Genealogies.
Found in 820 Collections and/or Records:
Copy, 1786, of `A Genealogical account of the MacRas` by John MacRa, minister of Dingwall.
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.
The original compilation was probably made in 1672 (see Adv.MSS.32.6.1, folio 154 and 34.3.14, folio 42) and is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. However, an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it.
Copy, eighteenth century, of 'The Genealogie off the Mackenzies preceeding the year 1661. Written in the year 1669. By a Person of Quality’.
This copy of the well-known genealogy in 1732 belonged to a John Matheson (folio i) and had probably been written by him about the same time. Although many leaves have been cut out at the end, the copy is almost complete. It includes a poem entitled ‘Arbuthnet on Sr. George Mackenzie off Rosehaugh’, beginning:
“Well then since the Relentless doom is spoke
And there is no mortall power can ward the Stroak
Scotland must ruin, it’s the Almighties will” (folios 73-74).
Copy made by John Riddell, on paper watermarked 1809, of the `Copy Search of Charters, Diplomas, andc in favours of the Peers of Scotland containing the Charts of Dignities and Series of Heirs` (folio 7), and of the appendix (folio 162) and index (folio 183) thereto in Adv.MS.34.3.20., Early 13th-early 18th century, ?1809-?1842.
Copy, made in the second half of the sixteenth century, of the Hamilton Armorial.
Copy of Alexander MacKain, "Badenoch: It`s History, Clans and Place Names", with corrections and annotations by the author.
Copy of ‘Claim ... of George [Pretyman Tolmine,] Lord Bishop of Winchester as nearest heir-male in general of Sir Thomas Pretyman of Greensfarme, Baronet of Nova Scotia’ (1823)., 1823.
Press-cuttings relating to the Innes of Stow Succession Case are pasted to leaves bound in at the end of the volume.
Copy of John G Burns, "The Burne, Burn, or Burns Family" (1956).
With additional notes, 1980 and 1986.
Copy of Joseph Bain, "The Stirlings of Craigbernard and Glorat" (Edinburgh, 1883).
With letter, 1885, of Bain to Alan, Lord Cathcart inserted.
Copy of the first part of a history of the houses of the Lords and Earls of Douglas (the Black Douglases) and of the Earls of Angus (the Red Douglases) by David Hume of Godscroft.
Copy of the ‘Memoirs’ of Walter Pringle of Greenknowe, the covenanter, with two genealogical manuscripts, concerning respectively the Clan Chattan and the Drummond family in Madeira.
Correspondence, 1871-1891, undated, and papers, 1872-1889, undated, concerning James Augustus Grant's genealogical researches., 1871-1891, undated.
The correspondence begins on folio 1, and the papers on folio 74. Included are notes and histories by James Augustus Grant amd others, and the results of searches in various records, and copies of documents.
Correspondence and documents concerning the families of Thomas Smith, Professor of Evangelistic Theology at New College, Edinburgh, and John Smith, tenant in Libberton, Lanarkshire.
The families of Thomas and John Smith were related by marriage and an outline genealogy is provided (MS.7185, folio i.).
Correspondence and genealogical accounts of and concerning William Nassau Elliot of Wells., 1692-late 18th century.
Correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Forrester family.
Correspondence and papers chiefly of and concerning the family of Dr Angus Macdonald., 1744-1825, undated.
Included are letters of Angus Macdonald to his father, Angus Macdonald of Gellovie (succeeded 1744), letters of the Chevalier de Johnstone and his son concerning the Merkland of Moffat to Dr Angus Macdonald, letters of Christian Dundas and her brother, Henry (later 1st Viscount Melville), to Anne Ord, letters of Walter Boyd, the financier, Sir Walter Farquhar, the physician, and Charles Butler, the Catholic leader, to Dr Angus Macdonald, and genealogical and devotional papers.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
Correspondence and papers concerning Chalmers family history and genealogy., 1840-1849.
Correspondence and papers concerning Maclean families, collected by Dr James Maclean of Glensanda, Younger.
Correspondence and papers concerning the genealogy of the families of Henderson of Fordell and Henderson of Hallyards., 1840-1847, and undated.
Correspondence and papers concerning various peerages on which James Maidment conducted genealogical research.
Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection., 1607-1859, and undated.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).