Family papers.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Personal papers of members of a single family; usually of parents and their children, but sometimes including papers of spouses and their families as well.
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
Diaries and letter books of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm and other members of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family including his sons, George and Pulteney Malcolm.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12150/1-58
Scope and Contents
Diaries, letter books and commonplace book, 1835-1884, of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm (1782-1851) his sons, Rear Admiral George John Malcolm (1830-1884), and Pulteney Malcolm (1831-1852) of the Bengal Civil Service, and of George John Malcolm's wives, Ottonie von Dungern (1841-1866) and Sophie von Brockdorff (1846-1927).
Dates:
1820-1884.
Documents of and concerning Mrs Margaret Oliphant and her relations.
Series
Identifier: Ch.17355-17359
Scope and Contents
Consists of: documents of and concerning Mrs Margaret Oliphant 1852, 1897, (Ch.17355-17356), her niece Janet Mary, 1895, (Ch.17357) and two possible forebears Margaret Grige, 1715, (Ch.17358) and Thomas Oliphant, 1760, (Ch.17359).
Dates:
1715, 1760, 1852-1897.
Estate and family papers, 16th century-18th centuries, of the Livingstons, Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, with some correspondence, 19th century, of the family of Forbes of Callendar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9635-9639
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Estate, legal and family papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies, including some of the families of Edmonstoune and Buchanan.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9941-9981
Dates:
1545-1927.
Estate, legal and family papers, of the military family of Graeme of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19590-19599
Dates:
1555-1918.
Family and genealogical papers of the family of Mackintosh of Farr.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9853-9855
Dates:
1799-1937, undated.
Family, business and estate papers of the Borthwicks of Crookston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13699/1-20
Dates:
1779-1868, undated.
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.
Family papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
Series
Identifier: MSS.5320-5404
Scope and Contents
Both families were descended from Archibald Stuart of Castlemilk and Fynart (died 1660).
Dates:
Late 15th century-Early 20th century.
Family papers of the Frasers of Belladrum, 1563-1786; including a copy of one earlier document 1203x1222 concerning Brice De Douglas, Bishop of Moray and John Bisset of Lovat.
File
Identifier: Acc.11244
Dates:
1563-1786.
Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8190-8462
Dates:
1540-1945.
Family, political and personal correspondence and papers of the Abercromby family, chiefly of James Abercromby (1776-1858), 1st Baron Dunfermline, with some correspondence and papers of his wife Marianne (died 1874), and of their son Ralph, 2nd Baron and diplomatist (1803-1868), and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.24725-24774
Scope and Contents
James Abercromby was Judge Advocate General, 1827; Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court, Scotland, 1830-1832; a member of the Whig Cabinet as Master of the Mint, 1834; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1835-1839; and created 1st Baron Dunfermline, 1839.Much of the family correspondence is from Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron and from and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Minto. With the papers are a few letters, 1909-1912, to Alexander Lockhart Trotter,...
Dates:
1798-1887, undated.
Formal documents and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Taylor, rector of Musselburgh Grammar School.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14271-14272
Dates:
1800-1936, undated.
Formal documents from the Dunlop papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.8443-8481
Scope and Contents
The documents are mostly marriage-contracts, burgess-tickets, and similar documents concerning members of the Dunlop family in the 17th and 18th centuries. Three items concern William Dunlop`s affairs in South Carolina, 1688-1689 (Ch.8456-8458). An inventory is available.
Dates:
1628-circa 1860.
Formal documents from the General Sir George Brown papers.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2478-2513
Dates:
1782-1864.
Formal documents from the papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15208-15240
Dates:
1823-1887.
Formal documents from the Yule collection.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.2416-2476
Scope and Contents
Several documents are accompanied by a transcript or a summary by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1604-1736, 1843.
Formal papers from the collection of James Anderson, W.S.
Series
Identifier: Ch.A.143-204
Scope and Contents
Some of the papers concern Anderson`s and his wife`s family, but the majority relate to cases in which he was professionally concerned or otherwise interested.
Dates:
1644-1722, undated.
Further papers of William Walls.
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14364/1-7
Scope and Contents
The papers contain personal and family correspondence of William Walls and two of his own notebooks detailing exhibitions and pictures sold, with additional papers on the Walls family tree compiled by his descendants.
Dates:
1845-1992.
Lady Lucinda Mackay Archive
Collection
Identifier: MSS.50707-50842
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the personal life and artistic career of Lady Mackay (b.1941). The papers contain correspondence, sketchbooks and loose artworks, writing drafts and proofs, school records, personal and art-related photographs, family papers, and career-related ephemera.The collection has been arranged into five distinct series as follows:1. Correspondence of Lucinda Mackay (with friends, close acquaintances, painting subjects, patrons, other artists, and...
Dates:
1941-2022
Legal documents and other formal papers of the family of Henry Mackenzie, `The Man of Feeling`.
Series
Identifier: Ch.5813-5831
Dates:
1707-1867.
Letters and documents of Captain William Leith, Stromness, and his sons.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4968
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:Peter Leith to Capt William Leith, 15 Sept 1798.Capt William Leith to Peter Leith, 28 June 1800.Nicholas Leith to Capt William Leith, 3 June 1801.Nicholas Leith to Capt William Leith, 1 April 1802.Charles Leith to Capt William Leith, 28 Jan 1804.Peter Leith to Capt William Leith, 8 March 1804.William Leith to Capt William Leith, 5 July 1804.Nicholas Leith to Capt...
Dates:
1798-1846, undated.
Letters and papers associated with the son and daughters of Allan Ramsay, the painter, and their relations.
Series
Identifier: MSS.2903-2908
Dates:
1752-1859, undated.
Letters and papers of the family of Stewart of Newton, afterwards Stewart of Lochrig.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1792-1793
Scope and Contents
The letters and papers deal chiefly with family matters; some describe the doings of officers of the 7th Dragoons and 56th Foot.
Dates:
1705-1835, undated.