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Collection name. Chalmers of Auldbar papers

 Record Group
Identifier: Collection name
Chalmers of Auldbar

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the family of Chalmers of Auldbar (or Aldbar), near Brechin.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.15401-15519
Scope and Contents Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: Late 17th century-early 20th century.