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:
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 history of the Homes, probably of Eugene A. Home of Whitfield., 1927.
File
Identifier: Acc.6976/4
‘Family memoranda’, consisting of genealogical notes, tables and press cuttings of the Richards family, probably compiled by Anne Richards., 1887-1889.
File
Identifier: MS.20396
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1887-1889.
Family papers of Sir Alexander Gray., 19th century-mid 20th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26015-26018
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century.
Family papers of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1591-1658, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14474-14476
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1591-1658, undated.
Family papers of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1622-1658, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.14476
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Genealogical account of the 1st Earl of Dunfermline's children, 1622 (folio 1);(ii) Account of the teinds of Denovan, Broomage and Lochlan belonging to the 2nd Earl of Linlithgow, 1622-1623, 1625 (folios 5);(iii) Financial papers, 1622-1627, including accounts, concerning Sir William Hay of Linplum (folio 5);(iv) Financial papers, 1626-1635, undated, concerning the 1st Earl of Seaforth (folio 17);(v)...
Dates:
1622-1658, undated.
Family papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7113
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:
1550-1764.
Fragments of a notebook, or notebooks, of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., Circa 1825.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.6.37
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:
Circa 1825.
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.
'Genealogical account of the Mac Ras, as written originally by Mr. John Mac Ra, Minister of Dingwall ... who died ... 1704. Transcribed by Farquhar Mac Ra of Inverinate in ... 1786. Copied by Captain John Mac Ra of the Royal Scots from the transcript in the possession of his son Doctor John Mac Ra of Chittagong in ... 1816. Copied by Alfred Oughton ... from a copy entitled as above sent to Mr. Chisholm Batten by Mr. J.D. McDonell, Plockton ... 1864'., [Before 1705], 1869.
File
Identifier: MS.3569
Scope and Contents
Excerpts, made in 1869 from Dingwall Presbytery Records, are given on folios 40 verso-45.
Dates:
[Before 1705], 1869.
'Genealogical account of the Traills of Orkney' (Kirkwall, 1883) by William Traill of Woodwick, Physician, Kirkwall, with manuscript notes., 1883.
Item
Identifier: MS.19405
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates:
1883.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Genealogical account, undated, of the family of Inglis of Manorhead, by John A Inglis, of Auchendinny, King's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, with a note bequeathing it to the National Library of Scotland., [Before 1942.]
File
Identifier: MS.3581, folios 181-196
Dates:
[Before 1942.]
Genealogical and miscellaneous papers of the family of Sir Alexander Gray., 19th century-mid 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.26018
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Sir Alexander Gray published several volumes of his own poems and of translations of European ballads, and his literary papers consist of his work in these fields.
Dates:
19th century-mid 20th century.
Genealogical and other papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux., 1742-1801, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25170
Scope and Contents
The papers include a supposed memoir, 'Histoire de Mr Le Grand', submitted to the ‘Lady's Magazine’ (folios 18, 12) and notes on Scottish history with particular reference to the Grant family (folio 29).
Dates:
1742-1801, undated.
Genealogical and personal papers of and concerning Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux., 1650-1812, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25169-25174
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Charles Grant was born in Mauritius in 1749, was brought up in Normandy and went into the army. He was created Vicomte de Vaux in 1777, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Louis in 1790. As a result of the French Revolution he went into exile in 1790, first in Jersey and later in London in 1793. Here he put himself forward for an administrative post in Canada and tried to raise an emigre regiment to be commanded by himself.
His papers reflect his career and interests, and he made use of some...
Dates:
1650-1812, undated.
'Genealogical Deduction of the Familie of Kilravock Its Marriages, Affinities and Cadets Deduced according to the series of time till the year 1683', by Hugh Rose, Minister of Nairn., [1848, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.3801
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence deals with various personal, family, and official matters.
Dates:
[1848, or before.]
Genealogical information concerning the Richards family compiled by Anne Richards and recorded in ‘Indexed genealogical register’ 7th edition (Boston, 1901)., [?1901.]
Item
Identifier: MS.20397
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
[?1901.]
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Abercrombie peerage; Ainslie; Arbuthnott of Arbuthnott; Boyd, Earls of Kilmarnock; Scott, Dukes of Buccleuch; Bruce; Buchanan; Campbell., 2nd half of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.6
Genealogical material collected by Sir Robert Douglas concerning the families of: Dalzell of Dalzell; Douglas; Dundas of Newliston; Dunbar; Edmondstone; Elphinstone; Hay, Earls of Erroll; Forbes; Gordon; Grant., 2nd half of 18th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.7