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Correspondence and papers of the Campbell family of Inverneill.
The archive of the Campbell family of Inverneill formerly kept in Canna House, Isle of Canna. It comprises correspondence and papers mainly of the 18th century, including he the business correspondence of various family members in military or government positions. There is also a component of estate papers concerning estates around Kintyre.
Extracts from official records, journals and newspapers, sixteenth to nineteenth century, relating to the family of Cockburn and their connections.
The family connections include Butler of Harpendean, Congalton (Congilton), Cumming (Cumine), Fairholme, Fortune, Naismith, Rainnie (Rennie, Rainny). The extracts and notes are taken from various registers in HM Register House, Edinburgh Burgh records, local records in Midlothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, and Berwick-on-Tweed, and journals.
Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Papers, chiefly Gaelic, of Duncan Campbell, Inverness (1826-1916).
Printed copy of the standing orders for the Annandale and Eskdale Regiment of Local Militia, with a manuscript diary of a voyage to Canada.
Records of the service of the Home Guard (formerly Local Defence Volunteers).
The records consist partly of histories and statements composed after demobilization and partly of original war-diaries, orders, etc.
Regimental standing orders, 1796, for the 37th Regiment at Gibraltar.
Including:
diary, 1868, of John Maxwell of Baillieston, mostly meteorological
burgess ticket, 1766, of Rutherglen, in favour of Steven Maxwell.