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Genealogy

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James N. Forsyth, 05 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/11
Scope and Contents

Forsyth provides some family details and information about the meeting of the Congested Districts Board at which Forsyth argued the case for Ewart's 'Pony Report'. He also reports meeting with the new Secetary of State for Scotland, 'Tullibardine' of Blair Atholl and a pony salesman.

Dates: 05 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Spencer Ewart, 03 February [1904]

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/10
Scope and Contents

Ewart writes concerning the family history he is writing about his own branch of the Ewart family and asks Ewart if he would like to contribute a brief autobiography.

The year is not written on the letter.

Dates: 03 February [1904]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from W. Coldstream, 11 September 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/72
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Coldstream enquires whether Ewart might consider publishing his paper Reminiscences of Professor Allman. He states that he is also trying to compile information about his late father, who contributed to the Encyclopedia of Physiology, and asks if Ewart is familiar with this.

Dates: 11 September 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 02 September 1898

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/22
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Blunt replies to Ewart's acceptance of the gift of a filly. He encloses details of the filly's breeding. He also enquires in what published work he could find details of the fossil of the horse as originally traced by Huxley and Marsh, as he is hoping to begin a genealogy of the Arabian horse.

Dates: 02 September 1898
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1898

Note about Allan Mòr Mac Mhic Mhurachaidh, 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/36
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Note about Allan Mòr Mac Mhic Mhurachaidh brother of Allan Donn Mac Mhic Mhurachaidh after whom he was named. It states that Allan Mòr was the youngest of the family and 'had a brig - long fr[om] Ruhuinish' [Rubha Hunis/Rubha Hunish, Isle of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach].

Dates: 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on the origin of the name Geikie, late 19th-early 20th century

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Identifier: Coll-99/10/14
Scope and Contents

Brief account of the origin of the Geikie surname, suggesting it is not, as has been claimed, a corruption of MacGregor or its variants.

Dates: late 19th-early 20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

Note which reads 'Maisie Marjory da[ugh]ter of Ro[ber]t Bruce', October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/72
Scope and Contents

Note which reads 'Maisie Marjory da[ugh]ter of Ro[ber]t Bruce'.

Dates: October 1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Notes on a Celtic runic cross in Barra and Fearchar Johnson, 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/25
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Notes entitled 'Celtic Runic Cross' which stood at the head of the tunga [tomb] of Fearchar Johnson [Farquhar Johnson] in Barra [Barraigh] and the subsequent theft of the stone. Also notes about Johnson and his family, including his flight to Barra from Mull [Muile] and his family's emigration to Cape Breton, Canada.

Dates: 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Notes on the family of Uistean Mor Mac Onail, 14 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/102
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Notes on the family of Uistean Mor Mac Onail [Uisdean Mòr MacDonald] probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist listing his illegitimate children and their mothers and noting the burial place of one of them.

Dates: 14 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Notes on the illegitimacy of MacDonalds, 14 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/100
Scope and Contents Notes on the illegitimacy of MacDonalds probably collected from Margaret MacDonald, Malacleit/Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist stating that Donull Gruamach [Domhnall Gruamach] was the first of the MacDonalds to have inherited through marriage law as all previous incumbents had been illegitimate. Donl Gorm [Domhnall Gorm] and Murdoch were brothers while Goraidh was said to have been castrated and so had no children. Sìol Ghoraidh's response to that was that Sìol Mhurchaidh who were...
Dates: 14 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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