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- (Research):Unverified suggested detail: June 9, 1813 Birth of Margaret Douglas Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, England
Unverified suggested detail: Mother Isabella Richardson; Father Edward Douglas
Adam married Margaret Douglas at Gretna Green on the 9th March, 1832, Margaret being a native of Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, where she had been born and baptised in 1813.
The Gretna Green Marriage Registers 1794-1895, are available on Ancestry, but a quick look (by someone else) in the index showed no marriage there. A quick search for a Douglas family in Heddon-on-the-Wall revealed nothing. Heddon-on-the-Wall and Alnwick, where he was supposedly a gardener, are about 40 miles apart. How did they meet?
Gretna Green is the place where 'runaways'/'elopers' go to get married, using the blacksmith's anvil as the 'alter'. One needed a certain amout of money to do this.
the eldest daughter of Adam & Margaret appears to have been baptised at Alnwick on the 17th March 1833.
Newcastle Journal, Sat 9 Sep 1848
Deaths - At Alnwick, on the 31st ult, aged 15, Jane, daughter of Adam Landells, gardener
Newcastle Journal, Sat 19 May 1849
Deaths - On the 15th instant, aged 2, Margaret, daughter of Mr Adam Landells, gardener
Adam LANDELLS (1813-1863) whose first wife was Margaret Douglas (1813-1849) - she died at sea on emigration from London to Adelaide. Adam and Margaret married in Scotland in 1832; Adam subsequently married in Adelaide in 1850; his wife Elizabeth Ann DIBBS died in 1877; and in 1883 Adam visited his son Edward in Tauranga, and died of a heart attack after a short time.
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