William Douglas's Page

Hello Ronald!  And thanks for the info, from William as well!  Ole Archie is a bit of a conundrum for me, as I've been stuck on him for what feels like decades now!  I had a tedious connection from him to James Douglas and Margaret Warwick from Dumfriesshire, but other than also having an Archibald born in or around the same time as mine that is all there really is to it.  Maybe they were his parents, but hard to say for sure at this point.  Especially since it's more likely he was born in the 1810s per census, a death record and his incarceration records in Liverpool in 1837.  And despite the 1841 census saying he was born in Scotland, the 1851, 1861 and 1871 census say he was born in Prescot, Lancashire.  

I also hired a professional genealogist in Liverpool to try to track him down in local and UK records a few years ago and he couldn't find anything definitive.  So while there are still bits and pieces out there I've just about run out of luck at this point.  It seems just about anyone on public sites take the connection to James and Margaret and run with it, but I'm just not confident that it was the case. 

So the search continues, and all help is welcome!  Thanks for commenting and appreciate everyone's work on this wonderful site!  - Paul

Haha, I love that!

Seriously, haplogroups are basically ancient family branches on the tree of humanity. They're like genetic last names passed down mostly unchanged for thousands of years. 

For Y-DNA (paternal line), a haplogroup follows you father's father's father, and so on. For mtDNA (maternal line), its your mother's mother's mother, etc. Scientists use these to group people by deep ancestry and migration patterns. 

 So when someone says they're in haplogroup R-FT353727 or I-M253, its like saying, "My ancient ancestors came from this specific region, and here is my spot on the human family tree."

 If you're a male Douglas heir, you should definitely consider joining the Douglas DNA Project over at Family Tree DNA website. It helps all of us figure out how we're connected, and your results could be the missing link. :)

Great thanks a lot

I've found the RNLI site that recounts the story (but no mention of Kilclief): https://rnli.org/find-my-nearest/lifeboat-stations/newcastle-lifeboat-station/station-history-newcastle

Fantastic! Another lead to poke at - thanks William

Hi William, 

I just found the website after a google search sent me to your post from last year with a picture of the gravestone of a John Douglas de Fenzi. Do you know where the gravestone is located? I'd be more than happy to help with any questions you might have although I'm only just starting to do some digging into my family name and don't know a great deal. I've not heard of the Douglas of Garvald family either. 

Look forward to hearing from you,

Jevon

Thanks William!  Someone else found him; are you able to see what other's post to me?  I am new to this site, as well as Family Search...... trying to figure it all out :)-

Everything I know about Thomas Douglas:

I will link a scan of the work done by my grandmother for viewing.
Thomas_Douglas.pdf

My grandmother's genealogy work states that Thomas Douglas was born in 1738 in Augusta County, Virginia, and died in 1792 in Highland County, Virginia. I found a similar entry for a Thomas Douglas on familysearch.org, and this Thomas Douglas had a son also named Thomas Douglas, and these matches continued for Two Generations. The dates on the matching names seemed to line up, so I thought this sufficient to establish this Thomas Douglas as being the same Thomas Douglas talked about in my grandmothers genealogy. Now, Familysearch.org said that the father of Thomas Douglas was John Douglas Sr. The evidence used to establish this was that there was a mention of one sone whose name was Thomas in the will of John Douglas Sr. I searched your database of Douglases and found a John Douglas (1709 - 1780) that had many of the other children mentioned on Familysearch.org, but not Thomas.

Hey i know this is like a few years after the fact. But I have a book that states that John Doulass (1695) was infact kidnapped and brought to America. I have had ancestry dna done along with my mom her sister and all my kids how do I link that to my john douglass?