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BACK BEW.STI 1733-1859 C
Single letter and small sheet of notes.

BADEN see ANHALT

BAILLIE MLN.ELN.LNK 1685-1863 T C
Some mention of the LAMMINGTON family. BMD & Census notes.

BAILLIE see NAIRN. WRIGHT 1

BAIN see BAYNE. KELLY

BAIRD FIF.MLN 1618-1816 C
Maj Gen. Joseph Baird. Press cutting. Dysart 1618.

BAIRD see MOIR. STRUTHERS. WAUGH

BAKER see MURPHY

BALD FIF.CLK 1670-1998 T C Many
Biographical sketches of members of this family. Many photocopy extracts from various newspapers. 'An Enterprising Family: The Balds of Alloa', by Isabel Grant Stewart. Also mentioned: AITKEN, FIF, 1665-1716; DIXON, CLK, 1776-1851; FENWICK, FIF, 1836-1886; HARVEY, CLK, 1807-1998; MAXTON, CLK, 1766-1851; SHARP, PER, 1800-1884.

BALFOUR FIF.MLN.SC 1066-1990 T C Many
Few notes on the Beatons or Bethunes. Typescript extract from A.H.Millar's 'Fife, pictorial and Historical - Peoples, burghs, castles, mansions', 1892. A collection of papers touching on the family of Balfour of Braidwood, with various photocopies of documents connected with an America branch of the family.

BALFOUR se BALFOUR-MELVILLE. MOIR

BALL see MACADAM 2.

BALLANTYNE USA.AUST.MLN 1710-1979 T
Booklet on early Ballantynes - mostly American. Tree with people in Portsmouth and emigrating to USA and Australia. Births in Edinburgh 1805-1812.

BALLINGALL RFW 1340-1724 T 2 page
A few notes, mainly from Black's Surnames. Family tree of the family originating in Perth c.1740. See also FLEMING.

BALMAIN PER.FIF 1750-1900 31 pages
Typescript record of the family compiled 1894-1895 by Robert Balmain.

BALVAIRD see JOHNSTON 9

BANKHEAD WIG.AYR.USA 1721-1970 C 3 pages

BANNERMAN NZ. 1853 C 2 pages

BANNERMAN see BLACKBURN

BANNINGAN LKS.IRL.DNB. 1844-c.1900 14 pages
OPR extracts and census material. Also mentioned BENNIE

BARBER see McQUEEN. PASFIELD

BARBOUR see STEEL(E) 3

BARCLAY 1 WIG.FIF.WLN 1737-1743 T C
B. Family of Hedderwick. Also mentioned NESS.

BARCLAY 2 ABDKCD. 1225-1995 12 pages
Barclay of Gartly, Mathers

BARCLAY see INGRAM. LINNIE

BARDER see WIGHT

BARKER MLN.CAN c1870-1982 5 pages
Family group sheet and copy of Barker Family Newsletter, December 1990

BAROES see BARWISE

BARON see SETON

BARR AYR. 1779-1910 30 pages
Extracts from OPR and census material. Pedigree chart. Also mentioned SHIRKEY. SINCLAIR.

BARR see HAMILTON 1. McGILL.

BARRAS see BARWISE

BARRETT see THURSTON

BARRIE AYR 1767-c1900 T C

BARTHOLOMEW see LESLIE 2

BARTLETT South London 1824-1993 T 1 page

BARTLETT see LUCAS

BARTON Airth c.1513 1 page
Small scrap of paper with a few notes.

BARTON see MACADAM 2.

BARWISE CBD 1274-1822 T
Extensive birth extracts from parish registers.

BARWISE CBD 1274-1822 T see ARMSTRONG. BELL

BASKERVILLE 1194-1700 LT 1 page
The family of Baskerville of Eardsley.

BATH see GRAHAM 1

BATHGATE ELN. 1823-1971 1 page
Pedigree chart mentioning: EDDINGTON.NORRIE. ZIMMERMAN

BATHGATE see MATHESON 2

BATTISON RFW 1824-1889
Also mentioned ARROL.

BAUCHOPE see BUCHANAN 2

BAXTER ABD 1838-1891
Large collection of transcripts from the OPR, and some census material.

BAXTER see BRUCE. FERGUSON 5

BAYLEY see MOIR

BAYNE/BAIN LNK. ROC 1513-1991
BMD. Census. Extract from 'Familia', South African journal, on Andrew Geddes Bain, 1979-2864, and his descendants. Also mentioned CATHLES (In Angus). Large family tree showing the descent of BAIN/BAYNE of Tulloch, Dingwall.

BEALL USA.FIF. 1627-1991
Wide selection of material relating to the family of Beall contained in photocopies of various parts of 'The Beall News'.

BEARD see NAISMITH

BEASLEY MDX 1900-1992 T 1 page

BEATH ARL? 1740 1/2 page

BEATON ABD.BAN.MLN 1600-1970 C
Extracts from wills, census and OPR. Letters and research reports from Achievements Ltd. Also mentioned ANGUS. McGILLIVARY. SMITH.

BEATON see BALFOUR

BEATTIE see MUTRIE

BECKETT 1 AYR.WIG c1800-1900 T 4 pages
See also EDGAR. McCULLOCH

BECKETT 2 MDX 1758-c.1987 T C 7 pages
Large family tree detailing the family, many of whom worked in India.

BEDDIE ABD 1749-1911 see COBBAN

BEDDINGFILED see McCALLUM

BEEBE see TROOP/TROUP

BEG see KEENS

BEGA see WALTER

BEGG AYR.DFS? 1793-c1970 T
Large family tree showing connection with the family of Robert Burns.

BEGG see GLASGOW. McNAB. WATSON 4

BEGBIE see JAMESON

BEINSTOUN STI. 1333-1633 T C 4 pages
Brief notes and thoughts on the name.

BELFORD see McILWRICK

BELGIUM see ANHALT

BELL of GODSBRIDGE 1694-1970 T
Pedigree with notes; photocopies of portraits; Memorials of the clan Bell of Kirkconnel and Blackethouse, chiefs of the name. Notebook of Alexander Bell (1864-1935) with notes dating from 1907; newspaper cuttings; tree of descendants of Benjamin Bell and Grace Hamilton, 1790-1840 also descendants of Anne Bell and George Maxwell of Auchingyle, Dumfriesshire; Notebook with genealogical notes on the Bells 15th to 19th century; miscellaneous correspondence; coat of arms in silk.

BELL of KIRKCONNEL & BLACKETHOUSE
Photocopy of the booklet by Charles Davidson Bell, 1864, on the Chief family of the name.

BELL KKD.RFW.CBD 1790-1994 T 1 page
Also mentioned BARWISE. CARSON. DOUGLAS. McCLUNE

BELL 1 FIF.WLN 1646-1979 T C
Research notes from OPR and census. Copies of 'Bell Chimes'. Typescript biography of Joseph Bell M.D., FRCS, JP, DL, 1837-1911 (19 pages). Typescript pedigree of the Bell family of Kilduncan and Bonnyton, Fife and also of Dundee.

BELL KKD 1790-1822 T see ARMSTRONG

BELL see DOLAN. LORNE/LORNIE. LUNAN. MENZIES 2.MOIR

BELLENVILLE The Armorial of
Two page reprint from 'Coat of Arms' vol. VII no.50, April 1962.

BENNET see KILGOUR, KAY, COOK 1,

BENNIE see BANNIGAN

BENTON USA.SCOT c.1770-1992 4 pages
Pedigree chart and family group sheet. Also mentioned PAUL. STARR.

BENTRAGE 1567
'Robert Bentrage elected Bailie K. 1567'. [This is the only information].

BENVIE BAN 18 cent C 2 pages
Details of an abortive search for the name in OPR.

BENYSTOUN see BEINSTOUN

BERG see MACKENZIE 2

BERGEN, Norway 1640-1690 see ALLEN

BERTHON FRA.ENG.WAL 1724-1868 1 page
Pedigree chart mentioning: PARK. SANDBACH. TINNE..

BERTRAM MLN 1872-1934 2 pages
Biographical sketch of James Bertram

BERTRAM see LOVE 3

BEST see ROXBURGH

BETHUNE MLN.FRA. 1641-
Extracts from the Blebo writs at the Scottish Record Office. Edinburgh OPR, seventeenth century. An A4 book, in French, on the early Bethunes, by L. Bollinger, commencing in the 12 century. Also mentioned PLANQUES

BETHUNE see BALFOUR

BEVERIDGE FIF. 1720-1763 7 pages
Mainly Auchtermuchty births.

BEVERIDGE see KAY. LEITCH 2. LITSTER.

BEVERLY INV.ABD 1699-1811 11 pages
Extracts from OPR

BIGGAR IRL.AYR 1806-1881 T 1 page

BIGHAM WIG 1700-1814 6 pages
Extracts from OPR

BINGHAM see HUTCHINSON 2

BINNIE/BINNING 1 STI.LKS.ARL 1706-1993 T 7 pages
Collection of family trees relating to the name.

BINNIE see JOHNSTON. LEITCH 1

BINNING 2 ENG. c.1850-1990 1 page
Pedigree Chart mentioning: DAVIE. McELDON

BINNING 3 ROC.INV.PER 1571-1946 T C
Also MLN.LKS. Extracts from OPR and census and statutory registration of BMD. Details of various families of the name. Families in other parts of the world. Large collection of research notes.

BINNING see WRIGHT 3

BIRD SAL 1640-1970 LT 13 pages

BIRD see KEMP

BIRNIE RFW.LKS 1791-1904+ T
Two drop line charts.

BIRNIE ABD 1820-1968 see COBBAN

BIRRELL FIF.LKS 1829-1970 C 14 pages
Extracts from census and OPR. Copy of birth and a marriage certificate. Much of the research notes refer to 20th century people. Also mentioned HEAP and their relation to the Birrell family.

BISHOP WLN.LKS 1781-1967 T 1 page

BLACK 1 LKS.USA 1750-1787 C 2 pages
Journal query mentioning: CREELMAN. McMILLAN. McLEAMONT.

BLACK 2 ARL.LKS.IRL. 1745-1980 T
One tree, one page of notes and 'The Ancestry of William McKay Black' (15 pages) [Many families mentioned including CHAPMAN, Glasgow, COPELAND, Ireland, PRIMROSE, Dunfermline]; Also 'The Ancestry of Vera Anne YEARLEY' (13 pages) originating in MDX, [many families mentioned including PEACH of Suffolk, GARLAND, Somerset, JELLY , MDX]

BLACK 3 WLN.MLN 1822-1910 C 4 pages
Request for help with research.

BLACK 4 STI. 1756-1811 T 10 pages
Mainly extracts from OPR 1756-1767. Also mentioned WISE.

BLACK 5 LKS. 1751-1854 26 pages
Search notes from OPR for BLACK. BRODIE. DUNCAN. LOCHORE.

BLACK see DOBBIE 2. KINMOND. SMITH 1

BLACKBURN YKS. ENG. 1886-1943 T C 4 pages
Drop line chart mentioning: ASHTON. BURNS. BANNERMAN. CRAIG. GRANT. OUGHTERSTONE. McNEIL.

BLACKETT BER.ELN.ENG 1740-1841 T C
Census; N. of England parish register extracts. Mostly correspondence about research.

BLACKHALL see NAIRN

BLACKWELL 3 pages
Announcing the launch of the Blackwell newsletter.

BLACKWOOD FIF.MLN 1384-1713 C 7 pages
4 letters discussing the family and asking for research assistance.

BLAIKIE see SNEDDEN

BLAIN KKD.DFS 1700-1844 T 3 pages
Three small family trees.

BLAIR AYR 1533-1870 T C 5 pages
Information on the Blair Society for Genealogical research. Including membership forms. Family tree of the Blair family of Ballindean. Also research notes on Blair and GRAY in Ayrshire.

BLAIR see HARE. KILGOUR. LINDSAY 1. LOVE 1. THOMSON 5.

BLAKE ENG. 1905-1964 T 1 page

BLAKE see KINCAID

BLAKELEY RFW.LKS.MLN 1876-1912 5 pages
Mainly 20th century extracts from the records - BMD.

BLANCHE SHI 1725-1990 T 2 pages
Two family trees relating to the family on Shetland.

BLAND see McCALLUM

BLANEY LKS 1828-1876 C 4 pages
Letter and extracts from OPR. Part of sheet from decennial index of heirs. Also mentioned DONALDSON.

BLUNT see ROSS 5

BLYTH KKD 1804-1879 T 1 page

BODEN see LOVE 3

BOESSES see TWENEBROKES

BOGLE LKS 1751-1861 C 5 pages
A little census and BMD. Drawing of coat of arms, copy of letter from J. Monteith Grant.

BOGUE MLN.USA 1420-1989 C
'Our Bogue Family Lineage' - Booklet on name and draft of same.

BOGUE/BOIG see HILL 1

BOLIN ARL.USA c1770 C 3 pages
Research request.

BONALIE FIF. 1667-1871 T 2 pages
Two trees tracing the family BONALIE / BONALY / BONELLAY / BONELLA.

BONAR MLN 1710-1828 C 4 pages
Three pages of Family Group Record.

BONAR see LAWRIE. SNEDDEN

BOND see SMITH 4

BOOG MLN. 1746-1961
Large collection of extracts from OPR and some census material.

BOON CAN.FIF.MLN.PER.AYR 1833-1871 C 14 pages
Mainly extract of BMD. Also mentioned CLEPHANE

BOOTHBY MDX 1830-1993 T 2 pages
Family of Baron Boothby.

BORLAND 1 LKS. 1886-1994 T 1 page

BORLAND 2 LKS.PER 1663-1767 13 pages
Extracts from the Register of Deeds and Burke's Landed Gentry.

BORTHWICK see BRISBANE

BOSWELL FIF 1498-1653 T C
Collection of letters concerning the name in connection with entry in Directory of Members' Interests. Extract from Gens Nostra - James Boswell in the Netherlands. Also mentioned COUTTS

BOSWELL see KILPATRICK

BOUCHER see WALTER

BOURLAND USA 1 page
Two sides of A4 relating to the Bourland family, forming part of a news letter, with a list of Bourlands whose christian names began with the letter A.

BOWER see McGREGOR 5

BOWIE STI 1802-1857 4 pages
Alexander Bowie, architect and builder.

BOWLING see RANKEILLOR

BOWMAN AYR.LKS.MLN.ABD.DBY.ANS 1684-1985 T C 29 pages
Collection of extracts from OPR. Collection of family trees also mentioning: HARLEY, ABD; DUGUID, ABD; GLASS, ANS; FORRESTER; GORDON, ABD; KYNOCH, ABD.

BOWMAN see GORDON 3. KINMOND. KYNOCH. YUILLE

BOYD 1 AYR.PER 1651-1783 T C
'The Dean Road' - Boyd Society Journal v.4 no.13. Photocopied extracts from Airth OPR. Many transcripts from Ayrshire OPR, especially Kilmarnock. Photograph of two Boyd grave stones. Also mentioned JOHNSTON. KEMP. LIDDELL. ROSS

BOYD 2 LKS.USA 1792-1947 T 1 page

BOYLE LKS.STI 1518-1890 T C 20 pages
Mainly letter concerned with Register of Members' Interests. Some baptisms from OPR. Newspaper photograph of the Dowager Countess of Glasgow at 90.

BOYTER FIF 1733-1900+ T 1 page
The family was from Cellardyke and some members went to the USA.

BRADFORD see SCHOFIELD

BRADSHAW AUSTRALIA 1870-1972 T 1 page

BRAEDINE see RIDDEL

BRAIDWOOD see STIVEN

BRANAGAN LKS.YKS 1928-1964 Mainly marriages.

BRAND ANS.MLN.MDX 1641-1988 T C 15 pages
Collection of trees relative to the Brand family.

BREAKENRIDGE USA 1696-1797 5 pages
Page with 7 generations listed, photocopies from the descendants of James Breakenridge who emigrated from Ireland, July 1727.

BREBNER ABD.CAN.USA 1776-1997 C 16 pages
A written pedigree showing a large number of descendants from Peter Bremner, married in 1776, to Elizabeth Gould. A variant of BREMNER.

BREMNER see BREBNER

BRENNANHILL 1733-1748 1 page
A small scrap of paper showing the issue of David Brennanhill.

BRICE RFW. 1952-1963 3 pages
Extracts of marriages and deaths from statutory records.

BRIGG DFS.CUL 1745-1867 1 page
Small piece of paper with the descendants of William Brigg and Isobel Carson.

BRIGGS see LOVE 1

BRISBANE ANS 1700-1840 T 3 pieces
Also mentioned: Lord BORTHWICK; INNES of Innes; MAKDOUGALL of Makerston; HAY of Alderston.

BRITON see LOUDEN

BRITTON see McCRIRICK.

BROCKIE DFS.USA 1775-1920+ C 8 pages
Tree showing descent from Adam Brockie. Some notes going back to 1687.

BRODIE 1 RFW.MLN.USA 1500-1860 T C 3 pages
Family trees of the Family of Brodie of Brodie.

BRODIE 2 MLN 1852-1982 T 1 page

BRODIE see BLACK 5. HILL 2. LAIRD. RIDDEL

BRODLEY see McCRAW

BROOKE see CAREW

BROOKS ENG.NS. 1840-1951 T C 4 pages
Pedigree chart mentioning: EVERETT. MILNE. RICHES.

BROWN 1 FIF.ELN.WLN.PER.ANS 1592-1903 T C
Various sets of research notes on various families of the name. Also STI.MLN.WIG.KKD. Extracts from OPR and census. A tree of a family in Nebraska claiming kinship with the Coulston branch. Also mentioned WEIR. Pedigree of the Brown family of Kinnell and Carmylie, also of Montrose and of Lochton, Perth.

BROWN 2 AYR.MLN. 1700-1849 T 1 page
Browns of Riccarton. Also mentioned FAIRLIE, from Kilmaurs.

BROWN see BRYCE,CRAMMOND, DUNLAP. FISHER. HEDDERWICK. JENKINS, JAMESON. KELLOCK. LOVE 1. PATON 4. POLESON. WOTHERSPOON. WILSON 3

BROWNE see LAWRIE

BROWNLEE RFW.LKS 1699-1800 C
Mentions family of Lord Brownlee. Extracts from OPR. MI from Carbarns Graveyard, LKS. Also mentioned: HENDERSON, FIF 1737-1799: ALLISON SCT.USA 1750-1810

BROWNLEE see SCOTLAND

BROWNRIGG CUL.SRY.IRL.USA c.1752-1977 T C
20 Page article/letter quoting other letters and with tombstone inscriptions and map; extract from 'A History of Columbus Mississipi', W.L.Lipscomb, Birmingham, Alabama, 1909; 'Cradle of the Colony', Thomac C. Parramore, 1967.

BRUCE 1 SCT.DFS.AYR 1094-1329 T
Sundry pieces of information about the 'de Brus' family of Annandale. An indenture of Robert Bruce with Richard Jones of Newcastle, 1766. One tree tracing the family through the LYON and HANDYSIDE families to the BAXTER family of Dundee.

BRUCE 2 Russia 1642-1791 5 pages
3 pages of notes, two likenesses and a contact address (current September 2001).

BRUCE see FORDYCE. POLESON. SPOTTISWOODE.

BRYCE STI.LAN. 1805-1982 T C 12 pages
Possible ancestry with the Bruce/Brus family. Also mentioned: GALLOWAY BEW. 1745-c.1850; BROWN STI. C.1777-1890; ROBERTSON, IRL.AYR.LKS c.1850-1870

BRYCE see McNAB

BRYDEN AYR 1865 1 page
Copy of marriage entry for Helen Bryden and David McCutcheon.

BRYDEN see HOWDEN.

BRYSON LKS. 1658-1846 T 3 pages
A few extracts from the records of Hamilton and Glasgow OPR

BRYSON see LOCKHART/FAULDS. TEMPLETON 1

BUCHAN 1 FIF. 1700-1915 T C
Also mentioned: RITCHIE, FIF, 1778-1870; NAIRN, FIF, 1804-1915. Letters and articles about Dysart [some booklets put in FIFE section of library].

BUCHAN 2 PER.LKS 1758-1873 T 2 pages

BUCHAN see DICK. GORMAN

BUCHANAN 1 LKS.AYR.MLNCAI 1700-1983 T 2 page
Vital records of two families in Middle Croy from 1700, taken from family bibles.

BUCHANAN 2 AYR 1713-1873 C 14 pages
Extracts from OPR, Copies of some certificates, pedigree chart mentioning: BAUCHOPE of Easter Balfunning, 1713-1778; DOWNIE of Blairgorts, 1727-1797; FORRESTOR, of Maxwelton, 1717-1831.

BUCHANAN 3 STI c.1100-1927 T 3 pages
Copies of the Genealogy of William George Buchanan Laird of Clairinsh - Buchanan Island in Loch Lomond.

BUCHANAN see CRUIKSHANKS. MACADAM 2. McGREGOR 5. McNAB. NEILSON 1. THOMSON 5.

BUCKNER see DAVIDSON 3

BUDGE see ROSS 1

BUIST PER. 1710-1795 T 1 page

BULLOCH ANS.STI.LKS.ARL. 1624-1896 C
Mainly extracts from OPR. Also mentioned: COCKBURN, McPHAIL, MILLER.

BUNTIN USA 1844-1970 T 1 page
Family descended from Scottish Buntins

BUNYAN 1816-1991 T 1 page

Only names and dates are given on this family tree.

BUNYAN see ROSIE

BURDEN PER 164-1890 T 1 page
Large family tree with some associated families.

BURGESS KKD 1756-c.1900 T C 5 pages
Brief notes and trees on the family.

BURGESS see LITTLE. POLESON. THORLEY.

BURGOYNE AYR.LKS 1829-1952 C 13 pages
Extracts from OPR, family group sheets. Mention of the families of DAVIDSON, KINNEY, ROE

BURGOYNE see KENNY

BURMAN see PARR-BURMAN

BURNESS FIF.ANS 1743-1830 T C
See also BURNS. Collection of extracts from OPR and other sources.

BURNET see KETTLE

BURNETT BAN 1653-1973 T 3 pages
A tree on a Banff family; and notes on the family of Burnett of Leys.

BURNS 1 AYR.DFS.MDX.WLN 1656-1952 T C
Collection of papers, research notes and trees relating to the ancestors, family and descendants of Robert Burns, including families in the USA and Australia. Tree of the family in Polkemmet, WLN and one of a Kincardinshire family.

BURNS 2 FIF. c.1770-1966 T 2 pages
An extremely long tree containing the pedigree of various unconnected families of the name.

BURNS 3 UK 1837-1997
A collection of all birth, marriage and death certificates anent BURNS and BURNESS for the whole of the UK. [not in filing cabinets].

BURNS see BLACKBURN. GARRET. RIDDEL

BURT see HARMAN

BURTON FIF.MLN. 1851-1942 C
Research notes largely made up of extracts from OPR, census and statutory records. Also mentioned IRVINE.

BUSCH see STEWART 4

BUSLI / BUILLI England 1080-1250 T 1 page
Early genealogy and relationship to Vipont family.

BUTLER MLN 1903-1962 T 1 page

BUTRAM see McCALLUM

BUTTAR PER. 1734-1808 6 pages
A few extracts from the OPR relating to the name.

BUTTRESS English
A collection of 14 'Buttress family Digest' 1986-1989.

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