Some Old Families: A Contribution to the Genealogical History of Scotland, with an Appendix of Illustrative DocumentsThis important work of Scottish genealogy was originally published in 1890 in a limited edition of only one hundred privately circulated copies. The text is divided into eleven chapters, detailing the ancestry of eleven venerable Scottish families: the Allan family, the Dalrymple family of Waterside, the Halkerston family of Halkerston Beath, the Hardy family, the Liston family, the McCall family, the Orr family, the Ranken family of Colden, the Scott family of Thirlestane, the Wilkie family of Rathobyres and the Young family. For each family, the author presents a plethora of archival information including numerous illustrative documents, sixteen pedigree sheets, portraits, illustrations of seals and coat of arms, traditions, anecdotes, tombstone inscriptions and extensive biographical material. The original index has been retained for this edition. It is with great pleasure that Heritage Books, Inc. makes this text once again available to today's family researchers and scholars of Scottish history. |
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... died at Burntisland about the year 1732 , and was buried " beneath the blue marble ftone next the church " there , - a stone that cannot now be identified with any degree of certainty . He married Eupham Dempfter , daughter of William ...
... died at Edinburgh , on the 9th of December , 1758 , and was buried at the Greyfriars Churchyard . His will dated 18th September , 1758 , was registered in the Borough Court Books , four days after his decease , but litigation arose ...
... died here in 1805 , in the 80th year of his age , buried with his father in the Greyfriars Churchyard . His portrait is preserved , painted evidently when he was advanced in years . The original , with those of his father and ...
... died on the 13th October , 1820 , in her 59th year , having had four fons , enumerated below , befides daughters who died unmarried . JOHN , of whom presently . JAMES , b . 28th April , 1787 , Captain 23rd Na Infantry , died unmarried ...
... died unmarried in London 15th March , 1878 , and is buried at Highgate Cemetery . ANNA , born 4th July , 1808 , married to James Patterson , of Kelso , and secondly , to James Lillie , also of Kelfo , where he died childless , in May ...