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:
Microfilm of genealogical material, 1st half of 18th century, collected by George Crawfurd; and, a history, 1545, of the house of Seton by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.12
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogical material, 1st half of 18th century, collected by George Crawfurd (Adv.MS.34.3.9); Mackenzie's Genealogical Collections
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, 1545 (Adv.MS.34.7.4).
Dates:
1545, 1st half of 18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.13
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1644-1775, of the Crawfurd family of Jordanhill (Adv.MS.31.1.8);Copies of two accounts, 1554, 1744, of the family of Dunbar. (Adv.MS.32.3.2);“Genealogical Collections, concerning the Sir-name of Baird, and the family’s of Auchmedden, Newbyth, and Saughtonhall in particular. With copy’s of old Letters and Paper’s worth preserving, and account of several Transactions in this Country, during the Two...
Dates:
1644-1775.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.14
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, transcribed by Alexander Munro, Master of the Musick School at Tain’, 1736 (Adv.MS.34.3.3);
Genealogical material, 1660-1749, collected by Robert Mylne, chiefly in his own hand (Adv.MS.34.6.12); ‘History of the most noble and illustrious family of the Frasers, particularly of the illustrious family of Lovat Chief and...
Dates:
17th century-1749.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.16
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne from the compilation by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (see Adv.MS.34.3.19) copied from a manuscript of 1685 or later (Adv.MS.34.6.8);
Indexes and transcripts, early 18th century, by Robert Mylne, the antiquary (Adv.MS.34.6.9);
Genealogical collections, [circa 1680]-18th century (Adv.MS.34.6.19).
Dates:
[Circa 1680]-18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.17
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Indexes and transcripts, early 18th century, by Robert Mylne, the antiquary. (Adv.MS.34.6.9);
Macfarlane's Genealogical Collections (Adv.MS.35.4.8).
Dates:
Early 18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.19
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Genealogical collections’, containing notes, late 17th century-early 18th century, on Scottish genealogies, with lists of Officers of State, Knights, Baronets, etc., in the handwriting of Alexander Nisbet (Adv.MS.34.3.5);Letters and papers, [1777-1778, 1795-1804], sent to the publishers of Sir Robert Douglas’s ‘The Baronage of Scotland’ (Adv.MS.34.3.6);
‘Crawford’s MSS Baronage’, a large collection of notices, 1st half of 18th century, of...
Dates:
[1660-1804.]
Microfilm of genealogical material on Scottish families and the Royal Family of Great Britain and Ireland.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Genealogie of noble families of Scotland’, volume ii, 1693, by William Dunlop (Adv.MS.34.3.7);‘Lord Ochiltree’s collections’ of genealogical notes on the Scottish nobility, 1st half of 17th century (Adv.MS.34.3.18); Index, 18th century, of family names mentioned chiefly in Scottish chartularies, titled, 'Genealogical notices'. (Adv.MS.34.6.14);‘Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Present Royal Family of Great...
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Microfilm of genealogical material on the Scottish and English nobility.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.24
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Genealogies, 1st half of 17th century, of the nobility of Scotland in the handwriting of Sir James Balfour (Adv.MS.33.2.41);
Manuscript material, [circa 1802-1803], for a proposed publication on the English Peerage by Robert Beatson, Doctor of Laws, compiler and miscellaneous writer (1742-1818) (Adv.MS.33.5.9).
Dates:
1st half of 17th century-[circa 1803].
Microfilm of heraldic and genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.26
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Breviat of the genealogie of the honourable surname of the Lesleyes, Earls of Rothes, sinc ther first arrivall in Scotland to thir dayes, collected out of ancient evidences, manuscripts and histories of the tymes, togither with some of ther cadents’, 17th century, attributed to Sir James Balfour of Denmill, Lyon (Adv.MS.17.2.4); Gordons of Craichlaw (Adv.MS.27.5.28);Letters, 1618-1712, to members of the Oswald family of Fingaltoun. Some...
Dates:
Late 16th century- early 19th century.
Microfilm of history of the family of Burd of Ford and Whitewall compiled by Andrew Thomson from papers of the family of Reddie.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1999
Dates:
1827.
Microfilm of ‘Notes of genealogies, etc’, in Walter Macfarlane’s handwriting, chiefly regarding his own family, and the Earl of Lennox.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1111
Dates:
18th century.
Microfilm of Orkney genealogies and anecdotes ‘collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive’.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.863
Dates:
1839.
Microfilm of Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.20
Dates:
17th century-1841.
Microfilm of Scottish genealogical material.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.21
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Pedigrees, 1828, or after, of families of Scottish baronets (Adv.MS.15.1.21);Papers, ? 1799-?1812, of George Chalmers, consisting of lists of and references to manuscripts and documents relating to Scotland held in various libraries, mostly in London. (Adv.MS.15.1.22);Genealogical tree, 19th century, of the Bell family (Adv.MS.32.7.2);History, ?19th century, of the Argyle family (Adv.MS.34.5.22);‘Blazoning of the...
Dates:
1672-19th century.
Microfilm of Stewart genealogies: papers on various families of Stewart collected by, and with some notes of, George Chalmers.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1091
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.654
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, 17th-18th century, of bardic fragments, containing a strong element of MacMhuirich poetry (Adv.MS.72.2.2);
Donald Smith’s Irish miscellany, [circa 1798] (Adv.MS.72.3.2);
Part of a Gaelic grammatical treatise, 17th century, (written in the traditional character) giving the paradigms of a number of nouns and verbs.(MS.1745).
Dates:
17th century-[circa 1798].
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Microfilm of volume containing notes, copies and excerpts from manuscripts and documents, together with a few excerpts from printed books, collected between about 1709 (folio 15) and about 1717 (folio 230 verso), many of the entries, which include a number of genealogies, relating to persons, families and places in Fife.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.285-286
Dates:
[Circa 1709-circa 1717.]
Miscellaneous and somewhat confused collection of papers consisting mostly of genealogical notes and extracts by the antiquary Walter Macfarlane of Macfarlane relating to a number of Scottish families. In addition there are numerous writings by Macfarlane on other topics, and notes and extracts in other hands.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.1.12
Scope and Contents
The dated items were written between 1748 and 1754: most are undated but are doubtless contemporary, apart from a legal opinion 1636 (folio 62) and some genealogical notes 1718 (folio 142).
Dates:
1748-1754.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.28.3.12
Scope and Contents
The principal works are:(i) Copy of ‘Genealogical Account of the Family of Maclean from its first settlement in the Island of Mull and parts adjacent’, undated (folio 2). An earlier version, dated 1716, which corresponds more or less with folios 2-10 of the present manuscript, appears among Walter Macfarlane`s ‘Genealogical Collections’, Adv.MS.35.4.8, volume I, page 175.(ii) Descriptions of several Western Isles (Lewis, Skye, Iona, Tiree etc.) by various authors,...
Dates:
1532-18th century, and undated.
Miscellaneous Gaelic papers in various hands, including that of William Forbes Skene.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.15
Dates:
19th century.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.19
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Printed prospectus of the Sanitary Protection Association of Edinburgh, late 19th century. (Folio 1.)(ii) Printed list of members, with subscriptions, of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries (Konungliga Norraena Fornfraeda-Felag), 1849, in Icelandic. There are also an extract from the constitution of the Society (in French), a note on the subscriptions (in Danish), and a list of the books published by the Society....
Dates:
1561, 17th century-late 19th century.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.17
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Notes of decisions of the Court of Session, 1714-1721. (Folio 1.)(ii) Copies, early 18th century, of letters of and to George Buchanan, 1573-1581, and undated, with notes on others of his letters, mostly in Thomas Ruddiman`s hand; these are Epistolae XXVII, XV, XII, XXXI, XXIV, XL, XXXVII in Ruddiman`s edition of Buchanan`s Works, and Ruddiman`s introductory notes to Epistolae XI, XVI, VIII, XII, XX, XXVIII, XXXI, XXXIV,...
Dates:
17th century-1912.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.7
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.