Thanks for your welcome and the links, which I shall look at in due course.

My ancestors kept very close to the River Tay, Grandmother Scott's family operated The Boat of Caputh from the 1600s until a bridge was built in the Victorian era.

My 3rd gt-grandfather, William Douglas (1777 - 1837) was a shoemaker, who made his way to London, with the Army by 1800 . He married a woman from Berkshire and they lived in Shoreditch, until she died in 1824. Two children were buried in London and the surviving six travelled back to Scotland with their father.

James Dyer Douglas was a carrier and initially lived in Montrose, but moved to Aberdeen, then Perth and finally settled in Dundee.

William (my 2xgt-grandfather) was a shoemaker in Kirriemuir.

Charles lived in Dunkeld until his death in 1897, At first he was a tanner, but then moved into farming.

Thomas  was a light house keeper in the Western Isles.

Their sisters Charlotte and Martha married men from Montrose, where they settled.

Gt-grandfather, William Douglas, and his elder brother, David, had a Bakery in Kirriemuir, but moved to Edinburgh in the early 1860s. 

Grandfather, David, and Father, Cornelius, both drove vans for the bakery business.

Cornelius and his brother, David, moved to London in the 1930s. Cornelius drove a van for a Butcher and David worked for Ford at Dagenham.

During WW2, Cornelius drove a Light Anti- Aircraft truck across the Western Desert, with the Royal Artilllery, then in Italy and finally in Greece.

When he arrived back in Liverpool, he was sent to South Wales, in order to deliver food from Welsh farms to ports, in order to relieve Dutch People, who were starving. My mother was the daughter of a Welsh farmer.

Thank you, Sir.  

I am very new to genealogy. I jumped on Ancestry.com a few years ago to track down general information on my ancestors. Now, I am fascinated by the information I was shocked to discover.

I have checked this dozens of times, but it does, in fact, appear to me that my great-great-grandmother on my father's side was Elizabeth Boyd. My great-great-grandfather on my mother's side was Sir Thomas Douglas. This means Sir Robert Douglas is my great-great-grandfather on BOTH sides of my tree. I have tried to disprove this countless times by checking names/dates/records all the way to myself. Each time it comes up, as I have stated above. Seems far-fetched to me, but I am not able to disprove it through my research on Ancestry and other websites.  

Thank you for the welcome. (I'm just starting to figure out where my messages are and how to reply.) This website looks very helpful to work on my brick wall!

Thank you for the suggestion on the contact for the Douglas DNA group, William. I did just join the Douglas DNA group on your site; were you referring to the FTDNA Douglas group to find the contact person? I have joined my deceased cousin's kit to the Douglas group and see his George W Douglass matches there. I need to check back and see if he is now on the chart, and get some assistance from the group admin. I appreciate your help so much.

Through Elmer Douglas information, Edgar and Elmer’s parents were John Forester Douglas and Mary Powell. John Forester was born around 1840. 

Yes. This is as far back as I could find as well. I do know Edgar Howard had a twin named Elmer who is buried in McCurtain County, OK. 

Thanks so much,

Tonya

Thank you for your welcome, William! I'm looking forward to being involved and finding out more about my Douglas ancestors. 

You probably noticed I live in Turramurra, a suburb of Sydney, NSW, Australia. The 3xgreat grandmother I mentioned emigrated here with her husband and family in 1837. Fortunately Australia has good immigration records which helped to trace the family back to her father Robert Douglas.

Best wishes, Barbara

Thank you for adding me and for the welcome. I am in the early stages of my journey connecting my Inglis sept to the Douglas clan. On ancestry I am at a roadblock. I was told by a native Scottish coworker about the Inglis name and history. In later years I was told by native English coworkers history of the Inglis name. Unfortunately I have no living Inglis relatives to help me answer any questions. I live on the East Coast of the US.

It has been ages since you asked for more on my family. I am told the family left Scotland from Thurso. I took my mom to visit two of the family homes. One in the Minneapolis, Minnesota region the other in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We also went to the Douglas crypt in the Oak hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids. My Great, Great Grand father, amongst other family members, is buried there.