When Joseph Douglas was born on 15 June 1800, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Douglass, was 24 and his mother, Hannah Robinson, was 19. He married Elisabeth Chatburn on 1 December 1821, in Gisburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Whalley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1841. He died in 1856, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 56.
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Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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