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A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.12871-13000
Scope and Contents

Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.

Dates: 1436-1820.

A miscellaneous collection of documents.

 File
Identifier: Ch.5901-5910
Scope and Contents

Ch.5902-5903 and Ch.5905 refer to members of the Pitcairn family of Forthar; the remainder concern transactions between John Mowat and James Fullarton, burgesses in Edinburgh. Ch.5901 is an abstract of the documents.

Dates: 1653-1661.

Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.13001-15207A
Scope and Contents

More detailed lists of contents are available on request.

Dates: 1161x1162-1902, undated.

Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates: 12th century-1910, undated.

Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.15475-15500
Scope and Contents

These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.

Dates: 1777-1908, undated.

Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9446/1-422
Scope and Contents

The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).

Dates: 1847-1982.

Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11628/1-323
Dates: Majority of material found within 1885, 1925, 1931-1996, undated.

Correspondence and papers of Mary Buchanan Drew, with correspondence of Lady Lilian Adam Smith.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14385/1-74
Scope and Contents The main part of the collection comprises the correspondence between Lady Lilian Adam Smith and her eldest daughter, Mary ['Maisie'] Buchanan Drew. These letters contain detailed, diary-like letters relating domestic matters, news and comments on current affairs, and family anecdotes and reflections, between the 1910s and Lady Lilian's death in 1949 and covering both World Wars. The collection also includes a series of Mary Buchanan Drew's journals, with a detailed account of her relocation...
Dates: c.1900-1972.

Correspondence and papers of the families of Ramsay of Ochtertyre and Dundas of Ochtertyre.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.10719/1-207
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers of the families of Ramsay and Dundas of Ochtertyre in Kincardine-of-Menteith, Perthshire, principally of the latter family.

Dates: 1619-1897, undated.

Correspondence, notebooks, journals and other papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, Bishop Robert Douglas, and of the Douglas family and estates.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10229/1-132
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers, literary manuscripts and journals of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (1744-1823) and of earlier members of the Douglas family, mainly his great-grandfather, Robert Douglas (1625-1716), Bishop of Brechin, 1682-1684, and the last Bishop of Dunblane (1684-1689) in the pre-Revolution episcopal establishment of the Church of Scotland; and his father, John Douglas of Fechil in the parish of Ellon, Aberdeenshire (1714-1762).

Dates: 1597-1823.

Diaries and letter books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm and other members of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family including his sons, George and Pulteney Malcolm.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12150/1-58
Scope and Contents

Diaries, letter books and commonplace book, 1835-1884, of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm (1782-1851) his sons, Rear Admiral George John Malcolm (1830-1884), and Pulteney Malcolm (1831-1852) of the Bengal Civil Service, and of George John Malcolm's wives, Ottonie von Dungern (1841-1866) and Sophie von Brockdorff (1846-1927).

Dates: 1820-1884.

Documents of and concerning Mrs Margaret Oliphant and her relations.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.17355-17359
Scope and Contents

Consists of: documents of and concerning Mrs Margaret Oliphant 1852, 1897, (Ch.17355-17356), her niece Janet Mary, 1895, (Ch.17357) and two possible forebears Margaret Grige, 1715, (Ch.17358) and Thomas Oliphant, 1760, (Ch.17359).

Dates: 1715, 1760, 1852-1897.

Formal documents from the Dunlop papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.8443-8481
Scope and Contents

The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.

Dates: 1628-circa 1860.

Formal documents from the Yule collection.

 Collection
Identifier: Ch.2416-2476
Scope and Contents

Several documents are accompanied by a transcript or a summary by Alexander Macdonald.

Dates: 1604-1736, 1843.

Formal papers from the collection of James Anderson, W.S.

 Series
Identifier: Ch.A.143-204
Scope and Contents

Some of the papers concern Anderson`s and his wife`s family, but the majority relate to cases in which he was professionally concerned or otherwise interested.

Dates: 1644-1722, undated.

Further papers of William Walls.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents

The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.

Dates: 1845-1992.

Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates: 1941-2022

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Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 2
Smith, Sir George Adam, Knight, Old Testament scholar and geographer, 1856-1942 2
Bannerman, David Anne (wife of Reverend James Bannerman) 1
Bannerman, James, Professor of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology, Free Church New College, Edinburgh, 1807-1868 1
Borthwick, family, of Crookston : author 1
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Brown, James, Minister of St James' Church, Paisley, 1835-1890 1
Brown, Robert, Minister of Cumnock, d 1847 1
Buchan, John Norman Stuart, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1911-1996 1
Cadell, family, of Grange 1
Dallas, family, Nairn 1
Douglas (family, of Cavers) 1
Douglas, Sylvester, Baron Glenbervie, politician and diarist, 1743-1823 1
Douglas, family 1
Drew, Charles Smith, 1893-1970 1
Drew, Lilian Mary Buchanan, 1894-1980 (née Adam Smith, wife of Charles S. Drew) 1
Dundas, family, of Ochtertyre 1
Ewart, Gavin Buchanan, poet, 1916-1995 1
Fraser, family, of Belladrum 1
Graham, James Stewart, son of William M, Minister of Ardersier, b 1918 1
Graham, James Thomas, Minister of Dean Park, 1842-1914 1
Graham, William MacMaster, Minister of Ardersier, b 1887 1
Gray, family, of Carntyne and Anstruther 1
Gray, family, of Kilmany 1
Hamilton, Jane Hay, daughter of Robert Brown, Minister of Cumnock, née Brown, fl 1820-1899 1
Home, family, of Whitfield and Ninewells 1
Leith, William, Stromness, Captain, fl 1798-1846 1
Macarthur, family, Nairn, Scotland, Manitoba, Canada 1
Mackay, Lucinda Louise, Lady, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Inchcape (artist) (b 1941) 1
Malcolm, Clementina, wife of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Knight, Admiral, née Elphinstone, d 1830 1
Malcolm, George John, Rear Admiral, 1830-1884 1
Malcolm, Pulteney, Bengal Civil Service, 1831-1852 1
Malcolm, Sir Charles, Knight, Vice-Admiral, 1782-1851 1
Malcolm, Sir Pulteney, Knight, Admiral, 1768-1838 1
Malcolm, Stephana, sister of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Knight, Admiral, fl 1790-1791 1
Miller, James, painter, 1893-1987 1
Pinkerton, family, of Lyttle Park, Renfrewshire 1
Smith, Lilian Adam, 1866-1949 (née Buchanan, wife of Sir George, Knight) 1
Walls, William, painter, 1860-1942 1
Willison, family 1
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