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Correspondence of James Steuart, WS, with Charles B Boog Watson.
Concerns "The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire" (1932), and includes genealogical tables.
‘Crawfurd’s genealogical collections’, containing memoirs and scattered notes of families by George Crawfurd, in his own hand.
Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.
With letter, 1902, of Cora Scott-Moncrieff to Ethel Dalziel concerning Sir Joseph Nöel Paton, and genealogical table, undated, of the Hanna and Dalziel families.
Diary and memoranda book of John Nisbet.
John Nisbet`s diary and memoranda book lists significant events in his life including a ‘Tour to the Highlands in 1818’, eyewitness accounts of the Radical Riots in Paisley, 1820, and George IV’s visit to Edinburgh, 1822. There are also lengthy passages on ‘The State of Trade in Paisley, 1825-1826’ and on national and international affairs including the French Revolution of 1830. Also included are genealogical notes and household and medical recipes.
Diplomas of Archibald Gordon.
With photographs of the Gordon pedigree.
Documents from the collection of manuscripts of William Marshall and his family.
Comprised of: two commissions awarded to George Marshall, as Lieutenant in the Aberdeenshire Militia, 1803 and as Ensign in the 92nd Foot, 1805; genealogical tables, circa 1904, of the family of William Marshall from his father to his great-grandchildren. In the hand of David J Mackenzie, circa 1904, and to his great-great-great-great-grandchildren, by James C Batley, 1961, with notes in his hand in red ink, 1977.
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany.
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.
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.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Family histories of the Clan McLachlan of Beith.
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.
Formal documents from the MacLeod of Geanies papers.
Formal papers contained in the further correspondence and papers of Sir Charles Stuart, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay.
The papers comprise: a certificate, 1828, granted by the Royal Humane Society, formerly accompanying MS.21306,f11; an undated plan of some plots of land for sale in Paris; and a printed genealogical table of the family of Guthrie of Guthrie ?1903, with additions and amendments in ink ?1904.
Four Scottish genealogical manuscripts.
Including, "The Genealogie of the Famalie of Ruthven" and "A Breviat of the Genealogie of ... the Leslies Earles of Rothes".
Further estate and family papers of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, 1651-1960, including titles, legal papers, financial records and maps and plans relating to the family’s Scottish estates.
Further papers of William Walls.
The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.