Financial records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents pertaining to money matters.
Found in 271 Collections and/or Records:
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
Series
Identifier: Ch.8971-10633
Scope and Contents
The charters of the Minto family include titles to all the lands owned by the family in Roxburghshire, Fife, and Angus. The Roxburghshire titles include a few from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but they and the Angus titles are not numerous until the seventeenth century. The earliest Fife titles however go back to the twelfth century, and the series is virtually complete from then until modern times.The lands of Headshaw were acquired by Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet,...
Dates:
12th century-1910, undated.
Collection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts of places in Scotland, partly compiled by Sir John Skene, Lord Curriehill.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.3.15
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i)-(ix) Accounts compiled by Sir John Skene.(i) ‘Ane tabill and repertour of the Cheker Rollis [...] collectit and put in ordour conforme to the number and ordour of Kingis [...] be Mr Jhone Skene [...] 1595.’
(ii) ‘Ane particular and perfyte rentall ... collectit be Maister Johne Skene Clerk of the Register. 1595.’
(iii) ‘The rentall buik of the propertis.’
(iv) ‘Computa et libri thesaurariorum.’
(v) ‘Libri responsionum.’
(vi) ‘Libri...
Dates:
Late 16th century-17th century.
Copies of papers concerning the Exchequer and King’s rents.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.2.17
Scope and Contents
On the first leaf is the inscription “Concerning the Chekker and the Kingis rent 1591”.The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.3.11.The contents are as follows:
(i) Act of Suretie for Angus McConell of Dunecraig, 1591 (folio 3);
(ii) The King’s command to the Seals anent the revocation, 1591 (folio 4);
(iii) Act of Suretie for McClane of Dowart, 1591 (folio 11);
(iv) Copies of papers by the King, Checker,...
Dates:
1546-Late 16th century.
Correspondence and financial and administrative papers of the Sligo and Smith-Sligo family of Inzievar.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8287/1-272
Dates:
1685-1968.
Correspondence and legal, financial and other papers of the Dunlop family.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9250-9307
Scope and Contents
Much of the collection concerns William Dunlop, Principal of Glasgow University, his son Alexander, Professor of Greek at Glasgow, and his grandson John, Tide Surveyor at Greenock. The papers of William Dunlop include material on the colony of South Carolina, the Darien Scheme, and the affairs of the Church of Scotland, while those of Alexander chiefly concern the University of Glasgow. The collection also includes diaries and literary works of John Dunlop of Gairbraid, the temperance...
Dates:
1605-1952.
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19295-19308
Scope and Contents
The correspondence and papers chiefly relate to Donald, 3rd of Geanies and his issue, including a series of letters from members of the family in America in the 1770s and on military and naval service during the Napoleonic wars. The MacLeods of Geanies are descended from the MacLeods of Assynt, a cadet branch of the MacLeods of Lewis. Assynt was lost to the family in the time of Neil, the 9th Baron, and the title but not the estate passed to his brother, John, the family fortunes being...
Dates:
1654-1874.
Correspondence and papers, 1793-1828, of Deputy Commissary General James Ogilvie, together with a small unrelated quantity of letters and chiefly printed papers, 1787-1835, undated, of the sons of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.15201-15336
Scope and Contents
James Ogilvie served throughout the Peninsular War firstly as Assistant, and from 22 March 1812 Deputy Commissary General, and the greater part of the collection relates to this period. It consists of: letters from, and statistical and other returns, vouchers, accounts and other financial papers submitted by, junior officers and clerks of the Commissariat Department; Ogilvie’s letters to the Commissaries General Sir Robert H Kennedy, Sir Charles Dalrymple and Thomas Dunmore, with their...
Dates:
1787-1835, undated.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5139-5164
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
17th century-1928.
Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to the development of the highways and turnpike roads in the County of Angus, in which Patrick Chalmers of Auldbar (died 1854) played an important part.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19584-19589
Dates:
1759-1859.
Correspondence and papers concerning the estates of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, Politician, and of his wife, Madeleine Harriet Dagmar Elliot, née Ryan.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19572-19573
Dates:
1875-1945.
Correspondence and papers, including charters and legal instruments, of the family of Skene of Rubislaw and related families; including papers concerning Sir Walter Scott and the Scott family.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12092/1-108
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of more than 3000 documents, dating from the 1420s to 1980s, mainly relating to the family of Skene of Rubislaw (near Aberdeen). At its centre are the papers of James Skene (1775-1864), artist and friend of Sir Walter Scott. Skene corresponded with notable individuals in the cultural circles of his day and was connected with such organizations as the Royal Institution, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute for the...
Dates:
Circa 1420-1989, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning the painter, Hope James Stewart (died 1881).
File
Identifier: MS.9738
Scope and Contents
The correspondence (folio 1) contains personal letters, letters on financial matters, and letters about his work. A few of these, dated 1885-1888 and addressed to his wife, concern his portrait of Sir William Hamilton. The correspondence is followed by accounts and financial papers (folio 145), and by miscellaneous papers (folio 185).
Dates:
1857-1888, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Thomas and J A Carlyle.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20752-20753
Dates:
1833-1883, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3116-3123
Scope and Contents
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Dates:
1714-1905, undated.
Correspondence and papers of George, Robert and Thomas Gibson, cattle and sheep breeders in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10326-10328
Dates:
1816-1892.
Correspondence and papers of H H MacTaggart.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.8755
Scope and Contents
Concerning MacTaggart`s family and the executry of his father William McTaggart.
Dates:
1877-1972.
Correspondence and papers of James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.1.2(I)-(VIII)
Scope and Contents
Anderson`s personal affairs, his business interests (as lawyer, factor, and Postmaster-General), and his historical researches (which culminated in the posthumous publication of ‘Diplomata Scotiae’) are all represented.
Dates:
1680-1728.
Correspondence and papers of James Skene of Rubislaw (1775-1864), the artist and antiquary; including some earlier material concerning the Skene family.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20465-20476
Dates:
16th century-20th century, undated.
Correspondence and papers of Lieutenant-General William Taylor and his family.
File
Identifier: MS.15981
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Family correspondence of Charles J Taylor with some letters to his wife, 1835-1877, undated, including letters from General Taylor to his son after Charles left India as a child (folio 1); (ii) Financial papers, 1845-1866, of General Taylor (folio 76); (iii) Miscellaneous papers, 1878-1898, undated, chiefly concerning Kenneth N Innes Taylor who died in Argentina in 1898 (folio 156).
Dates:
1855-1898.
Correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet, and his family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7467
Dates:
1796-1916 and undated.
Correspondence and papers of Sir John S Burdon-Sanderson, Baronet, and his wife Ghetal, née Herschell.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20501-20509
Dates:
1828-1931, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the artist William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) and of his wife Isabella ('Belle') Sutton.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9771-9807
Dates:
1798-1927, undated.
Correspondence and papers of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee and Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7548/A/1-G/99
Scope and Contents
The archive of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, 1929-64, together with much 19th and earlier 20th century material, and some items relating to Jewish and Continental Missions.
Dates:
1796-1991, undated.