Susanna Dorman
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1679
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Death: 6 Oct 1765
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Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Fuller (12 Aug 1679 - 27 Nov 1748)
Marriage: 3 Nov 1713
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Children:
1. Amos Fuller (1717- )
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REFN: 1433
aka Damon
Marriage Notes (Joseph Fuller)
REFN1141
Archibald Douglas 6th Earl of Angus
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1489
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Death: Jan 1557
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Spouses and Children
1. *Margaret Tudor (28-30 Nov 1489 - 24 Nov 1541)
Marriage: 6 Aug 1514
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Children:
1. Lady Margaret Douglas Countess of Lennox (1515-1578)
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Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (1489 - 1557) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of George, Master of Angus, who was killed at Flodden, and grandson of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, whom he succeeded on his death.
In 1509 he had married Margaret (died 1513), daughter of the Earl of Bothwell. His second marriage on 6th Aug 1514, was to the queen dowager Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV, and eldest sister of Henry VIII. This stirred up the jealousy of the nobles and the opposition of the French party, and civil war broke out. Margaret lost the regency to John Stuart, Duke of Albany.
Breakup with Margaret Tudor
Angus withdrew to his estates in Forfarshire, while Albany besieged the queen at Stirling and got possession of the royal children; then he joined Margaret after her flight at Morpeth, and on her departure for London returned and made his peace with Albany in 1516. He met her once more at Berwick in June 1517, when Margaret returned to Scotland on Albany's departure in vain hopes of regaining the regency.
Meanwhile, during Margaret's absence, Angus had formed a connexion with a daughter of the Laird of Traquair. Margaret avenged his neglect of her by refusing to support his claims for power and by secretly trying through Albany to get a divorce. In Edinburgh Angus held his own against the attempts of James Hamilton, to dislodge him. But the return of Albany in 1521, with whom Margaret now sided against her husband, deprived him of power. The regent took the government into his own hands; Angus was charged with high treason in December, and in March 1522 was sent practically a prisoner to France, whence he succeeded in escaping to London in 1524.
Conquest of power
He returned to Scotland in November with promises of support from Henry VIII, with whom he made a close alliance. Margaret, however, refused to have anything to do with her husband. On the 23rd, therefore, Angus forced his way into Edinburgh, but was fired upon by Margaret and retreated to Tantallon.
He now organized a large party of nobles against Margaret with the support of Henry VIII., and in February 1525 they entered Edinburgh and called a parliament. Angus was made a Lord of the Articles, was included in the Council of Regency, bore the king's crown on the opening of the session, and with Archbishop Beaton held the chief power. In March he was appointed Lieutenant of the Marches, and suppressed the disorder and anarchy on the border. In July the guardianship of the King was entrusted to him for a fixed period till the 1st of November, but he refused at its close to retire, and advancing to Linlithgow put to flight Margaret and his opponents.
He now with his followers engrossed all the power, succeeded in gaining over some of his antagonists, including Arran and the Hamiltons, and filled the public offices with Douglases, he himself becoming chancellor. None that time durst strive against a Douglas nor Douglas's man.1
Counsel of King James
The young king James V, now fourteen, was far from content under the tutelage of Angus, but he was closely guarded, and several attempts to effect his liberation were prevented, Angus completely defeating Lennox, who had advanced towards Edinburgh with 10,000 men in August, and subsequently taking Stirling. His successes were consummated by a pacification with Beaton, and in 1527 and 1528 he was busy in restoring order through the country.
In the latter year, on the 11th of March, Margaret succeeded in obtaining her divorce from Angus, and about the end of the month she and her lover, Henry Stewart, were besieged at Stirling. A few weeks later, however, James succeeded in escaping from Angus's custody, took refuge with Margaret and Arran at Stirling, and immediately proscribed Angus and all the Douglases, forbidding them to come within seven miles of his person.
Alliance with and exile in England
Angus, having fortified himself in Tantallon, was attainted and his lands confiscated. Repeated attempts of James to subdue the fortress failed, and on one occasion Angus captured the royal artillery, but at length it was given up as a condition of the truce between England and Scotland, and in May 1529 Angus took refuge with Henry, obtained a pension and took an oath of allegiance, Henry engaging to make his restoration a condition of peace.
Angus had been chiefly guided in his intrigues with England by his brother, Sir George Douglas of Pittendriech, Master of Angus (died 1552), a far cleverer diplomat than himself. His life and lands were also declared forfeit, as were those of his uncle, Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie (died 1535), who had been a friend of James and was known by the nickname of Greysteel. These took refuge in exile.
James avenged himself on such Douglases as lay within his power. Angus's third sister Janet, Lady Glamis, was summoned to answer the charge of communicating with her brothers, and on her failure to appear her estates were forfeited. In 1537 she was tried for conspiring against the king's life. She was found guilty and burnt on the Castle Hill, Edinburgh, on the 17th of July 1537. Her innocence has been generally assumed, but Tytler (History of Scotland, iv. pp. 433, 434) considered her guilty.
Angus remained in England till 1542, joining in the attacks upon his countrymen on the border, while James refused all demands from Henry VIII. for his restoration, and kept firm to his policy of suppressing and extirpating the Douglas faction.
Return to Scotland
On James V.'s death in 1542 Angus returned to Scotland, with instructions from Henry to accomplish the marriage between Mary Stuart and Edward VI. His forfeiture was rescinded, his estates restored, and he was made a privy councillor and lieutenant-general.
In 1543 he negotiated the treaty of peace and marriage, and the same year he himself married Margaret, daughter of Robert, Lord Maxwell. Shortly afterwards strife between Angus and the regent Arran broke out, and in April 1544 Angus was taken prisoner.
Break with England
The same year Lord Hertford's marauding expedition, which did not spare the lands of Angus, made him join the anti-English party. He entered into a bond with Arran and others to maintain their allegiance to Mary, and gave his support to the mission sent to France to offer the latter's hand. In July 1544 he was appointed lieutenant of the south of Scotland, and distinguished himself on the 27th of February 1545 in the victory over the English at Ancrum Moor.
He still corresponded with Henry VIII., but nevertheless signed in 1546 the act cancelling the marriage and peace treaty, and on the 10th of September commanded the van in the great defeat of Pinkie, when he again won fame. In 1548 the attempt by Lennox and Wharton to capture him and punish him for his duplicity failed, Angus escaping after his defeat to Edinburgh by sea, and Wharton being driven back to Carlisle.
Death
Under the regency of Mary of Lorraine his restless and ambitious character and the number of his retainers gave cause for frequent alarms to the government. On the 31st of August 1547 he resigned his earldom, obtaining a regrant sibi et suis haeredibus masculis et suis assignatis quibuscumque.
His career was a long struggle for power and for the interests of his family, to which national considerations were completely subordinate. He died in January 1557. By Margaret Tudor he had Margaret, his only surviving legitimate child, who married Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox, and was mother of Lord Darnley. He was succeeded by his nephew David, son of Sir George Douglas of Pittendriech.
Research:
1. Lindsay of Pitscottie (1814), ii. 314.
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James Douglas
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1358
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Death: 1388 - Otterburn, Northumberland, Scotland
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Cause of Death: Killed in Battle
Spouses and Children
1. *Isabella Stuart (Unknown - Abt 1410)
Marriage: After 24 Sep 1371
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Battle of Otterman, Northumberland, Scotland
Living
Sex: F
Parents
Father: Living
Mother: Living
Living
Sex: M
Spouses and Children
1. Living
Children:
1. Living
Lady Margaret Douglas Countess of Lennox
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Oct 1515 - Harbottle Castle, Northumberland, England
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Death: 7 Mar 1578
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Parents
Father: Archibald Douglas 6th Earl of Angus (1489-1557)
Mother: Margaret Tudor ( -1541)
Spouses and Children
1. *Matthew Stewart 4th Earl of Lennox (1516 - 1571)
Marriage: 1544
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Children:
1. Henry (Lord Darnley) Stewart 1st Duke of Albany, King Consort of England (1545- )
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Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (October 8, 1515 - March 7, 1578) was the daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, (daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, widow of James IV of Scotland)
Margaret was born at Harbottle Castle, Northumberland. Because of her nearness to the English crown, Lady Margaret Douglas was brought up chiefly at the English court in close association with the future queen Mary I of England, who remained her fast friend throughout life. She was high in the favour of her uncle, King Henry VIII of England, but was twice disgraced; first for an attachment to Lord Baron Thomas Howard, who died in the Tower of London in 1537, and again in 1541 for a similar affair with Sir Charles Howard, brother of Queen Catherine Howard. In 1544 she married a Scottish exile, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516-1571), who was regent of Scotland in 1570-157I.
During Mary's reign, the countess of Lennox had rooms in Westminster Palace; but on the accession of Elizabeth I, she moved to Yorkshire, where her home at Temple Newsam became a centre for Roman Catholic intrigue. She succeeded in marrying off her son, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, to Mary I of Scotland. In 1566 she was sent to the Tower, but after the murder of Darnley in 1567 she was released. She denounced Mary, but was eventually reconciled with her daughter-in-law.
In 1574 she again aroused Elizabeth's anger by the marriage of her other son, Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, with Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. She was sent to the Tower with Lady Shrewsbury, but was pardoned after her son's death in 1577. One other son, Robert Howard (1537-1598), was protected by his uncle Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk during the "Tudor Threat" and now has many American descendants.
Her diplomacy largely contributed to the future succession of her grandson, James VI of Scotland, to the English throne.
The Lennox jewel, made for Lady Lennox as a memento of her husband, was bought by Queen Victoria in 1842.
She is also a major player in the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.
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Nancy Jane Douglas
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Mar 1851 - Blue Mills, Jackson, MO
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Death: 1868 - Jackson County, MO
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Cause of Death: Complicatons during Childbirth
Spouses and Children
1. *Abner Ellis Adair (29 Nov 1832 - 10 Mar 1920)
Marriage: 20 Mar 1866 - Jackson County, MO
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Children:
1. Abner John (A.J.) Adair (1868-1937)
Lord William Douglas
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Unknown
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Death: Unknown
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Spouses and Children
1. *Egidia Stuart (Unknown - Unknown)
Marriage: Unknown
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Mary Dowling
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Unknown
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Death: Unknown
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Spouses and Children
1. *Robert Thornton (Unknown - Unknown)
Marriage: Unknown
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Children:
1. Priscilla Thornton (1656-1729)
John Downing
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Unknown
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Death: Unknown
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Spouses and Children
1. *Sally Chiles (Unknown - Unknown)
Marriage: 20 Mar 1792 - Mercer Cty., KY
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