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Accounts concerning the estate of Maria de Jonge (wife of Cornelis de Jonge of Ellemeet, Receiver-General of the United Provinces),bequeathed, in 1732 to her daughter, Maria Margaretta, Baroness North and Gray, later Lady Elibank.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.81.4.3-81.4.6
Dates:
1732-1744.
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.
Estate papers, legal documents and personal and household financial papers of the family of Cameron of Fassifearn.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.9174/1-46
Scope and Contents
Thepapers comprise letters of and to members of the Cameron of Fassifern family (chiefly John Cameron of Fassifern, Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassifern and Sir Duncan Cameron of Fassifern, and, to a lesser extent, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and Donald Cameron of Lochiel), estate and household papers, legal deeds and accounts and other papers concerning Lieutenant Colonel John Cameron and his regiment, the 92nd Foot. A miscellaneous section includes inventories of furniture and books at Fassifern...
Dates:
1643-1901, undated.
Papers concerning the Roxburghshire Estate of the Minto family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10912
Scope and Contents
Includes title deeds, 1492-1956, to lands which came into the possession of the Minto family in Roxburgshire and one deed, 1781, concerning land in Fife. With other papers, 1751-1975, on the administration of the family`s estates, family trust and settlement papers, bonds, inventories, valuations, probate records and plans.
Dates:
1492-1975.
Papers of the family of Carnegie of Craigo, 15th-20th century, of Joseph Cauvin, Writer to the Signet, 1795-1817, and of John Craigie Halket of Cramond, 1861-1910.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.267
Dates:
15th century-20th century.
Papers of the Skene family of Hallyards in Midlothian.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.2.10
Scope and Contents
Most of the documents belonged to John Skene (died 1644), the second son of Lord Curriehill, and to his son John, 2nd of Hallyards (died before 1699).The subjects include estate matters (in particular, the teinds of Hallyards) and political matters such as the sequestration of goods in the second half of the 17th century, and the raising and quartering of troops. The elder Skene was a Clerk of Session, and a number of legal papers are included in the volume, one of which (folio...
Dates:
1563-1710.