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Autobiography of Robert Douglas (1727-1809), Colonel of Marines in the Dutch Army and Lieutenant-General and Commander of the town of 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc).
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Corrected typescript of ‘Sir Walter Scott and his wife: the happy marriage and the mystery’ by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter.
At the end is a genealogical table of the Scott family.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly of General Sir George Brown, Knight Commander of the Bath, with those of other members of his family, residing at Linkwood, Elgin.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.
Family tree of John Brown, 'the honest weaver' and father of John Brown, Associate Burgher minister in Haddington and Biblical commentator, to the mid-twentieth century.
The family tree is arranged in a series of charts dealing with branches of the family, to each of which corresponds a 'record', giving information on the individuals. The material was collected by Rachel Brown (1849-1924; see folios 15, 18) and her nephew Eric A Nobbs (1877-1956; see folios 14, 19) and arranged by the latter's second wife. The typescript was apparently made in 1952; there are a few later additions and corrections in manuscript.
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’.
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
‘Grant manuscript.’
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.
The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.
Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
Microfilm of 'The pedegree of the house of Ferniherst, the cheife family of the name of Carre; with a tree therof and some other its branches. Writine by P. Hume de Polwart baronnet' (later 1st Earl of Marchmont).
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Photostats of pedigrees and genealogical tables of the O’Brien family, compiled by the Honourable Donough O'Brien.
Pedigree, 1937, showing the male and female descendants of Dermod and Donough, sons of Murrough O'Brien, the Tanist; 'Genealogical table of the descendants of Milesius . . . in which is shown the pedigree of the O'Brien family ... to 1938', 1938; 'The genealogical table of the O'Brien family', 1938, showing the descent of the 16th Baron Inchiquin from Noah.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).