1815 - 1906 (90 years)
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| Name |
Adye Douglas |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Suffix |
Kt, Mlc |
| Birth |
31 May 1815 |
Thorpe-Next-Norwich, England, UK  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
10 Apr 1906 |
Holy Trinity Church, Launceston |
| Burial |
12 Apr 1906 |
Cornelian Bay, Cementry, Hobart. |
- Migrated to Van Diemen's Land aboard the "Louisa Campbell", arrived 1839; with brother Henry pastoral licence of Cameron's Run, nr. Romsey, Port Philip district, 1839--40; elected to Legislative Council 1855; Mayor of Launceston 1865--6 qne 1880--2; Premier of Tasmania 1884--6; first Agent General 1886; President of Legislative Council 1894-1904. Founder of Douglas & Collins, solicitors, Launceston, Tasmania. Knight Bachelor 1902, introduced railways into Tasmania, and took a leading part in Australian Federation.
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| Person ID |
I23448 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Aug 2015 |
| Family 3 |
Ida Richards, b. 1856 d. 13 Aug 1934, Residence, Rocklyn, 99 High Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
6 Oct 1877 |
Pine Street Wesleyan Parsonage, Adelaide, Sa |
| Children |
| | 1. Ida Constance Alithea Douglas |
| | 2. Gordon Adye Douglas, b. 31 Aug 1878 d. Jul 1957, Hobart, Tasmania (Age 78 years) |
| | 3. Osborne Henry Douglas, b. 14 Mar 1880 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. Catherine Ida Douglas, b. 22 Aug 1881 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. Adye Sholto Douglas, b. 6 Feb 1885 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 6. (Daughter) Douglas, b. 29 Jan 1891 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 7. Grace Mary Douglas, b. 24 Jan 1893 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 8. Bruce Claude Douglas, b. 17 Jun 1897 d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Annie Florence Douglas |
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| Family ID |
F9075 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
11 Aug 2015 |
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| Notes |
- A lawyer and politician
The following is an extract from Wikipedia:
Douglas had three sons and a daughter in the 1840's. He married Martha Matilda Collins in 1858, but they had no children. In 1873, he married Charlotte Richards, and they had a daughter Eleanor, before she died in 1876. In 1877, he married Charlotte's sister, Ida in Adelaide, and they had four sons, and four daughters.
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