Mcdougal GENEALOGY

McDOUGAL GENEALOGY THE KNOWN DESCENDANTS 1n the United States or America or ROBERT McDOUGAL of Western Scotland (1748 - 1832) by Donald McDougal ORDER OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Unnumbered INTRODUCTION i - V INDEX OF GIVEN NAMES Follows Page vi with Reference and Page Numbers (Unnumbered) KEY TO GENEALOGY 1 GENEALOGY 2 - 40 ADDENDA 41 CLAN MacDOUGALL, Information concerning 42 - 47 Including: Description of Arms of Chief Slogan, or War Cry Clan Badge and Bird Designation of Highland Chief 43 Hereditary Positions Distinctive Clan Pipe Music Septs and Dependents of Clan The MacDougall Tartan 44 - 45 History of The Clan 45 - 47 RECORD OF DISTRIBUTION of this Genealogy 48 \ CLANN DUGHAILL HABITATS 49 - 55 (Family Addresses) ILLUSTRATIONS (Available, if not included.) Dunollie Castle (2 Views) Follows Page iv Maps of Scotland and New York State Follow " 1 Arms of Chief (Coat-of-Arms) Follows n 41 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To bring together the factual and historical material this book contains required the help and cooperation of many personse Relatives, friends, acquaintances, and others not known to me prior to enlisting their assistance, contributed to ite Replies to questionnaires I directed to various members of the family gave me much important information for which I was very grateful. Particularly, I appreciated the consideration and under standing or my wife and children. If they begrudged the days and nights I spent organizing the book and working on its manuscript, they did not show ito Nevertheless, before I was able to complete the story, begun over a year ago, I sensed more and more meaning being packed into their occasional inquiries as to when I thought that I would finish ite Much credit is due my mother, who financed the research and expense of preparing the manuscript copy, and otherwise helped n1e in this work. David Blean McDougal enabled me to duplicate the book for distribution among the family by underwriting, temporarily at least, that expenseo He counseled and guided me and was most generous with his time on the many occasions I cons~lted with him. He was genuinely interested in my project and was very helpful. My sincere appreciation is extended also to the follow ir1g, -who have contributed to this work in many different ways: Madam Coline MacDougall of MacDougall and Dunollie, Oban, Argyll, Scotland. Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, The Lord Lyon King of Arms, Edinburgh, Scotland. William A~ Nicholson, Manager and Secretary, The Scottish Tourist Board, Edinburgh. Miss Isabel M. Allan, Secretary and Treasurer, Scots Ancestry Research Society, Edinburgh. W. & Ao K~ Johnston & Go W. Bacon, Ltd., Publishers, Edinburgh and London. William Mo Haddow, Donald J. MacDonald, Harry M. McLeod, natives of Scotland and business associates of mine. Joseph Co Wolf, Custodian, Division of Historical Genealogy, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. I also want to thank my good friend and distantly related cousin, Shelby Cullom Davis of New York City, who directed me to Mrso Ethel Fitz Randolph of the New York Genealogical Society for professional assistance. Mrs. Randolph, in turn, referred me to Miss Elizabeth J. MacCormick, also a genealogist, who succeeded in tracing several members of our family at my request. The Author. INTRODUCTION As first conceived, this genealogy was to have constituted an important part of the book I am writin~ which I shall probably call "THUS WAS OUR HERITAGE, Clann Dughaill and Jameso" But~ while considerable headway has been made with the manuscript, it has become apparent that it will require a great deal more work to complete it and many hours that I am not presently free to devote to it. It therefore seemed best that I direct my full attention to finishing the genealogical section; particularly since that is probably the part that will be of most interest and importance to the family as the years progresso So far as I know, no similar record exists and I do not believe that any has ever been written by any member of the McDougal family. The information thus far assembled for this ge~ealogy is the result of many hours of research and it is believed to be of sufficient import to the living members of the family to warrant its protection against possible loss or destructiono Furthermore 9 progress in accumulating data for it has slowed~ if it has not stopped altogether; and 1 although there is a possibility that my continuing efforts at research may be further rewarded with the discovery of additional records and information of value, the chances that they will be are seemingly remoteo Accordingly, the record is published and distributed now~ both as a service to the several members of the family and to safeguard the information it containao In addition to adding interest, it is believed that the following information would prove helpful to anyone who might wish to pursue my genealogical efforts furthero It gives one an insight into the problems encountered in attempting to trace lines of descent in Scotland and should save some unnecessary duplication of efforto Robert McDougal is the earliest of our forebears of whom I found recordo He is said to have been born in "Western'' Scotland, near the Firth of Lorn, in 1748. This was but three years after the defeat of the Jacobites, when Prince Charlie and the clans were defeated by the English forces in the north of Scotlando At that time, the English took severe measures to break up, once and for all, the warlike tendencies of the clans. Many Scots left their homes and all their other personal possessions to escape from the drastically strict regulations that were inflicted on them. (The strength of the Clan MacDougall is said to have been reduced from 500 in 1704, to 200 in 1745). Some then sought relief from persecution and new starts in life in other parts or Scotland; others emigrated to the Scottish Isles, Ireland, England, the United States of America, and other more remote parts of the worldo It is not known whether Robert's parents were among those who moved from western Scotland for that reason, or whether they left it st all; but Robert obviously spent most of his adult years in the Parish of Sprouston, in Roxburgh, near Kelso and the English border, for it appears that his children were all born in that Parishlt When I began this undertaking, I remembered that at one time I had seen a typewritten record of certain vital statistics which my father had told me had been copied from the original, longhand entries his father, John McDougal of Peoria, had written into their family Bibleo Fortunately, my mother was able to locate that copy for meo This record proved to be of great importance in the preparation of this genealogy for, as it subsequently developed, it contained basic informa tion I needed concerning certain branches and members of the family which, as I then thought, could not have been traced without ito Later in my research, I came across original entries in the handwriting (evidently) of William McDougal, John's brother, which I found in William's family Bible. Wheeler McDougal and his wife, Kathleen, made that record available to me when I visited them at their home in Peoria in June of 1953 and I have made a copy of it for future referenceo With one or two minor exceptions, it contains precisely the same information that had been copied from John McDougal's Bible. While the old family Bible record furnished much of the information I needed, it was lacking in a number of details that were important to the genealogy. In my attempts to secure them, I made considerable inquiry, in Scotland to learn more of Robert's life and of his ancestors in western Scotland, and in the United States, to trace his descendants. -ii- At the suggestion of a friend, I wrote the Scots Ancestry Research Society at Edinburgh and ~sked them to make a search of the old parochial registers of theI Parish or Sprouston9 Roxburgh, for any references they might find to Robert and his ramilyo My application for ~hat search was sent to the Society on June 9, 19530 It was acknowledged on June 19 under their Reference Noo B/8897 anq I was then advised that the results or their investigation might prove disappointing owing to the fact that I was unable to supply them with precise information regarqing the place or Robert's birth in "Western" Scotlando In th9rt acknowledgment, they also informed me that "Prior to the year 1855 (when registra tion became compulsory) Births, Deaths and Marriages were · ·voluntarily recorded in the parish registers maintained by the Church of Scotland - which unfortunately are not indexed." On November 30, 1953, I received the Society's reporto Briefly, it contained the following concerning Robert McDougal: DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH - Registers searched, years 1742 to 17620 No entry recorded there. (Family Bibles indicate he was born 1n "Westernn Scotland in 1748). DATE & PLACE OF MARRIAGE - Registers searched, years 1766 to 1780. NAME OF BRIDE No entry round. BIRTH RECORD OF CHILD - Registers searched, years 1765 to 1792. Only McDougal birth registered, read: "Walter McDougal son to Robert McDougal an ind.waller 1n Meddan and Agnes Dalgleish his Spouse was born 3rd day of June and baptised 23rd 1782." DATE & PLACE OF DEATH - No record found. (Family Bibles indicate he died on ,: Ma~ch 7, 1832, or 1834, at Sprouston). Upon being informed by the Scots Ancestry Research Society that they might not be able to be very helpful and having been given the name and address or the Chief or the Clan MacDougall, by the Lord Lyon King of Arms,

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