Alfred Douglass was, according to 'Brownhill', a native of
Loughborough, Leicestershire, who arrived in Tasmania in March
1835 by the barque Wave, and in 1850 came to Victoria. Near the
Breakwater on the Barwon, he established the wool scouring works
known as Barwonside.
Alfred Douglass
is thought to be a descendant of John Douglass, who lived with
his wife Bridget at Yarm, Yorkshire.
One of their sons,
also John, rose to be the Bishop of London and one of the
leading figures of the English Catholic revival. Meanwhile one
of their daughters, also Bridget, was said to have met Bonnie
Prince Charlie who ‘gave her a miniature portrait of himself’
which was handed down through generations but is now apparently
lost.
The coat of arms has been linked to Thomas Douglas,
Baillie of Edinburgh in the mid-17th Century, a son of the
Douglases of Cavers in the Scottish Borders, but no firm
ancestral link to him has yet been established.
Corio Villa (a beautiful
classified building), his home at Eastern Beach was built in
1856 and he died there in October 1885 at the age of 65. Alfred
and Elizabeth Douglass lived in Corio Villa until Alfred’s death
in 1885 when Alfred’s son, Henry Douglass, a lawyer, took
ownership.
He married Elizabeth (? nee de Little, sister of Joseph) and had three (known) sons,
Henry Percival,
F.M. Douglas, and Alfred Bayley Douglass (3 May 1854 -
11 Apr 1855). A number of children had died in infancy before
Henry was born.
A scrapbook assembled by his wife, Elizabeth, is held in State
Library of New South Wales.
Notes:
1. In 1861 the Geelong Advertiser was offered for public sale
... ownership passed to a partnership consisting of Alfred Douglass
and Joseph De Little trading under the style of Alfred Douglass and
Company in Geelong, and Douglass De Little and Company in Melbourne.
The partnership had been formed on 28th August 1855 ... dissolved on
31st October 1864 ... the Geelong business was carried on by Alfred
Douglass and Company and the Melbourne business by Joseph De Little
and Company ... James Harrison continued to print and publish the
Advertiser for Alfred Douglass the proprietor until March 1865.
2. Alfred Douglass and Company had the Barwonside Wool Scouring Works
3. Alfred Douglas Wool Mart Yarra Street
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