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:
Drafts of the supplemental case of Robert Barclay Allardice claiming the title of Earl of Airth, and other papers with a copy of the claim made by Sir William Scott of Ancrum, 1838., 1835-1839, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.1a, folios 27-223
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:
1835-1839, and undated.
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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Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Airth by Robert Barclay Allardice of Ury and Allardice (died 1854).
Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8832-8873
Scope and Contents
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
1799-1853, undated.
Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.346- is now part of Acc.10884.
Dates:
1671-1692, 1930-1989, and undated.
Early 19th-century copies of late 18th-century papers in the unsuccessful claim to the Earldom of Dunbar by Sir John Home of Renton, and seven letters, 1820-1822, of James Home concerning his own claim thereto., Late 18th century, 1820-1822.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.10
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:
Late 18th century, 1820-1822.
Envelope containing 'The genealogie of the surname of Mackenzie' written by John Mackenzie of Applecross, 1707, and stated by him to have been collected in 1667; and a (?part) copy of a genealogy of John Mackenzie, mid 18th century., 1707, mid 18th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1)
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, mid 18th century.
Extracts, 1556, from chartularies of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris; followed by a short history, in Scots, of the Hamilton family entitled 'Frier Mark Hamiltonis historie'
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.4.5
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...
Dates:
1556
Fair copy abstracts of entries concerning the Dunlop family from Alexander Dunlop's genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
File
Identifier: MS.9296
Scope and Contents
The abstracts are copies of entries from MSS.9274 ([Letter C(2)(i)]) and 9285 ('Letter N(1)').
Dates:
[Before 1939.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family.
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Fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family and its connections from MSS.9274-9290: Genealogical notes on Scottish families.
Fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family and its connections from MSS.9274-9290: Genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9292-9296
Scope and Contents
The abstracts were probably made for J G Dunlop when he was preparing ‘The Dunlops of Dunlop’, volume 2 (1939) of the ‘The Dunlop Papers’, 3 volumes (London, 1932-1953).
Dates:
[Before 1939.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 1., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1818-1822.
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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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 2., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1818-1822.
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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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir: volume 3., 1818-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.3.14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1818-1822.
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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Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(i)-(iii)
Scope and Contents
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Dates:
1686-1689.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh, volume 3., 1686-1689.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.10(iii)
Scope and Contents
The volume contains a transcript of the cartulary of Paisley (Adv.MS.34.4.14) (folio 13); an account of the Stewarts, as far as the death of King James II (folio 277); and a history of the Trinitarian monks (folio 295).
Dates:
1686-1689.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
Fair copy, written on paper watermarked 1825, of a collection of extracts mostly from mediaeval registers of religious houses, with some from current printed reference books, made apparently between 1818 and 1822, concerning the ancestors of the family of Stirling of Keir., 1818-1822.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.3.12-26.3.14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1818-1822.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Family and genealogical papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1715-1763.
File
Identifier: MS.14500
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1715-1763, being largely financial papers of transactions between the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale and his children (folio 1);(ii) Financial and legal papers, 1728-1764, of John Hay of Belton (folio 92);(iii) Financial papers, 1736-1743, between the 4th and 6th Marquesses of Tweeddale concerning the lands of Newhall (folio 106);(iv) Genealogy of the Hays of Yester, 970-circa 1730, written in the hand of John...
Dates:
1715-1763.
Family and miscellaneous papers of Charles Murray., 1866-?1941, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.27285
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Family papers of the Murray and Robbie families, 1866-1926, undated (folio 1). They include genealogical material and a few family letters. (ii) Miscellaneous papers of Charles Murray, 1890-?1941, undated (folio l9).
Dates:
1866-?1941, undated.
Family book concerning the Keiths, Earls Marischal, covering the years 1010-1778, compiled by Sir Patrick Keith Murray, 8th Baronet, of Ochtertyre, in the 20th century., 1st quarter of 20th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21118
Scope and Contents
Enclosed are a letter, photographs and newspaper cuttings.
Dates:
1st quarter of 20th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, containing genealogical material.
'Family Book' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, covering the years 1171-1956, compiled by Patrick Keith Murray, Writer to the Signet, in 1904, with later additions., 1904-[?1956].
Item
Identifier: MS.21117
Scope and Contents
A number of photographs, letters and press cuttings have been pasted into the volume.
Dates:
1904-[?1956].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, containing genealogical material.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
'Family Book' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, covering the years 1422-1800, compiled by Sir Patrick Murray, 6th Baronet, of Ochtertyre in 1810., 1810.
Item
Identifier: MS.21116
Scope and Contents
With later additions in several hands, two letters to the 6th Baronet, and press cuttings concerning the family.
Dates:
1810.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, containing genealogical material.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
'Family Book’ of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, covering the years 1430-1781, compiled in the early 18th century, with later additions in several hands., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.21115
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, containing genealogical material.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre., Early 18th century-[[?1956].].
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21115-21117
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[[?1956].].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, containing genealogical material.
'Family books' of the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, containing genealogical material., Early 18th century-[?1956]..
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21115-21118
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Murray papers concern chiefly their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere.The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar...
Dates:
Early 18th century-[?1956]..
Family histories of the Clan McLachlan of Beith.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13041/1-2
Dates:
Circa 2008.
Family history of the Homes, probably of Eugene A. Home of Whitfield., 1927.
File
Identifier: Acc.6976/4