Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories).
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Charts or lists showing lineage, especially those showing the ancestors of purebred animals.
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts, correspondence and other papers., 1640-19th century, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2936
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Account between George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, and his factor in respect of the rental of Holyroodhouse and New Abbey, 1662-1667. (Folio 1.)(ii) Correspondence of Sir James Livingston of Kilsyth (afterwards Viscount Kilsyth), chiefly on his private business, 1640-1661, preceded by an inventory, 1682. From the appearance of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's name on a leaf enclosed with these papers (folio 35), they appear to have been...
Dates:
1640-19th century, undated.
Antiquarian and genealogical papers, chiefly undated, of George Francis Stewart Elliot, including notes and drafts for 'The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto'. , [Circa 1700]-[circa 1857], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13095-13103
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Much of the material concerns George Francis Stewart Elliot's antiquarian and genealogical interests, and his book, ‘The Border Elliots and the Family of Minto’ (Edinburgh, 1897).
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.
Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
Item
Identifier: MS.3031
Scope and Contents
The book of recipes is continued by Anna, Lady Elcho’s daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (see her note on folio ii verso), Jean, Viscountess Maitland (see her references to the Countess of Lauderdale as her mother-in-law, folios 73 verso, 77), and others. See the notes and pedigree inserted by William McMath, 1879, who states that the volume came from Dunbar Castle (folios i verso, xii-xiii). The dates 1701 and 1735 occur at folios 70, 75 verso.The recipes are all medical,...
Dates:
1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, undated.
Charters, legal papers and pedigrees., 15th-19th centuries.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/180-197
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
15th-19th centuries.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
Circular pedigree showing the descent from Sir James Stewart of Kirkfield and Coltness (died 1681), compiled by Louisa Lillias Forbes, née Trotter., 1880.
Item
Identifier: MS.13472
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1880.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.6
Scope and Contents
The earliest section (folio 14) includes a number of mythological coats (for example, those of Cupid and the Nine Worthies) and some of members of the nobility and gentry from 1573 onwards. Many of the later additions are dated between 1630 and 1641. There are a few pedigrees and three indices to the compilation (folios i verso, 82 verso, and 86 verso). There is also a list of arms painters authorised in England (folio 88 verso), with a note `all theas in my life time kepte open shope and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-1664.
Copy, dated 1741, by Roderick Chalmers, Ross Herald, of `The descent and pedegree of the most noble and auntient house of the Lords of Sincleer` drawn up by Henry, Lord Sinclair in 1590.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.15.2.31
Scope and Contents
According to a statement by Chalmers (folio iv), the original manuscript was in the hands of James Pont in 1593. From him it passed to Joseph Stacey, Ross Herald, Henry Fraser, Ross Herald, and finally to Chalmers, who made this copy before restoring it to the Sinclair family. The original is now in the Lyon Office.Chalmers has continued the pedigree from 1590 to 1741. The arms are painted, with brief notes on their owners. Fuller notes and corrections have been added in a...
Dates:
1590-1741.
'Copy of original letters &c. &c. by Queen Mary, King James VI, &c. &c. to the Lairds of Barnbarroch &c. from 1559 to 1618', 1794.
File
Identifier: MS.3002
Scope and Contents
The copies of letters are preceded by an engraved table of the branches of the family of Vaux, Vaus, or Vans, 1815, pasted inside the front cover, and a list of members of the Barnbarroch family who have held public office (folio ii), and followed by a manuscript pedigree of that family to 1809 (folio 89).
Dates:
1559-1618.
Correspondence about the family of Christie, chiefly between the Reverend Dr Charles Rogers and Captain J E Christie, Governor of the Calton Jail,, 1876-1878, 1900.
File
Identifier: MS.167
Scope and Contents
Also included are pedigrees of the Christie family and newspaper-cuttings relating to Captain Christie, to whom the correspondence belonged.
Dates:
1876-1878, 1900.
Drafts and copies of material concerning the genealogical history of the Stuarts., 1788-1792, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.5403
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Drafts, 1788 and 1790, of a genealogical tree of the Stuarts of Castlemilk (folio 1);
(ii) Drafts and fair copy, 1789, of a genealogical history of the Stuarts of Darnley, Lennox and Aubigny (folio 55);
(iii) Drafts, 1790 and 1792, of parts 1-5 of a genealogical history of the Stuarts' (folio 109);
(iv) Fair copy of a 'Memorial on the pedigree of the Stuarts of Castlemilk' (folio 164).
Dates:
1788-1792, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Papers of Andrew Stuart, the second son of Archibald Stuart, of Torrance, Writer to the Signet.
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Various financial, legal and personal papers of Andrew Stuart.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith., 1812-1854.
File
Identifier: MS.8499
Scope and Contents
The extracted entries, which were made by a grandchild of John Smith, are always brief. They mainly record a fairly eventful social life, but his professional activities are also mentioned in passing.
A pedigree of the Smiths is also included, along with transcripts of two deeds relating to the family.
Dates:
1812-1854.
Excerpts from the diary of John Smith, sculptor and builder in Darnick, near Melrose, Roxburghshire; with a typed transcript of the diary.
File
Identifier: MSS.8499-8499A
Dates:
1812-1854.
Facsimile of pedigree of Swinton of that Ilk, by Captain George Swinton., 1927.
Item
Identifier: MS.350B
Forbes pedigrees., 15th-18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/184
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
15th-18th centuries.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Charters, legal papers and pedigrees.
Forbes pedigrees., 15th-18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/185
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
15th-18th centuries.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Charters, legal papers and pedigrees.
Forbes pedigrees., 15th-18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/186
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
15th-18th centuries.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Charters, legal papers and pedigrees.
Forbes pedigrees., 15th-18th centuries.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/187
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
15th-18th centuries.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis families.
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Forbes Family Papers.
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Charters, legal papers and pedigrees.
Further papers of William Walls.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents
The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.
Dates:
1845-1992.
Genealogical and legal papers.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.2.1.13
Scope and Contents
(i) Copy of `Appeal to the House of Lords, George Udny v. John Henry Allat or Udny and William Skinner: Supplemental Joint Appendix [list of interlocutors in the case and genealogical tree of the family of Udny of Udny]’, London, 1866. (Folios 1-11.)(ii) Printed list of witnesses in the trial of Thomas Hardy, indicted for High Treason, 1794. The names of the witnesses are annotated, e.g. `L.C.S.` [London Corresponding Society], `informer`, etc. (Folios 12-15.)(iii)...
Dates:
1794-1866.
Genealogical notes, undated, on the family of Maxtone of Cultoquhey, and including a printed pedigree, 1931, or after., 1st half of 20th century.
File
Identifier: MS.16418
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Correspondence of Thomas Graham is chiefly with his factor, Henry Burt, concerning his estate of Balgowan, but includes also some letters from eminent friends and acquaintances not included in MSS.3590-3645. There are also papers of Mrs M E Maxtone Graham concerning the publication of her book ‘The beautiful Mrs Graham’, and typescript material and correspondence concerning a projected book on Lord Lynedoch.
Dates:
1st half of 20th century.
‘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’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.3.3
Dates:
1736.
Genealogy of the family of Harry Robertson, Minister of Kiltearn., [Circa 1890.]
Item
Identifier: MS.19403
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates:
[Circa 1890.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Genealogy of the Macintoshes on the Isle of Skye, 2003 and undated
File
Identifier: Acc.14003/20
Scope and Contents
Print-outs of two genealogical works by Alistair M. MacIntosh:
'The Parson of Wattirnys: possible origins of MacIntoshes of Skye', undated.
'A genealogy of MacIntoshes in Skye. 20 genealogical charts spanning the 18th and 19th centuries', dated 2003. With accompanying correspondence.
Dates:
2003 and undated
Letters and papers of and concerning John Leyden.
File
Identifier: MS.971
Scope and Contents
The contents include: letters of John Leyden chiefly to William Erskine, 1797—1811, undated (folio 1); poems of Leyden, some apparently unpublished (folio 95); letters to Erskine and others regarding Leyden, written after his death, 1811-1826 (folio 120); and cuttings from Indian newspapers, 1811-1812 (folio 179). Also included are an account in Leyden's hand of the story of Duke Richard Sans Peur and the Company of Hellequin, apparently used by Scott in the essay ‘On the Fairies...
Dates:
1797-1826, undated.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
Series
Identifier: MSS.622-632
Scope and Contents
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
Dates:
1804-1857.