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Douglass: Origin, Geographical Distribution
(Gaelic.) Local. The dark green river, from Dhu, black, dark, and glass, green. A river of Scotland which flows into the Clyde. A town of Lanarkshire. The tradition of the origin of the name is this: in the year 770, a man of rank and figure came seasonably to the assistance of Solvatius, King of Scotland, whose territory was then invaded by Donald Bain, of the Western Isles. The victory being obtained, the King was desirous to see the man who had done him so signal a service, and he was pointed out to him in these words, in the Gaelic, Sholto Dhuglass, behold that dark, or swarthy, man.
Douglass Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : DOUGLASS | DOUGLAS
Douglass: Place of Origin :  London (United Kingdom) |  Grampian (United Kingdom) |  Lancashire (United Kingdom) |  Lothian (United Kingdom) |  Strathclyde (United Kingdom) |  County Durham (United Kingdom)
Douglass: Online Family Trees
DOUGLASS Scotland (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1699 - 1723
DOUGLASS Dunipace, Stirlingshire (Central, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1761 - 1761
DOUGLASS Dysart, Fife (Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1750 - 1750
DOUGLASS Larbert, Stirlingshire (Central, Scotland, United Kingdom) 1754 - 1756
DOUGLASS Norwich (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1570 - 1570
DOUGLASS I Norwich (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1568 - 1568
DOUGLASS FINLAYSON England Or Scotland (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1832 - 1832
DOUGLASS England (England, United Kingdom) 1778 - 1778
DOUGLASS Perth,Perth (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1459 - 1459
DOUGLASS Pepperell Middlesex Ma (London, England, United Kingdom) 1864 - 1864

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Douglass: GeneaNet Members
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Douglass: Famous Genealogies
DOUGLASS Frederick
 DOUGLASS Frederick born BAILEY Frederic Augustus Washington (1818 - 1895)
American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer
Douglass: Books that contain this surname
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DOUGLASSA genealogic and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire g by Bernard Burke,...
Author: John Bernard Burke - Published in 1860
... Miss Douglas, only child of Henry Douglass, of Friarshaw, and niece of Sir James Douglas, lst Bart, of Springwood Park, ...		 DOUGLASSThe Cabells and their kin
Author: Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906 - Published in 1895
... Va., Mary Douglass, daughter of James Douglass, of Alexandria, Va., and Sallie Evans, of Delaware. James Douglass was a merchant ...
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