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John Douglas of Westcalder (West Calder) - born c1316 died before 1342
in the retinue of David II of Scotland in France. He was the eldest son
of
Sir Archibald Douglas
(killed 19 July 1333), Guardian of Scotland, is first
heard of in 1320 when he received a charter of land at Morebattle in
Roxburghshire and Kirkandrews in Dumfriesshire from King Robert. In
1324, he was recorded as being granted the lands of Rattray and Crimond
in Buchan and the lands of Conveth, Kincardineshire, already being
possession of Cavers in Roxburghshire, Drumlanrig and Terregles in
Dumfriesshire, and the lands of West Calder in Midlothian. By the time
of his death, he was also in possession of Liddesdale.
"Sometime in the period 1335 -1336, Earl Duncan granted the barony of
West Calder, Midlothian to Beatrice de Douglas(1) in liferent and to her
son and heir, John de Douglas in fee". (Magna Carta Ancestry - A study
in Colonial and Medieval Families). Moreover it (this book) relates that
at the time when Archibald de Douglas died at Halidon Hill in July, 1333
he (Archibald) owned the baronies of Cavers, Drumlanrig, Terreglee and
West Calder and part of Conveth (Laurencekirk) in Aberdeenshire.
William Douglas, heritor in West Calder, is listed as a
Covenanter in about 1650.
The Douglas family in West Calder were the progenitors of the Douglases
of Baads, and of
Gogar.
Notes:
1. Sir Archibald
Douglas married Beatrice Lindsay, daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of
Crawford, an ancestor of the Earls of Crawford.
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