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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 tree of the Bell family.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.2
Scope and Contents

The last entries show the children of the advocate, George Joseph Bell.

Dates: 19th century.

Genealogical tree of the family of Douglas of Tilliewhillie.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.A.237
Scope and Contents

The family of Douglas of Tilliewhillie are traced back, through an alleged 4th son of Lord William Douglas `le Hardie`, to the legendary Douglas of 767 A.D.

Dates: 18th century.

‘Grant manuscript.’

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents

The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).

Dates: 1494-1593, 17th century.

Jacobite Papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1645-1891.

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.

Miscellaneous legal and genealogical documents.

 File
Identifier: Ch.12764-12766

Papers concerning the Mackenzies, MacRaes and Mathesons of Lochalsh and Kintail, Wester Ross, collected by Captain Alexander and Betsy Matheson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9548
Scope and Contents

Concerning genealogy, history and traditions of the families.

Dates: circa 1860-1909.

Papers concerning William Marshall and Brodie Cruickshank.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8286
Scope and Contents

Including typescript of Pierluigi Valsecchi`s theses, 1979, concerning Cruickshank.

Dates: 19th century to 20th century.

Papers of and concerning the Horsburgh family.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4290
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. pedigree, 19th century, of the Horsburgh family

2. transcripts of, and extracts from, charters and letters concerning members of the Horsburgh family

3. presentation, 1836, of the Reverend David Gairdner to the Church and Parish of Skirling

4. presentation, 1831, of the Reverend Dr George Burns to the Church and Parish of Tweedsmuir.

Dates: 19th century.

Papers of the Reverend James Cumming.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5931
Scope and Contents

Including diaries, sermons, and lectures, with a genealogical tree showing the family of the Reverend Prof David Cairns and his connection with Cumming.

Dates: 1853-1892.

Papers of the Reverend John Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9400
Scope and Contents

Includes genealogical tables and diaries concerning the Brown family.

Dates: circa 1774-1832.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents

This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.

Dates: 15th century-1814.

Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-76
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: Circa 1757-1994, undated.

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Correspondence. 12
Genealogies. 12
Letters. Correspondence. 9
Notes. 7
Diaries. 6
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Histories. 6
Manuscripts. 6
Photographs. 6
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 6
Lists. 5
Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories). 5
Photocopies. 5
Typescripts. 5
Legal documents. 4
Printed materials. Object genre. 4
Biographies. 3
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Diplomas. School records. 3
Financial records. 3
Indexes. Reference sources. 3
Portraits. 3
Speeches. Documents. 3
Accounts. 2
Charters 2
Extracts. 2
Family papers. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Marriage-contracts. Contracts. 2
Military Commissions. Military Records. 2
Notebooks. 2
Petitions. 2
Poetry. 2
Publications. 2
Research notes 2
Sermons 2
Sermons. 2
Songs. Musical compositions. 2
Affidavits. 1
Articles. 1
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 1
Autobiographies. 1
Blazons. Instructional materials. 1
Broadsides. Notices. 1
Calendars. 1
Catalogues. 1
Certificates 1
Chirnside (inhabited place). Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Longitude: -2.2000. Latitude: 55.8000. 1
Christmas cards. 1
Chronicles. 1
Decisions. Judicial records. 1
Decrees 1
Dictionaries. 1
Documents. 1
Elegies. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Estate records. 1
Excerpts. 1
Instruments of sasine. Legal instruments. 1
Inventories. 1
Jacobite Rebellions. 1
Jacobitism. 1
Lectures. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Marriage records. Documents. 1
Memoirs. 1
Microfilms. 1
Newspapers. 1
Offprints. 1
Orders. Military records. 1
Orders. Records (documents). 1
Pamphlets. 1
Passports. 1
Plans (orthographic projections). 1
Plans. Maps. 1
Portraits 1
Proclamations 1
Protocol books. Legal documents 1
Receipts. Financial records. 1
Recipes. Instructions (document genre). 1
Registers (lists). 1
Reports 1
Reports. 1
Sederunts. Administrative records. 1
Sketchbooks. 1
Sketches. 1
Stylebooks. Reference sources. 1
Summaries. 1
Theses. 1
Transcripts 1
Travel journals. 1
Treatises. 1
Warrants. Permissions. 1
Watercolours. Paintings. 1
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Language
English 47
Undetermined 16
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
Latin 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Anderson, Andrew, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
Anderson, Thomas, surgeon, fl 1804-1853 1
Begg, Isabella Burns, sister of Robert Burns, poet, 1771-1858 1
Blackadder (family) 1
Blanche, family, Delting, Shetland 1
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Brown, John, Minister of Whitburn Secession Church, 1754-1832 1
Burns, George, Minister of Tweedsmuir, 1790-1876 1
Burns, Robert (poet) (1759–1796) 1
Cairns, David, Professor of Practical Theology, University of Aberdeen, 1904-1992 1
Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-1649 1
Clark, Arthur Melville, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, 1895-1990 1
Clarke, J H Chalmers, Jersey, fl 1971 1
Connel, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
Cruickshank, Brodie, Gold Coast merchant and official, 1813-1854 1
Cumming, James, Minister of Melness Free Church, 1821-1894 1
Dalziel, Ethel, kinswoman of John, Writer to the Signet, fl 1902: recipient 1
Dalziel, John, Writer to the Signet, 1838-1883 1
Dalziel, family 1
Edmond, William, emigrant to Minnesota, fl 1845-1860 1
Elphinstone, family, of Lopness 1
Fitzalan, family 1
Forrester, family 1
Gairdner, David, assistant to John Alpine, Minister of Skirling, d 1837 1
Gordon, Archibald, Inspector-General of Hospitals, 1812-1886 1
Haig, family, Over Lasswade and Slateford 1
Halkett , family, of Pitfirrane 1
Hamilton, George Nigel Douglas-, 10th Earl of Selkirk, 1906-1994 1
Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, solicitor and politician, b 1942 1
Hanna, family 1
Horsburgh, family 1
Houston, family 1
Howard, family 1
Keith, family, Earls Marischal 1
Kish, Imre, writer of "The Legend and Genealogical Chart of St Margaret", fl 1999-2000 1
Law, family, of Lauriston 1
MacLean, Alasdair, physician, genealogist and historian, 1918-1999 1
MacRaes, family, Wester Ross 1
Macfarlane, family, of Gartartan 1
Mackenzie, family, Wester Ross 1
Maidment, James, antiquary, d 1879. 1
Margaret, consort of King Malcolm III, d 1093 1
Marshall, William, violinist and composer, 1748-1833 1
Matheson, Alexander, Dornie, Captain, shipmaster, c 1833-c 1897 1
Matheson, Elizabeth, Dornie, grocer and registrar, b c 1850 1
Matheson, family, merchants, Dornie, Wester Ross 1
McQuat, family 1
Moncrieff, Cora Scott-, correspondent of Ethel Dalziel, kinswoman of John, Writer to the Signet, fl 1902 1
Park, Mungo (explorer of West Africa) 1
Paton, Sir Joseph Nöel, Knight, painter, 1821-1901 1
Porteous, family 1
Reid, Douglas B, Dallas, Texas, United States, fl 1995 1
Reid, family 1
Rennie, family 1
Salisbury, Bishop of 1
Scott, family, of Thirlestane 1
Simpson, family 1
Soil Association Conference, 8 May 1970 1
Steuart, James, Writer to the Signet, 1860-1938 1
Stevenson, family 1
Sutherland Estates 1
Taylor, John, emigrant to Quebec, fl 1845-1860 1
Valsecchi, Pierluigi, historian, b 1956 1
Watson, Charles Brodie Boog, engineer, Edinburgh, 1858-1947 1
Wedderburn, family 1
Whyte, Donald, Vice-President of the Scottish Genealogy Society, 1924-2010 1
Willison, family 1
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