Family papers.
Found in 199 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous personal and business papers and family photographs of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1916-1977, undated.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Miscellaneous Traill family papers., 1670-1863, undated.
The papers include geographical notes and tables; a list of guests at the wedding of Robert Omond and Mary Eliza Traill, 1838; extracts from the journal of Thomas Rickman, the architect, concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, 1811-1819; papers of Traill's executors, 1862-1863; and notes by Traill on fossil fishes found at Skaill, Orkney, published in ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’, volume XV, part 1, 1841.
Miscellaneous volume of family and service correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander and Sir Thomas Cochrane., 1779-1847, 1855-1856.
Mitchell of Balbardie., 1687-1702, 1733.
The papers relate in particular to the difficulties of Patrick Kinninmond (d 1701), the last laird of that name.
Moultray of Roscobie, 1680-1725, with an inventory, 1748., 1680-1725, 1748.
This group consists mainly of discharges, and records the clearances of incumbrances on the estate of Roscobie.
Moultray of Roscobie, 1710, 1727, with inventories, 1710, 1741, 1748., 1710-1748.
The papers relate in particular to the difficulties of Patrick Kinninmond (d 1701), the last laird of that name.
Murray family papers, including correspondence, financial papers, diaries, journals, notebooks and passports., 1826-1953.
The principal Murray family members are John Murray III (1808-1892), Sir John Murray IV (1851-1928), Alexander Henry Hallam Murray (1854-1934) known as Hallam, brother of John, Murray IV, resigned from the firm in 1908, Katherine Evelyn Murray nee Leslie (1878-1938) known as Evie, wife of John Murray IV and Sir John Murray V (1884-1967) known as Jack.
Papers, 1598-circa 1802, of the family of Ogilvie of Barras, with many concerning the preservation of the Scottish Regalia in 1651., 1598-1893.
Also included is correspondence, 1892-1893, on the restoration of the belt of the Sword of State by the Reverend Samuel Ogilvy Baker (folios 1-7 verso).
Papers concerning the education, careers, activities and interests of the Paul family., 17th century-1910.
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Papers concerning the families of Edmonstoune and Buchanan., 1694-1886.
Papers of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway, 1747-1761, undated, and of his wife and children, 1749-1760., 1747-1761, undated.
Papers of Dr Robert Douglas, his wife, and his family., 1784-1839.
Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester., 1486-1915, undated.
Papers of Robert Tod and his family., 1751, undated.
Papers of Sir Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of John and Robert Haliburton of Newmains, merchants (John Haliburton & Company)., 1743-1756, undated.
Contains smaller receipts, etc., chiefly connected with the business of the firm represented by the papers in MS.1563.
Papers of Sir Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of Robert Haliburton of Newmains, merchant in Edinburgh, and the firm of John and Robert Haliburton of Newmains (John Haliburton & Company)., 1741-1770, undated.
Included are many accounts and other papers of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, as agent of the Haliburtons, with letters addressed to him.
Papers of the 1st Earl of Tweeddale., 1591-1672, undated.
Papers of the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale., 1624-1697, undated.
Papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale., 1777-1806, undated.
Papers of the 10th Earl of Angus, the 1st and 2nd Marquesses of Douglas, the Duke of Douglas, and their families., 1592-1759.
Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession., 1321-1707, 1712, 1761-1762.
Papers of the family of Douglas., 1592-1759.
Papers of the Johnston family., Circa 1796-1920, undated.
Includes biographies and histories of members of the Johnston family, and business records of W and A K Johnston, Ltd, founded in 1826 by William and Alexander Keith Johnston.
Papers of the Ker family., 1575-early 19th century.
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.