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:
‘Grant manuscript.’
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).
Dates:
1494-1593, 17th century.
Heraldic and genealogical material in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) `Kings of Armes and Heraulds in England. 1628` (pages 1,17).(ii) Memorial of Margaret, Countess of Lennox (page 9). (iii) `De gubernatione et reformatione officiariorum armorum’ (page 54).(iv) `Series Regum Scottorum ab anno 1061 ad annum 1624` (page 59). A genealogy of the Scottish kings, based on ‘De origine, moribus et rebus gestis Scotorum’ by John Leslie, bishop of Ross (Rome, 1578), with...
Dates:
2nd quarter of 17th century.
"Historical Account of the Family Bruce of Earlshall Fifeshire".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7560
Dates:
1816.
Historical and genealogical notebook.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11639
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts from works of George Crawford, Sir James Dalrymple and Sir J Scott of Scotstorvet.
Dates:
circa 1709.
History of the family of Scott Moncrieff of Fossauray, by M M Stuart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8750
Dates:
1984.
Index of family names mentioned chiefly in Scottish chartularies, titled, 'Genealogical notices'.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.14
Dates:
18th century.
Jacobite relics comprising an engraved rose, a list of martyrs, a fragmentary family tree, and a supposed section of the plaid of Charles Edward Stuart.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14399
Dates:
1836.
Journal, 1840-1854, of James Gall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5745
Scope and Contents
With family Bible, containing genealogy, 1766-1825, of James Gall, and his descendants.
Dates:
1766-1854.
‘Laurus Crawfordiana, a historicall and genealogicall deduction of the several families of the sirname of Crawfurd, as well such are extinct as those which are yet extant, from the time of King David I till the present time’ By George Crawfurd.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.4
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Lecture notes, 1725, of James A Maxwell, taken at the Catholic College at Douai; with a manuscript genealogy, 19th century, of the Maxwell family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3872/1-4
Dates:
1725, 19th century.
Letters and papers, 1777-1778, 1795-1804, and undated, sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas`s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.6
Scope and Contents
The papers, which accompany the letters, consist of genealogical accounts of several of the landed families of Scotland, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Most of the letters that are addressed to individuals are to James Watson, who is described as `circulating library, stationer and bookseller` in the Edinburgh directories of the time. The genealogies of the families of Johnstone of Gallabank (folio 62) and of Leslie of Findrassie (folio 70) and the pedigree...
Dates:
1777-1804.
Letters of, to and concerning David Octavius Hill.
File
Identifier: MS.23636
Scope and Contents
Among the subjects covered are Hill`s role in the Royal Scottish Academy, developments in photography, and his role in producing `The Land of Burns`.Also included is the Diploma admitting Hill as ordinary fellow to the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts.Includes letters between Ian H Macdonald and Katherine Michaelson relating to the use of the letters for an exhibition, and an inventory of all items contained in the file.Five Letters of Ian H Macdonald to...
Dates:
1828-1899.
Letters, photographs and papers concerning the Malcolm and Douglas families.
File
Identifier: Acc.11800
Scope and Contents
Includes a genealogical record, 1882, of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family.
Dates:
circa 1800-1965.
Letters to Robert Beatson concerning his proposed work on the English peerage (see Adv.MS.33.5.9).
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.5.10
Scope and Contents
The letters are mainly from a variety of British peers and several include genealogical accounts of their families.
Dates:
1782, 1801-1804.
List of charters from the 'Registrum Magni Sigilli’ (Register of the Great Seal), and other notes by Walter Macfarlane.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.12
Dates:
18th century.
‘Lord Ochiltree’s collections’ of genealogical notes on the Scottish nobility.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.18
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (a.7.24).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century.
MacDougall genealogy in Gaelic, with 19th century transcript.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.9
Scope and Contents
Bottom half of folio sheet written circa 1625-1650 by Eoghan Mac Pháill, judging from the similarity of the hand to that of Adv.MS.72.1.34, page 41. The contents are as follows: (a) Conclusion of a tract dealing here with prognosis. Beginning (acephalous) ‘isin leis maille stranguria ⁊ re droch comarta eile’. (b) ‘Se(n)chus Cloinne Dubhuill’. Pedigree of Alasdair Mór, chief of MacDougall 1625-circa 1650. (c) Line (partly in Roman script)...
Dates:
[Circa 1625-circa 1650.]
Manuscript compiled or copied by John Sutherland, "Lineage of Sutherland - Lord Duffus".
Item
Identifier: Acc.7412
Dates:
1827.
Manuscript containing genealogies in Gaelic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.6
Scope and Contents
First layer (folios 1-6).The first layer contains Uí Néill pedigrees, versions corresponding to many of which may be found in the Book of Ballymote, folios 69-86. See also O’Brien, ‘Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae’, pages 160-180. The first layer of the manuscript is written in the following hands:1. Text. Chief hand of Adv.MS.72.1.28. Capitals here coloured red.2. Folios 1 verso (‘bro’), 4 verso (‘a’). Large. Cf. Adv.MS.72.1.10, folio 6...
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Manuscript containing Irish grammar written by Aodh Ó Dálaigh (Hugo Daly) for Paris Anderson, a student of Trinity College, Dublin.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is titled (folio 1 recto) ‘£3.0.0. Irish Grammar. 1734. Written by one Daly a Conaught Man for Paris Anderson, A.M.T.C.D. 1734’. The contents (text) are as follows.(i) ‘Aoibhin sin Eire ard’, 5 quatrains. (Folio 2 recto.)(ii) Version of Hugh MacCurtin’s ‘Irish Grammar’, chapters 1-7, beginning “Ablitir na tengan Gaoidhilge ann so sios ar ndiaidh go fóirleathan air gach modh, & gach foirim dar gnáth leis na Gaodhaluibh a scrobhadh. Agas...
Dates:
1734-1735.
Manuscript copy of the English ‘History of the Macdonalds’, ascribed by Donald Gregory to a Hugh Macdonald.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.12
Scope and Contents
The copy (watermarked 1829) is ascribed by Donald Gregory in 1836 (‘History of the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland’, page 10) to a Hugh Macdonald. Hand anonymous, probably that of a clerk. Gregory’s ascription to Hugh Macdonald may result from a misreading of Sir William MacLeod Bannatyne’s preface, in which ‘Austin’ (Hugh) in fact occurs twice although the words ‘Austin being himself’ resemble ‘written by himself’. Gregory had the history copied (watermarked 1827); the only...
Dates:
[1829, or after.]
Manuscript copy, written in a hand of the early seventeenth century, of ‘The historicall genealogie of the house of Seton’ by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.7.4
Dates:
1545.
Manuscript history of the family of Maitland of Eccles, down to 1740.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6049
Dates:
circa 1740-circa 1770.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.5
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text and notes, folios 1 verso-10 verso. A hand of a type more characteristic of medical manuscripts, cf. Adv.MS.72.1.12. Distinctive uncial 'r' and v-shaped 'u'. No decoration save some red on capitals, folios 5-10. From various additions in a similar hand, especially that at folio 6 verso, column b, line 41, it appears as if the scribe returned to annotate his work at a later point in time. Possibly in fact more than one hand:...
Dates:
?15th century.