Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Douglas was born on 9 September 1824, in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Joseph Douglass, was 42 and his mother, Mary Orr Burgess, was 41. He married Mary Elizabeth Howell on 6 March 1849, in Marrangaroo, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 21 January 1894, in Molong, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 69, and was buried in Meranburn, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Joseph Douglas, "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980"
- Joseph Douglas, "Find A Grave Index"
- Joseph Douglass in entry for Joseph Douglass, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
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1829
Australia is claimed as British territory.
1837
George Grey explores Western Australia.
1847
Gold found in Port Phillip.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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