Birth records. Vital statistics records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Official documentation concerning dates and places of persons' births, as well as parentage.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Birth records, beginning with Eliza Bett and ending with Nanny Willison., 1855-1888.
File
Identifier: Acc.11049/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
1855-1888.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Genealogy and family documents of the Willison family.
Carmichael and Gordon papers.
File
Identifier: MS.109
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) 'The nativite of bairnis' of William, 7th Lord Forbes, and his wife Elizabeth Keith, being the names and dates of birth of their sixteen children (folio 1);(ii) Orders issued by Colonel Robert Montgomerie protecting Robert Gordon of Straloch and exempting him from any 'monthly maintenance' in accordance with the decision of the Estates of Parliament, 1649 (folio 2);(iii) Letter of Robert Gordon of Straloch to the Marquess of...
Dates:
1649-1779, undated.
Formal documents relating to Major-General John Brown and General Sir George Brown.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.1441-1449
Dates:
1790-1854.