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Hugh Douglas (1797-1864), the son of Isobel McPherson and Donald
Douglas(1), was transported to Australia for receiving stolen goods.
He fell on hard times or else he was up to no good already, and his
wife Euphemia separated from him, He went to his relatives on the Isle
of Skye by walking/getting lifts from passing carts. He was arrested
there for stealing a blanket off the community line and a spoon from a
farmhouse, He had been to visit a relative earlier that day so something
musn't have worked in his favour. He was found in the home of a
shepherd. I like to think he just borrowed the blanket for warmth and
the spoon for his porridge, After he was arrested the family tried to
help him escape, and he was violent to the guards even though he was 4
feet 9 inches tall according to his ticket of
Hugh, alias Sholto McPherson, age 37, could both read and write. A
protestant, he was married with 2 male and 1 female children, a native
of Lanark where he was a house servant, weaver and groom. he was
convicted for receiving stolen goods at Inverness Court of Justiciary on
5 Sep 1833 and sentenced to 7 years. He had no former convictions.
He was described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall, ruddy complexion,
grey hair and grey eyes, lost canine tooth left side upper jaw, slight
scar right cheek, scar back of both wrists.
He was transported
from Inverness to Dungog as a convict on the Hive in 1834. His son John
Black Douglas(2) was left behind in Lanarkshire but later emigrated with
wife and family to Sydney in 1851.
Hugh's wife was Euphemia,
probably Euphemia Black. Hugh Douglas may have remarried although
it is unclear if he actually divorced his first wife back in Scotland.
He did not return to Scotland after he obtained his ticket of leave.
Notes:
1. Donald Douglas of Camlachie Glasgow
married Isobel McPherson of Kilmorich and Lochgoilhead around 1793.
2. John Black Douglas (1823-1884) lists his religion as
Socialist on the ships records and ran for a parliamentary position in
East Sydney in 1874 and received over 20% of the vote, and Paddington in
1880. He assisted immigrants who arrived in New South Wales in March
1851 aboard the ship Garland. At one point, he was a house painter.
John Black Douglas was involved in the Wealth and Industrial Exhibition
held in Sydney in December 1884. He and his friend George Brown were
instrumental in creating this event and petitioning to have an
exhibition of the industry which was happening in the Colonies.
3. Hugh may have been born on 21st October and baptised at the
Barony Church, Glasgow on 30th October 1796. He may have had a brother,
William.
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