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Douglas James c1833

Good morning all and thankyou for accepting my invitation to join your group. My mother was Elizabeth woods Douglas b 1922. I have been researching her family line for some thirty or so years.

Initially I managed to get back to my Great grandfather x 4 James Douglas c1833. Died 1901 in Cunninghame combination poorhouse Irvine Ayrshire. James was a Miner from Ayrshire, laterally Beith. From that generation I could find no other lines to follow. I put it down and have now come back to it in my retirement.

After many years of following incorrect entries and a lack of credible information I found his marriage Nov 24th 1854 in Dalry Ayrshire to Mary Clark, Both were registered in various Scottish census as being born in Antrim, Ireland.

Further investigation found Marys family Henry Clark and Janet Mclammont from Glenarm.

For some reasons the official records (post 1855) Show no records of James mother and that is where my research again has hit a brick wall.

I have had a few professional genealogists searching in Northern Ireland, and one from the UK still engaged in trying to locate James's family in Antrim.

Any information, assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated

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'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.

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