Hi Shirley - My Douglases left in 1640s (still not sure from where) - so I don't know much about the later ones.  but this is a good websiste:  http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/index.htm and William lives in the UK Julie in Calif From: Shirley Brown via <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:46 PM Subject: [LONDON] Query -DOUGLAS I have a Jane DOUGLAS marry an  Edward HOLT  2nd March 1794 . Shoreditch . I checked on Ancestry who might be researching the name DOUGLAS and discovered a lot of people in fact back to 1600’s  in the London area . Anyone able to explain why this name should appear in London for 400 yr  . Their dau Elizabeth HOLT born 17 April 1808 , Shoreditch  my husbands line . Interested to make contact with anyone researching this family Shirley  NZ For Information on this list, or to unsubscribe go to http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/ENG/LONDON.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message