Genealogies.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Accounts or histories of the descent of persons, families, or other groups, from an ancestor or ancestors; enumerations of ancestors and their descendants in the natural order of succession. (AAT) This heading was used in the published catalogues for general works on genealogy as a subject, and also for collections of genealogies. Particular genealogies were indexed under the name of the family. (NLS).
Found in 820 Collections and/or Records:
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.2.1-37.2.10
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.37.2.1-37.2.11
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Biographical and genealogical notes, mostly extracts or cuttings from books and newspapers, compiled by William B D D Turnbull.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.18
Scope and Contents
Almost all of the notes are undated, but the press-cuttings are dated 1855.
Dates:
Circa 1855
Biographical and genealogical notes relating to Extraordinary Lords of the Court of Session, 1532-1721, and Kings Advocates, 1532-1835, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.5
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Biographical and genealogical notes relating to Ordinary Lords of the Court of Session, 1532-1641, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.2
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Biographical and genealogical notes relating to Ordinary Lords of the Courts of Session, 1641-1706, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.3
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Biographical and genealogical notes relating to Ordinary Lords of the Courts of Session, 1706-1826, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.4
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Biographical and genealogical notes relating to Presidents of the Court of Session, 1532-1811, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.1
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer.
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Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing Lewis collections., 1804-1856, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 7(1-6)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
1804-1856, undated.
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing Lewis collections., 18th century-19th century, 1950-1980.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 8(1-7)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
18th century-19th century, 1950-1980.
Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing papers of Major Norman Macleod., Circa 1900, 1910, 1951-1961.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 6(1-8)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
Circa 1900, 1910, 1951-1961.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 18th-19th century papers., 1707-1870.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1-5)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
1707-1870.
Box of the Reverend William Matheson, containing collections of 19th century papers., mid-late 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 2(1-6)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
mid-late 19th century.
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.2.4
Scope and Contents
There are some notes and additions.
Dates:
17th century.
'Brief genealogical account of the family of MacLean from its settling in the Island of Mull and the parts adjacent to the year 1807.'
File
Identifier: MS.3018
Dates:
[1807, or after.]
‘Briefe account of the familie of Hamilton till ano: 1649’ by Dr James Baillie of Carnbrae.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.16
Scope and Contents
The volume also contains Sir Richard Maitland’s ‘History of the House of Seton’ with the continuation by Alexander Viscount Kingston, 1687.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.1).
Dates:
17th century.
Brue village genealogies collected from Alexander and Mary Macleod, 21 Brue., [?1951].
File
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 6(4)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
[?1951].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.
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Collections of 18th-20th century papers acquired by Reverend William Matheson.
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Box of Reverend William Matheson, containing papers of Major Norman Macleod.
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Collections of Major Norman Macleod, relating to Alexander Cameron, the Poolewe bard, and to Arnol, Brue and Bragar, Lewis.
Carbon typescript of an unpublished family history by Nancy Brysson Morrison, titled `The Family Album`, about her mother`s family, the Bryssons.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13248
Dates:
1955.
Charters and other formal documents of the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11339
Dates:
early 16th century to mid 19th century.
Clan histories of the Grants, Macraes, and Chisholms.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3568-3570
Dates:
[Before 1705]-1869.
Cockburn and Pitcairn Family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.235
Scope and Contents
The collection includes: 188 letters of and to Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, 1806-1854; genealogical collections; and correspondence of Francis Jeffrey Cockburn and his wife, Elizabeth Anne, some of or concerning her father Robert Pitcairn of Hobart Town, Van Diemen`s Land, circa 1812-1887.
Dates:
1806-1887.
‘Collectanea relative to the surname and family of Napper in England’, by the Honourable and Reverend Henry Alfred Napier, Rector of Swyncombe., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.759
Collection of genealogical material on various Scottish families and items of historical interest copied by Robert Mylne, the antiquary, in the late 17th or early 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Portrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year 1691. With a Relationof the Castle of Edr. in the year 1689’ (folio 1), which is attributed to David Burnet, a Catholic Priest. The original manuscript, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen (‘The House of Gordon’, page xxxvi), is at the Scottish Catholic Archives, Columba House, Edinburgh, where it has the...
Dates:
1554-1720.
Collection of leaves of John Riddell, stitched together to form a notebook., Circa 1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.6.12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The extracts are taken mainly from the public records of Scotland (Registers of the Great Seal and the Privy Seal, and the Acts of the Lords of Council and of Parliament), from Justiciary and Commissary Court Records, and from Burgh Records of various towns, with some from charter chests and other records in private hands, and range from the 14th to the 18th century. The contents, which in some notebooks are very miscellaneous, have not been indexed. Most of the notebooks are...
Dates:
Circa 1818.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer.
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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Small notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which John Riddell was engaged.
Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.17.1.14
Scope and Contents
The collection has been attributed to a member of the Chevillard family of French genealogists.Contents.(i) Engravings of ecclesiastical arms, painted over in watercolours (folio 1).(ii) Watercolour drawings of crowns (folio 2).(iii) Genealogies, with the arms in colour, of the families of de Ligne, de la Marck, Clermont and others (folio 7). The latest date given is the marriage of Joseph M L de Halencourt in 1726. The pages have been bound in...
Dates:
?1700-1750.