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12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.
Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.
"A Short History of the Noble and Ancient Family of Marischal", being an anonymous account of the Keith family.
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).
Chronicles and historical works, written in England.
Copies by Robert Mylne of diplomas and other documents, mostly conferring titles.
Copies of letters, 1845-1860, of John Connel and John Taylor to relatives in Scotland.
With letter, undated, of William Edmond, to his sister Mrs James McQuat, Balfron, and a family tree of the McQuats.
Copy of family tree of the Stevenson family of engineers.
'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 genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and papers, 1804-1853 and undated, of members of the families of Mungo Park and his brothers-in-law, Andrew and Thomas Anderson.
Includes two formal documents, 1627 and 1659.
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.
Correspondence, legal papers, commissions, and genealogical tables of and relating to the Wedderburn and Halkett of Pitfirrane families.
Correspondence of James Steuart, WS, with Charles B Boog Watson.
Concerns "The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire" (1932), and includes genealogical tables.
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.
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.
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.