Brief Life History of John
When John Douglas 2nd Earl of Morton was born on 1 January 1459, in Morton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, his father, James Douglas Lord of DalKeith, First Earl Morton, Nineth Earl Douglas, was 33 and his mother, Princess Joan Stewart Countess of Morton, was 30. He married Janet Crichton of Cranstoun-Riddle in 1483, in Riddell, Roxburghshire, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 9 September 1513, in Branxton, Northumberland, England, at the age of 54, and was buried in Branxton, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom.
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- John Douglas, "Find A Grave Index"
- John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton, Wikipedia
- John Douglas 2nd Earl of Morton
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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When John Morton was born in 1460 in Dumfries-shire, Scotland, his father, James, was 34 and his mother, Joan, was 32. He married Elizabeth Ogston in 1480. He then married Janet Crichton and they had …
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