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Rev Charles Douglas is the first I have recorded as being in Dervock
as eldest son of James Douglas from the Parish of Clough, Co. Antrim,
according to the University of Glasgow records. He married Grace Gamble
(1754-1818), the widow of Peter Williams, in Feb 1787 and was the father
of Charlotte Douglas (1788-1864); Sarah Douglas (-1825); William Trail
Douglas (1790-1815); Charles Douglas (1791-1871); and Edmund Alexander
Douglas (1794-1846).
Douglas is buried in the
old churchyard, where the epitaph on his tombstone testifies to his
fidelity to Derrykeighan. It reads:
The Rev. Charles Douglas
Died 30th Jane, 1833, at the advanced age of 90;
for many years Prebendary of Connor,
and which he resigned rather than leave the Parish,
the curacy of which he served for upwards
of 60 years.
Grace was the daughter of Peter
Gamble and Lilias Stirling who was the daughter of the Reverend Thomas
Stirling (ministry 1703-1719) who followed his father the Rev. Robert
Stirling (1625-1698) and was succeeded by the Reverend John Orr, and he
by the
Rev Joseph Douglas (who may be related to James
Douglas) all as ministers of the Dervock Presbyterian congregation (all
before 1834). The Douglas’s, Gamble’s, Stirling’s and Rev. Orr are all
buried in the Derrykeighan Old Church Graveyard in Dervock. Grace Gamble
and her Douglas and Stirling families are listed in the Dobbs Report of
the Hutchinson Bequest.
According to Burke’s
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed
Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland – 1855
Charles Douglas, was a great grandson of the original Scottish settler
who accompanied William III. to Ireland. He was prebendary of Connor,
1781-1813, and remained in Derrykeighan (and Dervock when his church was
moved there in 1811) until his death. Douglas
is buried in the Derrykeighan Old Church Graveyard, where the epitaph on
his tombstone testifies to his fidelity to. It reads:
“The Rev. Charles Douglas who
died 30 Jane 1833 at the advanced age of 90 for many years Prebendary of
Connor of which he resigned rather than leave this Parish the curacy of
which he served for upwards of 60 years.”
His eldest son William Trail
Douglas (1790-1815) is listed on the same gravestone as “Lieutenant,
R.N. who died 20 June 1815 aged 25 years.”
His second son, Charles
(1791-1871) was a Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He married Frances
Higginson Bayley, and they had nine children, Grace Gamble Douglas
(1826-1913); Fanny Allen Douglas (1827-1857); Ellen
Macartney Douglas (1829-1903) who married Charles Robert Atkinson;
Charles Edmund Douglas (1830-1860); Millicent Mary Douglas (1830-);
Richard William Magennis Douglas (1832-1910); Letitia Bayley Douglas
(1834-1866); James Douglas (1836-1896); and Charlotte Douglas
(1838-1857).
Note: DOUGLAS, Grace born Abt. 1826 in Dervock, Co Antrim and she was
in the 1911 census for Dervock Town, Dervock, County Antrim, Ireland.
Living in the same residence is her sister’s daughter Jane Salisbury
Atkinson.
DOUGLAS, Grace born Abt. 1826 in Dervock, Co Antrim, was in the 1901
census for Eccles Street, Inns Quay, County Dublin, Ireland.
His third son, Edmund Alexander Douglas married Anne Allen (1805-90),
daughter of Dr. Samuel Allen of Lisconnan, and was the father of Allen
Edmund Douglas, MD (1835-1894); Capt. Charles Douglas, RN (1836-1891);
Edmund Alexander Douglas (1840-1865); unknown fourth son?; and Millicent
Mary Amelia Douglas (1839-1910). He died 23 February 1890; will proved
at Belfast, 27 August 1890 (effects £370).
Note: The second son, Capt. Charles Douglas, RN (1836-1891), started
this family line in Australia by marrying his second wife Margaret
Williams in Victoria, Australia in 1881 before being lost at sea in
1891. He had by his first wife Alice Gertrude Mardon (1847-1877) one son
and three daughters all born in England, but his son Godfrey Douglas
(1871-1930) and daughter Alice Grace Douglas (1875-1962) emigrated to
Australia and died there.
The second son of Charles Douglas, J.P., (1791-1871) was Richard William
Magennis Douglas, J.P., (1832-1910), and is recorded as a landowner at
Dervock 1873-1875. He was one of the best-known land agents in Ulster
and one of the most popular sportsmen in Ireland (raising and racing
Greyhounds). (“The late Mr. Douglas was the elder son of Mr. Charles
Douglas, J.P., of Derveck (sic), and grandson of the Rev. Charles
Douglas, Prebendary.)
Richard William Magennis Douglas, J.P., married first Letitia Kennedy
Jackson (1841-1879) and was the father of Richard William Magennis
Douglas, Jr. (1865-1809) and Charles Edmund Douglas (1875-1940). He
married secondly, Julia Bonorandi (1845-1925) and was the father of
James Edmund Leslie Douglas (1881-1956); Edmund Charles Douglas
(1882-1971); William Archer Sholto Douglas (1884-1951); Donald Gordon
Douglas (1886-1917) KIA in WWI; and Letitia Margaret Douglas
(1888-1951).
Anne Allen (1805-90), daughter of Dr. Samuel Allen (1778-1835), of
Lisconnan, married Edmund Alexander Douglas (d. 1846), son of Rev.
Charles Douglas, and had issue four sons and one daughter; died 23
February 1890; will proved at Belfast, 27 August 1890 (effects £370)
His third son was William Archer Sholto Douglas
1886-1951; b. Devrock, Co. Antrim;, British Army, 1900-07; emigrated
USA in 1908, fought as captain of US Tank Corps in WWI; a novel,
Long John Murray (London: Faber 1936), novel dealing with
Belfast in the 1886 riots, against historical backdrop of
ancient colonial memories of Jacobite plantations; the old
landlordism and the Orange Order are ridiculed; other
non-fiction works including one on Racketeers of Europe: A
Political Travelogue in 1936 about fascism and several books on
corporate histories. He fought in WWI, was a war correspondent
during WWII and other wars, a movie producer in Hollywood, and
worked for newspapers in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.
It may be this William whose grandson is William Yates.
William Archer Sholto Douglas
married seven times. He married first Julia Rowe (1886-1911) and had a
son Richard Joseph Magennis Douglas (1910-1991). He married second,
Gertrude Laue (1891-1980 and had a son William Archer Sholto Douglas,
Jr. (1918-1971). His fourth wife was Marion Estelle Dennison
(1914-1942) and had a son Edward G. Douglas (1934- ). He is buried in
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.
His son, Richard Joseph Magennis Douglas, born in
Philadelphia, PA was sent back to Northern Ireland in 1911 to be raised
by his grandmother Julia Bonorandi (1845-1925) and Aunt Letitia Margaret
Douglas (1888-1951) living also at various times in England and Scotland
with her family members as well. It 1925 he joined the RAF and served
until 1931 when he chose U.S. citizenship and returned to the United
States where he married Ruth Ann Haeger and had issue two sons and a
daughter. He and his wife are buried in Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, VA
Notes:
1. There may be a link (common ancestor? Robert, b1665?) with
the Douglas of Grace Hall
family
2. The Reverend Thomas Stirling (ministry 1703-1719) was succeeded by
the Reverend John Orr, and he by the Reverend Joseph Douglas as minister
and pastor of the Devrock congregation (all before 1834).
3. William Grant Douglas (1824-1898) born in
Lincolnshire, England is not the son of this Charles, but the son of
another Rev. Charles S. Douglas who is descended from the Earls of
Morton (despite the fact that this William and family did live in Bushmills, Co. Antrim, for a period).
4. . I have not been able to make any connection with this William
Douglas and daughter Charlotte with the above family tree. He would have
to have been born around 1800 and I don’t see an existing father for
that timeframe. However, if the Rev. Charles was indeed the eldest son
of James then the link could be to his unidentified younger brother.
5. Charlotte Douglas who married Moses Brangan on 25 Oct 1853 in
Ahoghill, Ballymena, Antrim NI. They had a Charlotte who was born on
Dervock on 25 Aug 1864. She married Sir Thomas Moles of England. He was
very famous and was knighted by the Queen.
6. Moses Brangan, Branigan of Carrickfergus, Antrim, NI married
Charlotte Douglas on 24 Oct 1853 in Ahoghill, Ballymena, Antrim, NI.
They had a very large family and lived in the Dervock and Ballyratican
areas near Ballycastle, Antrim, NI.
Moses Branigan was the Head Constable of all the Constables at the RIC (
Royal Irish Constabulary) (Irish Police). His father's name was William
Branigan. Charlotte Douglas was the daughter of William Douglas of
Ahoghill, a police sergeant. (Ahoghill and Dervock are 23 miles apart).
 Wedding
of Paddy Douglas and Margaret Wilkinson, Church of Our Lady and
St. Patrick’s Ballymoney
 Wedding
of Margaret Wilkinson and Patrick Douglas, in Carncullagh
Presbyterian Church
 Dr.
Samuel Allen (1778-1835), of Lisconnan, whose daughter Anne
Allen (1805-90); married Edmund Alexander Douglas (d. 1846), son
of Rev. Charles Douglas, and had issue four sons and one
daughter; she died 23 February 1890; will proved at Belfast, 27
August 1890 (effects £370);
See also:
• Tithe
Applotments in Ireland in the 1820s and 1830s
• Rev Joseph Douglas,
minister at Dunaghy from 1760 until 1795 who may be
related to Maj James Douglas
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