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became a merchant in the West Indies

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a merchant in Glasgow
Partner in J, T & A Douglas of Glasgow

John married Cecilia Buchanan on 5 Jan 1766 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cecilia (daughter of George Buchanan and Cecilia Forbes) was born in 1740; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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There are differering thoughts as to dates of birth, etc, for Cecilia Buchannan, and for her mother.

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(Research):He is not the only William Doulas, of Leith. Others of the same name were also merchants there/

William + Catherine Dunlop. Catherine (daughter of James (3rd of Garnkirk) Dunlop and Lilias Campbell) was born in 1695; died about 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Katherine, born 1695, married to William Douglas of Leith, she died aged upwards of ninety. They had two sons and one daughter unmarried. Robert, the eldest son, married and had a family; his descendants mostly went abroad. Their second son, John Douglas, became a merchant in Glasgow. He married Cecilia, daughter of George Buchanan, brewer, Bailie 1732 (see Mount Vernon), and had by her seven sons and one daughter, viz.: 1) William; 2) John; 3) Cecilia; 4) Neil (afterwards Sir Neil, G.C.B.); 5) Thomas Dunlop, a well-known citizen of Glasgow, who afterwards bought the estate of Dunlop, and died in 1869 aged 94; 6) Archibald; 7) James; 8) Colin. (V.) Lillias, born 1696, died unmarried; (VI.) Elizabeth, born 1698, married to Robert Rae of Tannochside. Their son was Colin Rae of Little Govan, Aitkenhead, Polmadie, &c.; (VII.) Janet, born 1701, died 1711; (VIII.) Margaret, a twin, born 1708, and died young.

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GEORGE BUCHANAN, eldest son of George I., Maltster, born 1685, died 1773, Visitor of the Maltmen 1719, City Treasurer 1726, Bailie 1732 and 1738. George II. built himself a fine mansion on the north side of Argyle Street, which till 1828 occupied the site of the Argyle Street portion of Fraser Sons & Co.'s warehouse. He owned all the ground fronting Argyle Street from this house as far east as "Bailie King's close" (a clay lane which ran north from Argyle Street, about where the Arcade now is). This ground formed part of "Palzean's Croft," the westmost section of the Langcroft. By his wife, Cecilia Forbes, George II. left, four sons and four daughters.

George + Cecilia Forbes. Cecilia was born in 1715; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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There are differering thoughts as to dates of birth, etc, for Cecilia Forbes, and for her daughter.

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Robert of Leith, who was involved in the sugar and soap industries?

Robert + Rachael McFarlane. Rachael was born about 1667; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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JAMES DUNLOP, third of Garnkirk, married, 1689, Lilias Campbell, only daughter of Robert Campbell of North Woodside, by his first wife Katherine, second daughter of John Napier of Kilmahew : they had sixteen children : Mrs. Dunlop died at the birth of the sixteenth in 1709, aged 34. James Dunlop married, secondly, Mary Douglas, but by her he had no family. He died in 1719. His children by his first wife were - (I.) Robert, born 1690, and died young; (II.) James, born 1697, of whom afterwards (the fourth laird of Garnkirk); (III.) Robert, born 1700, became a prosperous merchant in Glasgow, and bought from Andrew Blackburn, Househill, a property which was acquired by his great-grand-uncle, Thomas Dunlop, in 1646, and afterwards sold to the Blackburns (see Househill); (IV.) John, born 1702, was apprenticed to Francis Congalton "chirugeon apothecary," burgess of Edinburgh, but nothing further is known of him, and he probably died without issue; (V.) Thomas, born 1704, was a Virginia merchant in Glasgow, of the firm of Thomas Dunlop and Co. He had a very fine house on the west side of the Candleriggs, nearly opposite what is now the City Hall. He died unmarried in 1783 aged 79; (VI.) Colin, born 1706, was a rich Virginia merchant in Glasgow. He purchased Carmyle and was Provost in 1770. His eldest son was James Dunlop, who in 1782 bought Garnkirk from his uncle, James Dunlop the fourth of Garnkirk (see Tollcross for a full account of Provost Colin Dunlop's family and descendants); (VII.) William (a twin), born 1708, married Mary Boyd, only daughter of "a genteel and wealthy family in Ireland." They had two daughters, Martha and Mary, who both died very old and unmarried, and one son, Robert, who married Catherine, fourth daughter of John Corbet of Tollcross. This Robert Dunlop had a daughter, Janet, who never married, William, a captain in the army, whose family are settled in Ceylon, and Boyd, who had two daughters, Helen, Mrs. R. A. Morehead, and Catherine of Albyn Place, Edinburgh, and one son, Robert, who went to Australia; (VIII.) Archibald, born 1709, died 1719. (I.) The eldest daughter died an infant; (II.) Elizabeth, born 1692, died an infant; (III.) Jean, born 1693, married Thomas Peter of Crossbasket, and died 1729; (IV.) Katherine, born 1695, married to William Douglas of Leith, she died aged upwards of ninety. They had two sons and one daughter unmarried. Robert, the eldest son, married and had a family; his descendants mostly went abroad. Their second son, John Douglas, became a merchant in Glasgow. He married Cecilia, daughter of George Buchanan, brewer, Bailie 1732 (see Mount Vernon), and had by her seven sons and one daughter, viz.: 1) William; 2) John; 3) Cecilia; 4) Neil (afterwards Sir Neil, G.C.B.); 5) Thomas Dunlop, a well-known citizen of Glasgow, who afterwards bought the estate of Dunlop, and died in 1869 aged 94; 6) Archibald; 7) James; 8) Colin. (V.) Lillias, born 1696, died unmarried; (VI.) Elizabeth, born 1698, married to Robert Rae of Tannochside. Their son was Colin Rae of Little Govan, Aitkenhead, Polmadie, &c.; (VII.) Janet, born 1701, died 1711; (VIII.) Margaret, a twin, born 1708, and died young. - Source: Glasgow digital library

James married Lilias Campbell in 1689. Lilias (daughter of Robert (of North Woodside) Campbell and Catherine Napier) was born about 1675; died in 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Maltster, Visitor of the Maltmen in 1694, Deacon Convener in 1706. He was a staunch covenanter, who fought at Bothwell Bridge, and had a reward set on his head. He married Mary, daughter of Gabriel Maxwell, merchant in Glasgow, and left four sons, George, Andrew, Archibald, and Neil, and one daughter. Mary. Mary married, 1731, George Buchanan of Moss and Auchintoshan, and is represented here by her great-great-granddaughter, Mrs. Christie of Bedlay, daughter of the late John Cross Buchanan of Moss and Auchintoshan. The four sons were founders, in 1725, of the Buchanan Society, the oldest charitable society in Glasgow except Hutcheson's Hospital. George, the eldest son, followed his father's business. The other three are named among M'Ure's "Sea Adventurers": they were great Virginia merchants.