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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.
Fonds
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.
Albums of letters and documents, almost entirely of Scottish interest, written by or relating to historical celebrities, and dealing with public and private affairs.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2955-2956
Dates:
1589-1881.
Antiquarian papers of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, advocate and antiquary.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.19.2.16-19.2.27
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of materials for a projected history of Dumbartonshire (Adv.MS.19.2.16-19.2.24), materials towards a projected work on the Scottish religious houses on the Continent (Adv.MS.19.2.25), and notes and extracts of Scottish interest from manuscripts in continental libraries (Adv.MS.19.2.26), together with a record of the bequest of Dennistoun`s manuscripts and a calendar of them (Adv.MS.19.2.27). The papers were arranged and bound by Mark Napier, executor of James...
Dates:
?1825-1856.
‘Epistolæ Regum Scotorum’, a register of correspondence of State, including contemporary copies of royal letters.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.5.9
Scope and Contents
The description is taken from the “Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library. I. State Papers, part I (F.R.184)
Dates:
1505-1545, 1576-1626.
Formal deeds, correspondence and papers relating to the burgh of Selkirk.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.236
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Letters and legal documents of the Napier family of Merchiston.
File
Identifier: Acc.14371
Content Description
A collection of 55 documents bound into a large volume, ca. 1900, where they are mostly mounted onto the pages. Items 1-29 are legal documents; 30-40 concern early 17th-century family matters; 41-50 concern domestic Scottish affairs during the reign of Charles I, and 51-55 relate to events in the reign of Charles II.
A list of the documents is kept with the volume.
Dates:
1465-1689.
Papers concerning the families of Gardiner, Milne, and Gregor, Banffshire.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7798
Dates:
1721-circa 1944.
Papers concerning the lands of Kermuck and Ellon, and the family of Gordon of Ellon.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.274-is now Acc.12804
Dates:
1495-1959.
Papers concerning Thurso.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.3621
Scope and Contents
Comprising:
1. papers, 1855-1918, and undated, of William and James Gerry
2. 40 title deeds, 1668-1872, of property in Thurso
3. balance sheets, 1893-1898, of the Caithness Flagstone Co.
Dates:
1668-1918, and undated.
Papers of the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6803
Dates:
15th century to 19th century.
Papers of the Rutherfurd family of Edgerston.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7676
Scope and Contents
Including deeds and legal and financial papers, with some correspondence.
Dates:
14th century to 19th century.
Single manuscripts and small collections, presented at various times.
File
Identifier: MS.2224
Dates:
1652-1928, undated.