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 298 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Charles Grant, Vicomte de Vaux.
Series
Identifier: MSS.25161-25174
Scope and Contents
Charles Grant was born in Mauritius in 1749, was brought up in Normandy and went into the army. He was created Vicomte de Vaux in 1777, and Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Louis in 1790. As a result of the French Revolution he went into exile in 1790, first in Jersey and later in London in 1793. Here he put himself forward for an administrative post in Canada and tried to raise an emigre regiment to be commanded by himself.
His papers reflect his career and interests, and he made use of some...
Dates:
1676-1824, undated.
Papers of Dr Alasdair MacLean, historian and genealogist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12745
Dates:
1952-1999.
Papers of Duncan Glen.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11848
Scope and Contents
Papers concern Glen`s poetry, critical works on Hugh MacDiarmid, genealogy of the Glen family and Akros publications, including editorial correspondence.
Dates:
1958-1998.
Papers of Earle Monteith Macphail, J G S Macphail and other Macphail family papers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11818
Dates:
late 19th century to mid 20th century.
Papers of James Augustus Grant and of his family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17929-17948
Dates:
1765-1918, undated.
Papers of Keith William Murray.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9691
Scope and Contents
Includes genealogical articles, notes, and transcripts, 1892-1909 and undated, concerning the Murray family.
With drafts for the "Scots Peerage" of Sir James Balfour Paul, with letters pasted in, 1902-1917 and undated. Letter writers include:
James Balfour Paul, John Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, J Maitland Thomson and George Cokayne.
Dates:
1892-1917 and undated.
Papers of Samuel Robin Spark.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13443
Scope and Contents
Family and personal papers, circa 1900-2007, of Samuel Robin Spark. Comprising mainly letters of his mother, Muriel Spark, to her son and to her mother, Sarah Camberg. The correspondence includes some letters of Penelope Jardine; also letters of Martin Stannard, Muriel Spark`s biographer. In 1981, Robin Spark began keeping copies of his outgoing letters to his mother; these are filed into the chronological sequence. With family papers, correspondence and documents gathered by Robin Spark in...
Dates:
1961-2006.
Papers of Sir Robert Strange, the engraver, and his brother-in-law, Andrew Lumisden, secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, encompassing the period from the '45 Rebellion to the early 19th century, with some earlier family documents and later genealogical material.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14253-14269
Dates:
1655-1955, undated.
Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates:
1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.
Papers of the estate of Eaglescarnie, East Lothian.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.3.26-23.3.30
Scope and Contents
The Eaglescarnie estate was held by a younger branch of the Haliburtons until the middle of the 18th century, when it was acquired by Patrick Lindsay, Deputy Secretary at War, by his marriage with Margaret, only daughter of Thomas Haliburton. There are some 17th-century papers of the Haliburtons, but the majority relate to Patrick Lindsay and to his father, Patrick, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Member of Parliament for the City (see ‘The Scots Peerage’, pages 409-410). Several of the papers...
Dates:
1639-1789.
Papers of the families of Douglas and Palmer Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7570
Scope and Contents
Including a genealogical history of Mary Palmer Douglas, "Caver Barony and Family".
Dates:
1855-1951.
Papers of the family of Scott Plummer of Sunderland Hall.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11136
Dates:
17th century to 20th century.
Papers of the Reverend William Matheson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9711 Box 1(1)-Box 14(10)
Scope and Contents
Concern Gaelic language and literature, and the family and general history of Lewis and Harris, North and South Uist and Wester Ross.
Dates:
1707-1977.
Papers of the Reverend William Wilson, minister of St Paul’s Free Church, Dundee.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14220-14226
Scope and Contents
William Wilson, who was dispossessed at the Disruption in 1843, became Moderator of the Free Church in 1866, and moved to Edinburgh in 1877.
Dates:
1833-1939, undated.
Papers of the Sutherland Estates.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.314
Scope and Contents
This deposit comprises special items from the Sutherland archives as listed in the agreement of 19 March 1978.
Dates:
15th century-1814.
Papers relating to the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and to the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12804
Dates:
1495-1959.
Parchment genealogy of the family of Mackintosh, authenticated by the seal of the City of Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3904
Dates:
1771.
Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-76
Scope and Contents
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 1757-1994, undated.
Photocopies of papers concerning the paternal ancestry of Forbes Macgregor.
File
Identifier: Acc.5020
Dates:
20th century.
Photocopies of "The Goudie Family of Sandwick" and "The Sinclair Family of Setter, Sandwick" being genealogical notes compiled by John S Mouat, part of "The Genealogy of Sandwick, South Mainland of Shetland".
File
Identifier: Acc.11173
Dates:
1994.
Photocopy of a transcription of a genealogical account of the family of Maclean, by Hector Maclean of Gruline.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7609
Dates:
circa 1812.
Photocopy of excerpts from "Some of our Family Homes".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9190
Scope and Contents
Compilation of genealogical and geographical information concerning the Gordon family in Virginia.
Dates:
1981.
Photocopy of R Magnus Trail, "A Short Account of the Family of Trail of Blebo and their Descendents Copied from Authentic Family Documents". (1950)
Item
Identifier: Acc.7984
Scope and Contents
With an index compiled by Rosalie Trail Fuller.
Dates:
1950-1981.
Photographic copies of some family papers of Mr and Mrs Thomas Adams, Alloway, relating chiefly to Mrs Adams’ great-great-uncle, the Reverend Donald Stewart (1803-1831).
File
Identifier: MS.14952
Scope and Contents
The Reverend Donald Stewart, a native of the Loch Earn district of Perthshire, was a minister of St Mark’s, Demerara, from his arrival 29 April 1831 to his death seven months later. The contents are as follows.(i) Lease of Lednascriden, Balquhidder, 1776 (folio 1);(ii) Letter of Donald Stewart, Georgetown, 30 April 1831, to his father and brother, both John Stewart, Findglen, Loch Earn. A further letter, dated Georgetown, 2 May 1831, is cross-written on...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1776, 1831, undated