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Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
File
Identifier: MS.988
Scope and Contents
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Dates:
1769-1777, 1780.
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 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 of the Elliot family of Minto.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
17th century-20th century.
Correspondence and papers of the family of Fleming of Cumbernauld and Biggar, Lords Fleming, and Earls of Wigtown.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.20770-20800
Scope and Contents
The family estates of Cumbernauld and Lenzie in East Dunbartonshire extended into the neighbouring parishes of Monkland in Lanarkshire and Dunipace in Stirlingshire. That of Biggar in Lanarkshire included also some lands in Peeblesshire, where the Flemings were in conflict with the Tweedies of Drumelzier. Members of the family were prominent in public affairs in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the later Earls took little part in them. The male line failed in 1747, and the estates passed to...
Dates:
1440-1960.
Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.1101-1530
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early19th century.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19711-19733
Scope and Contents
The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.
Dates:
1685-1890, undated.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and personal papers of a cadet branch of the Setons of Cariston, Fife, being the family of James Seton, Lieutenant 54th Foot.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19210-19238
Dates:
1747-1890.
Estate account book kept by Alexander Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1732) and his son, John Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1778) recording accounts of charge and discharge, and of rent, 1689-1631, and accounts of money received from tenants, 1733-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.14832
Dates:
1689-1777.
Estate accounts in the hand of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17883-17884
Dates:
1716-1728.
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17885-17886
Dates:
1652-1757.
Estate and family papers, 16th century-18th centuries, of the Livingstons, Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, with some correspondence, 19th century, of the family of Forbes of Callendar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9635-9639
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Estate, legal and family papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies, including some of the families of Edmonstoune and Buchanan.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9941-9981
Dates:
1545-1927.
Estate, legal and family papers, of the military family of Graeme of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19590-19599
Dates:
1555-1918.
Estate rental and account book of the Rose family lands in Nairn and eastern Invernesshire, partly written by Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755).
Item
Identifier: MS.17950
Scope and Contents
Payments are in cash and kind including sheep, poultry and tallow, and contributions towards minister's stipends are also recorded.
Dates:
1724-1742.
Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10801-10969
Scope and Contents
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1668-1897, undated.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.343
Scope and Contents
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Dates:
1768-1772, 1781-1788.
Letters and papers relating to the estate of Durris, Kincardineshire.
File
Identifier: MS.137
Scope and Contents
The chief correspondents are Charles Mordaunt, 4th Earl of Peterborough [‘Peterborrow’], the owner of the estate through the marriage of the 3rd Earl to a daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser; Samuel Mitchelson, Writer to the Signet, his agent in Edinburgh; and Charles Forbes of Shiels and Charles Irvine of Cults, successively factors on the estate. The letters of the Earl contain nothing but claims for remittances; the papers are the accounts of the estate. The letters throw light on the...
Dates:
1741-1755.
Memoranda and accounts of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register, concerning the estates of Clathick, Ryding, Garscadden and Killermont.
File
Identifier: MS.10685
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries concern building and farming operations and agreements with tenants. There are also references to coal-mining on the Ryding estate, and records of crops at Killermont.
Dates:
1799-1820.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to lands and families of Angus, several accompanied by modern transcripts.
File
Identifier: MS.3044
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1626-1686, undated, relating to the lands of Ardoch and Craigo in the Parish of Logie-Montrose (numbers 1-42);(ii) Papers, 1550, 1591, relating to Fullartoun of Ardoch (numbers 43-45);(iii) Correspondence, 1668-1759, of David Carnegy of Craigo and his descendants (numbers 46-53);(iv) Letters and papers, 1612-1726, of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Earls of Kellie (numbers 54-63), including 'En acouent of Lady...
Dates:
1550-1855, undated.
Papers from Nisbet House, Berwickshire.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5410-5508
Scope and Contents
The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.
Dates:
1575-early19th century.