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 820 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.33
Scope and Contents
An almanack for 1842 is printed inside the front cover.
Dates:
1844.
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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.34
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:
1844.
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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.35
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:
1844.
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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., ?1841.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.36
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:
?1841.
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.
Notebook of John Riddell, containing extracts and some notes, written for the most part in connexion with peerage cases on which Riddell was engaged., 1844.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.26.7.37
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:
1844.
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.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Notebooks and diaries of A E Borthwick, Mary S V Borthwick, and her mother Ann Pringle., 1887-1954, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10407-10469
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A E Borthwick (1871-1955), a son of William H Borthwick of Crookston, studied art in Edinburgh and Paris from 1890 to 1896, after which he enlisted in the ranks and helped to raise the Scottish Sharpshooters, 70th company of the XVIII Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. He served in the Boer and First World Wars, retiring from the army in 1919 as honorary Staff Captain. As a member of the Royal Academy he specialised in portraits and subjects of a religious genre, his best-known work being...
Dates:
1887-1954, undated.
Notebooks containing fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family from Alexander Dunlop's genealogical notes on Scottish families., [Before 1939.]
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9292-9295
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The abstracts were probably made for J G Dunlop when he was preparing ‘The Dunlops of Dunlop’, volume 2 (1939) of the ‘The Dunlop Papers’, 3 volumes (London, 1932-1953).
Dates:
[Before 1939.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical papers of the Dunlop family.
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Genealogical notes on Scottish families; with a selective index to the notes compiled by John Dunlop of Gairbraid, and fair copy abstracts from the notes of material concerning the Dunlop family.
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Fair copy abstracts of material concerning the Dunlop family and its connections from MSS.9274-9290: Genealogical notes on Scottish families.
Notebooks from the Riddell Collection., 1807-1852.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.26.3.1-26.7.37
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of printed books, 1718-1850 (Adv.MSS.25.8.1-25.8.42), and manuscripts, 1511-1857 (Adv.MSS.25.9.1-25.9.23), owned by Riddell, correspondence and papers (many incomplete) ?1799-1860, and undated, relating to peerages (Adv.MSS.26.1.1-26.1.29), to baronetcies, to landed families and to various related topics (Adv.MSS.26.2.1-26.2.23), and a large number of notebooks, circa 1805-1852, containing excerpts from the public records of Scotland, and other matter...
Dates:
1807-1852.
Notes and correspondence of and collected by Major-General Stewart A Lithgow on the genealogy of the Lithgow and other families., 1784-1909, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2545
Scope and Contents
The notes and correspondence concern: various families, 1894-1897, undated (folio 1); the genealogy and estate of Hector Lithgow, Commissary of Ordinance, Bengal, 1784, 1842-1886 (folio 56); and various branches of the Lithgow family, 1816, 1864-1897, 1909, undated (folio 78).
Dates:
1784-1909, undated.
Notes and correspondence of the Reverend Dr John Struthers, Minister of Prestonpans, with manuscripts collected by him., 1836-1886.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2119-2127
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1836-1886.
Notes and descriptions of the important features and places in the various counties and other administrative and jurisdictional areas of Scotland, compiled by Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.2.27
Scope and Contents
The volume is labelled on the spine ‘Balfour`s collections on the shires’, and is inscribed ‘Vol:3.’ in a seventeenth-century hand on folio 5.The main text is preceded by a contents list (folio 5). Almost all of the entries are undated, but appear to have been written at different times between about 1630 and about 1640, with later additions until at least 1650 (folio 94) and 1654 (folio 321). The entries record natural features such as rivers and glens, and...
Dates:
Circa 1630-circa1654.
Notes and drafts by Harry Pirie-Gordon of Buthlaw on the history of Dumbarton Castle, Celtic rulers of Strathclyde, and other topics in Highland history and genealogy.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.326
Dates:
[Mid 20th century.]
Notes and drafts of George Francis Stewart Elliot for 'The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto', and genealogical papers., [Circa 1700]-[circa 1857], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13095
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Notes 'To be used in revising Life of the first Sir Gilbert' (folio 1);
(ii) Draft of 'The First Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto' (folio 94);
(iii) Draft of a paper, 'Border Elliots', circa 1857 (folio 122);
(iv) Drafts of Appendix I in ‘The Border Elliots’ (folio 214);
(v) Miscellaneous genealogical papers, circa 1700-1797, undated, abstracted from the Minto Papers by George Francis Stewart Elliot, including a genealogical account of the Elliots of Lariston,...
Dates:
[Circa 1700]-[circa 1857], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of the Honourable George Francis Stewart Elliot (1822- 1901), 4th son of the 2nd Earl of Minto, barrister and Private Secretary to Lord John Russell.
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Antiquarian and genealogical papers, chiefly undated, of George Francis Stewart Elliot, including notes and drafts for 'The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto'.
Notes of births and deaths, 1662-1835, of members of a family named Cogan who lived in Ireland, Glasgow and Edinburgh, contained in a volume including printed works, 1633-1639.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.7.2.21
Scope and Contents
The notes are dispersed through the printed texts, which are:
(1) ‘The Holy Bible’ (London, 1638);
(2) ‘A Briefe Concordance’ (London, 1633); and,
(3) ‘The Whole Book of Psalmes’ (London, 1639).
A typed family tree made out from the notes has been pasted inside the front cover.
Dates:
1633-1639, 1662-1835.
‘Notes of genealogies, etc’ in Walter Macfarlane’s handwriting, chiefly regarding his own family, and the Earl of Lennox.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.10
Dates:
18th century.
Notes of Scottish genealogies by Matthew Crawfurd, Professor of history at Edinburgh University.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.6
Dates:
17th century.
Notes of the 'Lineage of the Matheson family' as given in the supplementary volume of 'Burke's Landed gentry'., 1848.
File
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 2(5)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
1848.
Notes on the Craig family of Glasgow, by Mr James R Anderson, Librarian of Baillie's Institution, Glasgow, with notes by James Glen, Glasgow, incorporated., Early 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.1030, folios 70-75
Dates:
Early 20th century.
Notes on the family of De Maria by John Stirton., 1920, or before.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.15(i), folios 1-4
Scope and Contents
The notes begin with John de Maria, who came to Scotland from Italy in 1756. John Stirton was related to the family of De Maria.
Dates:
1920, or before.
"Notes on the Park Family in New Zealand" of B Murchison, Christchurch.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11918
Dates:
circa 1999.
’Notices of families in Aberdeenshire of the name of Chalmers, from various registers’, compiled by John Stuart., Mid 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.15479
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
‘Origo et progressus familiae Gordoniorum de Huntly in Scotia’ by Robert Gordon of Straloch.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.23
Scope and Contents
Imperfect, the manuscript lacks the first 7 pages.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.6.19).
Dates:
17th century.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.18
Scope and Contents
Nicolson precedes the genealogical accounts of various Orkney families with a brief topographical description of the islands. He also includes copies of letters taken from Sir John Sinclair`s ‘Statistical Accounts’ of the Parish of Yell in Shetland, of Sir Hugh Dalrymple to Sir Laurence Dundas, 1775, and Reverend Andrew Dishington to Sir John Sinclair, 1791 (page 111). He concludes the collection with copies of a petition and letter to Lord Melbourne concerning a possible superannuation...
Dates:
1839.
Papers, 1321-1601, to and of the family of Murray of Falahill.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.11403
Scope and Contents
Includes translations of the papers, genealogical notes, genealogies of the families of Falahill and Philiphaugh, and a copy of a poem "The Song of Outlaw Murray", all mid 19th century.
Dates:
1321-1601 and mid 19th century.