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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:

'The descent probative, branches, and relations of R.M., engr. in Edr.', i.e., Robert Mylne, son of the antiquary, 'by the mother ... Collected from a great many . . . authentick documents in my own custody', with additions and corrections by the father., 1728.

 File
Identifier: MS.2094
Scope and Contents

The families chiefly described are those of Govean or Govan (page 1), Forrester of Denovan (page 29), Rind (page 37), Row (the reformer and his descendants) (page 43), Geddie (page 57), and Avery (page 101); detailed accounts are given of some individuals, with extracts from their correspondence. At the beginning (folio ii) is a fragment of an account of Mr John Govean, Minister of Campsie, followed by a list of contents. At the end are miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1728.

'The Genealogy of the Most Illustrious and noble family of the Hamiltons', compiled between 1643 and 1649., 1643-1649.

 Item
Identifier: MS.7114
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: 1643-1649.

Three documents, 1674, 1708, letters and notes, 1827, and undated, concerning the family of Laurie of Maxwelton., 1674, 1708, 1827, and undated.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.6
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: 1674, 1708, 1827, and undated.

Three papers and a genealogical table by John Riddell, concerning the relation of General James Durham of Largo to the title of Lord Rutherford., 1824-1825.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.1.22
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: 1824-1825.

Three printed papers in the claim to the Earldom of Crawford by John Lindsay Crawford., 1812, 1819, ?1822.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.32
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, 1819, ?1822.

Three versions (the third incomplete) of a memorandum on the genealogy of the family of Buchanan, 1826 (folios 1, 15, 43), followed by some apparently unrelated leaves containing parts of a draft of John Riddell`s ‘Reply to ... Dr Hamilton of Bardowie’ (folio 55)., 1826, 1828.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.2.1
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: 1826, 1828.

Transcripts and notes, II, early 20th century, all typed, concerning the 'Forty-five., 1740-1748.

 File
Identifier: MS.299
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) "Mr. McLourin’s Journall of what passed relating to the defence of Edinburgh from Monday Septemr. 2d. till Monday Septemr. 16th 1745", journal of Professor Colin Maclaurin. (Folio 1.)(ii) ‘A succinct genealogical account of the Grosett family, and a narrative of services performed for the Government by Walter Grosett of Logie, Esqr., during the Rebellion in 1745. Lisbon, January 1764’, with a further account of the family at folio 53....
Dates: 1740-1748.

Type-written autobiographical account of Morrison and the families of his father and his mother., ca. 1930

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/11
Scope and Contents

Typewritten account beginning "For a long time how, I have had in my mind, writing a sketch of my family and its connections …". 22 pages. The original is loosely inserted into a notebook containing notes and material collected on Morrison family history (entitled on the first page: "Morrison"). This notebook, including the typewritten family history, remains in private hands.

Dates: ca. 1930

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.