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 522 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.33
Scope and Contents
An almanack for 1842 is printed inside the front cover.
Dates:
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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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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.34
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:
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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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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.35
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:
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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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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., ?1841.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.36
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:
?1841.
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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.37
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:
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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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.
Notebooks and diaries of A E Borthwick, Mary S V Borthwick, and her mother Ann Pringle., 1887-1954, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10407-10469
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1887-1954, undated.
Notebooks containing fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family from Alexander Dunlop's genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9292-9295
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
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.
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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.
Notebooks from the Riddell Collection., 1807-1852.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.3.1-26.7.37
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:
1807-1852.
Notes and correspondence of and collected by Major-General Stewart A Lithgow on the genealogy of the Lithgow and other families., 1784-1909, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2545
Scope and Contents
The notes and correspondence concern: various families, 1894-1897, undated (folio 1); the genealogy and estate of Hector Lithgow, Commissary of Ordinance, Bengal, 1784, 1842-1886 (folio 56); and various branches of the Lithgow family, 1816, 1864-1897, 1909, undated (folio 78).
Dates:
1784-1909, undated.
Notes and correspondence of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans, with manuscripts collected by him., 1836-1886.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2119-2127
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:
1836-1886.
Notes and drafts of George Francis Stewart Elliot for 'The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto', and genealogical papers., [Circa 1700]-[circa 1857], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13095
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Notes 'To be used in revising Life of the first Sir Gilbert' (folio 1);
(ii) Draft of 'The First Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto' (folio 94);
(iii) Draft of a paper, 'Border Elliots', circa 1857 (folio 122);
(iv) Drafts of Appendix I in ‘The Border Elliots’ (folio 214);
(v) Miscellaneous genealogical papers, circa 1700-1797, undated, abstracted from the Minto Papers by George Francis Stewart Elliot, including a genealogical account of the Elliots of Lariston,...
Dates:
[Circa 1700]-[circa 1857], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot (1822- 1901), 4th son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, barrister and Private Secretary to Lord John Russell.
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Antiquarian and genealogical papers, chiefly undated, of George Francis Stewart Elliot, including notes and drafts for 'The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto'.
Notes of the 'Lineage of the Matheson family' as given in the supplementary volume of 'Burke's Landed gentry'., 1848.
File
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 2(5)
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:
1848.
Notes on the Craig family of Glasgow, by Mr James R Anderson, Librarian of Baillie's Institution, Glasgow, with notes by James Glen, Glasgow, incorporated., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1030, folios 70-75
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Notes on the family of De Maria by John Stirton., 1920, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(i), folios 1-4
Scope and Contents
The notes begin with John de Maria, who came to Scotland from Italy in 1756. John Stirton was related to the family of De Maria.
Dates:
1920, or before.
’Notices of families in Aberdeenshire of the name of Chalmers, from various registers’, compiled by John Stuart., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15479
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Papers, 1814-1818, and undated, concerning the claim of Andrew Stirling of Drumpellier as representative of the family of Stirling of Cadder (folios 1-153), and an earlier (and differently arranged) version, ?1858, of John Riddell’s ‘Comments on the Keir Performance’., 1814-1818, ?1858, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.10
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:
1814-1818, ?1858, and undated.
Papers, 1818, in the claim of the Marquess of Abercorn to certain dignities and honours of the House of Hamilton, consisting of statements and opinions thereanent, and copies of a decreet of the Duchess of Hamilton against the Earl of Abercorn, 1658, and of a reported case of the Duke of Hamilton, 1747., 1658, 1747, 1818.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.15
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:
1658, 1747, 1818.
Papers, 1828, and undated, in the claim of John Smith Cuninghame of Caprington to bear the arms and supporters of Cuninghame of Caprington (folios 1-115), and papers, 1845-1846, and undated, in the competing claims by his son Thomas and Sir Robert K Dick Cuningham, 7th Baronet, of Prestonfield (folios 116-191)., 1828, 1845-1846, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.2
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:
1828, 1845-1846, and undated.
Papers by Archibald Smith, Doctor of Medicine, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland., 1867-1868.
File
Identifier: MS.2128
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Papers concerning the limits of Glenurchay (folio 4);'Argyleshire Invaded but not Subdued', 1868, published in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume vii, page 412 (folio 8);'Notices regarding Dr John Smith's Collection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry', 1867, partly published in ‘Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’, volume vii, page 238 (folio 30);'Genealogy of the Noble House of...
Dates:
1867-1868.
Papers, chiefly historical materials, of Donald MacPherson., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.14895
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Copy letter of Donald MacPherson to the Reverend Dr Mackintosh MacKay, Laggan, 1828: on cat-names (folio i);(ii) Copy letter of Donald MacPherson to Ewen MacPherson of Cluny (acephalous) (folio ii);(iii) Dissertation on origin of Clan Chattan (folio 1);(iv) Historical and philological notes connected with above dissertation (folio 20);(v) Essay on origin and nature of chiefship (folio 66);...
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
Papers compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., 1825-?1842.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.24
Scope and Contents
The material was compiled over a number of years, probably between about 1825 and 1840, and consists of accounts of parishes and families, notes and extracts from printed sources and collections of formal documents, and some original documents and printed items. The complete title of the work was apparently intended to be `Dumbartonshire Illustrated with regard chiefly to its Territorial History and Family Antiquities`, but the work appears never to have been finished (for example, there are...
Dates:
1825-?1842.
Papers concerning the claim of Archibald William to the Earldom of Winton., 1840.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.26
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:
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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Letters and papers concerning the claims of Colonel James Seton, Robert Seaton and Archibald William, 13th Earl of Eglinton, to the Earldom of Winton.
Papers concerning the claim of Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn to the Earldom of Dundee., 16th century-17th century, 1843.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.11
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of a genealogical table, and draft statements and opinion by John Riddell, 1843, and undated (folios 1-160), extracts made apparently in 1846 of 16th- and 17th-century public records relating to members of the family (folios 161-179), and a small miscellany of other papers (folios 180-190).
Dates:
16th century-17th century, 1843.
Papers concerning the family history of Dumbartonshire, compiled and collected by James Dennistoun for a projected history of Dumbartonshire., ?1827-?1828.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.17
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of draft genealogical accounts, compiled for the most part about 1827-1828, of families possessed of territories in the county (or otherwise strongly connected with it) arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the accounts are supplemented by transcripts of documents or of relevant letters.
Dates:
?1827-?1828.
Papers concerning the history of the church of Eddleston by Dr Clement Bryce Gunn., Early 20th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.954
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The typescripts, chiefly 20th-century and consisting largely of excerpts from the kirk-session records, are almost ready for publication, and are accompanied by notes, newspaper cuttings, and photographs. Churches other than parish are dealt with, and biographical and genealogical information is given about ministers.
Dates:
Early 20th century-mid 20th century.