William Douglas (bef. 1490 - bef. 1557)

Born before 1490 in Whittinghame, Berwickshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Lauder) Douglas — married before 1537 in Haddingtonshire, Scotland.

Descendants

Died before 24 Aug 1557 at about age 67 in Whittinghame, Berwickshire, Scotland

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Biography

William Douglas is a member of Clan Douglas.

William Douglas was a member of the aristocracy in Scotland.

William Douglas was born to William Douglas of Whittinghame, probably by his second wife Margaret de Dunbar.

On March 28, 1511/2, at Edinburgh, William Douglas of Whittinghame settled upon his son [this] William and his [1st] spouse Jonete Mathesoun, in fee, the lands of Whittinghame in Haddingtonshire and their heirs. Witnesses were "George Douglas, his brother" [William senior's], William Lauder, Robert Young, Walter Young, cleric, and others. Confirmed 20th April 1512.^[1] They had at least one daughter, Christine.

Spottiswood states: "William Douglas of Whittinghame espoused Elizabeth Lauder, a daughter of Robert Lauder of the Bass."^[2] This is confirmed in a Birth Brief recorded under The Great Seal^[3] which gives her parents and her place in the Douglas family tree.

Sir William Sinclair of Roslin, Knt., and William Douglas of Whittinghame are the leading witnesses to a charter to Robert Lauder of the Bass of the manor and lands of Lochend in the feudal barony of Dunbar dated 4th January 1528/9.^[4]

On 4th May 1537 William Douglas of Whittinghame and Elizabeth Lauder his spouse are recorded as proprietors of 12 husbandlands (312 acres) at Whittinghame which are occupied by five tenants.^[5]

William Douglas of Whittinghame sat on an Azzize in June 1550.^[6]

On 30th June 1555 a charter was granted by Cuthbert Cranstoun of [Lauder] Mains to John Cranstoun, his son, and Margaret, daughter of William Douglas of Whittinghame, spouse of the said John, of the lands of Morristoun, Berwickshire.^[7]

On 24th August 1557, Acquittances were made by Elizabeth Lauder, relict of William Douglas of Whittinghame, and Patrick, brother-german to William, Executors to said William, and William Douglas now of Whittinghame, to Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, knight. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.3725.
2. ↑ The Spottiswoode Miscellany Edinburgh, 1845, vol.II, p.329.
3. ↑ Birth Brief confirmed November 1, 1648, under the Great Seal of Scotland, number 1995.
4. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland no.727.
5. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.1661.
6. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.477n.
7. ↑ National Records of Scotland, Douglas Collections, GD98, box 2; 123/17 p.10.
8. ↑ The History of the Douglas family of Morton in Nithsdale & Fingland etc. by Percy W.L. Adams, F.S.A., Bedford, 1921, Appendix C, number 258, page 805.

• The Scottish Genealogist, Edinburgh, December 1985, vol.xxxii, no.4, "Scottish Families in Sweden" by Admiral Donaldson, p.118.
• Refer the birth brief confirmed November 1, 1648, under the Great Seal of Scotland, number 1995.
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p63782.htm#i637812
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p51046.htm#i510456