Sir George Douglas of Mordington has been identified as the brother of
James Douglas, Lord Torthorwald, (d Jul 1608) but may have been of an earlier generation, making
him a grandson of James, 4th earl of Morton. He married, as her 3rd husband,
Margaret Dundas, dau of Alexander Dundas of Fingask, who died at the battle
of Pinkie.
The feudal barony of Mordington was long held by the
Douglas of Dalkeith family but was split, with Crown consent, early in
the 17th century. At that time Over Mordington came into the ownership
of Sir James Douglas (died 1656), a son of William Douglas, 10th Earl of
Angus. In 1641 Sir James Douglas was made a Lord of Parliament as Lord
Mordington.
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James
Douglas, 1st Lord Mordington (b c1591, d 11.02.1656) |
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m1.
Ann Oliphant (dau of Laurence Oliphant, 5th Lord) |
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i. |
William
Douglas, 2nd Lord Mordington (bpt 27.09.1626, a 02.1677) |
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m.
Elizabeth Sempill (dau of Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord) |
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a. |
James
Douglas, 3rd Lord Mordington (b 1651, a 12.1677) |
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m.
Agnes Seton (b 24.04.1651, dau of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of
Kingston) |
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(1) |
George
Douglas, 4th Lord Mordington (d 10.06.1741) |
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m.
(01.04.1715) Catherine Launder (d 06.1741, dau of Rev Robert Launder) |
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(A) |
Charles
Douglas, 5th Lord Mordington (dsp before 1791) |
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(B) |
Mary
Douglas, Baroness Mordington (d 22.07.1791) |
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m.
(after 1741) William Weaver (b before 1717, d 28.04.1796) |
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(C) ? |
Campbellina
Douglas |
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b. |
William
Douglas (b 1653) |
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c. |
Francis
Douglas (b 1655) |
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d. |
Lewis
Douglas (bur 07.07.1682) |
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e. |
Anna
Douglas |
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m.
Patrick Porterfield of Comiston |
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ii. |
James
Douglas (b 1638) |
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iii. |
Anne
Douglas |
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m.
Robert Sempill, 7th Lord (d 01.1675) |
7. George Dunbar, 10th Earl of Dunbar (d. after 8th Sep 1422), the
7th to hold the Barony of Mordington, granted the barony in 1372 to his
son-in-law;
8. Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith (d. 1420), who granted
the barony to his second son;
9. William Douglas, who was succeeded
by his elder brother:
10. Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith (d. before
May 1441), who was succeeded by his son;
11. William Douglas of
Morton and Whittingham, who resigned the barony in favour of his nephew;
12. James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton (d. before 22nd October 1493), who
was succeeded by his son;
13. James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton (d.
before September 1515), who was succeeded by his son;
14. James
Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton (d. before 4th November 1550), who was
succeeded by his son-in-law;
15. James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
and Regent of Scotland (executed 2nd June 1581) when the Barony was
forfeited and granted to;
16. Esmé Stewart, 8th Earl and 1st Duke of
Lennox (d. 1583), who was succeeded by his son;
17. Ludovic Stewart,
2nd Duke of Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Earl of Newcastle (d. 1624),
who held the barony in 1585 when the forfeiture of the 4th Earl of
Morton was reversed and the Barony was granted to the 4th Earl's nephew;
18. Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus (d. 1588), on whose death the
barony devolved upon;
19. William Douglas, 5th Earl of Morton (d.
1606), who was succeeded by his grandson;
20. William Douglas, 6th
Earl of Morton, who, on 13th September 1636, resigned the Barony to the
King in favour of;
21. Thomas Ramsay of Edrington (2), who built
Edrington House, was succeeded by his son in 1653;
22. Thomas Ramsay
of Edrington, who sold the Barony in 1658 to;
23. James Douglas, 3rd
Lord Mordington, from whom the Barony passed in 1685 to;
24. Joseph
Douglas of Edrington, who was succeeded by his nephew in 1773;
25.
Joseph Douglas Watson of Edrington, who sold the Barony in 1785 to;
26. William Marshall of Ingram and of Edrington, who was succeeded by
his son in 1792;
Graham Senior-Milne (formerly Milne) of
Edrington, is the 41st Baron of Mordington
The descendants of
James Douglas, 1st Lord Mordington, never adopted the surname Oliphant,
despite his marriage to Ann Oliphant, heiress of the last Lord Oliphant.
Their connection to the Oliphant line created a complex legal dispute
over the peerage, and although the Court of Session confirmed that the
old Oliphant title could descend through an heiress, it also ruled that
the dignity had been resigned and therefore reverted to the Crown. King
Charles I subsequently granted the collateral male Oliphant heir a new
creation of the title “Lord Oliphant,” while awarding James Douglas and
his wife the precedency of the ancient Oliphant peerage under a
different designation: Lord and Lady Mordington. From that point onward,
the family held the Mordington title and consistently retained the
surname Douglas, with successive holders — William, James, and Charles
Douglas — appearing in all peerage records under that name. The
association with the Oliphants was therefore one of marital inheritance
and ceremonial precedence, not a change of identity, and no branch of
the Douglas‑Mordington line is known to have adopted the Oliphant
surname.
Scottish Settlers in North America — List
Transcription
- DONALDSON, Robert — Greenock, Renfrewshire.
Applied to settle in Canada on 4 March 1815. (SRO/RH9)
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DONALDSON, Thomas — Emigrated from Scotland, with his wife, to Canada on
the Commerce in June 1821. Received a land grant in Dalhousie, Upper
Canada, on 16 July 1821. (PAO)
- DONALDSON, William — Master
cooper. Emigrated from Scotland to Portsmouth, Virginia, during 1763.
(OD)
- DOUGLAS, Anne — Born in Scotland c1735. Widow. Emigrated
from Scotland, with children, to Canada. Settled at Roger’s Hill, Pictou,
Nova Scotia, in 1815. (PANS/RG1)
- DOUGLAS, Charles J.S. — Second
son of Sir John Douglas of Kelhead, 1706–1778. Married (1) Basilia
Dawes, daughter of George Dawes of Spring, Jamaica; (2) Mary, daughter
of Rev. Richard Bullock. (SP.V.150)
- DOUGLAS, David — Born
during 1798 in Scone, Perthshire. Botanist and explorer in Canada and
the United States. Murdered in Hawaii during 1834. (TSA)
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DOUGLAS, Donald — Born c1791. Blacksmith. Emigrated from Scotland to
Canada. Settled at Roger’s Hill, Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1815.
(PANS/RG1)
- DOUGLAS, Donald — Born c1793. Emigrated from
Scotland, with his mother, two sons and two daughters, to Canada.
Received a land grant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1815. (PANS/RG20)
- DOUGLAS, George — Emigrated from Scotland on the Commerce in June
1820. Settled in Upper Canada. (PAO)
- DOUGLAS, James — Emigrated
from Scotland to America. Merchant in Dumfries, Virginia. Married
Catherine, daughter of Robert Brent. Died c1767. (WMHB.1911)
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DOUGLAS, James — Born in Edinburgh during 1757, son of John Douglas.
Public officer in Prince Edward Island on 26 September 1803. (DCB)
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## Directory Record (Right Panel)
- Sir John
Douglas
- Birth: 1706
- Death: 1778
- Spouse: Christian
Cunningham
- Child: Charles J.S. Douglas
- Others in Record:
Charles J.S. Douglas, Mary Bullock, Basilia Dawes
Note:
1. 14/May/1730 Joseph Douglas of Edrington paid 900 merks Scotts in lands
of Soultra.
2. Thomas Ramsay of the family of Ramsay of
Edington, near Chirnside, Berwickshire, apparently a branch of the
family of Ramsay, Earls of Dalhousie
See also:
•
Mordington
• Sir George Douglas, formerly Lt Colonel in Ramsays'
Regiment. A link with Thomas Ramsay is presumed.
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