Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories).
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Petitions, letters, and notes of Sir Walter Scott regarding his pedigree and arms, with other letters of Scott and letters, etc., of other persons, chiefly concerning the pedigree of various branches of the Scotts, 1753-1831, with relevant letters, 1866-1871., 1753-1871.
Photostats of pedigrees and genealogical tables of the O’Brien family, compiled by the Honourable Donough O'Brien.
Pedigree, 1937, showing the male and female descendants of Dermod and Donough, sons of Murrough O'Brien, the Tanist; 'Genealogical table of the descendants of Milesius . . . in which is shown the pedigree of the O'Brien family ... to 1938', 1938; 'The genealogical table of the O'Brien family', 1938, showing the descent of the 16th Baron Inchiquin from Noah.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Printed pedigrees, with annotations, of the Ashburner, Vincent and Boddington, and Sparks and Tickell families., 1872-1877.
Register of the nobility of England from 1066 to circa 1600, with genealogical tables.
‘A noble and memorable register of all estates of nobilite created or restored sithence the conquest, etc., and of such nobles as were when the land was conquered by the Normanes’ with pedigrees and heraldic blazons. It endeth about the fortieth yeare of Queen Elizabeth’.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.187) includes the reference: (W.2.17).
‘Royall genealogie of the Antient High Borne, and most famous Kings of Scotland, which was formerly called Albion, their descendance and Successione’, written by Frederick Van Bossen, a Dane, and dedicated to the Officers of the State and others.
Volume titled ‘Van Bossen’s genealogie’. The pedigree commences with Gathelus, and comes down to the birth of James, son to King James II, giving some of the chief cadent families of Stewart at the end.
'The pedegree of the house of Ferniherst, the cheife family of the name of Carre; with a tree therof and some other its branches. Writine by P. Hume de Polwart baronnet' (later 1st Earl of Marchmont)., 1661.
There are four versions of the pedigree in different hands (folios 5, 10, 12, 20) and notes on the genealogy and heraldry of the Kers.
Translation into Latin by Alexander Ross of ‘The genealogie and pedigree of the most ancient and noble family of the Earles of Sutherland’ by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, with a few corrections by James Balfour.
Typescript copy of the Inventory of Writs and Title-Deeds relating to the lands of Mount, Cupar, Fife, with genealogical and other notes and four pedigrees by Douglas Hamer, University of Sheffield, based on the original documents.
Typescript history of the Chapel House and neighbouring properties by Charles B Boog Watson, with plans of the site and buildings., 1928.
The history of the building was probably the basis for a lecture (see ‘The book of the Old Edinburgh Club’ xvii, Appendix pages 8-9).
Typescript of "The family of Sir Walter Scott's brother Tom" by William Moncreiffe, apparently unpublished.
Two unpublished letters, one of Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Crocker and the other of Ann Scott to her granddaughter Jessie, are reproduced in the text. The volume also includes a pedigree, from which one leaf is missing, showing the descendants of Sir Walter and Thomas Scott, and portraits of Thomas Scott, his wife and his mother, as well as other family photographs.