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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:

Papers relating to genealogical research carried out by James Johnston into his family history. , 1970, 1981-1984, 1991, 2001-2003.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/519-532
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School. His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970, 1981-1984, 1991, 2001-2003.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Major-General James Johnston / Personal papers of James Johnston.

Papers (some printed) in the claims to the Polwarth Barony by Anne Anstruther, 1817-1818 (folios 1-46), by Lady Diana Scott, 1824-1825 (folios 47-99), and by Hugh Scott of Harden, 1831, 1833, and undated (folios 100-152)., 1817-1833.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.20
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: 1817-1833.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Pedigrees of the Keith family, 1782-1802., After 1802.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.17319
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

More detailed lists are available on request.

Dates: After 1802.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers. / Charters and formal documents from the Keith, Earl Marischal papers. / Formal documents relating to the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

Portion of manuscript of an apparently unpublished article by Sabine Baring Gould concerning a Swiss genealogical mystery., Late 19th century-Early 20th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.4798
Scope and Contents

The manuscript originally consisted of twenty-two numbered sheets, of which numbers 1-14 are lacking.

Dates: Late 19th century-Early 20th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Blackwood Papers: part of the literary archives of the firm of William Blackwood and Sons, publishers. / Manuscripts and proofs of works offered for publication to William Blackwood and Sons, publishers.

Printed Books from the Riddell Collection., 1718-1850.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42
Scope and Contents

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: 1718-1850.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Printed items, 1830-1839, in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander., 1830-1839.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.24
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: 1830-1839.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander (formerly Humphreys).

Printed papers in Archibald William 13th Earl of Eglinton’s claim to the Earldom of Winton., 1840.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.27(i-ii)
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 / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

Printed session papers, 1825, 1830-1831, 1834, 1838, 1844, in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, and copies, written in formal hands on paper watermarked 1836, of associated legal papers, 1740, 1765, circa 1792, and undated., 1740-1844.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.5
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: 1740-1844.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Papers in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale made by Sir George Frederic Johnstone, of Westerhall, 7th Baronet, and by John James Hope Johnstone of Annandale.

Proceedings, lists and other papers relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood., Early 19th century.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.37.2.6
Dates: Early 19th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Barons of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood (died 1838), Auditor of Excise, Scottish antiquary and biographer. / Biographical and genealogical notes chiefly relating to the Lords of Session, Baron of Exchequer, and members of the Faculty of Advocates, compiled by John Philp Wood.

‘Rerum Scoticarum historia’ by George Buchanan, with the ‘De jure regni apud Scotos’ (Edinburgh, 1583), with marginal notes in manuscript by George Buchanan., 1583.

 File
Identifier: MS.5170
Scope and Contents

The volume is incomplete, and there are added, in manuscript, the end of the ‘De jure regni apud Scotos’ with the verses contained in the printed editions (folio 1); a copy of the 'Locorum, nominum propriorum gentilitium, rerumque difficiliorum ... explicatio vernacula' by Thomas Craufurd and Christopher lrvine (folio 4 verso); and some genealogical notes on the Bruces (folio 18).

Dates: 1583.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Manuscripts collected by William Lee Ferguson, Edinburgh.

Research on Clan Morrison and Sutherland archaeology., 1885 and undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.14317/17-18
Content Description From the Collection: Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates: 1885 and undated.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.

Riddell`s copy of ‘Abstracts of the Evidence submitted to a jury on Behalf of Andrew Stirling, Esquire, of Drumpellier, claiming to be served heir-male in general of Robert Stirling of Bankeyr and Lettyr’ (1818), containing notes and additions in his hand., 1818.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.25
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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Printed Books from the Riddell Collection.

Satirical and genealogical manuscripts, written in the late eighteenth century., 16th century-18th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.5721A
Scope and Contents The contents are follows.(i) 'Historia y papeles de el Duende Politico', 1735-1736, possibly by Manoel Freire de Silva. It consists of satires on contemporary politics in verse and prose, including an attack on the economic policy of Don José Patiño, chief Secretary of State. (Folio 1.)(ii) 'Vida del sutil critico Duende de Madrid', Manoel Freire de Silva. A biography of him was published in Madrid in 1788. (Folio 144.)(iii) 'Pequeña Pieza Jocoseria...
Dates: 16th century-18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Papers of Sir Robert Liston, diplomatist. / Plans, sketches and literary manuscripts belonging to Sir Robert Liston.

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., 1830-1852.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.3.7-26.3.11
Scope and Contents

The volumes are more or less consecutive, but there is some overlapping, some the volumes having been begun for other purposes

Dates: 1830-1852.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Notebooks from the Riddell Collection. / Large notebooks from the Riddell Collection, containing genealogical and other notes relating to Scottish families.

‘Service of the Earl of Eglinton’ (1840), with some annotations by John Riddell., 1840.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.27(ii), folios 113-161
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 / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Printed papers in Archibald William 13th Earl of Eglinton’s claim to the Earldom of Winton.

‘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
Dates: 18th century.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the family of MacGregor or Drummond of Balhaldie.

'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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House. / Family papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.

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 / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / 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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Additional papers to the collection of John Riddell, the Peerage lawyer.

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
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Notebooks from the Riddell Collection.

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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection.

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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Books and papers of John Riddell, the peerage lawyer. / Printed books, manuscripts, correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection. / Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection.

'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 / Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. / 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 Grants', written at Birkenbush, near Keith, in 1782; inscribed to Mr Lud. Grant, Edinburgh, 1783, 1782-1783.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3568
Dates: 1782-1783.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Clan histories of the Grants, Macraes, and Chisholms.

`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.
Found in: National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division / Charters and formal documents from the Murray of Ochtertyre and Keith, Earl Marischal papers. / Charters and formal documents from the Keith, Earl Marischal papers. / Formal documents relating to the Keiths, Earls Marischal.

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