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Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.

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Identifier: Acc.8100/1-156
Scope and Contents Most of these papers consist of titles and estate papers relating to the lands of Carntyne and Shettleston in Glasgow. They are particularly important for the history of the colliery at Westmuir from the death of John Gray of Carntyne in 1796 until that of his grandson, the Rev John Hamilton Gray, in 1867, but there is material from both before, and in particular from after that period. Robert Gray (d.1833) was a resident landowner, and an enthusiastic coalmaster. Though not all the Westmuir...
Dates: 1518-1965, undated.

Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.

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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.

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