Legal documents.
Found in 2019 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the family of MacLeod of Geanies.
Correspondence and other papers of Andrew Stuart concerning the affairs of the Dukes of Hamilton., 1702-1799, undated.
The subjects include: management of the Hamilton estates in England, legal and financial business, and political affairs in Lanarkshire.
Correspondence and papers, 1740-1741, concerning Sir Robert Munro of Foulis, and legal and financial papers, 1732-1762, undated, concerning Primrose, Earls of Rosebery, especially James, 2nd Earl, and his children., 1732-1762, undated.
Following upon an incident during the Council elections at Dingwall, Sir Robert Munro was charged before the High Court.
Lord Milton was one of the trustees of James, 2nd Earl of Rosebery.
Correspondence and papers, 1804-1853 and undated, of members of the families of Mungo Park and his brothers-in-law, Andrew and Thomas Anderson.
Includes two formal documents, 1627 and 1659.
Correspondence and papers, 1807-1815, and printed legal papers, 1808-1810, concerning the lawsuit between Admiral John Elliot and Archibald Cochrane of Ashkirk concerning Essenside Loch., 1807-1815.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
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.
Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament., 1685-1807, undated.
Correspondence and papers concerning London property of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1894-1898.
The papers here concern primarily salaries, etc., for military service, payments for the purchase, letting, and repair of London property, marriage trusts, and dealings with bankers and stockbrokers.
Correspondence and papers concerning the 1st Earl of Minto's management of the impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey, formerly chief Justice of Bengal, for his conduct of the trial of the Maharaja Nand Kumar., 1787-1788.
Correspondence and papers concerning the claim to the baronetcy of Foveran by Arthur Forbes, 9th of Culloden.
Correspondence and papers concerning the executory of Eliza Forsyth Ross of Dingwall., 1849-1850.
The active executor was George Cameron, sheriff-substitute of Dingwall, but one of the others was the Reverend Peter Mackenzie.
Correspondence and papers concerning the executry and family trusts of Patrick Brydone, father-in-law of the 2nd Earl of Minto, from the Brydone family lawyer, John Russell, later Principal Clerk of Session., 1818-1829.
Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829)., 1792, 1797, 1818-1831, 1842.
Correspondence and papers concerning three trusts of which Sir George H Scott-Douglas was a trustee., 1855-1937.
The papers concern the following:
(i) John Waldie of Hendersyde trust, 1855-1884 (folio 1);
(ii) Hannah Charlotte Douglas's marriage settlement trust, 1859-1932 (folio 83);
(iii) Margaret Turnbull trust, 1880-1937 (folio 150).
Correspondence and papers from the Riddell Collection., 1607-1859, and undated.
The papers relate to: peerage cases and forfeited peerages arranged in alphabetical order of title (Adv.MS.26.1.1-26.1.29); landed families and baronetcies, arranged in alphabetical order of family (Adv.MS.26.2.1-26.2.12); various legal and other topics (Adv.MS.26.2.13-26.2.23).
Correspondence and papers, genealogical and legal, of Robert Anderson, Writer in Elgin, concerning principally the claim of James Grant, serving in Lord John Murray`s Regiment, to be retoured heir to the estate of Dalvey (Inv. XLIII, Mac. 67)., 1752, 1759-1760.
Many of the papers bear notes by Rose.
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.
Correspondence and papers, mostly legal and financial documents, of J G Thomson and Co, Ltd. and associated companies and other organisations., 1776-1981.
Associated companies and other organisations represented in the records include: The Carfraemill Hotel Co, Ltd; The Barnton Hotel Ltd; Barclay Perkins and Co, and Messrs Cockburn and Murray; The Littlemill Distillery Co; and the Scottish Wholesale Wine Distributors' Association.
Correspondence and papers of A H E L Holt.
Concerning chiefly Holt`s work as a railway engineer in Iraq, 1916-1932 and undated, and as a soil consultant in Sudan, 1952-1958.
Also includes:
papers and notebooks, 1884-1929 and undated, of his father-in-law, the Reverend E M Macphail
papers, 1880-1907 and undated, concerning the claim by Stewart Soutar Johnstone to the Marquesate of Annandale.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Christian Dalrymple of Hailes., 1775-1838, undated.
Christian Dalrymple (1765-1838) was the heiress of Lord Hailes, being his daughter by his first marriage to Anne Brown. Although she inherited the Newhailes estate in 1792, the title passed to her cousin, James Dalrymple, who became 4th Baronet of Hailes. Christian Dalrymple did not marry. Her papers consist largely of family correspondence and her journals which provide a detailed record of her daily life over nearly forty years.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Colonel Francis Charteris of Amisfield (a cousin of Lady Milton) and his grand-son Francis Charteris (formerly Wemyss, later Earl of Wemyss), of whose tutors Lord Milton was one., 1666-1755, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning James Walter Buchan., 1901-1965, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet of Hailes., 1684-1725, undated.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes., 17th century-18th century.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes., 1714-1782, undated.
Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of Hailes (1692-1751) was MP for Haddington Burghs, 1722-1734, and Auditor-General of the Exchequer, 1721-1751. He married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas, 6th Earl of Haddington in 1725.