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William Douglas of Leith

 

 

 

 

 

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William Douglas of Leith was the son of Robert Douglas of Cruixton (b. 31 Apr 1667) and Rachael McFarlane (b. Abt 1667).

 

Little is known about William Douglas (b. 3 December 1696) beyond the fact he came from Leith and that he was a merchant.

 

A good deal more is known about his wife, Katherine (1695-1785c), James Dunlop and Lilias Campbell, dau of Robert Campbell and Katherine Napier. In 1634, her great-grandfather, John Dunlop, a merchant burgess of Glasgow, son of James Dunlop, and great-grandmother, Elizabeth, purchased "the town and lands of Garnkirk," near Stewarton, Ayrshire, and the name of Garnkirk was thereafter linked with the Dunlop family, for John, a rich man, who besides being a merchant appears to have been also a banker, built the original mansion house of Garnkirk. He died in March 1662.

Katherine's grandfather, James, married Elizabeth, daughter of James Roberton, the future Lord Bedlay, and advocate; and Katherine's father, also named James, was their eldest son. Katherine's mother, Lilias Campbell, was the mother of sixteen children by the time she was 34 when she died, in 1709, not surprisingly in childbirth. Katherine, born in 1695 and therefore only 14 when her mother died, was the fifth child and second daughter to live to adulthood. She was to have a very long life, dying aged over 90.

Apparently only three children were born of her marriage to William Douglas, the merchant of Leith, and one of these was John Douglas.

 

Another son, Robert, is described as 'of Port Glasgow, and may have been involved in the sugar trade.

 

Note:

1. This William Douglas of Leith is not to be confused with the Dr William Douglas, MD, also of Leith, whose daughter, Lydia married Andrew Snape Hamond, and whose son, Andrew Snape Douglas, became a Royal Navy Captain..

 

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