The old castle of Midhope, in the barony of Abercorn, in Linlithgowshire, has recently gained a degree of popularity by virtue of featuring in the TV series Outlander as […]

My interest in the Chiefship of MacGillivray of Dunmaglass was kindled several years ago upon an approach for assistance in identifying the current heir male. Not having undertaken any research, […]

  Following the death without issue of John Mackinnon of Mackinnon in 1808, a petition was lodged at the Lyon Court by which the petitioner, William Alexander Mackinnon, M.P., successfully claimed […]

  The succession of the Chiefs of Keppoch has long been a challenge to the genealogist and it appears that the matter is not yet satisfactorily settled. The traditional genealogy […]

  The MacDonalds of Kenknock and Garth are traditionally said to descend from MacDonnell of Keppoch via the Auchnacoichean stirpes. This relationship is proved by the Sasine in favour of […]

A commonly accepted point of genealogy is that Sir John Hay of Murie was the son of George Hay in Murie, second son of Peter Hay of Megginch and his […]

The confusion which surrounds the precise relationship of Mr. Andrew Ramsay who succeeded to the lands of Abbotshall on the death of Sir Andrew Ramsay, Baronet, of Abbotshall, in 1709 […]

  NRS NP1/56 – Protocol Book of Robert McRaith Robert McRaith trained under Mr William Stewart and operated as a notary within the vicinity of Dunkeld from his admission in […]

Note: This page is a conduit for me to make abstracts of documents I view which relate to various as yet unidentified Stewarts in the south Perthshire/Lochearn/Balquhidder vicinity available to […]

Update: Now sold. I recently acquired this document as part of a collection of writs relating to the lands of Kinloch, in Fife. Quite why it ended up in that […]