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Papers of Adam Elder, emigrant to Australia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13214
Scope and Contents Papers, 1902–1927, of Adam Elder (1879-1961), emigrant to Australia. Adam Elder was born in Hawick, Scotland, in 1879. After serving an apprenticeship to the joiner trade, he moved to Glasgow where he acquired significant knowledge of building construction and trained in sanitary science. In 1903 he was appointed Assistant Sanitary Inspector of the Burgh of Port Glasgow and in 1906 he became Sanitary Inspector and Inspector of Cleansing of the same authority. Adam Elder emigrated to...
Dates: 1902-1927.

Papers of and concerning A J McNeill Reid and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6925
Scope and Contents

Including correspondence concerning a biography of Alexander Reid.

Dates: 1866-1968.

Papers of and concerning John Mackinnon.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7428
Scope and Contents

Seven documents:

will, 1807, of Roderick Mackinnon

two letters, 1838, of Major Macdonald, 93rd Highlanders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia

furlough, 1835, containing physical description of John Mackinnon

pay list, 1839, of a recruiting party at Stornoway

discharge certificate, 1842, of John Mackinnon

certificate of pledge, 1849, of the Marine Temperance Society of New York.

Dates: 1807-1849.

Papers of and concerning the painter Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.19245-19250
Scope and Contents

A member of the Glasgow School and a friend of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Arthur Walton exhibited regularly at both the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours.

Dates: 1891-1925.

Papers of and concerning William Murray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7323
Scope and Contents

Including photographs and copies of letters concerning Murray`s military service in the First World War.

The papers were received in three installments.

Dates: 1911-1977 and undated.

Papers of Handel Kay, municipal engineer.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10350
Scope and Contents

Papers concern Kay`s professional career and the town of Denholm, Roxburghshire.

Dates: 1919-1979.

Papers of Hercules Ross.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50264-50265
Scope and Contents

Papers include copies of letters sent to Lord Nelson and letters sent by Ross during his time as a merchant at Kingston, Jamaica.

Dates: 1782- circa 1891.

Papers of James Spence Ritchie (1916-1994.)

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13819/1-68
Dates: Majority of material found in 1837-1838, 4th quarter 19th century, [1914 and after] ?1920s, 1930-1994.

Papers of the family of Holden of Baldovie.

 ...
Identifier: Acc.11272-is now MS.50266

Papers of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13593
Scope and Contents Papers, c.1910-1970s, of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.Werner Bienert was born in Thale Am Harz, Germany in1902 to a sawmill owner. His early life until 1922 was spent working in the timber trade in Germany and Holland before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924 on a year’s visa. There he met his future wife, Rose Tinney, with whom he had three children. They were married in 1925 before Bienert was forced to move back to Germany, settling in Hamburg. The...
Dates: c.1903-1979

Personal and political papers of Eustace George Willis, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, with some photographs and memorabilia.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13208
Scope and Contents Personal and political papers, memorabilia and photographs, 1911–1976, of Labour politician Eustace George Willis (1903–1987). Willis was educated at the City of Norwich Secondary School. He served in the Royal Navy from 1919 until 1930. He was a bookseller and lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1932 until 1964. Willis was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North in the 1945 General Election but was defeated in 1950. He contested again Edinburgh...
Dates: 1911-1976.

Photographs of the Dobson family, Edinburgh.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12288
Scope and Contents

Includes two letters and a certificate.

Dates: circa 1900-1952.

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Letters. Correspondence. 29
Certificates 24
Correspondence. 20
Certificates. 14
Notes. 9
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Photographs. 9
Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 9
Diaries. 8
Memorandums. 8
Accounts. 5
Marriage certificates. 5
Legal documents. 4
Passports. 4
Photocopies. 4
Translations. Documents. 4
Abstracts. Summaries. 3
Birth certificates. 3
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Genealogies. 3
Medals. 3
Microfilms. 3
Petitions. 3
Photograph albums. 3
Poetry. 3
Speeches. Documents. 3
Discharges. Legal Documents. 2
Indentures. Legal Instruments. 2
Instructions. Document genre. 2
Invitations. 2
Lectures. 2
Ledgers. Account books. 2
Lists. 2
Pamphlets. 2
Rentals. Records (documents). 2
Reports 2
Reports. 2
Sketches 2
Wills. 2
Account books. 1
Accounts of intromissions. 1
Advertisements. 1
Agreements. Legal instruments. 1
Albums. 1
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 1
Audiotapes. Sound recordings. 1
Ballads. 1
Bills of lading. 1
Biographies. 1
Bonds of relief. Legal instruments. 1
Bonds. Legal instruments. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Charters. 1
Cheques. 1
Circular letters. 1
Claims. Legal documents. 1
Class cards (University). 1
Class certificates (University). 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Commonplace books. 1
Contracts. Agreements. 1
Course work. 1
Death certificates. 1
Decrees arbitral. Legal instruments. 1
Denholm. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Scottish Borders. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.6833. Latitude: 55.4500. 1
Depositions. Testimonies. 1
Descriptions. Documents. 1
Dispatches. 1
Drafts. Documents. 1
Drawings. Visual works 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Engravings. Prints. 1
Ephemera. 1
Epitaphs. 1
Essays. 1
Exhibition catalogues. 1
Financial records. 1
First World War (1914-1918). 1
Forms. Documents. 1
Fragments. 1
Gardening. 1
Glasgow. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Glasgow. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.2500. Latitude: 55.8833. 1
Government records. 1
Halifax. North and Central America - Canada - Nova Scotia. Inhabited place. Longitude: -63.5833. Latitude: 44.6333. 1
Histories. 1
Indictments. Legal documents. 1
Inventories. 1
Katanning. Oceania - Australia - Western Australia. Inhabited place. 1
Leases. Contracts. 1
Lecture notes. 1
Literature (writings). 1
Liturgy. 1
Manuscripts. 1
Memorandums. Legal documents. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Minute books. 1
Minutes. Legal documents. 1
Missives. Legal documents. 1
Moulyinning. Oceania - Australia - Western Australia. Inhabited place. 1
Notebooks. 1
Novels. 1
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Language
English 32
Undetermined 14
French 1
German 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Beneficent Society of Bo'ness 1
Bienert, Werner, German Language Teacher, 1902-1988 1
Boyd, family 1
Buchan, Anna Masterton, author, pseudonym O Douglas, 1877-1948 1
Buchan, J Walter, head of the Commercial Bank, Peebles, brother of John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1882-1953 1
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Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, author, publisher, Governor-General of Canada, 1875-1940 1
Buchan, Susan Charlotte, Baroness Tweedsmuir, née Grosvenor, 1882-1977 1
Carlyle, Alexander James, Rector of St Martin's and All Saints', Oxford, 1861-1943 1
Chalmers, Thomas (Principal of New College, Edinburgh) 1
Dobson, family, Edinburgh 1
Dowden, John, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1840-1910 1
Duncan, John Weir, surgeon, 1826 or 1827-1850 1
Duncan, John Weir, surgeon, 1826 or 1827-1850: recipient 1
Dunlop, John, International Brigader, Spanish Civil War, 1915-2006 1
Elder, Adam, Sanitary Inspector of Port Glasgow and emigrant to Australia, b 1876 1
Fairley, John A, local historian, fl 1900-1929: recipient 1
Fleming, David Hay, antiquary, 1849-1931 1
Hart, Alexander, Bonnymuir radical, 1794-1876 1
Hart, John, brother of Alexander, Bonnymuir radical, fl 1814 1
Hay, Richard Augustine (canon and antiquary) 1
Holden, family, of Baldovie 1
Johnston, James Frederick Junor (Major-General) 1
Jones, Edmund Morse, physician, fl 1843 1
Jones, Thomas, physician, fl 1786 1
Kay, Handel, municipal engineer, fl 1906-1987 1
Kerr, Roderick Watson, poet and author, d c 1973 1
Kirk, John, Minister of Barry, d 1858. 1
Lapraik, John (poet) 1
Lapraik, Thomas, Muirkirk, fl 1810-1843 1
Livingstone, Robert Moffat, son of David, explorer and missionary, pseudonym Rupert Vincent, 1846-1864 1
Lochhead, Marion Cleland, journalist, editor and author, 1902-1985 1
Lockhart, Sir James Haldane Stewart, Knight, colonial official and art collector, 1858-1937 1
Mackinnon, John, Sergeant, 93rd Highlanders, fl 1807-1849 1
Mackinnon, Roderick, Lieutenant, North Carolina Highlanders, d c 1807 1
Marine Temperance Society of New York 1
Murray, William, Edinburgh, chartered accountant, fl 1911-1978 1
Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, naval officer, 1758–1805 1
Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, publishers and printers 1
Reid, A J McNeill, art dealer, d c 1977 1
Reid, Alexander, art dealer, 1854-1928 1
Ritchie, James Spence, former keeper of manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, Stepfather of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston. 1
Ritchie, Margaret Macrae Ward (née Junor, then Johnston, mother of Major-General James Frederick Junor Johnston) 1
Ross, Henrietta née Parish (wife of Hercules Ross) 1
Ross, Hercules, merchant, 1745-1816 1
Ross, Horatio, 1801-1886 (Sportsman) 1
Sim, William, colour manufacturer, b 1843 1
Smith, Hazel Elizabeth Simpson Goodsir, 2nd wife of Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, née Williamson, 1928-2004 1
Smith, Sydney Goodsir, poet, playwright, 1915-1975 1
University of Edinburgh 1
University of St Andrews 1
Williamson, George Sinclair, physician and army officer, fl 1855 1
Willis, Eustace George, Labour MP and Minister of State for Scotland, 1903-1987 1
de Lautour Ross, Hercules (Deputy Inspector-General, United Provinces Police) 1
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