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Last name: Douglass

Dossier: 600856
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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Noble family - Knights - Lords
Nobles in:England (Scotland)
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Douglass


English
Nobility crown DouglassThe surname Douglass of Scottish origin. It is a habitational name for many of the various places so called from their situation on a river named with the Gaelic elements 'dubh', dark, black and 'glais', stream. There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one that the surname is derived in most if not all cases is twenty miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the Douglas family and their retainers. The Douglas' of the Scottish Borders were a warlike clan famous for centuries for raiding and reiving. They were based in Liddesdale, the most turbulent part of that turbulent region. In the decade after 1603 James VI, newly King of England and Scotland, began a ruthless campaign to 'pacify' the Borders, as a result the great riding clan of the Douglas' were broken. It is the name of one of the most famous and powerful families in Scottish history, Earls of Douglas and later Earls of Angus. The first known bearer of this name is William de Duglas, recorded at the end of the twelfth century. The name was brought to America by Scottish and English immigrants. One of the first forefathers to bring this name to America is that of a, Alexander Douglas, a husbandman formerly of Scotland, who came to America aboard the Briton; he settled in Carolina. This name is the two hundredth and twenty-fifth most common surname in America. ...

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Blazon Douglass

Coat of arms of family Douglas

1. Coat of arms of family: Douglas
Language of the text: English

Argent on the chief gules two stars of the field. Crest-A boars head passant between two trees proper.

Blazon Douglas from England

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