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William Douglas of Blackmiln, son of Thomas D.,
merchant, Aberdeen, and Bridget, daugh. of John Forbes of Abernethy, and
great-grandson of Sir Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie ; educated at Marischal
College, Aberdeen, 1621-5;
Minister of Aboyne and Glentaxar
adm. before 1st Nov. 1633; dep. in 1644; reponed by the
General Assembly 7th Aug. 1648 ; petitioned Parliament, 27th July 1649,
showing he had lent the Committee of Estates 1300 merks at Whitsunday
1648, and was now reduced to such poverty that he was not able to maintain
his family and educate his children, and had been recommended to the
General Assembly, 27th Aug. 1647 and 12th Aug. 1648.
On 31st July 1649 Parliament ordered said claim to be
paid. An Act of Assembly was passed in his favour, 30th July that year,
and Parliament, 21st June 1661, granted him 100 sterling " on account of
his great sufferings and losses."
He marr. Marjory, daugh. of John Ross, min. of Birse,
(Note: Stirnet has this as Rose, not Ross) and had issue William, min. of Midmar; Robert of Cruixton, sugar boiler in
Leith ; John ; a daugh. (marr. Chalmers of Balnacraig) ; a daugh. (marr.
Burnett, brother to the Laird of Campfield) ; a daugh. (marr., as his
second wife, William Forbes of Pitallachie).
[Spalding MiscelL, iii., 131, 135 ; Blackhall s
Narrat. ; Acts of Parl., vi. ii. 504, 737, vii. App. 78 ; Lumsden s House
of Forbes ; Henderson s Aberdeenshire Epitaphs, 118.]
Note:
there was a James Douglas, minister in Aboyne, 1699. He later
transferred to to Arbuthnott 16th March 1715. He married Elizabeth
Arbuthnot, daughter of Captain Robert Arbuthnot. He died between 4 May and
9 June 1743 aged about sixty-nine. Thought to be of
the family of Douglas of Stonypath, East Lothian.
William Douglas married Marjory Ross (or Ross), son of
John Rose, grandson of James Rose, 3rd of Larachmoir, d 10 Jul 1635,
minister of Strachan, then Aberdeen.
Note2: Francis Douglas
dc 1790 was a son of Robert Douglas of Blackmiln
See also:
Douglas of Balckmiln
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