Brief Life History of James
When James Douglass III was born in August 1838, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James Douglas, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Mochrie, was 27. He died on 15 February 1841, in Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 2, and was buried in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.
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- Burials in the Parish of Saint Bridget, in the county of the city of Dublin, in the year1841
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1839
The Night of the BIG WIND. In Killarney and its neighborhood there was a terrible hurricane. The town sustained much damage and many houses were shattered.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Durham and Northumbria): variant of Douglas .
History: William Douglass, a physician recognized for his identification and description of an epidemic of scarlet fever, was born c. 1691 in Gifford, Haddington County, Scotland, and settled in Boston in 1718. The abolitionist, orator, and journalist Frederick Douglass assumed the name after escaping from slavery in 1838 and traveling to Massachusetts. Son of a white father and a slave with some Indian blood, he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. 1817 in Tuckahoe, MD.
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Biography of William Mochrie Douglass
Written in 1961 by James W. Kirkbride, a Historian of Smithfield, Utah (The late Mr. Kirkbride was Superintendent of Schools in Smithfield and knew William Mochrie Douglass.) William Mochrie Douglass …
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