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The following is extracted from Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers Database

NAME FORENAME ORIGIN DETAILS / EVENT ADDRESS - Business, (Home) LOCATION YEAR SOURCE

DOUGLAS Charles - (age 27) (spinner) (61 Kambala Rd Battersea) London 1911 1911 census RG14/ 2208/ 50
DOUGLAS Ernest E b.1920 (refiner) (23 Botha Rd) Silvertown 1939 1939 Register 188/4 CBXY
DOUGLAS George of Scotland (age 25) (Sugar House Close Coburg St) Leith 1841 1841 census 692/1/52/3
DOUGLAS George - (his marriage) (Cromwell St) Leith 1843 Scotland Marriages 1561-1893
DOUGLAS James - (age 20) (clerk) (90 Gilmour Pl) Edinburgh 1881 1881 census CD
DOUGLAS John of Argyll (age 22) (lab) (68 Holmscroft St) Greenock 1881 1881 census CD
DOUGLAS John b.1884 (labourer) (17 Starkie St) Liverpool 1939 1939 Register 453/5 NHRA
DOUGLAS Robert - - - Leith 1695 Hutcheson
DOUGLAS Robert - Robert Douglas & Partners - Leith 1695 TC Smout (1961) - Early Scottish Sugar Houses
DOUGLAS Robert of Scotland (age 24) (broker's ?) (124 John St) Glasgow 1861 1861 census 644/1/25/61
DOUGLAS Robert - (his death in Edinburgh) (planter in Demerara) - Edinburgh 1864-8 Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories SC70/1/123+141
DOUGLAS Steward of Ireland (age 24) (7 Oxford Lane) Glasgow 1851 1851 census 644/2/21B/12

An ancestor of the Hardie-Douglas family of Poland was brought in in the mid-nineteenth century to start a sugar factory in Ukraine.

The first Leith Sugar House was established in 1677 by Robert Douglas and partners. Between 1667 and 1701 four sugar boiling and rum-distilling enterprises were established in Scotland, three in Glasgow and one in Leith. The financial success of the Leith Sugar house in the seventeenth and eighteenth century demonstrates Edinburgh's economic connection to the Atlantic economy and enslaved labour.

See also:

•  Douglases in the West Indies

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