Series 1 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society (First volume)

INTRODUCTION
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From this it would appear that it was begun at this date, the
preceding entries having been written from memory or notes,
and thereafter continued regularly daily, or at least weekly.
The little volume was formerly in the possession of the Rev.
John Ballantyne, minister of the United Presbyterian Church
at Lilliesleaf in Roxburghshire. Mr. Ballantyne left Scotland
for Australia in 1854, and was settled as Presbyterian minister
at Emerald Hill, near Melbourne. He subsequently returned
again to Scotland, and died at Edinburgh on 4th October 1860.
Turnbull’s Diary was sent back from Australia, with his other
books, the year after his death. It is now the property of a
lady in Edinburgh, to whom it was given by his widow. The
latter is not aware of how it came at first into Mr. Ballantyne’s
hands.
I am much indebted to several gentlemen for supplying me
with information for the notes, and beg to return them my
best thanks. I have also gratefully to acknowledge the kind
assistance of the Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen of Alloa, and
John C. Gibson, Esq., Woodpark, Polmont, in tracing the
pedigrees of Turnbull and his wife.
The following pedigrees of the families of Turnbull and
Glass have been drawn up from the Register of the Great
Seal, the various parochial registers, and the Retours.