Genealogies.
Found in 820 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Collection of printed legal papers 1805-1820 (several of them bearing marginalia by John Riddell) and a few memoranda and copies of documents, 1819, and undated, relating to the genealogy of Major-General Walter Ker of Littledean in his claim to the Roxburghe estates following the death of the fourth Duke., 1805-1820, and undated.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
'Collection of some coats of arms and fragmental genealogical researches on the house of Horn ...' by Major George M Horn., [1927.]
Reproduced from typescript with coloured illustrations.
‘Collections’ made by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, containing a number of genealogical papers and copies of military documents which he probably used when engaged on compiling ‘Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783’.
Collections of letters and papers, mostly genealogical, relating to various baronetcies and landed families arranged in alphabetical order of the family concerned., 1821-1859, and undated.
A contents list is on folio i.
Collections of letters and papers, mostly genealogical, relating to various baronetcies and landed families: part 1., 1821-1859, and undated.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Collections of letters and papers, mostly genealogical, relating to various baronetcies and landed families: part 2., 1821-1859, and undated.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Collections of letters and papers relating to various peerages (mostly to claims thereto), arranged in alphabetical order of the peerage concerned., 1822-1859, and undated.
A contents list has been provided (folio i).
Commonplace book of James Gray, priest of the diocese of Dunblane.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Computer disc of Gary J McMaster`s "Clann a` MLaighstir of Ardgour" (Early MacMaster history).
Cope of the 'History and genealogy of the Mathesons of Lochalsh by Roderick Matheson of Immar' [Iomaire]., Circa 1850.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Copies, 1642, of various works, 1529-1549, made by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:
(i) `A Descriptione of the Westerne Iles of Scotland` by Sir Donald Monro, 1549 (folio 1).
(ii) `Geneologies of the cheiff clans of the lies` by Sir Donald Monro, n.d. (folio 20).
(iii) `Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum` by John Ben, 1529 (folio 24).
Copies, [?1845-1847], of documents, 1489-1663, and notes etc., 1845-1847, of John Riddell, concerning the successful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to that title., 1489-1663, 1845-1847.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Copies, 1849, of parts of MS.15927 sections (i) and (ii): “A genealogical account of the MacRa's …”, and an incomplete history of the Campbells of Craignish., [Before 1705], 1786, undated.
Copies, [?1850-1855] of documents, 1457-1665, and accounts, etc., 1850-1855, of John Riddell concerning the unsuccessful claim of James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford, to the title of Duke of Montrose., 1457-1665, 1850-1855.
Most of the correspondence is addressed to James Law, Writer to the Signet, who acted as London agent in many Peerage Cases in which Riddell was involved; and much of it is from other lawyers.
Copies, apparently by Alexander Ross, of Johannes Ferrerius "Historiae Compendium de Origine et Incremento Gordonias Familiae", 1545, and of his own "Suthirlandiae Comitum Annales", 1625.
Indluding:
1. "Vera Narratio...Victoriae...quod Auinum Amen [Glenlivet]... Anno Dmi 1594", with ownership inscription of Robert Gordon and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
2. incomplete charter, undated, of John, Earl of Sutherland
3. letters, 1605, 1623 and undated
4. two fragments of a writing excercise, undated
5. poems, undated, mostly of Robert Southwell, with a photocopy of typescript on the poems.
Copies of genealogies and deeds relating to the families of Scott of Duninald and Renny of Usan, Forfarshire, compiled by Gladys Hope Allen; with related correspondence.
Copies of letters on local genealogies of Roderick Campbell [Ruairidh Thormoid Chaluim], 43 North Bragar, to Norman Macleod., 1956.
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Copies of press cuttings and other papers and photographs of the Macarthur family, Nairn, Scotland and Manitoba, Canada.
Copies, on paper watermarked 1811, of an opinion on the descent of and right to the title of the Earl of Moray, 1785 (folio 1), a brief for William, Lord Belhaven, claiming the rights to vote as a Scots Representative Peer in the election of 1790 (folio 29), notes on the claim of Andrew John Drummond to the viscountcy of Strathallan, ?1790 (folio 37), and the case of Francis, Lord Napier, concerning the election of 1790 (folio 43)., 1785, 1790.
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Copy, 18th century, of ‘Ane Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, 1698; and a treatise on the patronage of schools and churches, ecclesiastical goods and revenues, parish schools, and universities, with special reference to Turriff, 1731., 1698, 1731.
The ‘Account of the Origine and Succession of the Familie of Innes’ (Inv. IV, Mac. 47) is followed on folio 24 verso by notes in William Rose`s hand on the destruction of the house of Innes by storm and fire in 1736 and 1739.
The treatise (Inv. XXII, Mac. 48) begins on folio 47.
Copy, 1613, of Joannes Ferrerius ‘Historiæ Compendium de origine et incremento Gordoniæ familiæ….’ by Constable D’Aubigny, for the use of Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun.
There are a few leaves prefixed, containing the later history of the family, to the Battle of Glenlivet, written in English, in a hand of the seventeenth century, (by Straloch says Sibbald).
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (Jac.V.5.9).