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'In', 'of' or 'at' a place
2014  Douglas Clan Gathering
A history of Tartan
A tale of conspiracy and plotting
Abies Douglasii at Lynedoch
Albert James Smith, 1822–1883
An early history of the Douglas family in France
Archibald & Eleanor Douglas-Pennant
Archibald Douglas and the Legend of the Signet Ring
Archibald Douglas, earl of Wigton, in France
Argyll's Rebellion, 1685
articles/swords/bruce_douglas_sword.htm
articles/swords/douglas-ewart-sword.htm
articles/swords/douglas_sword.htm
articles/swords/index.htm
articles/swords/sword_henry_douglass.htm
articles/swords/wallace_monument_swords.htm
articles/vehicles/airport_tug.htm
articles/vehicles/douglas_fir_truck.htm
articles/vehicles/glen_douglas.html
Australia introduction
Autopsy on Sir George Douglas, d1636
Baron Douglas - Steamer
Baron Douglas ships
Betto Douglas - the case of
Black Douglas - Bushranger
Black Douglas motor yacht
Black Douglas painting
Black Douglas, bushranger, d1892
Black Line Dispossession of Indigenous Tribes
Border Tower Houses
Breaks in the chain
Buccleugh library donation
Burning the Bodies of Dead Bandits at Columbus, N. M.
Burns and slavery
Camp Morton
Carved Armorial of Douglas, Earl of Angus
Case against George Douglas, 1849
Case of the Black Douglases
Catherine, Countess of Strathearn
Cavers Churches
Cigarette cards
Clemintina Johannes Sobieska Douglas, 1746-1771
Cloverdale Douglas (stallion)
Columbus - was he a Douglas?
Composition of a coat of arms
Condottieri di ventura and the Scotti Douglas
Contributors to the Douglas Archives
Coraville Douglas (bull)
Count Hannibal Scotti's Yachts
Darnley/Lennox Jewel
Decaying tombs in Piacenza
Did a Douglas actually claim the crown?
Douglas & Dolphinton Railway
Douglas - The Death Ship
Douglas 13thC manors in England
Douglas and the Act of Union
Douglas and the sugar industry
Douglas Arms, Bethseda
Douglas Castle - ship
Douglas Chair, Queens University
Douglas Coalfield, Lanarkshire
Douglas Earls of Angus: a study  of power
Douglas families in the Falklands
Douglas family in Palestine
Douglas Farm, New Jersey
Douglas Ghosts
Douglas immigrants
Douglas itinerary2
Douglas Land Company
Douglas models
Douglas Navigation Protractor
Douglas Pennant, ship
Douglas postcards
Douglas Sea Scale
Douglas Support
Douglas tartans
Douglas titles
Douglas Treaties
Douglas tribes of British Columbia
Douglas Undertakers
Douglas window in Linlithgow
Douglas' toad
Douglas, iron ship - 1869
Douglas, steamer - 1881
Douglas-Appleyard Arcless Sextant
Douglas-Hamilton plate
Douglases and the Gledstanes
Douglases and the  Slave Trade
Douglases lose control of the king
Douglass lighter
Douglaston Yacht Squadron
Duke of Monmouth
Dukes of Brandon
Dunbar versus Douglas - a story of conflict
Earl of Forfar (Ship)
Earl of Morton's Jig
Earl of Selkirk title claim
Edinburgh treaty - 1328
Edwin T Douglas - ship
Enrico Dich Scot Douglas
Execution of David Douglass, 1842
Extreme genealogy
First Fleet to Australia
Flintlock fowling piece
Florence M. Douglas, Schooner
Freskin the Fleming
Fun (peculiar) emails
George Douglas, merchantman
Glenbervie Chair
Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Scotland
Gypsies and Tinkers, Travellers and Itinerants
Henry & Francis of Newcastle
HMS Douglas
How Sir James Douglas got his Lands
Irish Immigrants to America
James Archibald Douglas x3
James Henry Douglas - a slave trade story
Janet Douglas, living 1677
Jenny Douglas, dancer
John Douglas of South Africa
King Douglas, tanker
Kinmont Willie
Kirkpatrick in Seville
Kirriemuir - coat of arms
Knights Banneret
Knights Templar
Lady Jane Douglas - who was she?
Lady Margaret Douglas - The Other Tudor Princess
Lady Mary Douglas's Reel
Latter Day Saints
Lazy Susan
Let the Wolves devour
Livestock, breeders and related articles
Lord Douglas (bull)
Lord Morton's Mare
Lyonston Douglas (bull)
Marriage of John, Lord Maxwell, and Elizabeth Douglas
Martyrs's Moss
Massacre on board the Douglas, Schooner
Miscellaneous Douglas lands in Scotland
Morton's Maggot
Morton's Reel
Most important and powerful Douglases in History
Mrs Henry Downs
Murder of David Rizzio, 1566
Murder of James Douglas
MV Cape Douglas
Naming paterns
Oliver - Douglas vassals
Origins of the Douglas family in Italy
Origins of the Douglas family in Italy
Origins of the name 'Douglas'
Otterburn Douglas banner
Paterson - Douglas vassals
Pharoah's Daughter - Queen of Scots
Plantation of Ulster
Plantation owners compensated
Prisoners from the Battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651)
PS Douglas
PS Douglas, 1864
Rachel Douglas
Raeburn portraits of the Douglas family
Research myths
Robbie Burns and the Douglas connection
Robert Douglas bottle
Robert the Bruce
Rogues and vagabonds
Royal connections with the Douglas family
Salt cellar - Douglas of Kilhead
Sand tee gun
Sarah E. Douglas, schooner
Sawney Bean and Black Agnes Douglas
Sea Shanties
Ship wrecks
Silver Arrow archery competition
Sir James Douglas slays the Peacock of the North
Sir James Douglas, buoy layer
Sir James Douglas, ship
Slave ships
Slave trade letters
SS Douglas
Stirling Tournament of 1449
Sugar & Slavery
Swedsh steamer, Douglas
The 'Unity'
The Alexander
The Battle of Dalrigh and the Lost Sword of Robert the Bruce
The battle of the Bismark and sinking of HMS Hood, May 1941
The Black Douglas - vessel
The brick makers of Allangrange
The Capitulation of Irvine
The Castle of Agazzano and the ghost of Count Buso
The Comlongon Tragedy
The Curse of the Queensberrys
The Douglas Cannon
The Douglas Cause
The Douglas Children, or 'Juvenile Retirement'
The Douglas fir
The Douglas Heart
The Douglas Squirrel
The Douglas surname
The Douglas Tragedy
The Douglas-fir gall midge
The Douglas-Pennant Art Collection
The Douglases in around the world
The Earl of Morton Succession
The Empire Douglas (ship)
The French, Jacobites and the Douglas family
The ghost of Henry Douglas
The John Douglas, ship
The King arrives at Holyrood
The Maiden beheading machine
The Marescotti origins
The Maria Douglas
The Marksberry family
The Percy Douglas
The Rough Wooing
The Salamander in a Ring of Fire
The schooner, Black Douglas
The Scottish Marches
The Slaying of John Douglas at Little Moccasin Gap, 1776
The Victoria Cross (VC)
The Wreck of the Crown
The wreck of the George H. Douglas
The wreck of the Sea Horse, 1816.
The wreck of the Svecia
Thomas Douglas of Chile
Treaty of Greenwich
Treaty of Westminster (1462)
USS Otis W. Douglas
Viking descents into Britain
Visit Scotland!
War of 1812
Whisky
White slave trade
Who was The Black Douglas?
William Douglas, murderer, bc1982
Witches and witchcraft
Wreck of the Douglas
Wreck of the Jane Douglas, 1901
  articles/vehicles/glen_douglas.html
articles/swords/bruce_douglas_sword.htm
articles/swords/wallace_monument_swords.htm
Naming paterns
articles/swords/douglas-ewart-sword.htm
articles/swords/index.htm
articles/swords/sword_henry_douglass.htm
articles/vehicles/airport_tug.htm
articles/swords/douglas_sword.htm
articles/vehicles/douglas_fir_truck.htm
Douglas Ghosts
Australia introduction
Douglas - The Death Ship
Irish Immigrants to America
Decaying tombs in Piacenza
Enrico Dich Scot Douglas
Origins of the Douglas family in Italy
Douglas titles
Origins of the Douglas family in Italy
Pharoah's Daughter - Queen of Scots
Columbus - was he a Douglas?
Freskin the Fleming
The Slaying of John Douglas at Little Moccasin Gap, 1776
How Sir James Douglas got his Lands
Fun (peculiar) emails
Douglas Support
Condottieri di ventura and the Scotti Douglas
Archibald Douglas, earl of Wigton, in France
The Douglas surname
The French, Jacobites and the Douglas family
Archibald & Eleanor Douglas-Pennant
The Douglas-fir gall midge
The Douglas fir
An early history of the Douglas family in France
2014  Douglas Clan Gathering
Douglas Earls of Angus: a study  of power
The Douglases in around the world
Douglas postcards
James Archibald Douglas x3
The Castle of Agazzano and the ghost of Count Buso
Cigarette cards
Douglas tartans
Douglas 13thC manors in England
The Salamander in a Ring of Fire
Douglas family in Palestine
Douglas itinerary2
Edwin T Douglas - ship
Contributors to the Douglas Archives
The Douglas Cause
The ghost of Henry Douglas
Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Scotland
The Marescotti origins
Douglases and the  Slave Trade
Royal connections with the Douglas family
The Douglas Tragedy
Witches and witchcraft
The Percy Douglas
Douglas-Appleyard Arcless Sextant
Douglas models
Douglas families in the Falklands
Dunbar versus Douglas - a story of conflict
Knights Templar
Archibald Douglas and the Legend of the Signet Ring
Black Douglas - Bushranger
Plantation owners compensated
Miscellaneous Douglas lands in Scotland
Edinburgh treaty - 1328
Gypsies and Tinkers, Travellers and Itinerants
USS Otis W. Douglas
Florence M. Douglas, Schooner
The Marksberry family
Douglas Farm, New Jersey
Marriage of John, Lord Maxwell, and Elizabeth Douglas
Slave ships
Raeburn portraits of the Douglas family
The Scottish Marches
Count Hannibal Scotti's Yachts
Silver Arrow archery competition
Sea Shanties
Lord Morton's Mare
Buccleugh library donation
Ship wrecks
Otterburn Douglas banner
The wreck of the Sea Horse, 1816.
Lady Margaret Douglas - The Other Tudor Princess
A tale of conspiracy and plotting
Rogues and vagabonds
Douglas Land Company
Robert Douglas bottle
Coraville Douglas (bull)
Douglas' toad
Lyonston Douglas (bull)
Cloverdale Douglas (stallion)
Lord Douglas (bull)
Livestock, breeders and related articles
The Alexander
Viking descents into Britain
Whisky
First Fleet to Australia
Jenny Douglas, dancer
Douglaston Yacht Squadron
Sir James Douglas slays the Peacock of the North
War of 1812
Kinmont Willie
The Douglas-Pennant Art Collection
Case against George Douglas, 1849
The King arrives at Holyrood
Plantation of Ulster
The brick makers of Allangrange
Douglas Coalfield, Lanarkshire
The Curse of the Queensberrys
The Victoria Cross (VC)
Kirriemuir - coat of arms
Thomas Douglas of Chile
Douglas tribes of British Columbia
Douglas Chair, Queens University
Mrs Henry Downs
The 'Unity'
Black Douglas, bushranger, d1892
Kirkpatrick in Seville
Execution of David Douglass, 1842
Douglas & Dolphinton Railway
Did a Douglas actually claim the crown?
John Douglas of South Africa
Breaks in the chain
Black Douglas painting
Abies Douglasii at Lynedoch
Let the Wolves devour
Burning the Bodies of Dead Bandits at Columbus, N. M.
Visit Scotland!
Lady Jane Douglas - who was she?
Murder of David Rizzio, 1566
Border Tower Houses
Douglases lose control of the king
A history of Tartan
Douglas and the Act of Union
The wreck of the Svecia
Darnley/Lennox Jewel
The battle of the Bismark and sinking of HMS Hood, May 1941
Murder of James Douglas
The Battle of Dalrigh and the Lost Sword of Robert the Bruce
The Comlongon Tragedy
Douglas Arms, Bethseda
Origins of the name 'Douglas'
Latter Day Saints
The Earl of Morton Succession
The Maiden beheading machine
Douglas immigrants
The Rough Wooing
Catherine, Countess of Strathearn
The Douglas Squirrel
Argyll's Rebellion, 1685
Douglas-Hamilton plate
Autopsy on Sir George Douglas, d1636
Robert the Bruce
Earl of Selkirk title claim
Stirling Tournament of 1449
James Henry Douglas - a slave trade story
Douglas and the sugar industry
Case of the Black Douglases
The Douglas Children, or 'Juvenile Retirement'
Knights Banneret
Most important and powerful Douglases in History
Cavers Churches
Robbie Burns and the Douglas connection
Research myths
Douglas Undertakers
Sawney Bean and Black Agnes Douglas
The Douglas Heart
Who was The Black Douglas?
Albert James Smith, 1822–1883
Clemintina Johannes Sobieska Douglas, 1746-1771
Douglass lighter
Sand tee gun
Lazy Susan
Salt cellar - Douglas of Kilhead
Glenbervie Chair
The Douglas Cannon
Flintlock fowling piece
Janet Douglas, living 1677
William Douglas, murderer, bc1982
'In', 'of' or 'at' a place
Douglas window in Linlithgow
The Capitulation of Irvine
Earl of Morton's Jig
Douglas Treaties
Treaty of Westminster (1462)
Treaty of Greenwich
Morton's Maggot
Douglases and the Gledstanes
Betto Douglas - the case of
Morton's Reel
Dukes of Brandon
Sugar & Slavery
George Douglas, merchantman
Black Line Dispossession of Indigenous Tribes
Earl of Forfar (Ship)
Sarah E. Douglas, schooner
The Wreck of the Crown
Henry & Francis of Newcastle
Massacre on board the Douglas, Schooner
Prisoners from the Battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651)
Carved Armorial of Douglas, Earl of Angus
PS Douglas, 1864
Sir James Douglas, ship
Lady Mary Douglas's Reel
Sir James Douglas, buoy layer
The Maria Douglas
The wreck of the George H. Douglas
The Empire Douglas (ship)
Baron Douglas ships
Black Douglas motor yacht
Extreme genealogy
Paterson - Douglas vassals
Slave trade letters
White slave trade
Composition of a coat of arms
Duke of Monmouth
Oliver - Douglas vassals
MV Cape Douglas
Douglas, iron ship - 1869
SS Douglas
Douglas Navigation Protractor
Rachel Douglas
PS Douglas
Douglas Pennant, ship
The John Douglas, ship
Douglas Sea Scale
Douglas Castle - ship
Douglas, steamer - 1881
Swedsh steamer, Douglas
HMS Douglas
King Douglas, tanker
Baron Douglas - Steamer
Wreck of the Douglas
The Black Douglas - vessel
Wreck of the Jane Douglas, 1901
Camp Morton
Burns and slavery
The schooner, Black Douglas
Martyrs's Moss

 

 

 

 

See also:

•  Our Histories section
•  Chicago Tribune article of 1911 on the Douglas family in Germany

•  The Castles of the Black Douglases, by Callum Watson [1mb  pdf]

•  The Black Douglas Legend [757kb; pdf]

•  Jounalist Hamish MacPherson's series of articles The mightiest Scottish clans. [709kb; pdf]

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