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Robert Dowglass in Dublin 1701, apprentice mariner on the ship Thomas and Ann of Dublin & son of Robert Dowglass, Marshall of Dublin

A very nice Will document drawn up in 1701 for a reluctant seafarer Robert Dowglass, prior to putting to sea. He was apprenticed at the age of 15, to Captain William Gibb, the Master of the ship Thomas and Ann of Dublin. He was the son of Robert Dowglass, Marshal of Dublin who was deceased prior to 1701.

As far as I can see the will was proved in 1727 - so at least he didn't perish on his first sea voyage!

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L94F-MCL3?view=ful...

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Permalink Reply by Ronald Drysdale on Wednesday

Ref: Monday Books of The City of Dublin A.D. 1658 – 1712.

....."Munday the 2nd July 1694. Ordered that Robert Dowglass the Marshall of this Citty
have lycence to go into Scotland, to be absent for three months."

https://ebairead.ie/Files/Stair/The%20Monday%20Books.pdf

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Permalink Reply by Alison Christine Hodgkiss ( born yesterday

Thank you for this.

At the very least, it confirms family Douglas* within that part of Ireland.

I may never be able to fully connect the dots, for my Gt and 2nd Gt grandfathers of Will George and Aaron going beyond 1800, nor William's wife 'Sweeny', but it's a start.

Thank you again.

Alison H, nee McFarlane

Permalink Reply by William Douglas yesterday

Dublin City Marshall:

By 1686 Robert Dowglass

In March 1688 he paid £100 for the office to Thomas Sheridan, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, through agent Henry Wilson via Henry Echlin; Sheridan was shortly thereafter deposed for corruption.

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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.

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