Cellar books
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Books in which the stock of wines and spirits held in a person's cellar are recorded and accounted. The information recorded may vary between particular cellars, but will usually include: dates; the names of the wines and spirits held, and the number of each; any adjustments through use, spoilage or addition; and notes.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cellar book of Sir Charles Elliot., 1873-1875.
Item
Identifier: MS.21231
Dates:
1873-1875.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot Murray Kynynmounds, Earls of Minto, of related families, and of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, whose career was associated with that of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Papers and correspondence of the Honourable Sir Charles G J B Elliot, Admiral of the Fleet.
Discharge of wine from the cellar in the Canongate., 1762-1764.
Item
Identifier: MS.17102
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1762-1764.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Financial papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household inventories and accounts of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Various account books, Airth., 1728-1751.
File
Identifier: MS.10899
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: house-books, 1732-1734; meal-book, 1728-1730; day-book, 1732-1733, including the cost of wine, meal, victual, butter, pigfeed, nails and cooperwork; meal distribution book, 1732-1733; wine-book, 1732-1734; and household cash-books, 1735, 1751.
Dates:
1728-1751.