Duncan Grant M’Dougall

Duncan Grant McDougall, a teacher, lived at No. 6 between 1833 and 1840.¹ Though he does not appear in the Post Office Directory before 1837-38, he was recorded at No. 6 in 1833, and may have begun living there a year or two earlier. Duncan Grant McDougall was born at Urquhart, Inverness about 1798.² In 1833 and 1837 he was described as a teacher³ and the PO Directory styled him ‘Esq.’

Duncan Grant McDougall was appointed Superintendent of Police in Kirkcudbrightshire sometime before 1844.⁴ He served in this position, “an active and intelligent superintendent of police”,⁵ until his death, caused by consumption, on 10 July 1857.⁶ By one account he was “a gentleman of rare intellectual ability, of polished manners, and great moral worth”.⁷

Duncan Grant McDougall married Eleanor Catherine McMurdo at Annan on 14 April 1829.⁸ They had two sons born at No. 6 Malta Terrace:

• Kenneth George Thomas McKenzie McDougall was born on 15 September 1833⁹ and died just over a year later in November 1834.¹⁰
• Douglas John McDougall was born on 17 March 1837.¹¹ He died of scarlet fever at Kirkcudbright on 17 February 1856.¹²

1. Baptisms (OPR) Scotland. St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. 15 September 1833. MACDOUGALL, Kenneth George. 685/2 350 102. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021; PO Directories 1837-38, 1838-39, 1839-40 and 1840-41.
2. He died aged 58 in 1857, but the 1851 Census records his age that year as 50.
3. Baptisms (OPR) Scotland. St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. 15 September 1833. MACDOUGALL, Kenneth George. 685/2 350 102; Baptisms (OPR) Scotland. St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. 17 March 1837. MACDOUGALL, Douglas John. 685/2 350 337. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
4. Dumfries and Galloway Standard. 01 May 1844. p. 01, col. 06. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
5. Crime in the Stewartry. Dumfries and Galloway Standard. 18 May 1853. p. 04, col. 03. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
6. Deaths (SR) Scotland. Kirkcudbright. 01 August 1857. McDOUGALL, Duncan Grant. 871/ 42. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
7. Death announcements. Scotland. Dumfries and Galloway Standard. 15 July 1857. M’DOUGALL, Grant. p. 4, col. 07. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 17 October 2024.
8. Marriages (OPR) Scotland. Annan, Dumfriesshire. 14 April 1829. McDOUGALL, Denbigh and McMURDO, Eleanor. 812/ 30 61. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
9. Baptisms (OPR) Scotland. St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. 15 September 1833. MACDOUGALL, Kenneth George. 685/2 350 102. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
10. Burials (OPR) Scotland. Edinburgh. 11 November 1834. MACDOUGALL, Kenneth George McKenzie. 685/1 1000 318. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
11. Baptisms (OPR) Scotland. St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh. 17 March 1837. MACDOUGALL, Douglas John. 685/2 350 337. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 21 September 2021.
12. Deaths (SR) Scotland. Kirkcudbright. 25 February 1856. MACDOUGALL, Douglas John. 871/1 13. https://scotlandspeople.gov.uk: accessed 17 September 2021.