When Margarette Eunice Douglas was born on 6 April 1849, in Mechanicsburg, Goshen Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Douglas, was 34 and her mother, Margaret Ann Clinton, was 22. She lived in Goshen Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 21 July 1851, in Mechanicsburg, Goshen Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 2, and was buried in Treacles Creek Cemetery, Crimville, Rush Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.
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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