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Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
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 chiefly Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.18
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Laurus Crawfordiana, a historicall and genealogicall deduction of the several families of the sirname of Crawfurd, as well such are extinct as those which are yet extant, from the time of King David I till the present time’ By George Crawfurd, 1st half of 18th century (Adv.MS.34.3.4);‘Crawford’s MSS Baronage’, a large collection of notices of Scottish families in the order of their surnames, 1st half of 18th century (Adv.MS.34.3.9);List,...
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Microfilm of chiefly Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.22
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, dated 1741, by Roderick Chalmers, Ross Herald, of `The descent and pedegree of the most noble and auntient house of the Lords of Sincleer` drawn up by Henry, Lord Sinclair in 1590 (Adv.MS.15.2.31);Genealogical material, mid 18th century, collected by Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet, of Glenbervie, for his projected ‘Baronage of Scotland’ (Adv.MS.19.1.21);Biographical notes, 1845, concerning Scotsmen settled in Sweden, compiled from...
Dates:
1590-1845.
Microfilm of chiefly Scottish, genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.23
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogies, 1st half of 17th century, of the nobility of Scotland in the hand of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.33.2.38);Genealogies, 1st half of 17th century, of the Scottish nobility by Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.33.2.39);Genealogies and other papers, 1st half of 17th century, of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.33.2.40);‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century-[1803.]
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.458
Dates:
[?1590-?1596], 1671.
Microfilm of documents concerning the Highlands of Scotland, including a history of the Macdonalds.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.861
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Some remarks on the Highland clans and methods proposed for civilising them’, early 18th century (Adv.MS.16.1.14);‘State of Emigration from the Highlands of Scotland, its extent, causes, and proposed remedy.’ An apparently unpublished treatise, dated ‘London March 21st 1803’ (Adv.MS.35.6.18);Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald, [1829, or after] (Adv.MS.73.1.12);...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[1827, or after].
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.30
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of ‘Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (Adv.MS.13.2.10);Blazons of Scottish arms, 1630-1643, by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne (Adv.MS.15.1.11);Arms of British and foreign noblemen, drawn...
Dates:
13th century-1703.
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.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material, chiefly by Robert Mylne.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.29
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogy, late 17th century-1st half of 18th century, of the surname of Douglas by Robert Mylne (Adv.MS.15.2.22);Genealogical account, late 17th century-1st half of 18th century, of the Scots peers by Robert Mylne (Adv.MS.15.2.23);Genealogical account, late 17th century-1st half of 18th century, of the Dukes of Scotland by Robert Mylne (Adv.MS.15.2.24);Genealogical material, late 17th century-mid 18th century, collected by...
Dates:
13th century-mid 18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical history of the Mathesons compiled by Captain Alexander Matheson of Dornie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.525
Dates:
[Circa 1868.]
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.28
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical material, 17th century-18th century, relating to various families in Scotland (Adv.MS.16.2.5);Collection of papers, 16th century, relating to Scottish earldoms, with transcripts, early twentieth century, by Sir Alexander Lawrie, of early charters and other documents (Adv.MS.19.1.18);Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the...
Dates:
16th century-18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.33
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical notes, [circa 1800], on ancient Scottish families compiled by, and partly in the hand of, George Chalmers. (Adv.MS.16.2.29);Three versions (the third incomplete) of a memorandum, 1826, on the genealogy of the family of Buchanan (Adv.MS.26.2.1);Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1698; and a treatise on the patronage of schools and churches,...
Dates:
1698-1826.
Microfilm of genealogical material, 1st half of 18th century, collected by George Crawfurd; and, a history, 1545, of the house of Seton by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical material, 1st half of 18th century, collected by George Crawfurd (Adv.MS.34.3.9); Mackenzie's Genealogical Collections
Manuscript copy, written in a hand of the early seventeenth century, of ‘The historicall genealogie of the house of Seton’ by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington, 1545 (Adv.MS.34.7.4).
Dates:
1545, 1st half of 18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1644-1775, of the Crawfurd family of Jordanhill (Adv.MS.31.1.8);Copies of two accounts, 1554, 1744, of the family of Dunbar. (Adv.MS.32.3.2);“Genealogical Collections, concerning the Sir-name of Baird, and the family’s of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Saughtonhall in particular. With copy’s of old Letters and Paper’s worth preserving, and account of several Transactions in this Country, during the Two...
Dates:
1644-1775.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, transcribed by Alexander Munro, Master of the Musick School at Tain’, 1736 (Adv.MS.34.3.3);
Genealogical material, 1660-1749, collected by Robert Mylne, chiefly in his own hand (Adv.MS.34.6.12); ‘History of the most noble and illustrious family of the Frasers, particularly of the illustrious family of Lovat Chief and...
Dates:
17th century-1749.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.16
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne from the compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later (Adv.MS.34.6.8);
Indexes and transcripts, early 18th century, by Robert Mylne, the antiquary (Adv.MS.34.6.9);
Genealogical collections, [circa 1680]-18th century (Adv.MS.34.6.19).
Dates:
[Circa 1680]-18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Indexes and transcripts, early 18th century, by Robert Mylne, the antiquary. (Adv.MS.34.6.9);
Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections (Adv.MS.35.4.8).
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.19
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Genealogical collections’, containing notes, late 17th century-early 18th century, on Scottish genealogies, with lists of Officers of State, Knights, Baronets, etc., in the handwriting of Alexander Nisbet (Adv.MS.34.3.5);Letters and papers, [1777-1778, 1795-1804], sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas’s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’ (Adv.MS.34.3.6);
‘Crawford’s MSS Baronage’, a large collection of notices, 1st half of 18th century, of...
Dates:
[1660-1804.]
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families and the Royal Family of Great Britain and Ireland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Genealogie of noble families of Scotland’, volume ii, 1693, by William Dunlop (Adv.MS.34.3.7);‘Lord Ochiltree’s collections’ of genealogical notes on the Scottish nobility, 1st half of 17th century (Adv.MS.34.3.18); Index, 18th century, of family names mentioned chiefly in Scottish chartularies, titled, 'Genealogical notices'. (Adv.MS.34.6.14);‘Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Present Royal Family of Great...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on the Scottish and English nobility.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.24
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogies, 1st half of 17th century, of the nobility of Scotland in the handwriting of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.33.2.41);
Manuscript material, [circa 1802-1803], for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818) (Adv.MS.33.5.9).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century-[circa 1803].
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of history of the family of Burd of Ford and Whitewall compiled by Andrew Thomson from papers of the family of Reddie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1999
Dates:
1827.
Microfilm of ‘Notes of genealogies, etc’, in Walter Macfarlane’s handwriting, chiefly regarding his own family, and the Earl of Lennox.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1111
Dates:
18th century.