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Sholto Douglas (d1848: London Gazette) was manager of plantation Spring
Hall, Demerara, in 1838, when he received a gold medal from the governor
for his treatment of apprenticed labourers (former slaves still bound to
their plantations) [Parliamentary Papers]. He had himself received
compensation for eight enslaved people at emancipation in 1834 [British
Guiana claim 778].
It is not known what, if any, relationship he
has to other Douglas families in Guyana.
IHe married Janet Gordon
(10 APR 1829, Banns of Matrimony) and their daughter, Catherine Elizabeth Douglas, was born
in Georgetown about 1841. She married George Balfour Mackenzie-Ross (of Aldie, Ross-shire) in the colony in 1862.
Notes:
• George
Balfour Mackenzie-Ross also had four children in 'Berbice' with
Charlotte Bowling (d1888) who all took the surname Mackenzie - Isabella,
George, Simon, and William Chisholm [Report of the Titles to Land
Commissioners, Berbice (1892), p488]. They lived on part of Lot 35 on
the Corentyne Coast, which their father bought for them before finally
returning to Scotland.John
Austin, who died in 1838, was "the second son of Thomas Austin
[1727-1806] and Mary Barker was a doctor of medicine, described as an
ordnance surgeon and therefore must have been attached to the Army in
Barbados for some time during his career. He was owner of Plantation
Spring Hall on East Coast, Demerara and co-owner with his half-brother
William of Land of Plenty in Essequibo."In 1860, Spring Hall
appears to be owned by R.M. Jones.
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