The Douglas family in 1909 Killinchy
The earliest photo that I have of my family is this one of the entire Douglas family in 1909.
The Killinchy area remains significant for the family right up to the present day with descendants of the children Agnes, Bobbie and Catherine still living there.
Robert produced the first complication in the family tree in that he remarried after his wife Catherine died in 1921 so there’s a whole new branch of the family (still based in Killinchy) to complicate the drawing of the tree somewhat.
But who’s in the photo?
Well, starting from the left as you are looking at it those standing are Catherine, Samuel, Robert, Robert (Bobbie), and Nannie (Agnes Elizabeth). Sitting are Annie Burton, Catherine and Jeannie.
Annie married Bill Maggs and they both went to Canada a few years after this photo was taken and founded a branch of the family in Alberta and British Colombia. I met her in 1978 whilst on holiday there and found her very like my own grandmother despite all those years of separation (they never got together again after she left). Pretty well all of the descendants of the others still live in Northern Ireland.
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