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 77 Collections and/or Records:
Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10801-10969
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1668-1897, undated.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.
File
Identifier: Acc.10102
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.
Dates:
1800-1819.
Formal and legal documents, financial records and correspondence of the Skene family of Pitlour.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8468/1-172
Scope and Contents
Includes charters and other formal documents, cash books, ledgers, estate papers and letters.
Dates:
1330-1915.
Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13827/1-1103
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
15th-20th centuries
Further political and estate papers of the Anstruther-Gray family of Kilmany, Fife.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14335
Scope and Contents
Comprising the political, military, and personal papers of Lt. Col. William Anstruther-Gray [formerly Anstruther-Thomson] and William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, with family estate records, hunting and game books, and photographs.
Dates:
1791-1985.
Genealogical notes of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11019
Scope and Contents
Includes loosely inserted family and estate papers.
Dates:
1776-1942 and undated.
Ledger and other financial papers of the Chalmers of Auldbar family, relating to Auldbar Castle.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13904/1-2
Content Description
Ledger recording estate and household expenditure by the Chalmers of Auldbar family, relating to Auldbar Castle; with a small number of related financial papers which were loosely inserted in the volume.
Dates:
Circa 1766-1818.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.343
Scope and Contents
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Dates:
1768-1772, 1781-1788.
Legal, financial, ecclesiastical and estate papers of the Douglas and Palmer-Douglas families of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11228/1-123
Dates:
1568-1948, undated.
Letters, 1812-1852, to William Menzies, his wife Elizabeth and their son James.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11488
Scope and Contents
Includes letters and papers, 1679-1834 and undated, concerning the Robertsons of Struan, and poetry in English and Gaelic, undated.
Dates:
1679-1852 and undated.
Letters and papers of the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Argyll.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.3.5
Scope and Contents
Most of the papers concern the settling of the 1st Duke`s affairs after his death in 1703, with particular reference to his estate at Chirton in Northumberland. Many of the letters are addressed to James Anderson, Writer to the Signet, who was acting on behalf of Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Argyll.
Dates:
1682-1720.
Letters and papers relating to the estate of Durris, Kincardineshire.
File
Identifier: MS.137
Scope and Contents
The chief correspondents are Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough [‘Peterborrow’], the owner of the estate through the marriage of the 3rd Earl to a daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser; Samuel Mitchelson, Writer to the Signet, his agent in Edinburgh; and Charles Forbes of Shiels and Charles Irvine of Cults, successively factors on the estate. The letters of the Earl contain nothing but claims for remittances; the papers are the accounts of the estate. The letters throw light on the...
Dates:
1741-1755.
Maxwell of Monreith papers, comprising family and estate correspondence, financial papers, and bound estate papers; with early charters of Maxwells and of Blair of Adamton. Includes general and literary correspondence, and some literary manuscripts, of Sir Herbert Maxwell.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7043/1—Adamton/18
Scope and Contents
This archive constitutes the bulk of the surviving family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith. It gives a clear picture of Maxwell family life, and the running of the Monreith estate from the early 18th century to 1920, with some later estate material. Some of the papers go back to the early 17th century, but the formal estate books begin in 1779, and from then on increase steadily in number and comprehensiveness until from 1893 to 1920 there is scarcely a detail of estate...
Dates:
Majority of material found within [1296]-1947, undated.
Memoranda and accounts of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register, concerning the estates of Clathick, Ryding, Garscadden and Killermont.
File
Identifier: MS.10685
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries concern building and farming operations and agreements with tenants. There are also references to coal-mining on the Ryding estate, and records of crops at Killermont.
Dates:
1799-1820.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to lands and families of Angus, several accompanied by modern transcripts.
File
Identifier: MS.3044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1626-1686, undated, relating to the lands of Ardoch and Craigo in the Parish of Logie-Montrose (numbers 1-42);(ii) Papers, 1550, 1591, relating to Fullartoun of Ardoch (numbers 43-45);(iii) Correspondence, 1668-1759, of David Carnegy of Craigo and his descendants (numbers 46-53);(iv) Letters and papers, 1612-1726, of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Earls of Kellie (numbers 54-63), including 'En acouent of Lady...
Dates:
1550-1855, undated.
Office records of Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, WS.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.301
Dates:
1726-1888.
Papers and correspondence of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot, principally of Sir Pulteney Malcolm; with related estate papers, diaries and a small group of papers concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6684/1-49
Scope and Contents
These papers form the surviving archive of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot near Langholm. They consist principally of letters received by the immediate family circle of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1768-1838): his wife, Clementina Elphinstone, his sisters Agnes, Wilhelmina, Helen, and Stephana, and his son William Elphinstone Malcolm (1817-1907). The letters are almost all from members of the family, but this in no way detracts from the interest of the collection. The careers of Sir...
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.
Papers and correspondence of the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9872/1-178
Scope and Contents
Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates:
circa 1678-circa 1907.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.166- is now Acc.5074.
Dates:
1881-1882
Papers concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6943
Scope and Contents
Including 17th century copies of four charters, 1353-1412, and other estate papers, 1558-1950.
Dates:
1353-1950.
Papers concerning the Roxburghshire Estate of the Minto family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10912
Scope and Contents
Includes title deeds, 1492-1956, to lands which came into the possession of the Minto family in Roxburgshire and one deed, 1781, concerning land in Fife. With other papers, 1751-1975, on the administration of the family`s estates, family trust and settlement papers, bonds, inventories, valuations, probate records and plans.
Dates:
1492-1975.