2025 at 11:39

I am looking for a copy of the book by James A. Douglas, or Mooroopna, Victoria, about migration from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Adelaide and Newcastle in 1850.

Another book on my list to find is William Douglas of Swinside, his life and descendants, possibly by Linda Mills of New Zealand.

Comment by Russell Lynn Drysdale on July 31, 2024 at 21:02

Joy Davis extraction from pdf territory remembers select reading material on Darwn evacuation WWll. Credits and ownership belong to proper  owner[s] .

Joy%20Davis%20territory%20%20remembers%2021569906%20%28pdf.io%29.pdf

Comment by William Douglas on April 27, 2024 at 14:30

I hope that some clansmen and women may have an insight into my family in Australia, and also in New Zealand.

My Uncle Ronald had a few wives he married - and a few he did not. I am hoping to track down some lost cousins. Well, I hope that they are not lost, but the connections are.

Ronald George Sholto Douglas was born in 1926, in the UK. His first two marriages were in the UK, and I am in touch with my cousins from them.

He married Heather Grey Law in New Zealand in 1983, as her second husband. I dont think that there were any children of this marriage, but would be happy to be told different.

He has a relationship with Anne, known as Nell, in Australia, possibly in St Lucia, Queensland and had one child, possibly more. I record two, but that has been challenged. (Jeremy; Alistair, bc1970). She had been married previously with two children apparently brought up as Douglases.

There were other relationship(s), I think, but whether I have cousins from them, I don't know.

Ronald served in the British Army during the war, and thereafter had a wide variety of jobs, including selling speed boats and mining and selling opals.

He appears on the elctoral roll in 1977 in Ryan, Queensland and also in Moreton, Queensland. [Is that possible?]

Some of the family may be in The Netherlands, my search area is broad.

The photograph is of Ronald and Heather in 1983.

Comment by William Douglas on February 26, 2024 at 20:02

I have begun the process of bringing together articles about the Douglas families of Australia.

Having started, I am now taking a break!  If there is anything that you would like to see in this section, please let me know.  It may be a couple of weeks before I can get back you.

All contributions are, as you know, welcome.  The home page is a bit thin at this stage, but I hope to develop it further - with your help.  At the moment it is lurking in my templates folder while I work it up. In time, it will be given more prominence.

William

Comment by William Douglas on February 17, 2024 at 13:43

Who were the early arrivals in Queensland?

Robert Douglas, of Kangaroo Point, Brisbane arrived in 1836.  Was he the first?

Originally of Redbank Plains, squatter, and latterly Sergeant-at-Arms in the Legislative Assembly in Queensland, first settled in the Hunter River district of New South Wales, and subsequently in Queensland. 

Who went on the make a significant impact on the history and heritage of Queensland?

Are these people, events and places marked in some way?

I am keen to make a section of the Douglas Archives, as I have for other states and counties, that acts as a central point for research for Douglas family historians.

I know that "Douglas! A Douglas!" and "Never Behind" by Mary Smith and Janet Shaw, originally published in 1986 and updated in 2000, contain an incredible amount of research and information, but I am not sure that they are still available.

I am looking for early photographs, stories and more and hope that you can help.

Perhaps the easiest way to contribute is by posting here, but you can also reach me through here>>>

Comment by William Douglas on July 17, 2018 at 21:14

 I was interested to find this: https://sites.google.com/site/kipioneers/first-8-ships/emma/henry-d...

Henry Douglas landed on KI on 3rd Oct 1836 off the "Emma" and with Wilkins (his man) and Mrs Wilkins they built a bush hut near the salt lakes. Wilkins was later employed in the garden the SA Company were making on KI. Henry became "Foreman of the Yard", his duty being to see that timber and cargo of incoming vessels was stacked and stowed and guarded at night. He left KI for the mainland four months later on the "John Renwick" to take up his land options there.

Comment by William Douglas on January 10, 2017 at 11:39

Clan Douglas and the founding of a nation.

https://clandouglasaustralia.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/clan-douglas-...

Comment by William Douglas on September 5, 2016 at 11:04

Good to be in touch with Clan Douglas Association of Australia again today. It must be Newsletter time again soon! Always a good read. www.clandouglas.org.au 

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