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 […]
Hay of Murie – Note
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 […]
Ramsay of Abbotshall – Note
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 […]
Protocol Book of Robert McRaith
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 […]
South Perthshire Stewarts
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 […]
Alexander Duncan, Provost of Dundee
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 […]
Maitland of Lauderdale
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 […]
Wilson of Sands Memorial of 1832
Although the identity of the author of this Memorial is not known, the repetition of the term “our grandfather” confirms them to have been a grandchild of William Wilson, Writer […]
Kinnear of Kinnear and Kinloch
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 […]
Boyd of Drum and Woodmiln
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 […]