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Financial records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Accounts of and concerning Andrew Hunter., 1846-1865.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19726-19731
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Andrew Hunter was co-owner with Alexander Hood of the Nanoo Oya and Talawa Kelle coffee estates in Ceylon. As a planter, Hunter was concerned with the road building programme, he was also secretary of the St Andrews Club in Nuwara Eliya, and latterly was involved in the administration of the island as a Justice of the Peace. These interests are reflected in his papers which relate to the period 1847-1866 with a concentration on the early 1860's. Andrew Hunter died in 1866 shortly after...
Dates: 1846-1865.

Accounts of Montrose Church.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3048-3049

Accounts of Pinkie household and estate., 1662-1785.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14714-14716
Scope and Contents From the Series: The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates: 1662-1785.

Accounts of the collieries and salt-works of the family of Wemyss of Bogie.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3086-3088
Scope and Contents

On the death of Sir John Wemyss, 2nd Baronet, in January 1719, the property is conducted for Sir James, 3rd Baronet, by tutors. Sir James first signs for himself, with his curators, in April 1726 (MS.3088, page 121).

Dates: 1705-1732.

Accounts of the Faculty of Advocates Library., 1727-1765.

 File
Identifier: F.R.134
Scope and Contents

Contains accounts between the curators and Thomas Ruddiman, 1727-1750, and accounts between the curators and the Treasurer, 1751-1765.

Dates: 1727-1765.

Accounts of the families Stuart of Castlemilk, and the Stuarts of Torrance, chiefly relating to estates of Castlemilk and Milton., 1796-1825.

 File
Identifier: MS.5325
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers consist of miscellaneous legal documents, estate papers, letters, account-books and legal volumes, not only concerning the Stuarts of Castlemilk and Torrance, but also the Crawfurds of Milton; this family was linked to the Stuarts of Castlemilk when Margaret Crawfurd, heiress to the entailed estate of Milton, married Sir William Stuart, 2nd Baronet, of Castlemilk.

Dates: 1796-1825.

Accounts of the families Stuart of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance, relating to the estates of Castlemilk and Milton., 1661-1796.

 File
Identifier: MS.5324
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The papers consist of miscellaneous legal documents, estate papers, letters, account-books and legal volumes, not only concerning the Stuarts of Castlemilk and Torrance, but also the Crawfurds of Milton; this family was linked to the Stuarts of Castlemilk when Margaret Crawfurd, heiress to the entailed estate of Milton, married Sir William Stuart, 2nd Baronet, of Castlemilk.

Dates: 1661-1796.

Accounts of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall, 1684-1689, 1886-1887.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6153-6155
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet, married in 1843 Henrietta Ramage Liston, the great niece and heiress of Sir Robert Liston, the diplomatist. He then assumed the additional name of Liston before his own.

Dates: 1684-1689, 1886-1887.

Accounts of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside., 1764-1871, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19716-19718
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.

Dates: 1764-1871, undated.

Accounts of the Treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates concerning charges and discharges., 1696-1702.

 File
Identifier: F.R.41
Scope and Contents

Includes an inventory of bonds for the current Dean of Faculty and Mr John Fairholm, Treasurer. Signed by John Mackaile.

Dates: 1696-1702.