Hector (1st of Muldearg) Douglas

- Bef 1653

• Name	Hector (1st of Muldearg) Douglas
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef Sep 1653
  Person ID	I193507	First tree
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2023

  
  

  Family	H. Ross
  Children	1. Hector (2nd of Muldearg) Douglas   d. Before 9th July 1656   2. Agnes Douglas,   b. Bef 1635   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F46576	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2023

  
  

• Notes

  The exact date at which the Douglasses settled in Ross-shire cannot now with accuracy be ascertained. But the traditions of the family uniformly assert that they came from Lanarkshire to the North about the time of the Reformation. It appears from reliable evidence that they were located about the Abbey of Fearn, in Easter Ross, at the latter part of the sixteenth century, and possessed landed property in the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century, in the parishes of Fearn and of Kiltearn. In the Valuation Roll, 1644, of the Sheriffdom of Inverness, including Ross, Hector Douglas I. of Mulderg is styled "of Mulderg;" his rental in Fearn parish is marked £1540 Scots, and in Kiltearn parish £533 6s 8d Scots. In 1646 he was one of those selected to make a loan, his name and the amount appearing in a list discerned at Aberdeen thus— " Hector Douglas, Elder of Mulderg, £1333 6s 8d Scots."