SOURCES OF INFORMATION This list some of the sources of the information on this family tree. (The most up to date version of “Sources of Information” is at the RootsWeb page “Maclarens, Birtwistles and Other Families” at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi- bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maclaren&id=I37087 & there are more listed at “General Clan Genealogical INFORMATION” at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maclaren&id=I37071 ) 1. MACLARENS 2. BIRTWISTLES 3. OTHER FAMILIES 3.1 A FEW OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE (& RELIABLE) WEB SITES 3.2 BOOKS 3.4 IRISH ORIGINS .3 PICTS 3.5 ADDITIONS 1. MACLARENS Most of the information on the Maclarens has come from a Report (about 1950s) of research into family of Robert Maclaren of Bainsford. (Also Laurie, Shaw, Liddell, Peddie, Findlay, Renny.) Commissioned by John Frederick Peverell Maclaren. See under Robert (of Bainsford) Maclaren (b Abt. 1778, d August 11, 1826) Much information was collected over many years by him and his daughter Jean Gaselle Greer. Plus additional information on Maclarens of 20th & 21st Centuries is provided by family members. Information on Maclaren Chiefs is mostly from: Margaret Maclaren of Maclaren. "The Maclarens. A History of Clan Labhran". 1976 & 1984. ISBN 0 946270 10 4. Copyright Donald Maclaren of Maclaren. The Pentland Press, Edinburgh. Printed & bound by McCorquodale (Scotland) Ltd. And from information that Banks McLaurin found in "Notable Events in Clan and National History" 2. BIRTWISTLES "The Birtwistle Family, 1200- 1850 AD" by William A Birtwistle assisted by Ray Aspden. Including Birtwells of Accrington and Whalley, Birtwhistles of Yorkshire and other local spelling variations. (c) William A.Birwistle 1989. Published in Great Britain 1990. ISBN 09515337 0 3 W.A. Birtwistle, Brier Nook, Park Cresent, Blaclkburn, Lancashire. UK Printed by Caxton Printing Co. (Accrington) Ltd., Tremellen Street, Accrington, UK. Plus much more collected by Glen Birtwistle in the late 1970s. See also Birtwistle Family Home Page http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/i/r/Lester-A- Birtwhistle/index.html?Welcome=998327495 By L. Alan Birtwhistle P.O. Box 980, Bridgehampton, New York 11932-0980 A-United States 516-537-0960 Fax: 516-537-1029 abirtwhi@optonline.net 3. OTHER FAMILIES More information has come from: 3.1 A FEW OF THE MOST EXTENSIVE (& RELIABLE) WEB SITES Stirnet Genealogy Families Database http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/genfam.htm This has a huge amount of information on hundreds (and rapidly increasing), mostly landed, families in the 3 categories listed below. It is more "user friendly" than most in that it shows many generations on one page. I - Ancient & Mythical II - Continental Families - Medieval & Renaissance III - British Families - Medieval, Renaissance & Modern (Note they also say "We will soon be offering CDs of the database for sale at a modest price.") Sources at http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/gensourc.htm Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/ Royal and Noble Genealogy www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/ Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname" at www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/gedx.html Peerages in Order of Precedence at www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/peerage.html Author: Brian Tompsett This contains a huge amount of information including a great deal on British Peer's lineages, and Royal families of the many countries. Brian Tompsett's sources at http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/reference.txt Royal Genealogies -- Menu http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html#index The site has a huge amount of information. Not as complete as "Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web" but much quicker to move around in. By: Denis R. Reid, 149 Kimrose Lane, Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147-1258 Internet Email address: ah189@cleveland.freenet.edu (216) 237-5364 The Baronage Press Online http://www.baronage.co.uk/ A lot of information on heraldry and genealogy. Also has an increasing amount of information on specific Scottish families at Moncreiffe's Family Records (in Archives) at http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm- 01/aboutmfr.html Clan Donald Genealogy Database Roddy Macdonald's Home Page Home of the Clan Donald Genealogy Database http://www.macdonald50.freeserve.co.uk/ Family trees and information on Macdonalds and many Highland and Lowland Scottish families. Vans Family Archive Contact: Jamie Vans Home Page: Vans Family Archive http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~vfarch Excellent resource for many families in South West Scotland. Sources at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~vfarch/Genealogy-data/wc_src.htm GENEALOGY.EU At http://genealogy.euweb.cz/ “This is my genealogy page with royal and noble family trees, including lists of rulers of many European countries.” By Miroslav MAREK Is more user friendly than many, as it shows many generations on each page. Genealogy, et Cetera by Rod Davis at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/Home/ Outline Descent Trees http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ODTs/index.html Also more user friendly than many, as it shows many generations on each page. Paul Theroff's Royal Genealogy Site http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/index.html A great many files on European noble families, including an extensive, four part, file on descendents of James I (of Britain) to the present. Also a link to AN ONLINE GOTHA http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/gotha.htm Onlipix.Com "Pictures of Famous People" 10s of thousands of pictures of paintings, drawings, statues, etc. Includes royal families of many European countries, going back hundreds of years, even Roman Emperors. http://www.onlipix.com/home.htm See also under the heading "ADDITIONAL GENEALOGY RESOURCES ON THE WEB" in "INFORMATION, General Clan Genealogical" shown in this file as the "Child" of "INFORMATION , Sources of " This includes: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints INTERNET GENEALOGY SERVICE A huge data base well worth checking. At www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp Search at www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp It also includes web site address for: Ancestry Message Boards, Mailing Lists, Family Trees. 3.2 BOOKS "Burke's Peerage" (popular name). Burke's Peerage & Baronetage 106th Edition, editor in chief Charles Mosley. Published by Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 7 rue du Bugnon, 1299 Crans, Switzerland. 4122 776 5109 (Fax 4122 776 0889) (Owned by Morris Genealogocal Books SA.) Burke's Landed Gentry. Various editions AKA BURKE'S Genealogical and Heraldic History of the LANDED GENTRY. 1937, Edited by H Pirie-Gordon, Shaw Publishing Co. Ltd. London. And several other years Burke's Peerage Limited, London Burke’s Extinct & Dormant Peerages Burke's Extinct Baronetages The Complete Peerage Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain & the United Kingdom. Extant, Extinct or Dormant. By G. E. Cokayne. 2000,Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucester. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Comprises Information Concerning the Royal Family, Peerage and Baronetage. ISBN: 0312125577 Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 86/88 Edgware Road, London W2 2YW For further information on Debrett's e-mail people@debretts.co.uk Phone # +44 (0)171 916 9633. http://www.debretts.co.uk/index.html "THE SCOTS PEERAGE" Founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland. Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, LL.D., Lord Lyon King of Arms. (With Armorial Illustrations) Edinburgh: David Douglas 1908. Comprised of 9 volumes. Volume 1 was published in 1904 and volume 8 in 1911. Volume 9, which includes the index probably came out a year later. This set is available at the Sutro Library in San Francisco and in the Denver Public Library, and many larger public libraries in the US & UK. You can buy a copy of the set, in PDF, on a CD from The Scottish Genealogy Society (www.sol.co.uk/s/scotgensoc) at http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/acatalog/CD_ROMs.html "Britain's Royal Families. The Complete Genealogy”. Alison Weir, 1996. Pimlico. Random House. "History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton" Vol 1, by James Paterson, 1863. James Stillie, 79 Princes Street, Edinburgh "The Highland Clans": the dynastic origins, chiefs, and background of the clans and of some other families connected with Highland history." by Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (Albany Herald) First published in 1967. Revised 1982. Barrie & Jenkins Ltd. 17-21 Conway Street, London W1P 6JD "No Quarter Given" The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Army 1745-1746 Editors Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil, Christian W H Aikman, & Betty Stuart Hart. Neil; 2001, Wilson Publishing, Glasgow. First published 1984. http://www.nwp.co.uk/show_list.cfm "Bygone Lochaber". Historical & Traditional. by Somerled MacMillian, 1971 K & R Davidson Ltd. 205-207 West George Street, Glasgow (Printed for private collection). "The Highlands in History" C R MacKinnon of Dunakin, 1961. Collins, Glasgow & London "History of the Highlands" Vol II. Highland Clans & Highland Regiments. Edited by John S Keltie, 1882. Thomas C Jack “The Munro Tree (1734)” “A Genealogy and Chronology of the Munro's of Foulis and other Families of the Clan.” A manuscript compiled in 1734 edited with Introduction and Notes by R.W Munro. Printed for subscribers , Edinburgh 1978 "The Earls of Ross and Their Descendants" Compiled by Francis Nevile Reid, 1894. (Reprinted from "the Scottish Antiquart: or Northern Notes & Queries") Reprinted 1987 by Scotpress, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia Commonwealth War Graves Commission 2 Marlow Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DX United Kingdom Telephone: +44 1628 634221 Fax: +44 1628 771208 "DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER This Register provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars." Web site http://yard.ccta.gov.uk/cwgc/register.nsf "The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland" HRH Prince Michael of Albany, 2000. Element Books Ltd.. Shaftesbury, Dorset & Boston. "CELTIC SCOTLAND: A History of Ancient Alban" by William F. Skene, D.C.L. LL.D (Historiographer-Royal For Scotland) Volume III. "Land and People". Second Edition 1890 (First edition was 1880) David Douglas, Edinburgh. "The Calendar of Fearn: Text & Additions, 1471-1667" edit by R J Adam. Scottish Historical Society, 1991 (30. p 87, 88 “The Earls of Ross and Their Descendants” Compiled by Francis Nevile Reid, 1894. (Reprinted from “the Scottish Antiquart: or Northern Notes & Queries”) Reprinted 1987 by Scotpress, Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. "The Highlanders of Scotland," Their Origin, History, And Antiquities; With A Sketch Of Their Manners And Customs, And An Account Of The Clans Into Which They Were Divided, And of the State Of Society Which Existed Among Them. By William F. Skene, F.S.A. Scot (In two volumes.).1836, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London. The Sentinel Press, Stirling. “THE HISTORY OF THE SCOTS, THE PICTS AND THE BRITONS’ http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DavidDale1/Hisco.htm DAVID F. DALE e-mail : DavidDale1@compuserve.com David Dale has done vast amount of research and has produced an excellent report, which I would highly recommend to anyone interested. The Scottish Historical Review, Edinburgh University Press for The Scottish Historical Review Trust. Volume LXXVI, 2: No 202: October 1997. Printed by Page Bros., Norwich, England (www.eup.ed.ac.uk) "Kings & Queens of Scotland". Eileen Dunlop & Anthony Kamm. 1984. ISBN 0-86267-063-2 & ISBN 0 86267 055 1. Richard Drew Publishing Limited, 6 Clairmont Gardens, Glasgow G3 7LW "Kings and Queens" Collins Gem. by David Lambert and Randal Gray. 1991. Harper Collins Publishers. PO Box Glasgow, G4 0NB. ISBN 0 00 458954 8 A Diagram book first created by Diagram Visual Information Limited of Kentish Town Road, London NW5 8SY "Britain's Kings and Queens" Sir George Bellew, KCB,KCVO. Pitkin Pictorials Ltd. 1986, Northway Andover, Hants. SP10 5BE Printed in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse international Limited, Bedford, Caterham,Crawley "Scotland's Kings and Queens" by Alan Bold. 1980 Pitkin Pictorials, 11 Wyfold Road, London SW6 6SG Printed in Great Britain by Garrod and Lofthouse International Limited, Bedford, Caterham, Crawley "The Royal Line of Succession" The British Monarchy from Cerdic AD 534 to Queen Elizabeth II. Patrick W Montague-Smith, Late Editor, Debrett's Peerage Pitkin Pictorials Ltd. 1986, Northway Andover, Hants. SP10 5BE Printed in Great Britain by Cedar Colour, Chandlers Ford, Hants Britannia.com Britannia Internet Magazine. Internet Magazine. Design by Unica Multimedia Britannia British Monarchs http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/scots.html see below Kings and Queen of Scotland By Scottish Radiance http://royalty.about.com/newsissues/royalty/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.scot tishradiance.com/royal.htm Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland. Edited by John Keay & Julia Keay. Harper Collins Publishers, Hammersmith, London. 1994 3.3 PICTS A Pictish Home page http://www.holyrood.org.uk/picts/ Welcome to the Pictish Arts Society guide Who Were the Picts? http://www.kapnobatai.demon.co.uk/pictarts/guide/page0.htm Pictish Nation http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/index.html The Pictish Kings http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/pict2.html Sponsored by Catorina Fraser Mac Alpin's Treason: The End of the Picts http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/macalpin.html Pictish Links http://members.tripod.com/~Halfmoon/pictish_links.html THE HISTORY OF THE SCOTS, THE PICTS AND THE BRITONS http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DavidDale1/Hisco.htm DAVID F. DALE e-mail : DavidDale1@compuserve.com David Dale has done vast amount of research and has produced an excellent report, which I would highly recommend to anyone interested. Plus more information under "General Clan Genealogical INFORMATION" (in this file shown as a child of "Sources of INFORMATION) More sources for many clans including BRUCE, CAMPBELL, CAMERON, CUNINGHAME, DUNBAR, FORBES, GRAHAM, LIVINGSTONE, MACDONALD, MACGREGOR, MACKENZIE, MACLAREN, MACLAUCHLAN, MACLEAN, MACLEOD, MACMILLAN, MUNRO, MURRAY, SINCLAIR, STEWART, WALLACE, under the clan name plus "CLAN Information Sources..." (in this file shown as "children" of "General Clan Genealogical INFORMATION") 3.4 IRISH ORIGINS MILESIAN GENEALOGIES . from the Annals of the Four Masters. Kindness of Pat Traynor at http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/milesian.html "Adam through Kings of Ireland and Scotland To English Lines" at Southern Style web site at http://www.southern- style.com/adam_through_kings_of_ireland_an.htm "Ancient Uladh. Kingdom of Ulster". In "Irelands History in Maps" By Dennis Walsh (walshdw@ix.netcom.com) Very extensive information. "With a Special Focus on Ancient and Medieval Irish Tribes and Septs." At http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/kilkenny/2/ulster.htm Jim Kinsella (jim@kinsella.org) Ancient Kinsella Lineage http://kinsella.org/history/famline.htm "Information taken from O'Hart's "Irish Pedigrees" and Rev. P.L.O'Toole's "History of the Clan O'Toole" " The Kinsella Homepage http://www.kinsella.org/ Jim Kinsella, the son of John Kinsella (who collected the information), son of Daniel Kinsella. Ancient Irish Royalty by Richard Michael Finn Very thorough. ( dennis@iwindow.com ) http://www.rich.finn.com/ancient.html The Clans of Ireland http://www.irishclans.com/ 3.5 ADDITIONS Many corrections and additions have been made from information sent to me by Doug Hickling. Below are listed some of his sources with his comments. THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND. Containing, An Historical And Genealogical Account Of The Gentry Of That Kingdom. Collected from public records and chartularies of this country; The records and private writings of families; and the works of our best historians. By Sir Robert Douglas. Edinburgh 1796. "Sir Robert Douglas's THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND, published in 1798. By some miracle, the UC Berkeley rare book library had this work in its collection and the quality of the paper was so high that they even made photocopies of it for me." J. P. MacLean's THE HISTORY OF THE CLAN MACLEAN. This was published in 1889 as is very good for its day. According to MacLean-Bristol, J. P. MacLean as well as the authors of all of the other published MacLean histories relied primarily on a manuscript by Dr. Hector MacLean entitled A BRIEF GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF MACLEAN. This was written or compiled in the 1730s and was published verbatim in Macfarlane's GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS. GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF THE CLAN MACKENZIE by Major James D. Mackenzie, genealogical chart in volume 1 of THE EARLS OF CROMARTIE, by William Fraser. Mackenzie's HISTORY OF THE MUNROS OF FOWLIS THE MUNRO TREE a Genealogy and Chronology of the Munro's of Foulis and other Families of the Clan. A manuscript compiled in 1734 edited with Introduction and Notes by R.W Munro. Printed for subscribers , Edinburgh 1978 The first article is entitled THE FIRST HOUSE OF DE DOUVRES OR DE CHILHAM, by G. Andrews Moriarty, published in the January 1951 issue of NEHGR I am convinced that the most authoritative information on the MacLeod family is THE MACLEODS--THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, by Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison. I do not have the publication date but I believe that it is 1968 and it was published by the Clan MacLeod Society in Edinburgh THE GENEALOGIST Including issues: Spring 1999, & V.9 No 2, Fall 1988 G. I. Turner in THE GENEALOGIST, n.s., vol. XXII, an article by Bruce McAndrew, who is considered very reliable, in the periodical DOUBLE TRESSURE, No. 4 (1982) pp 2-10 Donald J. MacDonald of Castleton, in his highly regarded 1978 book CLAN DONALD, Ronald Williams in his 1984 book THE LORDS OF THE ISLES Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., in his article ROYAL BYE-BLOWS III--ILLEGITIMATE DESCENDANTS OF THE SCOTTISH KINGS TO JAMES VI, NEHGR, October 1968 Father Richard Augustin Hay GENEALOGIE OF THE SAINTECLAIRES OF ROSSLYN, re-published in 1835. Father Richard Augustin Hay lived in the household of the Sinclairs of Rosslyn in the 17th century or so. Interestingly, a copy of his GENEALOGIE OF THE SAINTECLAIRES OF ROSSLYN, published in 1835 with notes by an unidentified editor who points out that Hay's work is sometimes flawed. SAINT-CLAIRS OF THE ISLES, by Roland William Saint-Claire, published in 1898 HISTORY OF THE SINCLAIR FAMILY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA, by Leonard Allison Morrison, published in 1896 and which is currently available in a reprint. The Sinclair family has a very elaborate website at www.clansinclairusa.org, that has a great many articles and genealogical histories of the Sinclairs. Detailed family lineage charts are entitled THE NORSE YEARS, THE NORMANDY YEARS, THE CRUSADER YEARS, THE NORMANDY YEARS, AND THE TEMPLAR YEARS, after which the line divides H. S. Cummings, wrote and published through Higginson Books of Salem MA two books. One is entitled THE GENEALOGY OF PRINCE HENRY SINCLAIR. THE MISCELLANY OF THE SPALDING CLUB, volume 4 (1849). One of the documents from the Dun charter chest is entitled NOTES RELATING TO THE FAMILY OF DUN. The GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE ANCIENT FAMILY OF ERSKINE OF DUN, compiled after 1830 by Alexander Sinclair THE LAIRDS OF DUN, by Violet Jacob, published in 1931 TRANSACTIONS OF THE GAELIC SOCIETY OF INVERNESS, volume 12 (1885- 1886), at pages 383-387 Walter Macfarlanes GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS, PUBLICATIONS OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY THE RED BOOK OF MENTEITH, by William Fraser (1880)