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Genealogical tables. Genealogies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents representing the lineage of a person or persons in tabular or diagrammatic form.

Found in 139 Collections and/or Records:

12 volumes relating to the peerage of Great Britain collected by James Maidment.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12424
Scope and Contents

Includes cuttings from newspapers and magazines, portraits, broadsides, genealogical tables and notes. Also includes notes on cases on which Maidment was working.

Dates: 18th century to 19 century.

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).

 Item
Identifier: MS.8909
Scope and Contents The author, a younger brother of Admiral Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet, of Springwood Park, saw service in the British army before going to Holland in 1747. His autobiography, written in 1805, is mainly concerned with military, family, and social life in Holland.The present text is a copy (perhaps a translation) made after 1864, with copies of additional material, including: a small water-colour portrait of Robert Douglas (folio i); extract of a letter, 1772, concerning his...
Dates: 1805.

Charters relating to members of the Ellice family., 1804-1873, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.12711-12751
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 1804-1873, undated.

Chronicles and historical works, written in England.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.1
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of the sons and grandchildren of St. Louis (folio 1)(ii) `Scala mundi`: historical and genealogical tables from the Creation (folio 1 verso). A similar manuscript of this text is in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 645. The chronology goes up to 1519, but apart from a few additions in later hands, the last entry is the accession of Albert the Great in 1438. The tables include lunar and solar years, the dates of...
Dates: 15th century.

‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume second'., 1748-1753.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.4B
Scope and Contents From the Series: These volumes concern the local politics of Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland, the claims of the Earl of Sutherland on account of his exertions in opposing the Rebels, the means by which Sir John Gordon of Invergordon obtained the place of Secretary to the Principality, many documents concerning the Principality and Crown rents, and other matters apparently suggested to the writer by his connexion with Sir John Gordon.In both volumes, mixed up with private or local &...
Dates: 1748-1753.

Copies by Robert Mylne of birth-brieves and diplomas conferring titles., 1610-1696.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.3
Scope and Contents

Many of the items concern Scots who had gone abroad. The contents list (folio iii verso) and the last entry are in a different hand.

Dates: 1610-1696.

Copies of letters, 1845-1860, of John Connel and John Taylor to relatives in Scotland.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7021
Scope and Contents

With letter, undated, of William Edmond, to his sister Mrs James McQuat, Balfron, and a family tree of the McQuats.

Dates: 1845-1860 and undated.

'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.

 File
Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1559-1618.

Corrected typescript of ‘Sir Walter Scott and his wife: the happy marriage and the mystery’ by Elisabeth Anthony Dexter.

 Item
Identifier: MS.23066
Scope and Contents

At the end is a genealogical table of the Scott family.

Dates: [Circa 1960.]

Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir George Buchanan FRS and Sir George Seaton Buchanan., 1847-1936.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9446/154-168
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).

Dates: 1847-1936.

Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3116-3123
Scope and Contents

A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.

Dates: 1714-1905, undated.

Correspondence and papers of the artist Alfred Edward Borthwick and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10393-10491
Scope and Contents A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1815-1967, undated.

Correspondence of James Steuart, WS, with Charles B Boog Watson.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11688
Scope and Contents

Concerns "The Bell Family in Dumfriesshire" (1932), and includes genealogical tables.

Dates: 1931-1932.

Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1862-1880, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.3262
Scope and Contents

At the end of the volume are cuttings from the ‘West India Committee Circular’, 1927 and 1933, relating to Major-General John Brown, and portraits and photographs of members of the Brown family. Also included is a lock of horse hair from the tail of 'Alma', the horse ridden by George Brown in to the Battle of Alma, 21 September 1854.

Dates: 1862-1880, undated.

Diaries, 1858-1865, of John Dalziel, Writer to the Signet.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9585
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1858-1902 and undated.

Diplomas and plans of A E Borthwick and family., 1791-1952.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.10489-10491
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates: 1791-1952.

Diplomas of Archibald Gordon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6311
Scope and Contents

With photographs of the Gordon pedigree.

Dates: 1832-1837.

Documents from the collection of manuscripts of William Marshall and his family.

 File
Identifier: Ch.12770-12773
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1803, 1805, circa 1904.