Wills.
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
11 letters of George Douglas Brown to Tom Smith.
Mostly on personal matters and mentioning his own academic and literary work.
Including:
letter, 1901, of Brown to John Smith, concerning "The House with the Green Shutters"
manuscript copy, 1902, of Brown`s will.
Abstract, 1817, of will of 1807 and codicil of 1813 of George William Leslie, 13th Earl of Rothes.
Account book of the executors of Alexander McCrae, Kingston, Jamaica, who died in 1796, containing extracts from McCrae's will concerning a trust for his children, and abstracts of the trustees' accounts.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Commonplace book, 1863-1896, of Robert Dickson Glover, a merchant at Roslin and later in Portobello.
The book contains verses, historical and literary material, notes of events in Roslin, 1869-1873, and fragments of a diary for 1895-1896. A later hand has added copies of poems and of the will, May 1927, of John Glover who died in 1933 (folio 96).
Correspondence, family papers, formal documents and research material concerning the Elphinstone family of Lopness.
Deed, 1697, of sale of a tenement in Leith to James Balfour, Director of the Darien Company, and Adolphus Murray, and will, ?1699, of James Balfour.
Formal documents from the Hunter of Glencarse papers.
Formal documents from the papers of James Augustus Grant and his family.
Formal documents from the papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University.
These documents relate to Professor Traill`s family the Traills of Tirlot in Orkney, his daughter`s family, the Omonds, and the Grahams of Breckness and Gorthie.
Formal documents from the Seton and Bremner papers.
Formal documents relating to Major-General John Brown and General Sir George Brown.
Holograph will of Francis Jeffrey dated 29 March 1848.
The will appears to have been registered at the General Register House in 1850 (folio 1 verso). Preceding it is a letter, 1909, of John Smart, Writer to the Signet, forwarding the manuscript to W K Dickson.
Letters and papers of the Urquhart family of Burdsyards, in Morayshire, together with some legal documents, chiefly from the parish of St Fergus, Aberdeenshire.
Microfilm of 'Parte of the life of Lady Margaret Cunningham, Daughter to the Earle of Glencairn yt she had wt her first husband the master of Evandale. The just and true account yrof as it was first written wt her oun hand’, 1608, with letters and her will, 1607, 1622.
Miscellaneous formal documents relating to the Urquhart family of Burdsyards.
An inventory is available.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Papers concerning the administration of the estate of Thomas Carlyle.
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Papers of and concerning John Mackinnon.
Seven documents:
will, 1807, of Roderick Mackinnon
two letters, 1838, of Major Macdonald, 93rd Highlanders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia
furlough, 1835, containing physical description of John Mackinnon
pay list, 1839, of a recruiting party at Stornoway
discharge certificate, 1842, of John Mackinnon
certificate of pledge, 1849, of the Marine Temperance Society of New York.
Papers of and concerning the Cairns family.
Including:
1. documents, 1855-1862, concerning the Reverend David Cairns
2. lectures, 1911-1941, of the Reverend Dr William T Cairns, on church history
3. 28 letters, 1944-1948, of Agnes Mure Mackenzie to Alison Cairns, on her own writings and Saltire Society activities.
Papers of and concerning the Holden family of Baldovie; with a document concerning Thomas Greig, and with genealogical notes on the Guthries of Guthrie.
Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.
Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.