Genealogy.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Genealogy of the family of Harry Robertson, Minister of Kiltearn., [Circa 1890.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19403
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates:
[Circa 1890.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Letters and notes largely on the genealogy of the Mure and Bloxham families, 1823-1907.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13678/1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers consist of letters and notes on the genealogy of the Mure of Caldwell family, Ayrshire and their relatives the Bloxham family, Banbury, diaries of Catherine Mure, daughter of William Mure of Caldwell (succ.1776) and legal documents of and relating to the Mures of Caldwell and the Bloxhams.
Dates:
1823-1907.
Literary and personal papers of Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts of published and unpublished books, articles, stories and poems, with associated correspondence and some genealogical material.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6215 Box 1(a)-Box 9(d)
Dates:
circa 1931-1970, undated.
Mackay Family Research, Circa 1983-circa 2010
File
Identifier: MS.50831
Scope and Contents
This file contains copied news articles, a journal magazine, letters and attachments, and a report regarding family research undertaken by Lucinda Mackay into the Inchcape/Mackay family and her own personal DNA profile. Correspondents include the Scots Ancestry Research Society, Edinburgh and Scotland's DNA, Melrose.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Circa 1983-circa 2010
Papers of and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
File
Identifier: MS.50266
Scope and Contents
Documents, 1753, concerning the clandestine marriage of Abraham Holden and Elizabeth Barclay (folios 1-4).Letters and documents, 1759-1776, of and to John Holden concerning Richard Holden's death, the sale of Scottish goods in West Africa, instructions for a survery and a bond (folios 6-13).Letters of Richard Holden (fl 1747-circa 1761), 1747-1758, of Richard Holden to his father and brothers concerning slaving voyages and the sale of enslaved people (folios...
Dates:
1717-1822.