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:
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.3251(i)-(ii)
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century
File
Identifier: MS.3251(i)
Dates:
Early 20th century
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3252
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3253
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3254
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3255
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3256
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.3251(ii)
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
/
Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall.
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Typescript, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, by Colonel R S Marshall.
Typescript with some manuscript additions and corrections entitled "The History of Clan MacLeod" by Dr Isabel F Grant, published as "The MacLeods: the History of a Clan" (London, 1959).
Item
Identifier: Acc.10617
Dates:
circa 1950-1959.
Typescripts, with manuscript additions and corrections of an account of the ancestry and early history of the family of Seton, with information regarding the allied families of Fleming, de Morville, de Quincy, etc., by Colonel R S Marshall., Early 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.3249-3256
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Various financial, legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart., 1727-1800.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5390-5404
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Andrew Stuart was a noted lawyer and politician. As lawyer he acted as agent for some important Scottish noble families, in particular the Dukes of Hamilton; as politician he represented Lanarkshire in Parliament, and was a member of the Board of Trade in Lord North's administration. The papers here are almost entirely of a legal and personal nature.
Dates:
1727-1800.
Volume containing 4 printed papers, with notes in an unidentified contemporary hand, and by John Riddell, concerning the genealogy of the family of Dundas of Dundas., 1758-1759.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1758-1759.
Volume containing 9 printed papers in claims to the Earldom of Sutherland., 1769-1770, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.21
Scope and Contents
A few brief notes and some unimportant marks have been written in the margins in different hands. A contents list has been written on the flyleaf in an apparently contemporary hand.
Dates:
1769-1770, and undated.
Volume containing a copy of ‘Vindication of the Clanronald of Glengarry’ (Edinburgh, 1821), presented by Colonel Alexander Ranaldson McDonell of Glengarry (on whose behalf the work was compiled), bearing a few notes by John Riddell, with four other works on the same subject., 1821.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.34
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1821.
Volume containing copies of two accounts of the family of Dunbar.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.3.2
Scope and Contents
(i) `A short account of the noble and ancient Family of Dunbar. Writen, A[?] 1744.` The writer deals with the origin of the family, the family of Dunbar and March descended from the Earls of Northumberland, the families of Dundas and Home, the Dunbars of Cumnock and Mochrum, the Dunbars Earls of Moray, the Dunbars of Westfield and their branches, and the armorial bearings of the Dunbars, and adds genealogical trees of the family of Dunbar and March, of the Earls of Home and Marchmont, and of...
Dates:
1554, 1744.
Volume containing four items transcribed by Robert Mylne, the Antiquary, between the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘The Staggering State of Scottish Statesmen’ by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, written about 1665 (folio 1).(ii) ‘The History of the Picts’, written by Henry Maule of Melgum sometime in the 17th century (folio 43).(iii) ‘The Genealogies of the Nobility of Scotland Present and Extinct`, by Sir James Dalrymple of Borthwick, undated and apparently unpublished (folio 65).(iv) `The Historie of the Kings...
Dates:
17th century.
Volume containing genealogical and other notes in a number of early 18th-century hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) a chronological list of hereditary and other offices under the Great Seal, and the names of those to whom they were granted, from 1499 to 1650 (folio 1);(ii) an inventory of the writs of the lands and barony of Tulliallan arranged chronologically from 1402 to 1536 (folio 25 verso);(iii) notes from writs then in the possession of David Erskine concerning the Earls of Countesses of Buchan and some other peers...
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Volume containing: (i) a copy of ‘An Index, drawn up about the year 1629, of many records of charters, granted by the different Sovereigns of Scotland between the years 1309 and 1413 ...’ by William Robertson (Edinburgh, 1798); (ii) a copy of ‘Various tracts concerning the Peerage of Scotland’ by James Carmichael (Edinburgh, 1791), 1791, 1798.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.16
Scope and Contents
(i) contains some amendments (chiefly at pages x-xxv) and notes in an unidentified contemporary hand, and a few notes by John Riddell. (ii) contains marginal notes by John Eiston, whose signature is on the verso of the title page, and a few by Riddell.
Dates:
1791, 1798.
Volume containing: (i) a copy of ‘Claim for William Maxwell, Esq., of Carruchan, to be served Heir-Male in general of Robert, the fourth Earl of Nithsdale’ (Edinburgh, 1829), bearing notes in John Riddell`s hand; (ii) a proof-copy of ‘Claim of David Maitland Makgill of Rankeilour to be served heir of line in general to James, First viscount Frendraught’ (1839), containing numerous corrections and other marginal annotation by Riddell; and (iii) an almost unmarked proof-copy of ‘Abstract of the Evidence ... of Robert Preston, Esquire of Lutton, as nearest and lawful heir-male of line to Sir Robert Preston of Valleyfield Baronet ...’ (1835)., 1829, 1835, 1839.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.26
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1829, 1835, 1839.
Volume containing: (i) ‘An Essay on the Origine of the Royal Family of the Stewarts’ by Richard Augustine Hay (Edinburgh, 1722); (ii) ‘A Vindication of Elizabeth More from the Imputation of being a Concubine ...’ by Richard Augustine Hay (Edinburgh, 1723)., 1722-1723.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.9
Scope and Contents
The volume contains George Paton’s signature and bookplate on the verso of the title page of (i), marginalia in another hand on pages 118-119 of (ii), and, on leaves bound in at the back of the volume, copies in his hand of most of Hay’s additions and corrections in his copy of (i) which he gave to Alexander McFarlane on 22 September (not April) 1725.
Dates:
1722-1723.
Volume containing: (i) John Riddell`s copy of ‘Case of Margaret Lennox of Woodhead in relation to the title, honours, and dignity of the ancient earls of Levenax or Lennox’ (Edinburgh, 1813); (ii) Riddell’s copy of his ‘Reply to the misstatements of Dr Hamilton of Bardowie ... (etc.)’ (Edinburgh, 1828), bearing notes in the margin of pages 1-5 of the Appendix; (iii) note, 1812, in Riddell’s hand anent an obligation by Malcolm, Lord of Biggar, 1368., 1812, 1813, 1828.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.36
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
1812, 1813, 1828.
Volume containing: (i) memoranda apparently by John Riddell relating to the descent of Lord Napier from Duncan, Earl of Lennox, and to the Haldane and Lennox competition in the 15th century, ?circa 1809; (ii) a copy of ‘The Case of Alexander, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon’ (no place of publication, no date), with a few marginalia by Riddell; and (iii) a copy of ‘Case and statement of evidence on the claim of Archibald Lord Douglas of Douglas to carry the Crown of Scotland’ (London, circa 1822)., Circa 1809, circa 1822, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.24
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.
Dates:
Circa 1809, circa 1822, and undated.
Volume containing notes compiled by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1833, or after.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.21
Scope and Contents
The notes concern the progress of titles of Buchanan (folio 8), abstracts of the Darnley Lennox writs (folio 15) and transcripts (most of which appear to be in another hand) of original documents in the Montrose Charter Room, several of which relate to the ancient earldom of Lennox (folio 30). The volume is undated but the contents do not appear to date before 1833 (folio 8 verso). Parts of the volume were not used: folios 2-7 (intended for an index which was never compiled), 23-29, 62-66...
Dates:
1833, or after.
Volume containing notes, copies and extracts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few extracts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.24
Scope and Contents
A large number of the sources used were at the Advocates` Library, and of these many had previously been in the possession of Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms (for example, the charters (now in Adv.MSS.15.1.18 and 15.1.19) excerpted at folio 91, and what follows, and folio 263, and what follows, and the cartularies excerpted at folios 1-8, 22-33, 43-49 verso, 230 verso-274 verso), as had the manuscript (now British Library, Harl MS. 4693) once in his possession which is...
Dates:
Circa 1709-circa 1717.
Volume containing notes on the Law of Scotland taken by John Riddell from lectures given by David Hume, Professor of Scots Law at Edinburgh, afterwards Baron of the Exchequer., 1806-1807.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.14
Scope and Contents
The notes appear on the rectos of the leaves; most of the versos are blank; those as far as folio 34 verso contain inchoate genealogical notes apparently by Riddell on various Scottish and English families. His incorrect pagination has been ignored. A few leaves at the end of the volume are torn out.
Dates:
1806-1807.