Genealogical tables. Genealogies.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents representing the lineage of a person or persons in tabular or diagrammatic form.
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
Charters relating to members of the Ellice family., 1804-1873, undated.
Series
Identifier: Ch.12711-12751
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers relate to the various activities in which members of the family were involved. An inventory of these charters is available.
Dates:
1804-1873, undated.
‘Collections relative to the affairs of Scotland. Written by George Chalmers. Volume second'., 1748-1753.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.4B
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These volumes concern the local politics of Ross and Cromarty and Sutherland, the claims of the Earl of Sutherland on account of his exertions in opposing the Rebels, the means by which Sir John Gordon of Invergordon obtained the place of Secretary to the Principality, many documents concerning the Principality and Crown rents, and other matters apparently suggested to the writer by his connexion with Sir John Gordon.In both volumes, mixed up with private or local &...
Dates:
1748-1753.
Copies by Robert Mylne of birth-brieves and diplomas conferring titles., 1610-1696.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.3
Scope and Contents
Many of the items concern Scots who had gone abroad. The contents list (folio iii verso) and the last entry are in a different hand.
Dates:
1610-1696.
Correspondence and papers of and relating to Sir George Buchanan FRS and Sir George Seaton Buchanan., 1847-1936.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.9446/154-168
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).
Dates:
1847-1936.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.
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Correspondence and papers of the Buchanan family, including Lilian Adam Smith, née Buchanan, her father Sir George Buchanan FRS, and her brother Sir George Seaton Buchanan.
Correspondence of various members of the Brown family., 1862-1880, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.3262
Scope and Contents
At the end of the volume are cuttings from the ‘West India Committee Circular’, 1927 and 1933, relating to Major-General John Brown, and portraits and photographs of members of the Brown family. Also included is a lock of horse hair from the tail of 'Alma', the horse ridden by George Brown in to the Battle of Alma, 21 September 1854.
Dates:
1862-1880, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Letters and papers of the Brown family, Linkwood, with some of the family of William Leslie, Minister of Lhanbryde.
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Correspondence, chiefly of George Brown, Provost of Elgin, Major-General John Brown, Regional Support Command, General Sir George Brown, and Peter Brown, Linkwood.
Diplomas and plans of A E Borthwick and family., 1791-1952.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10489-10491
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:
1791-1952.
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.
Drawing of a genealogical tree of the family of Hay of Yester., [Circa 1688.]
Item
Identifier: MS.7113
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The collection consists largely of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century correspondence. The chief correspondents are the members of the family most active in public life, and their letters are on the whole more concerned with public than with personal affairs, though there is some discussion of family matters in the seventeenth-century letters. The most important and extensive correspondence is that of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, which dates from 1660 to 1697, and covers most of his...
Dates:
[Circa 1688.]
‘Family memoranda’, consisting of genealogical notes, tables and press cuttings of the Richards family, probably compiled by Anne Richards., 1887-1889.
File
Identifier: MS.20396
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
1887-1889.
'Family tree. Arranged by A D Fleming. Kelso & West Linton. 1944'., 1944.
File
Identifier: Acc.8685/11
Family tree of the Lithgows of Drygrange, by Major-General Stewart A Lithgow., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.2554
Family trees, labelled 'Niccolo', containing family trees of: Niccolo; Semple; Euphemia; and Adorne., Undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.12135/670
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Includes research notes, typescripts and proofs of novels, correspondence, and papers concerning her involvement in cultural and business organisations.This archive includes papers relating to the following published works:'Games of kings' (1961)"Queens' play" (1964)'The disorderly knights' (1966)'Dolly and the singing bird' (1968)'Pawn in frankincense' (1969)'Dolly and the cookie bird' (1970)'The...
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett.
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Further literary and personal papers of Dorothy Dunnett, including notebooks, photographs, typescripts, reviews, press cuttings, correspondence and related papers, mostly concerning historical research.
'Genealogical account of the Traills of Orkney' (Kirkwall, 1883) by William Traill of Woodwick, Physician, Kirkwall, with manuscript notes., 1883.
Item
Identifier: MS.19405
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:
1883.
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.
Genealogical material concerning the Geddes family., [Circa 1900]-1935, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.10607
Scope and Contents
The material includes typescripts of a family tree with brief outlines of the lives of various members of the Geddes and Stivenson families.
Dates:
[Circa 1900]-1935, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, lectures, notes and other papers of and concerning Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932).
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes.
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Genealogical material concerning the Geddes family, circa 1900-1935, undated; appreciations of Patrick Geddes and bibliographical notes, 1913-1954, undated; and material concerning the Eastern Colonial Association, 1897-1898.
Genealogical material copied in 1849., 1666-1824, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.15927
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) “A genealogical account of the MacRa's , as written originally by Mr John MacRa … who died in the year of our Lord 1704, transcribed and continued by Farquhar MacRa of Inverinate in the year 1786”, taken from the transcript by Sir John MacRa of Ardintoul. See ‘History of the Clan Macrae’ by Alexander Macrae , page 12. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Incomplete history of the Campbells of Craignish copied in another hand and inserted. (Folio 37.)
(iii) Extracts from a history...
Dates:
1666-1824, undated.
Genealogical notes and tables, 16th-19th centuries, of the Richards and Ashburner families probably compiled, 19th century, by Reginald S Beddington, Anne Richards and her brothers George Ashburner and Walter Ashburner., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.20395 (Part 1)-(Part 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
19th century.
Genealogical notes and tables of the Richards and Ashburner families., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20395 (Part 2)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
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Genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards and Ashburner families.
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Genealogical notes and tables, 16th-19th centuries, of the Richards and Ashburner families probably compiled, 19th century, by Reginald S Beddington, Anne Richards and her brothers George Ashburner and Walter Ashburner.
Genealogical notes and tables of the Richards family., 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.20395 (Part 1)
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
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Genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards and Ashburner families.
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Genealogical notes and tables, 16th-19th centuries, of the Richards and Ashburner families probably compiled, 19th century, by Reginald S Beddington, Anne Richards and her brothers George Ashburner and Walter Ashburner.
Genealogical notes and trees, chiefly concerning Fletchers, of Saltoun and in Cumberland; some others are by Sir George Fletcher of Restennet., 17th century-19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17858
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Genealogical papers of the Family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Genealogical notes, together with a family tree, concerning the descendants, among them Jessy Harden, of John Allan in Gogar., [?1945.]
File
Identifier: MS.8870 (1)
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Dates:
[?1945.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Drawings and journals chiefly of John Harden, a landowner from Tipperary and an accomplished amateur water-colourist, and of his wife Jessy, the daughter of Robert Allan, the Edinburgh banker, and an assiduous diarist.
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Miscellaneous items relating to Jessy Harden and her family.
Genealogical paper on the family of Bruce of Airth., Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
File
Identifier: MS.15982
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Most of the material is printed, with annotations by William Brue Armstrong.
Dates:
Mid 19th century-[before 1892.]
Genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards and Ashburner families., 19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20395-20398
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The Richards family of Horndean in Hampshire began its connection with America in the early 19th century when John Richards opened a business in Boston, Massachusetts. Although his son, Francis Richards, established a manufacturing business in Gardiner, Maine, the family retained strong European ties. The constant coming and going across the Atlantic gives the collection a very cosmopolitan outlook enhanced by the marriage in 1878 of Francis Gardiner Richards to Anne Ashburner whose family...
Dates:
19th century.
Genealogical papers of the Family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 17th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17858-17860
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Genealogical table of the Brown family., [Circa 1938.]
Item
Identifier: MS.2878
Genealogical table of the descendants of Hugh Gordon of Carroll., 1905, 1907, undated.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15347
Scope and Contents
Revised 1905 and 1907.
Dates:
1905, 1907, undated.