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Estate records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents relating to the management of all aspects of a landed estate, which is to be considered property of notable extent which may include, as general examples, any of the following: dwellings; outbuildings; grounds; pasturage; arable land; woodland; water courses. For papers concerning the administration of personal estates, in the narrow legal sense, on death see 'Estate inventories', 'Probate records'' and 'Probate accounts'.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.231- is now Acc.7043.
Scope and Contents

Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.

Dates: 1673-circa 1947.