A-Z of the Douglas Archives

 

The Douglas Archives seeks to preserve, protect and make widely known the enormous contribution that members of the Clan Douglas have made, and are still making, in politics, medicine, literature, music, sport, exploration and other forms of scientific endeavour, military campaigns and many other fields.

Emigration from Scotland
Emigration records
Poorhouse residents
Teaching and education Biographies
Two-seater Douglas car
13th Dragoons
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
1st Dumfries Mounted Rifles
32nd Regiment of Foot
8th/9th Lanarkshire Volunteers
97 Battery, Royal Artillery
A collection of Stories
A history of Tartan
Abbeys and churches
Abbreviations
Abercorn Castle
Aberdour Castle
Act for putting the kingdom in a posture of defence
Adam Smith's will
Albert James Smith, 1822–1883
Album for St Peter and St Paul Church
Allt Poll Dubh-Ghlas
Alnwick Castle
Andrew Spratt's castle reconstructions
Andrew Spratt's castle reconstructions - Page2
Andrew Spratt's castle reconstructions - Page3
Angus Regiment of Fencibles
Anne Douglas, Living 2004
Antarctica place names
Arbroath Abbey
Archibald Douglas of Darroch’s Regiment of Foot
Architects
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Armorials - People
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Auchen Castle
Auchenfranco Castle
Auchinleck, Kirriemuir
Auldhame Castle
Australian arrivals and departures
Australian War Deaths
Autopsy on Sir George Douglas, d1636
Baads Castle
Baldoon Castle
Ballad of Chevy Chase
Ballencrieff Castle
Ballumbie Castle
Balvenie Castle
Balvie Castle
Baptisms - St Nicholas parish, Aberdeen 1838-1848
Barjarg Castle
Barnton Castle
Baron Douglas - Steamer
Baron Douglas of Douglas
Baron Douglas ships
Bass Rock
Battle of Airds Moss, 1680
Battle of Ancrum Moor, 1545
Battle of Annan, 1332
Battle of Arkinhom, 1455
Battle of Bannockburn, 1314
Battle of Bauge, 1421
Battle of Blue Licks, 1782
Battle of Bothwell Brig, 1679
Battle of Carberry Hill, 1567
Battle of Chevy Chase, 1388
Battle of Corrichie, 1562
Battle of Crichtondene, 1388
Battle of Culblean, 1335
Battle of Culloden, 1746
Battle of Dornock, 1333
Battle of Drumclog, 1679
Battle of Dryffe Sands
Battle of Dunbar, 1296
Battle of Dunbar, 1650
Battle of Dunkeld, 1689
Battle of Dupplin Moor, 1332
Battle of Halidon Hill, 1333
Battle of Kings Mountain
Battle of Langside, 1568
Battle of Largs, 1263
Battle of Linlithgow Bridge
Battle of Lintalee, 1317
Battle of Linthaughlee, 1317
Battle of Long Hermiston Moor, 1406
Battle of Loudon Hill and Drumclog
Battle of Loudon Hill, 1296
Battle of Melrose
Battle of Moranside, 1385
Battle of Neville's Cross, 1346
Battle of Nisbet Moor, 1355 and 1402
Battle of Otterburn, 1388
Battle of Redheugh Dean
Battle of Saints, 1782
Battle of Sauchieburn, 1488
Battle of Sheriffmuir, 1715
Battle of Shrewsbury, 1403
Battle of Skaithmuir,1316
Battle of Stanhope Park, 1327
Battle of Steinkirk, 1692
Battle of Stirling Bridge, 1297
Battle of Teba, 1330
Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Battle of Worcester, 1651
Bell - a Douglas sept
Belstane Castle
Benjamin Douglas House
Berwick Castle
Billie Castle
Biographies of Douglas artists
Biographies of Douglas authors and poets
Birth Notices from the Wigtownshire Free Press
Black Bull Dinner
Black Douglas Ales
Black Douglas motor yacht
Blackfriars Monastery
Blackhouse Tower
Blacklaw Tower
Blackness Castle
Bloodbath at Homildon Hill!
Blythswood House
Bonaly Tower
Bonjedward, Roxburghshire
Border Clans
Borthwick Castle
Bothwell Castle
Bothwell House
Braidwood, Lanarkshire
Brig-General William Douglas Regiment
Buittle Castle
Burgesses and Guild Brethren of Glasgow – 1573 to 1750
Burgesses and Guild Brethren of Glasgow – 1751 to 1846
Burials in Co Durham 1813-1837
Burns and slavery
Byre's Castle Orchard Towerhouse
Byres Castle
Caerlaverock
Calder Castle
Calder House
Camp Douglas
Camp Morton
Camp Morton, Spitzbergen,  Photo gallery
Cape Moreton
Carmichael family
Castle Douglas
Castle of Mains
Castle Stewart
Catherine, Countess of Strathearn
Cavan - a Douglas sept
Cavers
Cavers sept
Cemeteries and Mausoleums
Change log
Charles Douglass' Regiment of Marines
Charter to Col James Douglas
Chelsea Pensioners
Chief Douglas' Daughter
Cigarette cards
Cities, towns and villages and other places
Clan Agnew
Clan crests
Clan Douglas Society of North America
Cleanse the Causeway, 1520
Clock and watch makers
Coats of Arms - places
Cockburnspath Tower
Cockpen, Douglas births in
Col Archibald Douglas's Regiment of Foot
Col J Douglas's Regiment
Col James Douglas of Morton Regiment
Coldingham Priory
Columbus - was he a Douglas?
Comlongon Castle
Commercial suppliers
Commissariot Record of Edmburgh
Conaglen House and Estate
Conaglen memorial
Confucious
Convicts shipped to Austrailia
Cookie Policy
Copyright notice
Corio Villa, Geelong
Cramond Regis
Cramond Tower
Cranshaws Tower
Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire
Crests for Douglas organisations
Crichton Castle
Cruggleton Castle
Cruixton Castle
Dairsie Castle
Dalhousie castle
Dalkeith Palace
Dalmahoy
Dalveen Castle
Darnaway Castle
Death of Archibald Douglas, 1667
Decendants of 1st Earl of Queensberry, d1640
Dehli Mutiny, 1857
Descendants of 1st Duke of Hamilton
Descendants of Hosea Dugliss (Douglas) (1793 - 1864)
Descendants of James Douglas, 1755 - 1860
Descendants of King Robert II
Descendants of the 9th Earl of Angus, d1591
Descendants of Wilhem Douglas, Living 1824
Descendants of William of Douglas, c1177
Dickey sept
Dirleton Castle
DNA research
DNA Testing
Documents in National Library of Scotland
Douglas & Grant
Douglas (locomotive)
Douglas - Genealogy links
Douglas - The Death Ship
Douglas 11th century biographies
Douglas 12th century biographies
Douglas 13th century biographies
Douglas 14th century biographies
Douglas 15th century biographies
Douglas 16th century biographies
Douglas 17th century biographies
Douglas 18th century biographies
Douglas 19th century biographies
Douglas 20th century biographies
Douglas 21st century biographies
Douglas 8th century biographies
Douglas 9th century biographies
Douglas actor biographies
Douglas and the Act of Union, 1707
Douglas and the Ionian Islands
Douglas and the sugar industry
Douglas Archives site statistics
Douglas Arms Hotel
Douglas baptisms in Jedburgh
Douglas Battery & AutoCare
Douglas Battery Manufacturing Co.
Douglas Battles
Douglas Bay and Peak, Antartica
Douglas Bay, ship
Douglas bookplates
Douglas businesses
Douglas Castle
Douglas Castle - ship
Douglas Chapel in Parbold
Douglas Chapel, Montreal La Cluse
Douglas City, Michigan
Douglas coat of arms in Bargeddie
Douglas entries in Morton Parish register
Douglas Families
Douglas Family in France - History
Douglas Family mottoes
Douglas fir truck
Douglas Firebrick Company
Douglas flags and banners
Douglas Fuel Company
Douglas gardeners in Jedburgh
Douglas Ghosts
Douglas gravestone in Dowally
Douglas hatchments
Douglas heart
Douglas heraldry
Douglas immigrants
Douglas in Brittany, Haute-Picardie and Bugey
Douglas Indian war volunteers,
Douglas kilt pin
Douglas Land Company
Douglas Lodge No. 409
Douglas Mansion, Jerome
Douglas memorials
Douglas models
Douglas Motorcycles
Douglas names to research further
Douglas Navigation Protractor
Douglas of Adderston
Douglas of Baads
Douglas of Baitford
Douglas of Barloch
Douglas of Blackmiln
Douglas of Blaydon
Douglas of Bonjedward
Douglas of Bridgeford
Douglas of Brigton
Douglas of Burford
Douglas of Carr
Douglas of Cavers
Douglas of Cavers banners
Douglas of Clapperton
Douglas of Cruixton
Douglas of Dervock
Douglas of Dornock
Douglas of Douglas
Douglas of Drumlanrig
Douglas of Fingland
Douglas of Friarshaw
Douglas of Garrallan
Douglas of Glenbervie
Douglas of Glenfinart
Douglas of Grace Hall
Douglas of Gyrn
Douglas of Hermiston
Douglas of Kilspindie
Douglas of Kinglassie
Douglas of Lochleven
Douglas of Lockerbie
Douglas of Mains
Douglas of Maxwell
Douglas of Mordington
Douglas of Mouswald
Douglas of Muldearg
Douglas of Neidpath
Douglas of Nether Howden
Douglas of Parkhead
Douglas of Penzearie
Douglas of Pierston
Douglas of Pinkerton
Douglas of Pittendreich
Douglas of Pumpherston
Douglas of Salwarpe
Douglas of Spott
Douglas of Springwood
Douglas of Springwood Park Music
Douglas of Spynie
Douglas of Stenhouse
Douglas of Stonypath
Douglas of Strathbrock
Douglas of Strathendry
Douglas of Swynside
Douglas of Tibbers
Douglas of Tilquhillie
Douglas of Timpendean
Douglas of Torthorwald
Douglas of Whiterigs
Douglas of Whittinghame
Douglas Pennant, ship
Douglas postcards
Douglas Scotti of Sarmato
Douglas Scotti of Sarmato
Douglas Scotti of Vigoleno
Douglas Scotti of Vigoleno
Douglas Sea Scale
Douglas seals
Douglas septs and name variations
Douglas settlers in America
Douglas ships and shipping
Douglas Sports Biographies
Douglas Steamship Company
Douglas Support
Douglas timber lorry
Douglas titles
Douglas tribes of British Columbia
Douglas Undertakers
Douglas vehicles
Douglas Vs Douglas
Douglas with West Indies connections
Douglas with West Indies connections
Douglas' First Texas Battery - Smith County, Texas
Douglas's Cairn
Douglas, Arizona
Douglas, iron ship - 1869
Douglas, Isle of Man
Douglas, Lanarkshire
Douglas, steamer - 1881
Douglas, Wyoming
Douglas-Appleyard Arcless Sextant
Douglas-Bate worksheet
Douglas-Mann family
Douglases - Rocky Mountains
Douglases and the slave trade
Douglases and the slave trade - South Carolina
Douglases and the  Slave Trade
Douglases in British Guyana
Douglases in Carlisle
Douglases in Elgin
Douglases in Malta
Douglases involved in the booktrade
Douglases lose control of the king
Douglases of County Down
Douglases of Iowa
Douglases of Moray
Douglases of Nairnshire
Douglases of Ontario
Douglases who married in New York
Douglases who served in the Navy
Douglases who were at Waterlooo, 1815
Douglases with Burns connections
Douglass - a Douglas sept?
Douglass Brothers Ltd, of Blaydon
Douglass Clay Product Company
Drumlanrig Castle
Drumlanrig's Tower
Drumsargard
Drumsergard
Drysdale document
Dudhope Castle
Duff House Mausoleum
Duffus Castle
Duke of Touraine
Dukes of Brandon
Dumbarton Castle
Dunbar Castle
Dunbar versus Douglas - a story of conflict
Dundonald Castle
Dunedin, Florida
Dunglass Castle
Dunnottar Castle
Durham Probate Records: 1840-1858
Durham Probate Records: Administration bonds 1726-1785
Durham Probate Records: probate bonds 1667-1725
Durham Probate Records: probate bonds 1786-1819
Durham Probate Records: probate bonds 1820-1839
Durisdeer Church
Earl of Forfar (Ship)
Earl of Orkney arms
Earls of Home
Edinburgh Castle
Edwin T Douglas - ship
European Douglas Families
Fa'side Castle
Family names
FAQ
Filey fishermen
First Fleet to Australia
Florence M. Douglas, Schooner
Fort Douglas, Utah
Freskin the Fleming
Gang of Thieves and Pickpockets
Garrallan House
Gavler's Castle
Gelston Castle, New York
Gelston Castle, Scotland
Genealogy abbreviations
Genealogy home page
Genealogy Wikis
General Douglas (stallion)
Gentleman of the Bedchamber
George Douglas, merchantman
Gibson County Indiana burials
Given names
Glamis Castle
Glasgow merchants, 1787
Glasgow Roll of Honour
Glen Douglas and Douglas Water
Glenbervie Church
Glendevon Castle
Glendinning sept
Glenfinart House
Gold and silversmiths
Golden Gate National Cemetery
Gorbals Mansion House
Governor James Douglas, British Columbia, 1803 - 1877
Governor Jim Douglas, Vermont, 2005
Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Scotland
Grangemuir House
Guardians and Regents of Scotland
Hamilton Palace
Harbottle Castle
Hawthornden Castle
HD Douglas and Son brass instrument makers of Glasgow
Help Page
Henderson Douglas family tree
Henry & Francis of Newcastle
Heraldry of The Douglas Family in France
Hermitage Castle
HMS Douglas
Hume Castle
Hush ye, Hush ye
Indentured servants
Inglis - A Douglas Sept
Innerwick Castle
Introduction to the Douglas Archives
Introduction to the Douglas Archives
Inverugie Castle
Ireland Undertakers
Irish Death Notices
Irish Muster Rolls
Irish slaves
James Douglas House
James Henry Douglas - a slave trade story
James the Good
Jedburgh Abbey
Jedburgh Poorhouse Records
Kilbucho
Kilmun tomb of Sir John Douglas
Kilspindie Castle and the Red Douglases
King Douglas, tanker
King James 1st, 1406 - 1437
Kinross Coat of Arms
Kirkcaldy burials
Kirkness, Kinross
Kirriemuir - coat of arms
Lady Mary Douglas's Reel
Lands forfeited by the 9th Earl of Douglas
Latter Day Saints
Lennoxlove
Lindores Abbey
Livestock, breeders and related articles
Llandygai
Loch Leven Castle
Lochleven
Lochnaw Castle
Lockerbie House
Lockhart
Loddington Hall
London Merchants, etc
Longniddry Castle
Lord Morton's Mare
Lord provost of Edinburgh
Lyonston Douglas (bull)
Macbeth's Castle
Margaret, Duchess of Lennox armorials
Markle Castle and the Hepburns
Marriages from the Ryton Registers (1750-1779)
Marriages in South Africa
Martyrs's Moss
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots escapes from Lochleven Castle
Massacre on board the Douglas, Schooner
Mausoleum of General Sir Thomas Monteith Douglas
McGuffog - a Douglas sept
McKittrick - a Douglas sept
Melrose Abbey
Memorial in Happy Valley
Memorial to Commander John Douglas
Military Biographies
Military deaths
Minigaff - births 1767-1773
Miss Ann Douglas of Brigton's jig
Miss Douglas of Brigton strathspey
Miss Douglas of Brigton's reel
Montreal Chateau
Monumental Inscriptions in Hythe Churchyard.
Morton - a Douglas sept
Morton Castle
Mount Douglas
Mouswald Place
Mrs Douglas of Brigton strathspey
MV Cape Douglas
Navy Lists - extracts from
Neidpath Castle
New Zealand settlers
New Zealand University Graduates 1870-1938
Newark Castle
Newbattle, Douglas births in
Newsletter backnumbers
Niddry Castle
Norham Castle
North Berwick and the Humes
North Berwick Castle
Objects with a Douglas connection
Old Carthusians, 1800–1879
Old Harrovians, 1800-1911
Orchardton
Origins of the Douglas Familiy
Origins of the name 'Douglas'
Ormiston Castle
Otterburn Douglas banner
Palaeography
Papers of James Douglas Esq of Cavers
Patrick Douglas of Kilspindie, living 1612
Peacock in Douglas heraldry
Pembroke College, Cambridge - Register of Alumni
Penrhyn Slate Quarry
Penryn Castle
Photo gallery
Photographers
Pilgrim pastors of Iowa
Plantation of Ulster
Poetry, Music and Song
Port Penrhyn, Wales
Preston Tower and the Hamiltons
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
Principal Inhabitants of Cumberland
Privacy policy
PS Douglas
Pumpherston
Queensberry House
Rachel Douglas
Ravenscraig Castle
Redhouse Castle
Reference Library
Registration
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Rhode Island BMD
Richard Douglas Regiment
Robert the Bruce raises his standard at Castledykes
Roslin Castle
Roxburgh Castle
Royal connections with the Douglas family
Royal Navy casualties
Rulers of Scotland
Régiment de Douglas
S.S. Romola
Sacking of Newcastle, 1402
Saltcoats Castle, Gullane
Saltcoats Castle, Gullane
Salwarpe graveyard
Salwarpe, Worecestershire
Sandilands - a Douglas Sept
Sarah E. Douglas, schooner
Scots Guards
Scotti Douglas family
Scottish MPs, 1357-1882
Scrabster Castle
Search For a Clan Chief
Seige of Edinburgh Castle
Sgian dhu
Sir James Douglas, buoy layer
Sir James Douglas, ship
Slains Castle
Slave trade letter
Slave trade letters
Smailholm Castle
Spanish Armada
Springwood Park
Spynie Palace
SS Douglas
SS Douglas, tug
St Bride's Church, Douglas
St Bride's Collegiate Church
St Fillan's Church, Aberdour
Stained glass
Steamship Douglas
Sterritt - a Douglas sept
Stirling Castle
Stonypath Tower
Strathbrock Castle
Support the Douglas Archives
Support the Douglas Archives
Support the Douglas Archives
Swedsh steamer, Douglas
Sword presented to Henry B. Douglass
Swords used at Wallace Monument ceremony
SY John Fell
Tantallon Castle
Tantallon Siege, 1651
Tartans
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
The Alexander
The Barony of Glenholm
The battle of the Bismark and sinking of HMS Hood, May 1941
The Black Douglas
The Black Douglas - vessel
The Broken Cross
The Cameronian Regiment
The Comlongon Tragedy
The Covenanting Wars 'The Killing Time'
The Curse of the Queensberrys
The Douglas Archives Library
The Douglas Cannon
The Douglas Cause
The Douglas Column, Corfu
The Douglas family in France
The Douglas family in France - People
The Douglas family in France - Places
The Douglas family in France - Titles
The Douglas family in Germany
The Douglas Forum
The Douglas Generals
The Douglas Heritage Museum
The Douglas Larder
The Douglas Seanachaidh
The Douglas-Pennant Art Collection
The dying Douglas
The Earls of Angus
The Earls of Morton
The Emerald Charter
The Empire Douglas (ship)
The Flowers of the Forest
The Heart of Douglas, poem
The Homecoming
The House of Douglas
The John Douglas, ship
The King arrives at Holyrood
The Maria Douglas
The Marksberry family
The Marquesses of Douglas
The Percy Douglas
The Pharoah's Daughter
The Pringles of Whitsome
The Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Royal Scots, Régiment de Douglas
The schooner, Black Douglas
The Scottish Marches
The Swedish branch
The Wreck of the Crown
The wreck of the George H. Douglas
The wreck of the Sea Horse, 1816.
Thomas, William and James Drysdale
Threave and the Douglases
Timpendean Tower
Today in History
Today in history
Torthorwald Tower
Townhead of Cavers
Turnberry Castle
Useful genealogy websites
Vietnam Veterans
Vreta Abbey, Sweden
W & B Douglas, Tool Makers of Middletown, Connecticut
Walmoor Hill
War of 1812
Wark Castle
Waughton Castle
Weardale Campaign
What is a clan?
What's new in the Douglas Archives?
What's new?
White slave trade
Whittingham
Who Is A Member Of A Clan?
Wigtonshire Death Notices
Wigtonshire Marriage Notices
William Douglas & Sons Ltd
Woolwich Churchyard Inscriptions
Wreath's Tower
Wreck of the Douglas
Wreck of the Jane Douglas, 1901
Yester Castle
Young - a Douglas sept?

 

 

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