Social & general history

One of those really fascinating books for history and genealogy. Lots of snippets and details of every-day happenings in Ayr, and particularly so, because it covers the period from 1560 to 1692. Wonderful background information for your Scottish family...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 16MB (245 pages) Year: (various) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks This contains three separate books detailing the invasion of England in  1066, the families which came to...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (477 pages) Author: J. MacLean Year: (1889) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This genealogical and historical study of the MacLeans is noteworthy, not only for its extended history of the family into the 19th century,...

Media: EBOOK - download - OR USB - NEW OPTION (see below)File format: PDF, 285MB (2 vols, 1731 pages) Author: J. Keltie Year: (1875) 2010 ISBN: 9781742229652 Other: colour photos...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 12MB (221 pages) Year: (various 19th C. dates) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks Rosslyn Castle has been called 'the most picturesque baronial ruin in Scotland', and it has fascinated...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (240 pages) Author: D. Blundell Year: (1907) Publisher: ScotPress For centuries after 1688, Catholics in Scotland were portrayed as allies of the papacy and of France, and as traitors to the Protestant cause. To...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (176 pages) Author: J. Balfour-Paul Publisher: ScotPress In his monumental "The Scots Peerage", Sir James Balfour Paul sought to include all ancient titles of nobility, and he therefore investigated the ancient...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CDPublisher: Archive CD Books GB This product is sold as a CD SECOND or SPARE. "CD seconds" or "spares" are perfectly good data wise, but have been put aside due to: faulty label printing, e.g. off colour or misaligned...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 24MB (2 vols, 460 pages + 492 pages) Author: C. Fraser-Mackintosh Year: (1897 + 1913) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks This is a 952 page monumental work on the families,...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (298 pages) Author: H. Barber Year: (1903) 2009 Other: 2nd ed. Publisher: ScotPress This reference work takes all of Great Britain as its subject, and seeks to identify and explain British surnames in great...

By the late Lord Cockburn Places well indexed and fully searchable. Lord Cockburn, a Criminal Judge, as part of his work, rode around Scotland in "circuits", he began to note down cases of particular interest in diary form and this forms the basis of...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 12MB (288 pages) Author: D. Mackay Year: (1922) 2023 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks In this 288 pages book published 1922, the increasingly fractious and decentralized world of the...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (126 pages) Author: M. Towry Year: (1870) 2010 Publisher: ScotPress The full title of this work is ... "Clanship and the Clans, Containing a Popular Sketch of the Constitution and Tranditions of the Clans of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (78 pages) Author: C. Innes Year: (1860) Publisher: ScotPress First released in 1860, this was an attempt to define the meaning, origin, and tradition of Scottish surnames has long been a popular pursuit. During the...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (616 pages) Author: W. Gregg Year: (1910) Publisher: ScotPress This work aroused intense interest among both the popular and academic historians of the day, for it reprinted major portions of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (60 pages) Author: M. Newsome Year: (2003) Publisher: ScotPress This product is sold as a CD SECOND or SPARE. "CD seconds" or "spares" are perfectly good data wise, but have been put aside due to: faulty label...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 4MB (71 pages) Author: M. Newsome Year: (2003) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks "When one begins to research the history of Highland dress, it quickly becomes apparent that prior to...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (60 pages) Author: M. Newsome Year: (2003) Publisher: ScotPress "When one begins to research the history of Highland dress, it quickly becomes apparent that prior to the seventeenth century reliable information...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (469 pages) Author: E. Armitage Year: (1912) 2010 Publisher: ScotPress The successful invasion of England in 1066 by Duke William of Normandy brought the full force of continental feudalism to England and firmly...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (146 pages)Author: A. Carey Year: 2012 Publisher: ScotPress Compiled by A. Merwyn Carey, this biographical encyclopedia of firearms makers of the British Isles provides information on gunsmiths collected from a wide...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 4MB (80 pages) Author: C. Rogers Year: (1873) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebook The reign of James VI of Scotland was one in which the great families played a major role, not only...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (58 pages) Author: C. Rogers Year: (1879) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This study of the Colt family begins with a chapter on those of the name in England and their place among the Anglo-Norman feudal lords after...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (68 pages) Author: C. Rogers Year: (1877) Publisher: ScotPress This history concentrates primarily upon the immediate family of the poet, Robert Burns, and upon those descended from him into the 19th century...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (224 pages) Author: W. Dickson Year: (1908) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This genealogical and historical account concentrates primarily upon the descendants of two men, both named Thomas Dickson, and their...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (182 pages) Author: J. Balfour-Paul Publisher: ScotPress Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Hamilton family holding titles of nobility. Included are: Earl of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (127 pages) Author: J. Balfour-Paul Publisher: ScotPress Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Hay family holding titles of nobility. Included are: Earl of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (98 pages) Publisher: ScotPress This is a collection of articles which first appeared in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, all of which discuss some aspect of Highland traditions regarding givennames...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 19MB (462 pages) Year: (1843) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks Having previously compiled a history of Galloway, the author of this work continued his investigation into that region...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (778 pages) Author: A. Mackenzie Year: (1896) Publisher: ScotPress Compiled by Alexander Mackenzie in 1896, the Frasers were a large and important family in Scottish history and he was without question one of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (500 pages) Author: D. Gregory Year: (1881) 2008 Publisher: ScotPress This enormous history deals with the northwestern portion of Scotland and with a period in the history of that region when it came under...