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Papers of Keith William Murray.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9691
Scope and Contents

Includes genealogical articles, notes, and transcripts, 1892-1909 and undated, concerning the Murray family.

With drafts for the "Scots Peerage" of Sir James Balfour Paul, with letters pasted in, 1902-1917 and undated. Letter writers include:

James Balfour Paul, John Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, J Maitland Thomson and George Cokayne.

Dates: 1892-1917 and undated.

Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1)-Box 14(10)
Scope and Contents

Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.

Dates: 1707-1977.

Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents

William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.

Dates: 1833-1939, undated.

Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates: 12th century-17th century.

Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12335/84-243
Scope and Contents

The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.

Dates: 1539-2001.

Ronald L Shankland, "Ancestoral [sic] Papers of the Shankland-Shanklin Surname `Sect of the MacGregor Clan`".

 File
Identifier: Acc.10314
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopy of genealogical research documents.

Dates: 1989.

The Clan Gregor Centre archive.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11713/1-85
Scope and Contents Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1915-1926, 1981-1999, undated.

Typescript Peeblesshire church histories, by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn, intended to form part of the author's series of 'Books of the Church'.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.954-961
Scope and Contents

The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.

Dates: Early 20th century-mid 20th century.

Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents (i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates: 1554, 1744.

Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.3
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a chronological list of hereditary and other offices under the Great Seal, and the names of those to whom they were granted, from 1499 to 1650 (folio 1);(ii) an inventory of the writs of the lands and barony of Tulliallan arranged chronologically from 1402 to 1536 (folio 25 verso);(iii) notes from writs then in the possession of David Erskine concerning the Earls of Countesses of Buchan and some other peers...
Dates: Early 18th century.

Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates: Circa 1709-circa 1717.

Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents

Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.

Dates: 3rd quarter of 18th century.

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Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 2
MacEwen, Andrew B W, Stockton Springs, Maine, fl 1975-1977 2
McGregor, family 2
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 2
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Burns, John George, Advocate, 1880-1950 1
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Catholic College, Douai, France 1
Cokayne, George Edward, formerly Adams, genealogist, 1825-1911 1
Colt, George Frederick Russell, of Gartsherrie, b 1837 1
Colt, family, of Gartsherrie and Inveresk 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Forrester, family 1
Galantini, Adriano, Rome, fl 1950-1995 1
Graham, family, Earls of Menteith 1
Greig, family, Fife and Edinburgh 1
Houston, family 1
Lapraik, John (poet) 1
Lapraik, Thomas, Muirkirk, fl 1810-1843 1
MacGregor, Robert, outlaw and folk hero, called Rob Roy, later Campbell, d 1734 1
MacGregor, family, Black River, Prince Edward Island, Canada 1
MacLean, Alasdair, physician, genealogist and historian, 1918-1999 1
MacRaes, family, Wester Ross 1
Macfarlane, Walter, of Macfarlane, antiquary, d 1767 1
Macgregor, James Hunter, genealogist, fl 1901-1933 1
Mackay, family 1
Mackenzie, family, Wester Ross 1
Maidment, James, antiquary, d 1879. 1
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 1
Matheson, Alexander, Dornie, Captain, shipmaster, c 1833-c 1897 1
Matheson, Elizabeth, Dornie, grocer and registrar, b c 1850 1
Matheson, William, Reader Emeritus in Celtic, University of Edinburgh, 1910-1995 1
Matheson, family, merchants, Dornie, Wester Ross 1
Maxwell, James, of Kirkconnell, Jacobite, 1708-1762 1
McLachlan, family 1
Monteith, Margaret Berrie, genealogist, fl 1930 1
Murray, John George Stewart-, 7th Duke of Atholl, 1840-1917 1
Murray, Keith William, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms, 1850-1922 1
Murray, family 1
Murray, family, of Falahill and Philiphaugh 1
Paul, Sir James Balfour, Knight, historian, 1846-1931 1
Pirie-Gordon, Charles Harry Clinton, journalist, naval intelligence officer and genealogist, 1883-1969 1
Quaich, McGregor family genealogical journal 1
Shankland, Ronald Lee, genealogist, fl 1989-1991 1
Shankland, family 1
Stewart, family, of Monteith 1
Stuart, family, Kings and Queens of Scotland, England and Ireland 1
Thomson, John Maitland, Curator of the Historical Department, Scottish Record Office, 1847-1923 1
Walker and Greig, Edinburgh, printers 1
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