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Location not known; there is/was a Wakefield in Kincardineshire and in
the parish of West Linton
Nicholas Douglas, 1st of Dounteray, Wakefield and Mains (d by 05.1406),
son of Sir John Douglas of Lothian (d 1350) was contracted in marriage
at Dalkeith, with assent of his father, to Janet, dau. and heiress of
William Galbreth (Galbraith), of Gartconnell, in the month of Sept.
1373, and got by her, in marriage, the lands(1) and living of Manys
(Mains), co. Dumbarton, and was also infeoft by his father in the lands
of Dounteray and Wakefield, and other lands.
In 1623 Alexander Douglas granted a bond for 3,000
merks to Archibald Waddel, portioner of Thornydykes, and James
Douglas, portioner of Over Gogar,
as a result of which they, in course of time, became proprietors of
Wakefield. Archibald Waddel, probably a son of the portioner of
Thornydykes, and a soldier with the rank of major, conveyed his half in
1669 to Alexander Douglas of Over Gogar, later designed
as " of Morton." 1 Barns Papers. The half held by James Douglas,
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Notes:
1. Lands gained from the
Galbraiths.
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