{"product_id":"the-arniston-memoirs-three-centuries-of-a-scottish-house-1571-1838-searchable-genealogy-pdf","title":"The Arniston Memoirs: Three Centuries of a Scottish House, 1571–1838 – Searchable Genealogy PDF","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fairbairns-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStep inside the Charter-Room of Arniston House and uncover over three hundred years of Scottish family history, estate life, and political intrigue.\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in Edinburgh by David Douglas in 1887 and edited from the original family papers by Advocate George W. T. Omond, \u003cem\u003eThe Arniston Memoirs: Three Centuries of a Scottish House, 1571–1838\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the richest primary-source chronicles of Lowland Scottish genealogy and legal history ever printed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eTracing the rise of the \u003cstrong\u003eHouse of Dundas\u003c\/strong\u003e from their 12th-century West Lothian charter under Waldeve, Earl of Dunbar, to George Dundas and Dame Katherine Oliphant’s 1571 purchase of the ancient Knights Templar barony of Ballintrodo (Arniston) in Midlothian, this monumental volume brings to life six generations of lairds, Lords of Session, Lord Advocates, Lord Presidents, and British statesmen—alongside the tenants, servants, ministers, and neighbours who shaped the Lothians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat You Will Discover Inside This 469-Page Archival Edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Complete Dundas Pedigree \u0026amp; Cadet Branches:\u003c\/strong\u003e Detailed histories of the main line of \u003cem\u003eDundas of that Ilk\u003c\/em\u003e (Dundas Castle and Inchgarvie) and its major offshoots—including the \u003cstrong\u003eArniston\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMelville\u003c\/strong\u003e (Viscounts Melville), \u003cstrong\u003eBeechwood \u0026amp; 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Famous Literary Letters:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpublished letters from \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Hume\u003c\/strong\u003e (defending his purchases as Keeper of the Advocates' Library in 1754), \u003cstrong\u003eSir Walter Scott\u003c\/strong\u003e (defending his 1826 \u003cem\u003eMalachi Malagrowther\u003c\/em\u003e letters on Scottish one-pound banknotes), \u003cstrong\u003eAdmiral Adam Duncan\u003c\/strong\u003e (writing from the quarter-deck of HMS \u003cem\u003eVenerable\u003c\/em\u003e immediately after the Battle of Camperdown in 1797), and an annotated 1826 secret canvass roll of the 33 members of the Edinburgh Town Council.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e16 Masterpiece Etchings by William Hole, A.R.S.A. \u0026amp; 31 Woodcuts\/Facsimiles:\u003c\/strong\u003e Includes full-page portraits of the Lairds and Presidents of Arniston, architectural views of Dundas Castle, Arniston House, Borthwick Kirk, and Newbyres Tower, estate maps (1690, 1726, 1753, 1758), and a facsimile receipt signed by \u003cstrong\u003eSir Henry Raeburn\u003c\/strong\u003e (1795).\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhy Choose the Fairbairn's Crests Digital Genealogy Edition?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e100% Untouched Original Archival Scans \u0026amp; 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Hailes), Dalzell, Davidson, Dempster, Dick, Dickson, Douglas, Drummond, Dunbar, Duncan, Dundas, Durham, Edmonstone, Eliott, Elphinstone, Erskine, Ferguson, Fleming, Forbes, Fraser,alloway, Garden, Gilmour, Goldie, Gordon, Graham, Grant (Prestongrange), Guthrie, Haig, Haldane, Hamilton, Hay, Henderson, Hepburn, Home, Hope (Hopetoun \u0026amp; Craighall), Hume, Inglis, Johnstone, Keith, Kerr, Kinnoull, Knox, Lauderdale, Leighton, Lindsay, Lockhart (Carnwath \u0026amp; Castlehill), Lorimer, Lovat, Lowthiane, Mackenzie, Mackintosh, Macleod, Maconochie, Macpherson, Macqueen (Braxfield), Maitland, Marjoribanks, Maxwell, Meggit, Melville, Menzies, Miller (Glenlee), Milne, Milroy, Mitchell, Monboddo, Moncreiffe, Montgomery, Moray, Morton, Muir, Murray, Napier, Nasmyth, Newbigging, Nisbet, Oliphant, Ormiston, Oswald, Owsteane, Paterson, Pringle, Purvis, Rae, Raeburn, Ramsay, Rannie, Robertson, Ross, Rothes, Roxburghe, Sandilands (Torphichen), Scott, Seton, Sinclair, Skene, Skirving, Smith, Smythe, Steuart\/Stewart, Stirling, Stuart, Suttie, Traquair, Trotter, Turnbull, Tweeddale, Wallace, Watson, Wauchope, Wedderburn, Weir, Wemyss, Wightman, Williamson, Wilson, Wood, Wright, Wylie, and Zetland.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eKey Parishes, Estates \u0026amp; 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