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: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 10MB (165 pages) Author: J. Balfour-PaulYear: (?) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks In his monumental "The Scots Peerage", Sir James Balfour Paul sought to include all ancient titles...

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: 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 (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 (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 (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: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 9MB (501 pages) Author: D. Gregory Year: (1881) 2024 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks This enormous history deals with the northwestern portion of Scotland and with a period in the...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (376 pages) Author: J. Foster Year: (1882) Other: 2nd rev. ed. Publisher: ScotPress Members of Parliament, Scotland, including the Minor Barons, the Commissioners for the Shires, and the Commissioners for...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (66 pages) Author: W. Shaw Year: (1871) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This is a history of the Shaws, compiled primarily to correct errors both in their recorded history and in the history of their relationship to...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 17MB (364 pages) Author: H. Long Year: (1883) 2025 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks The actual title of this work is "A Popular Monograph on the Origin and History of the...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD Year: 2012 Publisher: ScotPress This extended genealogical history provides a narrative account of the Polk family, beginning with a short account of their residence in Ireland, and continuing with the transfer to...

Media: EBOOK - downloadFile format: PDF file 27MB (549 pages)Author: A. Campbell Year: (1885) 2023 Publisher: Gould Genealogy ebooks The full title of the work is "Records of Argyll: Legends, Traditions, and Recollections of...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (208 pages) Author: J. MacLean Year: (1913) 2012 Publisher: ScotPress The late 19th century saw a renewal of interest in Scotland and in Clan MacLean, both in Scotland and in North America. J. P. MacLean, a...

Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (494 pages) Author: A. Dobbie Year: (1890) 2007 ISBN: 9781921461477 Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia Alexander Williamson Dobbie lived life to the full. He managed to achieve so much in the time...