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Microfilm of family and genealogical papers of the family of Mackintosh of Farr.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.65
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Letters, 1799-1821, of Mrs Catharine Mackintosh of Farr to her sons James John, 4th of Farr, and Alexander, 5th of Farr, in the East India Company's Madras army, chiefly on family and local affairs (MS.9853); 'Notes of the Genealogy of the House of Mackintosh and of the Different Branches of the Name that have Sprung from that ancient House; With the Genealogy of Several other Families connected therewith. Part of which is intended to form an...
Dates:
[1799-1937.]
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
File
Identifier: MS.14883
Scope and Contents
This loose collection of papers belonged to Duncan Campbell, who was born at the farm of Kerrumore, Glenlyon, of which his family had been tenants for three generations. He was editor of the ‘Northern Chronicle’, co-editor of the ‘Highland Monthly’, and author of a number of works relating to Highland history, notably the ‘Book of Garth and Fortingall’. (See ‘Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness’, volume 28, page vi).The papers here described are in many different...
Dates:
17th century-1st quarter of 20th century.
Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-76
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.
Dates:
Circa 1757-1994, undated.
Pocket-book of Sir John Gordon of Invergordon, containing a digest of ten pocket-books of memoranda.
Item
Identifier: MS.108
Scope and Contents
The subjects include a family pedigree with chart and blazonings, accounts of income and expenditure, estate accounts and other business, receipts from the Principality of Scotland, prices, journeys, from Edinburgh to London, politics and elections, household recipes, verses.
Dates:
1754-1759.