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 […]

  Scottish History Society’s Third Series, Volume XXI, Miscellany (fifth volume) pages 196-290 contain the article: “Letters to John MacKenzie of Delvine, Advocate, one of the Principal Clerks of Session, […]

  The identity of the Alexander Duncan who was Provost of Dundee from 1681-85 has been the cause of some confusion which stems from a mis-identification with a namesake and […]

  Volume 5, pp.302-303 of the Scots Peerage (Balfour Paul edition) deals with John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale, and states “he is said to have had issue seven sons […]