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Copy, 2 September 1801, of marriage contract, 2 September 1747, between James Steuart, writer in Edinburgh, and Alison Ruddiman, daughter of Thomas Ruddiman, Keeper of the Advocates’ Library.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3410
Dates:
1801.
Formal documents from the papers of George Combe, lawyer, phrenologist and educationist.
Series
Identifier: Ch.7595-7610
Dates:
1741-1841.
Further papers of and relating to the Douglas of Cavers family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13843/1-13
Content Description
Family papers including correspondence, formal documents, commonplace book, genealogical notes, miscellaneous writings, photographs, and estate papers
Dates:
1712-1947, undated.
Genealogical notes of Sidney Cramer.
File
Identifier: Acc.9063
Scope and Contents
Includes copies and extracts from birth, marriage and death certificates, with notes and temple ordinance data.
Dates:
1904-1970.
Letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.54.1.2-54.1.4
Dates:
1558-1574.
Marriage contract between James Anderson, cowpar, Leith, and Agnes Mure, relict of Samuel Johnston, notary in Calder.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10088
Dates:
1677.
Marriage contract between Thomas Hodge, at the Bridgend of Calder, and Marie Johnston, daughter of Samuel, notary in Calder.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10087
Dates:
1675.
Marriage contract of James MacGill, younger, of Rankeillour and Joanna Wemyss.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9608
Dates:
1578.
Marriage contracts of James Fraser Tytler, 1810, and George Skene, 1832, with other papers.
File
Identifier: Acc.5212
Scope and Contents
Comprising papers, 1888-1889, on purchase of Keith Marischal, Humbie, and on its displenishing, 1952.
Dates:
1810, 1832, 1888-1889, 1952.
Microfilm of letters and documents of Mary Queen of Scots.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.899
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Marriage Articles, 1558, of Mary Queen of Scots and François II of France; and ‘Memoire des affaires d`escosse pour diceulx estre escript a n[?]e s[?] pere le pape de la part du Roy daulphin [François II] et Royne daulphine [Mary Queen of Scots] soubs le bon plaisir et intencion du Roy’, 1559 (Adv.MS.54.1.2);Letter, 1564, of Mary Queen of Scots to her cousin and brother-in-law Henri d’Angoulême, Abbot de la Chaise-Dieu, natural son of Henri II and...
Dates:
1557-1574.
Microfilm of letters and other papers of Mary Queen of Scots; with one letter of Mary of Guise.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1197
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Last letter written by Mary Queen of Scots, on 8 February, 1587 (the night before her execution), to her brother-in-law, Henri III of France (Adv.MS.54.1.1);Marriage articles of Mary Queen of Scots and François II of France; and ‘Memoire des affaires d’escosse pour diceulx estre escript a n[?]e s[?] pere le pape de la part du Roy daulphin [François II] et Royne daulphine [Mary Queen of Scots] soubs le bon plaisir et intencion du Roy’, 1558-1559...
Dates:
1558-1587.
Papers concerning persons named Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.4310
Scope and Contents
Comprising marriage contracts, 1690, 1781, bond, 1690, and two other papers, 1798, 1804 (Leith and Musselburgh).
Dates:
1690-1804.
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 or concerning the Rev James Smith and his family.
File
Identifier: Acc.11527
Dates:
1803-1856.
Photograph of the marriage contract of Joseph Home of Ninewells and Katherine Falconer, parents of David Hume.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5015
Dates:
1708.