Collections on Burke's Peerage and Gentry

Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage 107th Edition

including Knights, Scottish Chiefs and Scottish Feudal Barons

The online database of Burke’s Peerage & Gentry has been substantially revised and updated with the addition of the entire content from the 107th Edition of Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, edited by Charles Mosley.

The database now holds:

• The updated histories of more than 2,500 titled families, many of which date back hundreds of years to when the peerage was first created.
• Over 3,200 current day Knights – the Internet’s most comprehensive resource for this honour.
• For the first time ever – Scottish and Irish Chiefs – The genealogies of chiefs have been created by Hugh Peskett, FSA (Scot), regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in the field. The Internet’s premiere collection of Scottish and Irish Chief genealogies.
• For the first time ever – Scottish Feudal Barons, again compiled by Hugh Peskett

The records are fully searchable with colour-coded generations and search term highlighting, making them easy to use for professional genealogists and first time researchers alike.

Did you know?

• The 107th edition of Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage cost around £1,000,000 to produce and took two years to compile.
• 120,000 living people are featured.
• The publication contains around 2,500 articles on titled families, 3,200 Knight’s articles, 140 on Scottish Chiefs (some 60 of which are either hitherto unpublished or substantially augmented), scores of Scottish feudal barons, and 14 articles covering Irish Chiefs.
• Entrants include people linked to historic families, the military, politics, the arts, industry, education and much more.
• The oldest family in the book is unquestionably O’Neill dating back to the fifth century AD, the oldest family in western Europe.

New additions

The Knights and Dames represent a diverse group of people from a variety of fields and backgrounds. Some better-known names include:

• Sir Michael Caine
• Sir Terence Conran
• Dame Judi Dench
• Sir David Frost
• Bob Geldof, Hon KBE
• Sir Mick Jagger
• Sir Paul McCartney
• Sir Trevor McDonald
• Dame Diana Rigg

In depth genealogies for some 140 Scottish Chiefs include:

• Livingstone of Bachuil, Chief of MacLea
• MacDonald of Slate, Chief of MacDonald
• MacDonell of Glengarry, Chief of MacDonell of Glengarry
• MacKinnon of MacKinnon, Chief of MacKinnon
• MacLennan of MacLennan, Chief of MacLennan

Scores of Scottish Feudal Barons are also included for the first time in Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Titleholders include:

• Diana Adair Hargreave of Kirknewton
• William Newlands of Lauriston
• Dr Gordon Prestoungrange of Prestoungrange
• David Garrison of Tranent
• Barrie Pettman, Baron of Bombie

Quotes about the Peerage
Quotes from reviews of the records in book form:

"This is an exceptional piece of research work that provides title information and historical lineage of 2,500-odd titled families and more than 3,200 knights... The new additions are interesting. The decision to include the Scottish and Irish Chiefs and Barons was quite simply to add another genealogical layer (part Gael, part Norse, part Fleming, part Norman) to families that were ultimately influences by these older ancestors. If anything, this adds to the increasing genealogical importance of the work, providing a richness and depth that no other work comes close to."
Your Family Tree, April 2004

"In a perfect world, every family historian would have this book."
Baronage.co.uk, March 2004

"Much scholarship has gone into editing these (Scottish and Irish chief’s) pedigrees, debunking fictional or fanciful descents... A further welcome inclusion are illegitimate children for whom aristocratic paternity is certain, although those still alive are only included with their consent... Despite its snobby image, Burke’s has always been a fantastic tool for genealogical and historical research. This new edition has made great strides in becoming more useful and easier to navigate for ordinary family historians."
Family History Monthly, March 2004.

"This is the book to choose if appearing on Desert Island Discs. It would have kept Robinson Crusoe entertained even after the arrival of Man Friday!"
Double Tressure, (The Heraldry Society of Scotland magazine) February 2004.