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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:

Transcripts, chiefly, of letters and papers of Sir Hew Campbell of Cessnock and his descendants, and of a few other letters, all of which seem to be connected with the Hamiltons of Silvertonhill.

 File
Identifier: MS.1671
Scope and Contents

All are transcripts except drafts of a clause to be added to the Act of Security, circa 1711, and a letter of John Hamilton, 1775, which are originals.

Dates: 1666-1775, undated.

Typescript of an 'Inventory of the papers of the family of Lawson of Cairnmuir, presented to H.M. General Register House ... by James Lawson ... Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand', compiled by the Keeper of Registers and Records, 1938.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3001
Scope and Contents

The papers, the contents of which are summarized, consist of writs relating to the lands of Cairnmuir, 1423-1700 (folio 1), Netherurd, 1399-1744 (folio 11), and Bryandland, 1438-1742 (folio 23), and miscellaneous papers, 1670-1899, undated (folio 26).

Dates: 1399-1899, undated.