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:
‘Short Genealogical View of the Family of Cameron of Lochiele', undated, in the hand of John Drummond, son of Alexander, of Balhaldie., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.3192
'Short Genealogy of the Family of Tweeddale', early eighteenth century, with additional information in later hands., Early 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7110
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Sir Aeneas Macpherson, "The Loyall Dissuasive, or the Resolute Advyce of a Faithfull Kinsman".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7139
Dates:
1701.
Six proof copies extensively amended by John Riddell of different parts of ‘Case of Archibald William Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton’ (?1840)., ?1840.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.27(i), folios i-ii, 1-112
Scope and Contents
Manuscript versions of ‘Case of Archibald William Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton’ are at....
Dates:
?1840.
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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Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.
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Printed papers in Archibald William 13th Earl of Eglinton’s claim to the Earldom of Winton.
Sketch of the origins of the family of Corsane of Meikleknox, which is identified with the Corsini of Florence., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.2.9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
19th century.
Sketchbook of R M Ballantyne entitled "Chronicles of the R M B Family".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12640
Dates:
circa 1870.
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., 1809-1844
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.4.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents
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:
1809-1844
Small number of letters (mainly copies) and some legal papers concerning claims to certain privileges of the Earls of Angus by Archibald J E Douglas, Baron Douglas of Douglas (created 1790), as representative of the family, against the claims of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton., 1820-1821, 1824, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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).
Dates:
1820-1821, 1824, and undated.
Small quantity of professional papers of Lord Kaimes, 1762 and undated, concerning the Cassillis and Wigtown peerages., 1762, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.9.17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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.
Dates:
1762, and undated.
Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.12
Scope and Contents
(i) `Inventar of the papers and chartours of the Stewarts of Hallrig and Raice and thair Genealogy proceeding from Stewart of Darnly who are descended from Robert Stewart Lord Tarboltone second son to Walter the 2ᵈ High Stewart of Scotland.` Seventeenth century (folio 1).(ii) Papers, in three late-eighteenth-century hands, on the Stewarts of Allanton and their cadets, all mostly derived from an account of the family written by Sir Archibald Steuart Denham of Westshield. In 1842...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
'Stewartiana; Maxwelliana, part i', being genealogical notes on the families of Stewart and Maxwell, by Surgeon-Major George Ballingall Stuart., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.2113
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Genealogical notes on the families of Ballingall, Stuart or Stewart, Maxwell, and Campbell, by Surgeon-Major George Ballingall Stuart, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
'Succinct account of the family of Calder 1773', being a history of the family of the Thanes of Calder or Cawdor and later of the Campbells of Cawdor down to the death in 1773 of Alexander, third son of John Campbell, 10th of Cawdor.
Item
Identifier: MS.9982
Dates:
1773.
'Succinct account of the Grants', written at Birkenbush, near Keith, in 1782; inscribed to Mr Lud. Grant, Edinburgh, 1783, 1782-1783.
Item
Identifier: MS.3568
Dates:
1782-1783.
`Testimonium de Familia de Keith...` by Alexander Brodie, Lord Lyon., 1751.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17317
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists are available on request.
Dates:
1751.
Testimony by Lord Lyon, King of Arms, of the genealogy of the Keith family., Undated.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17318
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists are available on request.
Dates:
Undated.
"The Ancestry and Descendents of Alexander Stewart (1 Oct 1857-22 Oct 1938)", compiled and published by David Paul Jackson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11659
Dates:
1997.
The Clan Gregor Centre archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11713/1-85
Scope and Contents
Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-1926, 1981-1999, undated.
'The descent probative, branches, and relations of R.M., engr. in Edr.', i.e., Robert Mylne, son of the antiquary, 'by the mother ... Collected from a great many . . . authentick documents in my own custody', with additions and corrections by the father., 1728.
File
Identifier: MS.2094
Scope and Contents
The families chiefly described are those of Govean or Govan (page 1), Forrester of Denovan (page 29), Rind (page 37), Row (the reformer and his descendants) (page 43), Geddie (page 57), and Avery (page 101); detailed accounts are given of some individuals, with extracts from their correspondence. At the beginning (folio ii) is a fragment of an account of Mr John Govean, Minister of Campsie, followed by a list of contents. At the end are miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1728.
'The Genealogy of the Most Illustrious and noble family of the Hamiltons', compiled between 1643 and 1649., 1643-1649.
Item
Identifier: MS.7114
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...
Dates:
1643-1649.
‘The Ogilvies of Boyne’ by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (Aberdeen, 1933), containing press-cuttings pasted inside the front cover, and typed notes and a letter, 1933, tipped in inside the back cover., 1933.
File
Identifier: MS.21248
The surname Mac Calman, by Dr Godfrey MacCalman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13735
Scope and Contents
Quarto notebook, 27 p., paginated by the scribe, with an insert of a further two leaves tipped in at the back. Entitled by the scribe, p. 1, "The surname, Mac Calman". Title added on cover by a later hand: "The surname Mac Calman. By Dr. Godfrey MacCalman, 1803. Given me by his Grand Daughter Miss Augusta Murray Campbell of Lochnell now at Hill... House 10. October 1854. D McC."Contains the author`s thoughts on the meaning of the name of MacCalman, and history and historical...
Dates:
1803
Three documents, 1674, 1708, letters and notes, 1827, and undated, concerning the family of Laurie of Maxwelton., 1674, 1708, 1827, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.6
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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).
Dates:
1674, 1708, 1827, and undated.
Three documents, some in verse, concerning the families of Learmonth of Dairsie and Balcomie, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.10940
Dates:
circa 1620-1651.