Deeds. Legal documents.
Subject
Subject Source: Other Source
Scope Note: A formal written instrument setting forth the terms of an agreement, contract, or obligation, whether in relation to persons or things, including the voluntary constitution, transmission, or discharge of rights or obligations relating to either movable or heritable property. Source: Bell, William. 'Dictionary and digest of the law of Scotland'.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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.