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Yorkshire, formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of
Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Due to its great
size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been
undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject
to periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to
be recognised as a geographical territory and cultural region. The name
is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in
common use in the media and the military, and also features in the
titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire,
South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.
A collection of notes;
the aim is to find common threads of the Douglas families in Yorkshire.
Illustrative images not yet
collected
Until 1835, the Dukes of
Buccleugh held lands in the West Riding of Yorkshire and the ancient
title of Lord of Bowland.
Jacobus Douglas was either born in Northern England or Drumlanrig,
Scotland in about 1500. His father according to recent findings is
Sir
William Douglas 6th of Drumlanrig. He was probably illegitimate. Very
little is known about Jacobus, except that he shows up in West Yorkshire
being buried in St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Halifax, West
Yorkshire, England. It has been determined that his son, by the name of
William, is in the same parish. His son, William had a son named Jacobus
in 1545, who was named after his grandfather. The name Jacobus is the
same as James. His grandson Jacobus, ended up in Henley On Thames,
Oxfordfshire, England where he married Ann Tulio. The marriage record
listed him as James, but on his children's baptism record it was listed
as Jacobi. It was common in England for the name James to change as
Jacobi or even Jacobus or James at different times. The elder, Jacobus's
grave, is probably unmarked, but the parish records shows him buried in
St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
Margaret, Countess of Lennox (1515-1578) was the daughter of
Archibald Douglas, 6th earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, daughter of
Henry, daughter of Henry VII. of England and widow of James IV. of
Scotland. During Marys reign the countess of Lennox had rooms in
Westminster Palace; but on Elizabeth's accession she removed to
Yorkshire, where her home at Temple Newsam became a centre for Catholic
intrigue.
Alexander Douglas Lived at the
time of Charles 1st. His father was the first ancestor of the Douglas of
Gyrn line to settle in England and came in the retinue of King James at
the time of his accession to the English throne. He was of the Morton
line of the House of Douglas. Alexander owned Townend Hall in Arkendale.
(Arkendale = Arkengarthdale) (Arkendale is near Reeth in parish of
Grinton, in Yorkshire.)
Bishop John Douglas was born
in 1743 in Yarm, Yorkshire, the son of John Douglass and Brigit Senson
or Semson. John Douglass (snr) had fled Scotland because he was a
Jacobite supporter.
The Hon. John Douglas (born 1756)
was the youngest son of James, 14th Earl of Morton. In 1784 he married
Frances Lascelles, daughter of Edward, 1st Earl of Harewood at North
Allerton, Yorkshire, where he died on 1st May 1818. His son, George,
became the 17th earl of Morton.
John
Douglas,
stuff merchant of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, was born 31 Dec 1809 in
Stranraer, the son of John Douglas, Burgess of Stranraer, woolen/linen
draper and silk mercer and his wife Jean McConbling or Comlin [sister of
Nathaniel Comlin]. He had eight siblings.
James Stuart Douglas (4
November 1837 - 30 June 1918) was a Canadian mining engineer and
businessman who introduced a number of metallurgical innovations in
copper mining. His great-grandfather was a mason and stone-cutter in
Yorkshire.
Rev. William Frederick Douglas (who in 1846 married); Rector of Scrayingham, Yorkshire, and third son of Sir Howard Douglas, M.P. for
Liverpool
George William Douglas (18591947) was a woollen and worsted dyer. He
was born on 14 August 1859 at 26 Spring Gardens, Bradford, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire, the son of David Maitland Douglas and his wife,
Margaret, n้e McConnal.
Rev. Henry Archibald Douglas-Irvine BA MA (18831962), a
Douglas of Grangemuir; Vicar
between 1932 and 1937 at Salton, Yorkshire, England (Holmfirth, West
Yorkshire in 1917). His son, Walter
Francis Edward Douglas was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in 1917
George Keith Douglas Born 1904, Died 1949 Farfield Hall, Addingham,
Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Claude Douglas (23 August
1852 - 9 June 1945) was Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary in Bradford.
He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, the seventh child of James Douglas,
MD, LSA
Reverend Archibald
William Douglas 98 June 1870 - 23 March 1955 was Canon of Sheffield
Cathedral.
Ian Douglas-Wilson
(died 15 October 2013) was a British physician who was editor of The
Lancet, a United Kingdom-based medical journal, from 1965 to 1976. He
was born on 12 May 1912 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, the son of a
spa doctor.
The former Miss Kate Middleton, The Countess of Strathearn, as
she is known in Scotland, is descended from
John Douglas of Yorkshire.
Richard Philip Douglas, CB
(born 20 November 1956 in York, North Yorkshire), is a senior civil
servant
David John Douglass
political activist and writer. He worked as a coal miner in the
coalfields of Durham and South Yorkshire
The Kidson family, a
Douglas sept, may have had their origins in Yorkshire.
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