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Microfilm of Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.21
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Pedigrees, 1828, or after, of families of Scottish baronets (Adv.MS.15.1.21);Papers, ? 1799-?1812, of George Chalmers, consisting of lists of and references to manuscripts and documents relating to Scotland held in various libraries, mostly in London. (Adv.MS.15.1.22);Genealogical tree, 19th century, of the Bell family (Adv.MS.32.7.2);History, ?19th century, of the Argyle family (Adv.MS.34.5.22);‘Blazoning of the...
Dates:
1672-19th century.
Microfilm of Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1091
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
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).
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1252
Dates:
1661.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.654
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Dates:
17th century-[circa 1798].
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts 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.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.285-286
Dates:
[Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Miscellaneous and somewhat confused collection of papers consisting mostly of genealogical notes and extracts by the antiquary Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane relating to a number of Scottish families. In addition there are numerous writings by Macfarlane on other topics, and notes and extracts in other hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.12
Scope and Contents
The dated items were written between 1748 and 1754: most are undated but are doubtless contemporary, apart from a legal opinion 1636 (folio 62) and some genealogical notes 1718 (folio 142).
Dates:
1748-1754.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous legal and genealogical documents.
File
Identifier: Ch.12764-12766
Dates:
1755, 1809, undated.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.7
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.27
Scope and Contents
The volume is labelled on the spine ‘Balfour`s collections on the shires’, and is inscribed ‘Vol:3.’ in a seventeenth-century hand on folio 5.The main text is preceded by a contents list (folio 5). Almost all of the entries are undated, but appear to have been written at different times between about 1630 and about 1640, with later additions until at least 1650 (folio 94) and 1654 (folio 321). The entries record natural features such as rivers and glens, and...
Dates:
Circa 1630-circa1654.
Notes and drafts by Harry Pirie-Gordon of Buthlaw on the history of Dumbarton Castle, Celtic rulers of Strathclyde, and other topics in Highland history and genealogy.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.326
Dates:
[Mid 20th century.]
Notes of births and deaths, 1662-1835, of members of a family named Cogan who lived in Ireland, Glasgow and Edinburgh, contained in a volume including printed works, 1633-1639.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.2.21
Scope and Contents
The notes are dispersed through the printed texts, which are:
(1) ‘The Holy Bible’ (London, 1638);
(2) ‘A Briefe Concordance’ (London, 1633); and,
(3) ‘The Whole Book of Psalmes’ (London, 1639).
A typed family tree made out from the notes has been pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1633-1639, 1662-1835.
‘Notes of genealogies, etc’ in Walter Macfarlane’s handwriting, chiefly regarding his own family, and the Earl of Lennox.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.10
Dates:
18th century.
Notes of Scottish genealogies by Matthew Crawfurd, Professor of history at Edinburgh University.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.6
Dates:
17th century.
"Notes on the Park Family in New Zealand" of B Murchison, Christchurch.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11918
Dates:
circa 1999.
‘Origo et progressus familiae Gordoniorum de Huntly in Scotia’ by Robert Gordon of Straloch.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.23
Scope and Contents
Imperfect, the manuscript lacks the first 7 pages.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.6.19).
Dates:
17th century.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.18
Scope and Contents
Nicolson precedes the genealogical accounts of various Orkney families with a brief topographical description of the islands. He also includes copies of letters taken from Sir John Sinclair`s ‘Statistical Accounts’ of the Parish of Yell in Shetland, of Sir Hugh Dalrymple to Sir Laurence Dundas, 1775, and Reverend Andrew Dishington to Sir John Sinclair, 1791 (page 111). He concludes the collection with copies of a petition and letter to Lord Melbourne concerning a possible superannuation...
Dates:
1839.
Papers, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11403
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.
Dates:
1321-1601 and mid 19th century.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.