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Duplicated typescript material consisting of genealogical studies of branches of the Forrester family.
Fair copy of `Diplomatum veterum collectio`, being Richard Augustine Hay`s transcripts of charters and other formal documents contained in cartularies of mediaeval Scottish religious houses and the archives of the city of Edinburgh.
The copy was probably begun in 1696 (the date quoted on the title page) and not completed until 1701 or later (34.1.10(iii), folio 294 verso), made apparently by a copyist from the transcripts made by Hay when he was in Scotland between 1686 and 1689.
Genealogical collections.
`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 last Centurys. Vol. 1`, by William Baird of Auchmedden.
There is a list of contents at page 189.
The volume was originally part (Inv. VIII) of the Rose Collection, Adv.MSS.49.7.1-49.7.20.
'Genealogie of the family of Achinbreck' (Campbell): a typewritten copy of a manuscript, 1741, in Adv.MS.34.6.19 (Genealogical collections), with autograph notes and corrections by Herbert Campbell, Cyprus, circa 1932.
Genealogies and other papers of Sir James Balfour.
A volume titled ‘Balfour’s Genealogies’, containing:
1. A copy of ‘Genealogies of the Scottish nobility’ (Adv.MS.33.2.39).
2. Commission for the valuation of teinds, and proceedings of the commissioners, 1627-1643.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (A.4.25).
Genealogies of Scottish families.
Genealogies of Scottish families, copied by Robert Mylne.
Heraldic and genealogical material in the hand of Sir James Balfour.
Letters and papers of William Strang Petrie, calling himself William Henry Augustus Fitzstrathern, 'law genealogist'.
These papers are in continuation of MS.535.
The papers relate chiefly to claims to estates, especially that of Innes of Stow.
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.
Material collected by Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton, Lyon King of Arms, supplementary to the work of his father, Archibald Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, ‘The Swintons of that Ilk and their Cadets’.
Microfilm of collection of papers of Mark Alexander Boyd, including a few of members of his family.
Microfilm of genealogical and heraldic material.
Microfilm of genealogical material.
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.
Miscellaneous collection of items of various dates transcribed by George Paton, the antiquary, circa 1790.
Miscellaneous manuscript and a few printed items.
Miscellaneous notes, letters and other items.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
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.
Orkney genealogies and anecdotes `collected by Robert Nicolson who served as Sheriff Substitute of Orkney from 1793 to 1814 inclusive`.
Papers, chiefly relating to lands and families of Morayshire, Banffshire, and Aberdeenshire, collected by William Rose, in Montcoffer, the genealogist.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.