1 Autobiography, Written by Thomas John Oldrini at Beeston Vicarage, starting on 27 Aug 1870. "... they had issue of eight children. He died on the 22^nd of February 1738, aged 64 years, and is buried in Whitborn Kirkyard, Galloway, where a flat stone with inscription and ornamented with the Douglas arms, marks his resting place. It was his second child Mary Douglas, whose second husband was David Douglas, a writer, who was my grandmother's grandmother. Her mother's name was Margaret (reputed to have been very beautiful) who was married to James Robertson, a Burgess of Dumfries, and which was a kind of misalliance resented by the family: and she (my grandmother) was the eldest of nine children".