Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including billet books, printed "Transactions", minute book, recent administrative correspondence and other earlier documents.

Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

The Kirkliston Reading Room was opened for the inhabitants of Kirkliston and district in 1904.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The bulk of the material is from the 1970s-1980s, however there are much earlier files in the author correspondence (Acc.10689/1-41) from as far back as 1870.

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The cashbook gives a detailed day-by-day account of William McNeil's income from his work, and his expenditure on raw materials and on the upkeep of his family. The entries for each year are followed by an annual abstract, and throughout the volume are occasional notes on payments to employees and apprentices.

McNeil appears also to have been treasurer of the Reformed Presbyterian meeting house at Pentland, of which the accounts for 1767-1786 appear on folios 220-233 verso.

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There is one entry of 1817 and another of 1825. The entries are partly business and partly personal. There are some memoranda relating mainly to the erection of pumps, with details of costing, and to other mechanical devices, with some medical recipes. Internal evidence suggests that J B may be interpreted as James Bogle.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...

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The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The mill, on the Water of Leith at Currie, began in 1792 and was operated by Henry Bruce (later Henry Bruce and Sons) from about 1850 to 1966. The archive has survived in a rather fragmentary state.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...

Scope and Contents The cashbook contains receipts from fees, 1714-1718, (folios 1-23), miscellaneous expenses, 1718, (folios 23 verso-31), "Accompt of what I have receiv'd of the rents of Kildonand", 1714-1718 (folio 36), and miscellaneous expenses, 1714-1717 (folios 41-72). The volume is assigned to William Eccles on the grounds that it belonged to a doctor practising in Edinburgh, and that according to Sir Robert Douglas in ‘The Baronage of Scotland’, volume i, page 437, the estate of Kildonan...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The accounts are largely of a personal and family nature up to 1812, after which they chiefly concern Ilay Burns' business.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The accounts are largely of a personal and family nature up to 1812, after which they chiefly concern Ilay Burns' business.

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The cash book is incomplete.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The early volumes are general account books, but from 1800 the financial side was divided into three branches. The ledgers, journals, and waste books concerning shipping are distinguished by a letter, those for fish curing by a number, and those for fishing by neither.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The early volumes are general account books, but from 1800 the financial side was divided into three branches. The ledgers, journals, and waste books concerning shipping are distinguished by a letter, those for fish curing by a number, and those for fishing by neither.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

The early volumes are general account books, but from 1800 the financial side was divided into three branches. The ledgers, journals, and waste books concerning shipping are distinguished by a letter, those for fish curing by a number, and those for fishing by neither.