Michael George Doubell, SV/PROG

Obituary in The Grahamstown Journal on Monday 25th September, 1871. Thanks to Sue Mackay for her transcriptions done in the archives in England.

A WATERLOO VETERAN
Mr. M.G. DOUBELL of Eland’s Poort, division of Uitenhage, died on the 10th inst. He was an 1820 Settler, and prior to arrival in the colony was a soldier, when he fought at Waterloo. He took up his residence in Port Elizabeth in 1826, at which time Port Elizabeth was part of the Uitenhage district. He has never resided out of the district since.

Obituary in the Fort Beaufort Advocate, 30 Sept. 1871 transcribed by eGGSA:

"MR. MICHAEL GEORGE DOUBELL, one of the 1820 settlers, died on his farm in the Uitenhage district on the 10th instant. He was a native of Kent, and fought in the British army in the memorable battle of Waterloo. He was 71 years and 10 months old." https://www.eggsa.org/.../1782-fort-beaufort-advocate...

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"Michael George Doubell * Kent, Engeland t Uitenhage 10.9.1871 (71.10.-) See our research project on his ancestry

sv Michael George en Maria Doubell x Somerset-Oos 16.9.1827 Aletta Maria de LANGE dv Adriaan de Lange en Gesina Nel wed. v. CJ Lombard"
Source: "Suid-Afrikaanse geslagregisters", Google Book Search - [http://tinyurl.com/n2g9wl]

Michael George Doubell was

• a Farmer on his first daughter - Aletta Maria's 1829 Grahamstown baptism certificate. At the time he was living in Fish River
• a Shop Keeper, according to his daughter, Sarah Johanna Doubell's 1838 baptism certificate.
• a Farmer, according to his Death Certificate

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ALIA George Double in marriage/register/| OCCU Farmer|SOUR JH = Dec 1799|

Dion Doubell's DNA results have been populated to the Doubell ancestor on our SA tree. If his paper trail is correct, then all male Doubells in SA carry the Y chromosome R-M269 (also called R1b1a1a2) - now concentrated in Western Europe, where "[t]he frequency is about 92% in Wales, 82% in Ireland, 70% in Scotland, 68% in Spain, 60% in France (76% in Normandy), about 60% in Portugal, 45% in Eastern England, 50% in Germany, 50% in the Netherlands, 42% in Iceland, and 43% in Denmark. It is as high as 95% in parts of Ireland. It is also found in some areas of North Africa, where its frequency peaks at 10% in some parts of Algeria. M269 has likewise been observed among 8% of the Herero in Namibia."

At the moment, the ancient path of R-M269 appears to have been a migration from Western Asia via southeastern Europe.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1b [Sharon Doubell Oct 2016]