‘FOR THE BENEFIT OF SCOTTISH KIN’ Manuscript Notebook of Scots & New Zealand Family History of the Murdochs and Yuilles of Darleith

Unpublished manuscript containing 40 pages of Murdoch and Yuille of Darleith family history written by William Young c1900. It is the second section that is the more intriguing, deriving from ‘an old book kept at Darleith, and kindly lent by the present proprietor, Mr Andrew B Yuille, Bellevue, Bridge of Allan’. The book is bound in parchment with a brass hasp intended for a padlock. On the outside is written:- “This book not to be opened but by my father himself, for it relates to none of my presents, Debts or Credits.” Aug.t 15th 1739, A., Yuille’. 20 pages of Yuille famly documents follow, mostly copies of 17th and 18th century items from this manuscript, with a final section on the Murdoch family. The notebooks opens with Notes on John Wallace Murdoch, borrowed from his Reminiscences, printed in New Zealand in 1891. Opposite to the opening page, the writer identifies himself as William Young.

Stiff card notebook, black wrappers over lined white paper, containing about 40 pages of family history mostly in one neat, legible hand. The notes have been copied from older sources kept in family archives. The book is in very good condition, covers a little rubbed and creased, a few pages dog eared. An interesting resource for family history.