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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 139 Collections and/or Records:

Genealogical table of the Fletchers of Saltoun., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.14728
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sir Andrew Fletcher of Innerpeffer purchased Saltoun and Glencorse in 1642; Glencorse was sold in 1647. The documents concern both the estate and individual members of the family.

Dates: 19th century.

Genealogical table of the Galliard family., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.15490
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 19th century.

Genealogical tables of the Morgan family., 19th century.

 File
Identifier: Ch.15499-15500
Scope and Contents From the Series:

These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 19th century.

Genealogical tree of the Bell family.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.2
Scope and Contents

The last entries show the children of the advocate, George Joseph Bell.

Dates: 19th century.

Genealogical tree of the family of Douglas of Tilliewhillie.

 Item
Identifier: Ch.A.237
Scope and Contents

The family of Douglas of Tilliewhillie are traced back, through an alleged 4th son of Lord William Douglas `le Hardie`, to the legendary Douglas of 767 A.D.

Dates: 18th century.

Genealogy and family documents of the Willison family., Circa 1757, 1855-1889, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: Circa 1757, 1855-1889, undated.

‘Grant manuscript.’

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)-(2)
Scope and Contents

The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. III. History” (F.R.186).

Dates: 1494-1593, 17th century.

‘Grant manuscript’, volume 1., 1494-1577.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.2.2 (1)
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.A few notes of accounts, 1494-1499, between the Burgh of Hadington and their fermorars. Decisions of the Court of Session (practicks), December 1550 – October 1577, collected chronologically by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington. Numbered up to 254 and continued to about 200 more.Extracts from the Books of Sederunt of the Court of Session, 1532-1568, imperfect at the beginning.'Tables of the kings of Scotland,...
Dates: 1494-1577.

Jacobite Papers.

 File
Identifier: Acc.3412
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, correspondence, printed pamphlets and poems, proclamations and newspaper cuttings.

Dates: 1645-1891.

Legal documents, notes and other papers., 1736-1815, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10229/119-124
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1736-1815, undated.

Letter of Jonathan Duncan to the 1st Earl of Minto concerning the affairs of Baroda, with an enclosed genealogical tree of the Gaekwar's family., 1807.

 File
Identifier: MS.11641
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1776-1777, for Roxburghshire, 1777-1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-1790, and for Helston, 1790-1795; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the...
Dates: 1807.

Letters, engraved portraits, printed biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly of generals and admirals who served under Napoleon.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.9310-9315
Scope and Contents

The letters, which were collected for their autograph interest, are chiefly on army administrative matters, but a few concern military conditions and contemporary events.

Dates: 1779-1884.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Kerr, William (?1761-1843) to Khan., 1807-1927.

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Identifier: MS.40648
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Kerr, William (?1761-1843).Letters, 1818-1819, of William Kerr to John Murray II. Folios 1-7.Folio 4-5. Copy of a petition, 1818, to the ‘Board of Commissioners for victualling His Majesty’s Navy’ on behalf of Dr William Brown, surgeon. Sent as an enclosure of letter, 1818, of William Kerr to John Murray II, folios 1-3.Kerr, William Williamson....
Dates: 1807-1927.

Lithographed copy of a genealogical table compiled by Sir William Fraser in 1840 of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, and his wife Anna Maria (née Makdougall), showing their descents and connexions in the female lines., 1840.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.25.8.18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Printed books owned by John Riddell, consisting of standard works of Scottish genealogical reference, volumes of printed session papers, collections of papers in peerage and other claims, and copies of some of Riddell`s published works.

Dates: 1840.