Charles Edward Douglas

1871 - 1952  (81 years)

• Name	Charles Edward Douglas
  Birth	1871
  Gender	Male
  Death	1952	Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
  Person ID	I99161	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Mother	Frances Mary Matilda Cumming,   b. 1826, The British Chaplaincy, St Petersburg, Russia d. 1920, Frankfield, Kirkcaldy (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F79595	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Family ID	F77957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Charles Edward Douglas b.1871, d. 1952 Kirkcaldy, was an engineer at his father's engineering company and travelled all over Asia selling the company's most well known device, the steam driven rice mill. One of these rice mills is still at work in the Irawaddy Delta in Burma. Copies of his diaries made during these journeys at the turn of the last century, are available from the Dundee University Archives. The company provided equipment that enable southern Australia's first ship repair facilities to be built. This new 'Dunnikier' slip was shipped from Scotland to Port Adelaide in two lots during 1862. The installation of the slip began that same year. It was built on the western side of Fletcher's Slip. The new slip was very large and designed to take 2000 tons.