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PREFACE.
TN laying before my kinsfolk these sketches of
■*■ family history a very short Preface will suffice.
First of all, I wish to state in the most explicit
manner that in the following pages there is absolutely
no fancy work whatever. For everything recorded
as a fact, proof, if attainable, is given. Where proof
was unattainable no supposition, however plausible,
has been allowed to take its place. In all such
cases I have been careful to point out that the
missing link is at best a probability.
I have endeavoured to be accurate, but I do not
presume to think that I have made no mistakes.
Again and again I have had cause to lament that
my ignorance of legal phraseology has hindered me
from grasping the full significance of the documents
which have passed through my hands ; and thus

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Memorials of the families of Lumsdaine, Lumisden, or Lumsden
DescriptionBy Lieut.-Col. H. W. Lumsden. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889.
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Histories of Scottish families
DescriptionA selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916.