Notes:

The youngest daughter

Isabella married Lt Robert Douglas on 14 Apr 1847 in Paddington, London. Robert (son of General Robert Douglas, CB and Dorcas Male) was born before 1847; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

2nd son
He took the name Douglas-Willan when, through his wife, he inherited Twyford Abbey
His death was preceded by a long and painful illness, the effect of a severe wound received in Holland at an early age in the service of his king and country. Aged 16, he had been serving on the staff of the army at Helder when he was severely wounded by the loss of a leg.

He had 14 children of whom ten were living in 1871. 8 sons were in the army and one in the Royal Navy;

Died:
His death was preceded by a long and painful illness, the effect of a severe wound received in Holland at an early age in the service of his king and country.

John married Isabella Maria Willan on 13 Oct 1808 in Farmington, Gloucestershire. Isabella (daughter of Thomas Willan and Christiana Barber) was born about 1789; died in 1862 in Chichester, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She inherited Twyford Abbey and possibly Hanwell Park, Middlesex.
It is not yet clear to me what else she inherited - the stagecoach business? The dairy farm in Marylebone? There were a series of court cases in 1862-1864 challenging the inheritance, of which I have yet to discover the details. Most of the farms in Farmington were sold off by auction at this time (these may have been left to her sister and co-heiress, Jane.

At this time, she was described as 'who at different times resided at Bognor, Anglesey and Rhyde,

She is described as 'the eldest daughter'

Notes:

He was a cadet in the R.A. about 2 Aug 1760, in the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant in 1779 became Col Commandant, Royal Artillery

(Research):On October 9, 2009, Claudine Douglas wrote:…
Hi William, many thanks for your message. I have the Douglas-Willan connection in my family tree. As you will already know John Kearsley Douglas married Isabella Maria Willan and they then changed their name to Douglas-Willan. They were my 4xGreat grandparents. I have very limited information going back another 4 generations prior to that....the father of John Kearsley Douglas, being Robert Douglas (Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1779, Colonel Commandant of the R.A and a Lieutenant General in the Army, died 1827. I have a copy of his Will dated 14 November 1826) and HIS father also being Robert Douglas (Major of Marines). (I have an abstract of his will dated 1780). HIS father was James Douglas (died young in Abermarle's [SIC] Regiment at Gibralter) and HIS father was John Douglas (a Colonel in the Army).

Robert married Mary Kearsley on 22 Oct 1777. Mary (daughter of John Kearsley, MD and Mary Magdalen Valleau, daughter of Dr John Kearsley) was born about 1745; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1806 the manor of Twyford was sold to Thomas Willan, a stagecoach proprietor of the Bull and Mouth Inn near Aldergate and owner of a large dairy farm in Marylebone Park (now Regent's Park) (It had between 800 and 1000 milk cows!).

Twyford Abbey started life in the middle ages as the West Twyford manor house. It belonged to the lords of the manor of West Twyford who owned the surrounding land. By 1593 it was the only inhabited house in West Twyford, with a small private chapel.West Twyford manor house was partially demolished around 1715 and the chapel rebuilt around that time.

Willan wanted to turn the house into a 'Gothic' mansion. He engaged architect William Atkinson, a pupil of James Wyatt who had designed the Duke of Kent's 'palace' on castle Hill to designed an extension around the original house in a Gothic style. As a consequence, the genuine medieval moat was filled in.

Thomas acquired farms in Farmington, Gloucestershire, amounting to 1183 acres, in 1792. It is of note that this was one of the destinations for the Bull and Mouth stagecoach business.

The Willan family bought Acton or SPRINGFIELD farm, with 145 a. north of Uxbridge Road, c. 1801. After Thomas Willan's death the house and most of the land were sold in 1828.

Willan was succeeded in 1828 by his daughter Isabella Maria (d. 1862) and her husband John Kearsley Douglas, later DouglasWillan (d. 1833). In 1890 their son William Moffat Douglas-Willan sold the house, with 19 a. and the advowson, to William H. Allhusen, who in 1902 sold them to the Roman Catholic Alexian Brothers, the owners in 1981. Some other land was sold in 1897 to form part of the Willesden workhouse infirmary site and some in 1900 to the Royal Agricultural Society, becoming part of the Park Royal estate. Col. Douglas-Willan was still the chief landowner in 1908 but the remaining land was sold for building after the First World War, much of it in 1933 to Guinness Brewery.

One report has him dying on 19th March 1828

His will, enormously long, was proved in PCC in 1828.




(Research):Christiana Willan, widow of Thomas Willan of Twyford Abbey, Middlesex, esq. is mentioned in a lease dated 1829 and in an insurance document, also 1829

Thomas married Christiana Barber on 23 Jul 1778 in St. Marylebone Parish Church, London. Christiana was born about 1755; died before 31 Jul 1837. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her will desires that her funeral be conducted with a little expense as possible and leaves everything to her daughter Isabella Maria Douglas Willan. The will is witnessed by John Douglas Willan.

Notes:

A major in the Chatham Division of the Marines
Served on board HMS Inflexible

Made a will dated 15 Jun 1780

His death notice gives him the rank of Lt Col.

Robert Douglas of the Chatham Marines who died on March 28, 1783 as Major, was promoted next day, and buried April 4, as Lt. Col- he was born about 1710. His wife was an unknown Mary.

(Research):I have not been able to prove that he is the son of James and Katharine

Robert + Mary. Mary was born before 1745; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Rochester, Kent

Named in her husband's will, dtd 15 Jun 1780

Notes:

Died:
My source said Carlisle, PA ???

John + Mary Magdalen Valleau. Mary (daughter of Peter Valleau and Magdalene Fauconnier) was born about 1724; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

of Bardon

James married Isabel Fox on 4 Sep 1742 in Kendal, Old Hutton or Grayrigg. Isabel was born about 1719; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]