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 298 Collections and/or Records:
Printed papers of the Highland Society of Scotland chiefly relating to the poetry of Ossian, and bearing occasional notes by Sir John Sinclair.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(M 1). Prospectus (1804) of ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’. (Folio 1.)(M 2). Sir John Sinclair, ‘A scene from Ossian’ (1806). (Folio 9.)(M 3). Chapter on Ossian from Sinclair’s ‘Correspondence’ (1831). (Folio 13.)(M 4). Pages xcvii-cxii of the ‘Dissertation’ in ‘The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic’ (1807). (Folio 18.)(M 5). Sinclair’s ‘Additions to the tragedy of Fingal’. (Folio...
Dates:
1777-1831, undated.
"Recollections of the Keith Johnstons" by Grace Keith Johnston, covering 1804-1893.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12297
Scope and Contents
Original typescript in two volumes.
Dates:
Late 19th century-early 20th century.
Regula of the Knights Templar, and works concerning ceremonial orders, heraldry and tournaments.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Statutes of the Order of the Garter in English (folio 1). The Statutes are those of Edward VI, 17 March 1552/1553, and are followed by a list of knights present at that Chapter. For other Statutes in English, see Adv.MS.31.7.18.(ii) `Regula pauperum commilitonum Christi templique salomonici` by Joannes Michaelensis, written in two hands of the 12th century (folio 18). The order of chapters differs from that given in...
Dates:
12th century-17th century.
'Regum Principumque Christiani Orbis Terrarum fere Omnium Genealogia. Item, Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum aliquot Catalogus. Wilhelmus Smith, Anglus, fecit et possidet. Anno 1587.' The compiler was, presumably, William Smith, Rouge-Dragon Pursuivant.
File
Identifier: MS.2516
Scope and Contents
The Genealogia, every page of which is within a coloured border, gives coats of arms, emblazoned; there is an index to it (folio 1). Following the Genealogia come the Catalogus (folio 29); short drafts for parts of the Genealogia (folio 31); a broadsheet, ‘The Succession of the Kings of England’ (London, 1687) (folio 34); and a genealogy showing the royal connections of various English families from early times (folio 37).
Dates:
1587.
Research notes of Donald Whyte on the family of Houston, Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane, Scottish clock and watch-makers, and passenger lists of ships taking Scottish emigrants to Canada, 1770-1854.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12606
Dates:
circa 1960-2003.
Research papers concerning Clan Gregor, including extracts and copies of historical and genealogical papers; with some papers relating to the history and administration of the Clan Gregor Society.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12335/84-243
Scope and Contents
The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information about the clan.
Dates:
1539-2001.
Research papers for "History and Genealogy of the Colts of that Ilk and Gartsherrie..." (1887) by George Frederick Russell Colt.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12527
Dates:
19th century.
Research papers of Adriano Galantini on the genealogy and biography of the last members of the Stuart Royal family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11200
Dates:
20th century.
Ronald L Shankland, "Ancestoral [sic] Papers of the Shankland-Shanklin Surname `Sect of the MacGregor Clan`".
File
Identifier: Acc.10314
Scope and Contents
Includes photocopy of genealogical research documents.
Dates:
1989.
‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion, their descendance and Successione’, written by Frederick Van Bossen, a Dane, and dedicated to the Officers of the State and others.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.5
Scope and Contents
Volume titled ‘Van Bossen’s genealogie’. The pedigree commences with Gathelus, and comes down to the birth of James, son to King James II, giving some of the chief cadent families of Stewart at the end.
Dates:
12 June 1688.
Sir Aeneas Macpherson, "The Loyall Dissuasive, or the Resolute Advyce of a Faithfull Kinsman".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7139
Dates:
1701.
Sketchbook of R M Ballantyne entitled "Chronicles of the R M B Family".
Item
Identifier: Acc.12640
Dates:
circa 1870.
Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.6.1.12
Scope and Contents
(i) `Inventar of the papers and chartours of the Stewarts of Hallrig and Raice and thair Genealogy proceeding from Stewart of Darnly who are descended from Robert Stewart Lord Tarboltone second son to Walter the 2ᵈ High Stewart of Scotland.` Seventeenth century (folio 1).(ii) Papers, in three late-eighteenth-century hands, on the Stewarts of Allanton and their cadets, all mostly derived from an account of the family written by Sir Archibald Steuart Denham of Westshield. In 1842...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
'Succinct account of the family of Calder 1773', being a history of the family of the Thanes of Calder or Cawdor and later of the Campbells of Cawdor down to the death in 1773 of Alexander, third son of John Campbell, 10th of Cawdor.
Item
Identifier: MS.9982
Dates:
1773.
"The Ancestry and Descendents of Alexander Stewart (1 Oct 1857-22 Oct 1938)", compiled and published by David Paul Jackson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11659
Dates:
1997.
The Clan Gregor Centre archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11713/1-85
Scope and Contents
Material concerning the history and genealogy of the McGregors, including printed items and a full set of the journal "The Quaich", 1989-1997.The arrangement and description of the papers from the Clan Gregor Centre was undertaken by Sheila McGregor on behalf of the Centre. The described papers represent the activities of a small number of people who collected and compiled them over many years, combining traditional knowledge with research to both preserve and extend information...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-1926, 1981-1999, undated.
The surname Mac Calman, by Dr Godfrey MacCalman.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13735
Scope and Contents
Quarto notebook, 27 p., paginated by the scribe, with an insert of a further two leaves tipped in at the back. Entitled by the scribe, p. 1, "The surname, Mac Calman". Title added on cover by a later hand: "The surname Mac Calman. By Dr. Godfrey MacCalman, 1803. Given me by his Grand Daughter Miss Augusta Murray Campbell of Lochnell now at Hill... House 10. October 1854. D McC."Contains the author`s thoughts on the meaning of the name of MacCalman, and history and historical...
Dates:
1803
Three documents, some in verse, concerning the families of Learmonth of Dairsie and Balcomie, Fife.
File
Identifier: Acc.10940
Dates:
circa 1620-1651.
Title page of family bible and genealogical papers of Brownlie family, emigrants to Australia.
File
Identifier: Acc.12978
Dates:
circa 1843.
Transcript, 1820, of the account of the genealogy of the clan Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.6.14
Dates:
Late 17th century.
Transcriptions, 2003, of the diary of Andrew McGeorge, 1799-1838, and "Some Account of the family of Mcgeorge", 1881.
File
Identifier: Acc.12265
Dates:
2003.
Transcripts of extracts concerning the Forrester family, taken from unpublished Protocol Books.
File
Identifier: Acc.11774
Dates:
1999.
Translation into Latin by Alexander Ross of ‘The genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.1.6
Dates:
1631.