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The Douglas baronetcy of Kelhead, parish of Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire, was created on 26 February 1668 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia for James Douglas, son of Sir William Douglas of Kelhead, governor of Carlisle Castle in 1647.

Douglas baronets, of Kelhead (1668)

• Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet (19 February 1639 – c. 1707)
• Sir William Douglas, 2nd Baronet of Kelhead, (c. 1675 – 10 October 1733). He was the son of the 1st Baronet and Catherine Douglas, a sister of the 3rd Earl of Queensbury (later the Duke of Queensbury). Sir William was married to Helen Erskine, a daughter of Colonel John Erskine, Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle. They had nine children, of whom their eldest son succeeded to the title upon his father's death.
• Sir John Douglas, 3rd Baronet (c 1708 – 13 November 1778) MP for Dumfries-shire 1741–1747
• Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet (c.1731 – 16 May 1783), MP for Dumfries 1768–1780
• Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet. He subsequently succeeded to the Marquessate of Queensberry in 1810; with which title the baronetcy remains merged.

Notes

1. Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1842). A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Edward Churton. p. 353.
2. ^ Cokayne, George Edward (1904). Complete Baronetage. Vol. IV. W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. pp. 266–267.
3. "Douglas, Sir John (c.1708-1778), of Kelhead, Dumfries., History of Parliament Online". www.histparl.ac.uk.
4. "Douglas, William (c.1731-83), of Kelhead, Dumfries., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

1. James Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Queensberry, a homicidal maniac, was excluded from the line of succession to the Dukedoms of Queensberry and Dover when his father — the 2nd Duke of Queensberry — surrendered all of his titles except the Marquessate and its subsidiary titles back to the Crown and obtained a new grant with the same precedence for the surrendered titles that altered the succession to his second son and then the heirs male and female of the 1st Earl of Queensberry. The succession of the Marquessate continued in remainder to the heirs male of the 1st Earl of Queensberry.

• Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia