Cecilia Douglas^[1]

1772 - 1862  (89 years)

• Name	Cecilia Douglas  [2]
  Birth	18 Feb 1772
  Gender	Female
  Death	1862
  Person ID	I8699	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	John Douglas,   b. 1745   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Cecilia Buchanan,   b. 1740   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	5 Jan 1766	Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [3]
  Family ID	F3322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gilbert Douglas,   b. 28th May 1749   d. 10th March 1807 (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	1794  [4]
  Family ID	F3327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  "She was in her day the toast of Glasgow." Of the (Buchanan) daughters, Cecilia, her mother's namesake, married John Douglas, son of William Douglas of Leith, and Katherine Dunlop (see "Garnkirk"), and had, with seven sons, one daughter, the late Mrs. Cecilia Douglas of Orbiston. Mrs. Douglas rivalled the vitality of her cousin Mary. She was the longest liver of the subscribers to the Glasgow Tontine, and so came in for that valuable property. It is worth noting that she only won by a neck from another cousin, old Miss Speirs of Elderslie. These two offshoots of the same tough stock had for some time had the race to themselves. Mrs. Douglas died at Orbiston (which see) in 1862, aged ninety-one. One of her brothers was Sir Neil Douglas. The other six were well known West India merchants. Thomas Dunlop Douglas of Dunlop was the last survivor of the family : he died in 1869, aged ninety-four.

  
  

• Sources

  [S619] Jane Douglas. [S929] GROS 644/01 0015, FR844 (Reliability: 3). [S2534] GROS 644/01 0026, FR 2688 (Reliability: 3). [S2546] Glasgow Digital Library, LXXIX Orbiston House (Reliability: 3).