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 […]

A degree of confusion exists in relation to the founder of this family, Charles Kinnear of Kinnear and Kinloch, and especially in relation to the identity of his wife and […]

I must admit to having known next to nothing about this family until I happened upon a number of their papers within a collection of documents I recently acquired which […]

MacKinnon of Corriechattan I am keen to establish contact with either the descendants of or else any person with direct knowledge of the following persons: Charles Downie Mackinnon Lachlan Dodgin […]

Continually keeping published editions up-to-date with on-going research and new findings is an impossible task. No sooner has a latest edition been released than a further trip to an archive yields […]

The Red Book of Clan Donnachaidh   The oldest written history of the chiefs of the Clan Donnachaidh was the ‘Red Book’ which, in the mid 1600s, was destroyed in […]

For those of us fortunate enough to have been born in this technological and scientific age the sheer extent of infant mortality in years gone by is immensely difficult if […]