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A collection of names connected with the West Indies
Denzil
Douglas, Prime Minister of St Kitts, and leader of the St Kitts
Labour Party.
Colonel John Douglas (1682-1783) held the
office of Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A.) [St. Kitts].
He was a son of Walter Douglas of Baads.
Colonel Walter Douglas of Baads (1670-1739) Governor-General of
the Leeward Islands.
He was a son of William Douglas of Baads.
Aretas Akers was born on the island of St Kitts in 1734, the eldest
son of Edmund Akers, a man of English descent, who owned land on St
Vincent. Akers acquired his own estates on St Kitts, and much later,
inherited his father's estates on St Vincent. Akers added to his position
of strength and influence in the islands through his marriage to Jean
Douglas, the niece of the Governor of the Leeward Islands. He maintained
his connections with Great Britain - having his children educated in
Scotland and England. Jean Douglas died in 1768, soon after the birth of
her seventh child - Akers did not remarry.
Alexander Douglas of Baads (1731-1787), a merchant on the St Kitts, who
may have inherited part of Aretas Akers estate.
John St. Leger Douglas of Pall Mall, co. Middlesex, Esq. (Son of
Col Walter Douglas of Bads.)
Will dated 7 Dec. 1779. (559 Cornwallis.)
All my plantations real & personal estate to my brother Lt Col. James
Douglas & Alex' Douglas of Devonshire Sq., on trust. My dau. Mary Willett
£6000. My dau. Charlotte £6000 at 21. Alex' Douglas £100. My said brother
James £1000. Geo. Gavillear £100 & £20 a year for his services. Trustees
to hold all my plantations in the Island of S' Christopher's for my son W"
Douglas, remainder to my daus. ; in the latter event £4000 to my brother
James. Trustees to be Ex'ors. Witnessed by Edward Wilmot, Richard Wiles,
Mark Clay.
John St. Leger Douglas, Esq. – College. 1772 Hurricane Damage in
the Basseterre Area
Dwelling house, woura house, store and sick house
levelled with the ground; roofs of the coopers shop and stable blown into
a cane piece; part of the stone wall of the mule and cattle pen thrown
down, the whole of which damage cannot be repaired for less than 500 l.
Walter Douglas, son of William, was
Captain General of !be Leeward Islands. He was suspended from that office
in 1716, and fined £500 and sentenced to five years imprisonment. A slab
in St. John's Churchyard, Antigua, records the death, in 1713, of his
youngest son, who was the "great grandson by his mother's side, to Anthony
St. Leger of Ireland, twice Lord Chancellor". There were many of the
Douglas family in the West Indies, mostly in the Island of St. Kitts. On
4th January, 1739, John Douglas granted a Deed of Gift to his brother,
James George Douglas. The gift consisted of seven negroes in trust for his
children, who were all infants. James George Douglas was the agent in this
country for the island of St. Kitts until 1752. In 1756 Alexander Douglas
was a member of the Assembly in St. Kitts. The plantation belonging to
Walter Douglas was called Pensez-y-bien, and was 560 acres in size.
Another plantation in the island of Tobago was called Calderhall, and
another in Grenada, named Merabeau. The Douglas family were large
landowners in the West Indies, and leading members of the community, much
the same as the other members of the family in West Calder.
The Honourable Harry Douglas, MP in
2004:
Minister of State: Ministry of Water and
Housing,
Jamaica.
'Sir James Douglas, the admiral on the Leeward Islands', who
could be:
James Douglas (1703-1787), a naval officer - later Admiral -
who served in the Caribbean in the 1760s and acquired plantation
Weilburg in Essequibo by 1762, at a time when British colonists were
encouraged to settle by governor Storm van’s Gravesande. In 1750, he had
bought the estate of Bridge End near Kelso in Scotland, and renamed it
Springwood Park. He was knighted in 1759 and went on to serve as the MP
for Orkney and Shetland (1754-61 and 1761-68). Weilburg was managed
first by a Thomas Grant, with Lachlan Maclean as attorney - Maclean
being replaced in 1765 by James Douglas’s brother-in-law, William
Brisbane of Ayr, and from 1767 by Robert Milne.
Lt Col Robert Douglas, a Scots soldier serving in the Dutch army, was
second-in- command in the expedition which suppressed the Berbice slave
rising of 1763. According to van’s Gravesande he was a brother of James
Douglas (above) and, according to Netscher’s history of the Dutch in
Guyana, he had married into a prominent Dutch family, de Brauw.
Dr Patrick
Douglas was a friend of Robert Burns,
the Bard, and invited him
(August 1786)
to take
a position
as a bookkeeper on an estate in the town of Port Antonio, Jamaica,
managed by his brother, Charles.
Burns had negotiated a three-year contract at a wage of £30 a year, but
failed to make the journey.
Douglas, John. Clergyman. Sh. 1732 to Antigua.
Douglas,
Charles 17, b. 1714, Orkney, Indentured servant emigrated from
London
to Jamaica
December 1731
Douglas,
Charles, pre 1782. sett. St. Kits.
Douglas,
James, son of George Douglas of Whiterigs, Aberdeenshire. ,
Surgeon. Settled St. Mary's Jamaica c 1754. Died 1763
Pts. John
Douglas of Kellhead.
Sh. pre 1762. Sett.
Jamaica.
Douglas,
John. Clergyman. Sh. 1732 to Antigua.
John
Douglas bn abt 1799, Scotland
from Jamaica to Boston 1816 Naturalized
Washington, DC 1828
Douglas,
Robert. 15. b. 1706. "A poor lad". Aberdeen.
Indentured servant for Jamaica,
June 1721.
Douglas,
Robert. d. 24 Oct. 1779 St. Kitts.
Rear Admiral Peter John Douglas R.N.
was born 30
June, 1787 and served much of his naval career in the
West Indies
Commander William Manners Wellington
Douglas
Son of
Rear Admiral Peter John
Douglas, also served time
in the West Indies
Sir Charles Douglas, Bart, bc1728, d1789 knighted for his service in the
West Indies
Captain John Erskine Douglas R.N. served
1799
West Indies station
David
DOUGLASS,, actor, born in England
about 1720; died in Kingston,
Jamaica, W.I.
Charles Douglass's Regiment of Marines was raised to serve in the
West Indies
Charles
James Sholto Douglas (son of 4th Bt (or 3rd?) of
Kelhead) m1.abt 1755 Basilia Dawes (dau of James Dawes of Rockspring, Jamaica)
The
following are mentioned in a Jamaican Act of 1801: ' John Douglas,
Sholto Douglas, Archibald Douglas, Robert Douglas, Edmund Douglas,
Catherine Douglas, and Elizabeth Douglas, free quadroons and the reputed
children of Peter Douglas of the parish of St John in the county of
Middlesex to the same rights and privileges under certain restrictions'
7.12.1801
John Douglas jnr (1803-77) had three children in Guyana by a ‘free
coloured’ woman Martha Ann Ritchie, who came there from Barbados, with
her mother Rebecca, in the 1790s. One of the children,
James, went on to
become the first Governor of British Columbia & Vancouver Island and was
knighted in 1883.
James Robert Douglas
b. 4 Feb 1825; d. 8 Nov 1849, St Vincent, West
Indies.
Howard Douglas d. 11 Aug 1820, West Indies.
Douglas, Charles P. (1921-) of Ayr
was Senior Lecturer at the Univ. of West Indies (1959-65).
Robert Douglas of Ardrossan, (1759- 1847), a
grandson of William Douglas of
Leith, had
a fleet of sailing ships importing tobacco from Virginia and visited
West Indies regularly, one of his brothers was resident there and
Sir
James Douglas, Gov. of Vancouver 1858 ( a cousin ) was born in
Demerara British Guiana 5.6.1803 , his mother was a Miss Richie, a
Creole lady of Demerara. Robert's brother Colin lived for some time at
Demerara while he was conducting his business there.
Gilbert Douglas, a West India
merchant in Glasgow, had large plantations in the Island of St. Vincent
Two wills located at the Public Record Office in Jamaica:
1. Robert
Douglas written Oct. 16, 1849 and probated July 31, 1852.
2. Charles
Graham Douglas' will was probated Feb. 4. 1843.
Here is a brief summary of Robert Douglas' will.
He lived at Kelton
Settlement, Trelawny, Jamaica.
Sister Elizabeth Steed of 377 8th Street
New York USA
Sister Jane Blythe of Castle Douglas, County
Kirkcudbright, UK called Scotland.
Brother James Douglas of Albany ,
USA.
All my estate and personal divided to them.
My father , John
Douglas, my gold watch and if I die then to James Douglas to be kept in
the family.
William Bernard and John Mackie of Trelawny
James
Douglas, Executors.
Source: Register General's Office. Twickenham Park,
Jamaica.
Note: His father, John, married as his first wife Mary Sargent, Robert's
mother.
Major James Douglas was born in 1634. He was the son of Sir Archibald
Douglas ('who lived at Dornock').
He died after 1663 at Jamaica. His last will was dated 1663. he had a son,
Thomas Douglas+ b. 1660, d. 1717.
Thomas Douglas was born in 1660. He was the son of Major James Douglas. He
married Lady unknown Watson at Jamaica. He died in 1717. They had a son,
Samuel Douglas, b. 1700
Samuel Douglas, b. circa 1720, son of the above Samuel, b. 1700, was a
merchant at Kingston, Jamaica
Samuel Douglas, of Windsor Plantation, Jamaica, was the son of Nathaniel
Douglas and Margaret Heron, and 1st cousin to
Sir William Douglas of Castle Douglas
Revd Aretas Akers (1824–1856) (father of
Aretas Akers-Douglas), was
descended from six generations of West Indies sugar planters and slave
owners
Charles Douglas -
brother of Dr Patrick Douglas of Garallan,
whose Jamaican estate, near Port Antonio, he managed. He offered Burns the
position of book-keeper when the poet meditated emigration. See:
Burns and the Douglas connection
Wm. Douglas, 3d Duke of H.,
and Anne, Duchess in her own right, arrived (?1711) as Governor.
(?Jamaica)
Monumental inscriptions:
- {Ab.) JOHN DOUGLAS, ESQR., OB. FEB. I2t'i, l8l2, AET. 47.
- SAMUEL DOUGLAS,— DIED FEBRY. 9* 1 863, AGED 40 YRS.
- CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS, — DIED NOVR. 21^', 1862, AGED 3 1 YRS.
- WILLIAM DOUGLAS, ESQR., DIED 1 5* OCT., 1 837, AGED 59 YEARS & 7
MONTHS.
- {Ab) RICHARD SPEAR, ESQ., SECRETARY TO REAR-ADMIRAL DOUGLAS, OB.
14 NOVR., 1815, AET. 27.
- {Ab) LIEUT. JOHN DOUGLAS, 64tl> RECT., DIED OF FEVER, AT PORT
ROYAL, 20th AUGT., 1834, AGED 3 1.
The following are all residents of Jamaica:
Lt. Col. Allan Garth Douglas, b1945
Daphne Rowena Douglas
Hon. Easton Wentworth Xavier Douglas
Ludlow Lawson Douglas, b1934
Joy Eleanor Douglas, b1959
George Alexander Douglas, of Kingston, Jamaica, died 23rd Oct 1927,
brother of Major General Henry Edward
Manning Douglas VC, sons of George Alexander Douglas, also of
Kingston, Jamaica.
A database of Douglases of Bermuda, the family of two
brothers, Robert and Eric Douglas of Bermuda formerly St Kitts &
Nevis can be found
here>>>. Sadly, there are few dates attached to the
names.
Eileen Douglas,
seamstress, Trinidad
Henry Douglas, presents his patent 3 Feb. 1711-12. Provost-Marshall of
the Leeward Islands
John Bouke Douglass of Antigua. Dispenser.
Recorded 1808.
John Douglas, Provost Marshall of
Grenada, 1836-1838
May...(6th ?) (1795) at Naples, after a long and painful illness,
Sir James Douglas, bart, the British
consul-general. His remains were interred in the evening of the 16th, in
the English burying-ground, with the greatest decency. Lady Douglas, his
second wife, with three daughters, are to inherit his property, which lies
in St. Christopher's, in the West Indies.
...the estate in the parish of Old Road, Antigua late of Henry Douglas,
Esq., and now of Sir George Douglas, Bart.,
Henry Douglas-Hamilton, living 1771. Stated to have owned large estates
in Nevis called "Hamiltons."
Mary, dau. and heiress of Henry Douglas, Esq. ; mar. 2ndly (settlement
dated 19 Jan. 1763) Dr. Michael McNamara. Her will dated 26 March 1763 ;
proved 26 Jan. 1778. He was of Great George Street, Westminster, in 1777;
Ex'or to Robert Christian.
Betto Douglas, The case of
(Jan 1780?) At St. Christopher's, Robert Douglas, efq; governor of all
his majesty's forts and.fortifications in that island. This gentleman's
death was occasioned by a most extraordinary accident indeed; leaning
against the paljisades which enclosed his court-yard, and being rather
corpulent and heavy, the wood gave way. and he falling with great
violence, occasioned a contusion of the spine, of which ne died in 24
hours, labouring under the most excruciating torture, but perfectly placid
and resigned. He has left the bulk of his fortune (which is very
considerable) to his brother, Capt. John Douglas, of his Majesty's ship
the Terrible.
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