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Genealogical material collected by Robert Mylne, chiefly in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.12
Scope and Contents
The contents consist of:
(i) Genealogy of the House of Drummond, etc.;
(ii) Lumsden’s History of the Family of Forbes;
(iii) Genealogical account of several families of Scotland, and notes of charters.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.7.5).
Dates:
1660-1749.
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet, of Glenbervie, for his projected ‘Baronage of Scotland’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.21
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes a number of notes by the antiquary James Cummyng. Douglas died in 1770, but the ‘Baronage of Scotland’ was not published until 1798.
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Genealogical notes by Donald Whyte on the families of McLamroch, Nicholson or Nicolson, Whyte and Wodrow or Woodrow.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12757
Dates:
circa 1969-2005.
Genealogical notes by Walter Macfarlane, in his own hand.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.8
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume are instances of the occurrence of the word ‘Carnalis’ applied to legitimate progeny.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.5.28).
Dates:
18th century.
Genealogical notes concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
File
Identifier: Acc.10971
Dates:
1938 and undated.
Genealogical notes of Andrew B W MacEwen, on the MacGregor family of Black River, Prince Edward Island.
File
Identifier: Acc.6829
Dates:
1975.
Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11019
Scope and Contents
Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.
Dates:
1776-1942 and undated.
Genealogical notes on ancient Scottish families compiled by, and partly in the hand of, George Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.29
Scope and Contents
The approximate date of the manuscript has been suggested by the range of dates of the watermarks, 179?, 1800 and 1801.The contents include the families of:Campbell of Lochow (folio 180);Douglas (folios 1, 31);Lindsay of the Byres (folio 101);Ogilvy (folio 187);Percy (folio 10); and,Stewart (folios 5, 16, 29).The Earldoms of:Angus (folio 92);Atholl (folio...
Dates:
Circa 1800.
Genealogical notes on the family of Brown of Finderlie and other Brown families.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11614
Dates:
19th century to 20th century.
Genealogical papers concerning the Stewarts of Monteith, compiled by Margaret B Monteith.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5333
Scope and Contents
With two sets of proofs, circa 1930, of Monteith`s book on the lineage of the Earls of Menteith, and the manuscript of "Les Gardes Ecossais".
Dates:
Circa 1930.
Genealogical papers on the different branches of the Bruce family collected by Major William Bruce Armstrong for his work ‘The Bruces of Airth and their cadets’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15982-15988
Scope and Contents
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Genealogical research compiled by James Hunter Macgregor.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6364
Dates:
1901-1933.
'Genealogie of the family of Achinbreck' (Campbell): a typewritten copy of a manuscript, 1741, in Adv.MS.34.6.19 (Genealogical collections), with autograph notes and corrections by Herbert Campbell, Cyprus, circa 1932.
Item
Identifier: MS.810
Dates:
1741, [circa 1932].
Genealogies, notes, formal documents and other papers of and concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.8924/1-45
Dates:
1511-1951, undated.
Genealogies of Scottish families.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.14
Scope and Contents
(i) The compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19). This copy (folio 1) appears to have been made between 1679 and 1684, during which period the Earl of Linlithgow was colonel of the Guards (folio 40). A leaf containing notes by David Sibbald of Kair on the Sibbald families of Balgonie and Kair has been inserted (folio 65), and notes by Sir Robert Sibbald on the family of Boyd have also been added (folio 67 verso).(ii) Copy of part of William Drummond,...
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Lecture notes, 1725, of James A Maxwell, taken at the Catholic College at Douai; with a manuscript genealogy, 19th century, of the Maxwell family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3872/1-4
Dates:
1725, 19th century.
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Dates:
1779-1884.
List of charters from the 'Registrum Magni Sigilli’ (Register of the Great Seal), and other notes by Walter Macfarlane.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.12
Dates:
18th century.
‘Lord Ochiltree’s collections’ of genealogical notes on the Scottish nobility.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.18
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (a.7.24).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.12
Scope and Contents
The copy (watermarked 1829) is ascribed by Donald Gregory in 1836 (‘History of the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland’, page 10) to a Hugh Macdonald. Hand anonymous, probably that of a clerk. Gregory’s ascription to Hugh Macdonald may result from a misreading of Sir William MacLeod Bannatyne’s preface, in which ‘Austin’ (Hugh) in fact occurs twice although the words ‘Austin being himself’ resemble ‘written by himself’. Gregory had the history copied (watermarked 1827); the only...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
‘Manuscript papers’ containing a collection of notes on Scottish genealogies, chiefly in the handwriting of George Crawfurd, and partly intended as material for a supplement or new edition of his ‘Peerage’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.4.15
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
File
Identifier: MS.3248
Scope and Contents
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Dates:
18th century-2nd quarter of 20th century.
Microfilm of assorted manuscripts, chiefly genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.32
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical and legal papers, 1794-1866 (Adv.MS.2.1.13);Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1659-1831 (Adv.MS.2.1.14);Miscellaneous manuscript, 1629-1921 (Adv.MS.2.1.15);Stewart genealogies, papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers, 17th century-18th century (Adv.MS.6.1.12);Materials, 1811, or after, for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton...
Dates:
17th century-1921.
Microfilm of family and genealogical papers of the family of Mackintosh of Farr.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.65
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1799-1821, of Mrs Catharine Mackintosh of Farr to her sons James John, 4th of Farr, and Alexander, 5th of Farr, in the East India Company's Madras army, chiefly on family and local affairs (MS.9853); 'Notes of the Genealogy of the House of Mackintosh and of the Different Branches of the Name that have Sprung from that ancient House; With the Genealogy of Several other Families connected therewith. Part of which is intended to form an...
Dates:
[1799-1937.]
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.31
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces’ by Major William Bruce Armstrong, 1903 (Adv.MS.15.1.25);'Results of the investigation of the settlement of English families in Scotland', [?1801] (Adv.MS.16.2.9);‘Proper names with their significations’ by David Ure, minister of Uphall, late 18th century (Adv.MS.16.2.10);Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century...
Dates:
1560-1903.