Genealogies.
Found in 820 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Manuscript draft, 1835 (folios 1-19), and printed copy (bearing numerous marginalia by John Riddell) of ‘The Case of Robert Barclay Allardice of Urie and Allardice claiming the title of Earl of Airth’ (no place of publication, no date) (folios 21-26), with a printed “Pedigree of the family of Robert Barclay Allardice, Esquire”, 1837, (folio 20)., 1835, 1837, and undated.
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).
Manuscript genealogy of the Maxwell family., 19th century.
The history of the Maxell family gives the names of Maxwell family who had been residents of the Douay College since the 16th century.
Manuscript history of the family of Maitland of Eccles, down to 1740.
Manuscript in Gaelic containing short religious, historical and mythological texts.
Manuscript of `A Genealogical Description of the Mathesons an Ancient Clan in Scotland and other Countries`, known as `The Iomaire manuscript`, by Roderick Matheson.
Manuscript of Geoffrey Keating’s ‘History of Ireland’ written by the scribe Sémus Ó Gribín.
Manuscript of ‘Historia abbatum monasterii a Kynlos’ by Joannes Ferrerius.
The contents are as follows.
(i) 'Historia Abbatum Cisterciencis familiæ Monasterii de Kynlos, cum aliis plerisque vetustis monumentis, Joanne Ferrerio Petemontano Authore’ etc. 1537 (folio 1);
(ii) Gestorum et totius vite Reverendi in Christo patris domini Thome Chrystalli Abbatis a Kynlos Compendium, a J Ferrerio Conscriptum, 1535 (folio 49).
Manuscript of James Somerville, "An Abridged Account of the Principal Branches of the Baronial House of Somerville".
‘Manuscript papers’ containing a collection of notes on Scottish genealogies, chiefly in the handwriting of George Crawfurd, and partly intended as material for a supplement or new edition of his ‘Peerage’.
Manuscripts from the Riddell Collection., 14th century-19th century.
Manuscripts, including collections of formal documents (but not single documents, for which see Ch.A245-A251), owned by Riddell, arranged as far as possible in chronological order.
Manuscripts of two apparently unpublished genealogical works by John Philp Wood.
Material, chiefly genealogical, collected by John Philp Wood.
Leaves found loose in the volumes have been placed in MS.1878, with some other loose papers, and references have been made to and from the volumes in which they were found.
Material concerning antiquarian matters chiefly collected by Sir Walter Scott., 17th century-early 19th century.
Much of the material was collected by Sir Walter Scott, partly for use in his works; some must have been accumulated by John Gibson Lockhart.
Material regarding the Setons and other families, compiled by Colonel R S Marshall.
Material relating to Sir Walter Scott.
The material includes transcripts of letters of Sir Walter Scott not printed in the Centenary Edition; transcripts of letters of his family and other correspondents; and extracts, correspondence, and notes on his ancestry and on various episodes in his life.
Materials for a Baronetage of Scotland, collected by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges.
'Maxwelliana, part ii; Campbelliana’, being genealogical notes on the families of Maxwell and Campbell, by Surgeon-Major George Ballingall Stuart., 19th century.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Memoir of Andrew Lumisden.', 1746-[circa 1836], undated.
'Memoir of Andrew Lumisden, Esqr., successively secretary to the son & grandson of James the IInd. In a letter by his nephew, Sir Thomas Andrew William Lumisden Strange, to his son, Lumisden Strange’., 1836.
'Memoirs of the family of Grant. Written in the year 1752', being a history and genealogy of the Grants of Grant and several of their principal cadets.
The text was compiled in 1752, but has additions up to 1773, and is written on paper watermarked 1811. The manuscript may originally have been compiled by William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, the account of whose life is unusually detailed (folio 48) and whose Hanoverian politics are reflected in the account of some eighteenth-century Grants (for example folio 43).
Memoranda (apparently incomplete) by John Riddell on early Scottish peerages and their constitution., Circa 1810.
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).
Memorial, 1830, excerpts from charters under the Great Seal and memoranda, undated, in the claim of John F M Erskine, Earl of Mar (succeeded 1828) to the Earldom of Kellie (folios 1-68), and draft petition with answers, 1836, and various papers, undated, in the claim to titles and dignities of George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly (folios 69-153)., 1830, 1836, and undated.
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).