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:
Volume containing papers concerning peerages attainted after the 1715 and 1745 Rebellions., 1818-1829.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.8
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Opinions, 1826, concerning the forfeiture of the Earldom of Cromartie (folios 1-52);(ii) Letters, 1818-1819, and papers including transcripts of documents and opinions, 1829, and undated, concerning the claim of Sir Thomas Livingstone, 7th Baronet, of Westquarter, to the title and dignities of Earl of Linlithgow and Callendar (folios 53-119);(iii) Draft remarks, 1828, on the claim of William Maxwell of Caruchan...
Dates:
1818-1829.
Volume containing printed papers concerning claims to the Earldom of Perth., 1794, 1840 x 1848.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.33
Scope and Contents
The papers are as follows:
(i) ‘Case of James Drummond ... claiming the title ... of Earl of Perth’ (1794).
(ii) ‘Case on behalf of George Drummond, Duke de Melfort, in France claiming to be Earl of Perth’ (1840 x 1848).
(iii) ‘Minutes of Evidence ... [in] the Petition of George Drummond Duke de Melfort in France ... claiming the Honour and Dignity of Earl of Perth’ (1846).
Dates:
1794, 1840 x 1848.
Volume entitled (folio 2) `Memoirs of the Family of Rose of Kilravok`, being the epitome by Lachlan Shaw, minister of Elgin, of `A Genealogical Deduction of the Family of Rose of Kilravock`, by Hugh Rose, minister of Nairn.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.7
Scope and Contents
Rose`s work was first written in 1683-1684: Shaw`s epitome records also later members of the family until about 1756 (folio 69 verso), with a supplement until about 1772 (folio 83 verso). This copy appears to have been written for the antiquary William Rose in Montcoffer in the same hand as Adv.MS.32.6.8, and has a note inside the front cover, a contents list at folio 1 and a few textual additions in his hand.
Dates:
3rd quarter of 18th century.
Volume of genealogies and poems in the hand of Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the writer and antiquary of the same name (see folio 82), with a few additions by his father.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.24
Scope and Contents
The following dates of writing are given: 15 September 1712 (folio 2), 10 April 1713 (folio 76), 13 November 1712 (folio 80).The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `The Pourtrait of True Loyalty exposed in the Family of Gordon, without interruption to this present year of God, 1691. With a copious relation of the siege of the Castle of Edinburgh in the year 1689. By W.S. An. 1691.` The original manuscript of this work, which was in Blairs College, Aberdeen...
Dates:
1338, circa 1670-1732.
Volume of 'Genealogies', mostly of Lewis families., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 7(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:
Undated.
Volume of John Riddell commenced between 1811 and 1814 and completed in 1819, containing extracts and copies of documents, and notes., 1727, ?1811-1819.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.2
Scope and Contents
The volume contains: (i) a copy of a transcript made in 1727 of the documents in the charter chest of the family of Hay of Erroll (folio 2), some of which were printed in ‘The miscellany of the Spalding Club’, volume ii, page 303 and what follows; (ii) extracts and transcripts of documents, and notes relating to other Scottish peerages (folio 45 verso), including a list of the Baronets of Scotland (folio 166 verso). A bifolium (folios 107-108) is stitched to folio 109. An incorrect...
Dates:
1727, ?1811-1819.
Volume of John Riddell commenced in 1811 and discontinued about 1831 entitled (folio 1) `Genealogical and historical Collections Vol 2`, containing notes, extracts and a few transcripts of documents relating to various Scottish peerages., 1811-?1831.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.3
Scope and Contents
An incomplete pagination has been ignored.
Dates:
1811-?1831.
Volume of John Riddell commenced in 1824 and completed in 1827 containing notes and copies and extracts of documents in private hands relating to various Scottish families., 1824-1827.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.4
Scope and Contents
An incomplete pagination added in pencil in a later hand has been ignored.
Some papers which were formerly loosely enclosed in this volume are now at Adv.MS.26.3.5.
Dates:
1824-1827.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1839-1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The volumes are more or less consecutive, but there is some overlapping, some the volumes having been begun for other purposes
Dates:
1839-1844.
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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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1844-1845.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The volumes are more or less consecutive, but there is some overlapping, some the volumes having been begun for other purposes
Dates:
1844-1845.
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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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1846-1852.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The volumes are more or less consecutive, but there is some overlapping, some the volumes having been begun for other purposes
Dates:
1846-1852.
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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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1830-1838.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The volumes are more or less consecutive, but there is some overlapping, some the volumes having been begun for other purposes
Dates:
1830-1838.
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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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters., 1833-circa 1840.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The volumes are more or less consecutive, but there is some overlapping, some the volumes having been begun for other purposes
Dates:
1833-circa 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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Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.
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Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.
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Series of volumes of John Riddell containing notes, copies and extracts of letters and some copies of session papers in cases involving claims to various Scottish titles, and other genealogical matters.
Volume of John Riddell entitled `Genealogical Collections`, commenced in 1807 and completed in 1811, containing transcripts and extracts of charters dating from the 13th to the 15th century relating to various Scottish families., 13th century-15th century, 1861.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.1
Scope and Contents
A discontinued contents list is at folio 2. A letter, 1861, of Robert Riddell formerly pinned to folio 6 has been tipped in inside the back cover (folio i). An incorrect pagination has been ignored.
Dates:
13th century-15th century, 1861.
Volume of manuscript material for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818).
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.9
Scope and Contents
The volume seems to have been written about 1802-1803 and contains detailed genealogical accounts of a number of English peers and their families. The volume was apparently never published.
Dates:
Circa 1802-1803.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.
Volume of notes of John Riddell, found loose, bound in 1934., 1818.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.4.20
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:
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.
Volume of printed papers being for the most part petitions submitted to the Committee of Privileges in support of claims to various dormant or attainted Scottish peerages, 1812-1850., 1812-1850, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.27
Scope and Contents
The only manuscript is a set of undated notes by John Riddell bound in after the second paper, the claim of Archibald Borthwick to the title of Lord Borthwick.
Dates:
1812-1850, and undated.
Volume of printed papers being for the most part petitions submitted to the Committee of Privileges in support of claims to various English peerages., 1818-1838.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.28
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:
1818-1838.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
Item
Identifier: MS.3658
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1666-1699.