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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.

Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.25276-25758
Scope and Contents The outstanding feature of the archive is the correspondence of Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (1726-1792) relating to his intellectual pursuits and legal career. But the archive also contains material concerning early eighteenth century Scotland and British politics in the correspondence of the 1st and 2nd Baronets of Hailes; the very rich personal correspondence and journals of Lord Hailes' daughter and heiress, Christian Dalrymple (died 1838); correspondence and papers of...
Dates: 17th century-early 20th century.

Papers of the Dunbars of Mochrum.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.282
Dates: 1630, 1791, 1798, 1834-1889, early 20th century.

Papers of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9769
Scope and Contents

Concerns principally their estates in Fife and Lancashire, but includes material concerning the creation of the "Bibliotheca Lindesiana", the management of estates in Jamaica, and the literary, diplomatic, and political activities of the family.

Dates: 14th century to 20th century.

Papers of the family of Ballantyne of Holylee.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.253
Scope and Contents

Includes letters of J G Lockhart and Robert Cadell.

Dates: 18th century-19th century.

Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.

 Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.7.14
Scope and Contents The papers, with some exceptions, have been arranged in the following categories:Adv.MSS.80.1.1-80.1.18: Correspondence.80.2.1-80.2.66: Financial papers.80.3.1-80.3.57: Account books.80.4.1-80.4.16: Miscellaneous estate papers.80.5.1-80.5.6: Legal papers.80.6.1-80.6.14: Notes and notebooks of George Dundas of Dundas, Advocate.80.7.1-80.7.14: Miscellaneous papers and books.The main exceptions are...
Dates: 16th century-1924.

Papers of the family of Dundas of Dundas.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9901/1-79
Scope and Contents

Additional estate papers of the Dundases of Dundas consisting mostly of correspondence, legal processes, and miscellaneous management papers, 1741-1890. Correspondence filed with legal processes has not been removed. The original within the bundles of miscellaneous management papers has been retained.

Dates: 1741-1890.

Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.16501-17880
Scope and Contents The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates: 12th century-mid 20th century.

Papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.6141-6155
Scope and Contents

Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet, married in 1843 Henrietta Ramage Liston, the great niece and heiress of Sir Robert Liston, the diplomatist. He then assumed the additional name of Liston before his own.

Dates: 1655-1891.

Papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.27501-27598
Scope and Contents Lockharts held the barony of Lee in Lanarkshire from the 14th century at least, but apart from a few charters this collection dates from the 17th to the early 20th century. The direct line of lairds of Lee, from Sir James, Lord Justice Clerk, and Sir William, Cromwell's ambassador, died out in 1777. Lee then came into the possession of the descendants of Sir James's younger son, Sir George Lockhart, Lord President, who had acquired large holdings of land consolidated into the baronies of...
Dates: 1502-20th century.

Papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.4941-5018
Scope and Contents

The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.

Dates: 1580, 1582, 1631-1907.

Papers of the Fraser family of Strichen; with papers of the Fraser family of Lovat.

 Fonds
Identifier: Dep.327
Scope and Contents

The papers are chiefly those of the Frasers of Strichen. Those of the Frasers of Lovat relate to the Strichen family establishing its claim to the Fraser of Lovat title.

Dates: 15th century-19th 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.

Papers of the Sutherland Estates.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10853/1-681
Scope and Contents Titles, policy papers, leases, rentals, registers of demands, specifications for building works and other papers, largely 1772-1923, of the Sutherland Estates.The papers described here form the second deposit of Sutherland Estates papers for the years 1861-1921, although there is some later material. The main series of estates papers for these years have been deposited as Acc.10225. Included here are the Rentals for the Dunrobin Management previously thought to have been lost....
Dates: 1772-1976, undated.

Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-76
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: Circa 1757-1994, undated.

Photocopy of the extent and value of lands in the estate of Cadboll, Ross-shire, vol 1.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11478
Scope and Contents

Includes information on the parishes of Fearn, Tain, Edderton, Kincardine and Creech.

Dates: 1813.

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Correspondence. 39
Legal documents. 29
Financial records. 25
Accounts. 22
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Manuscripts. 9
Account books. 7
Inventories. 6
Letters. Correspondence. 5
Plans (orthographic projections). 5
Diaries. 4
Genealogies. 4
Lists. 4
Notes. 4
Receipts. Financial records. 4
Administrative records. 3
Copies. Derivative objects. 3
Leases. Contracts. 3
Ledgers. Account books. 3
Legal instruments. 3
Letter books. 3
Memorandums. 3
Poetry. 3
Reports 3
Charters 2
Charters. 2
Deeds. Legal documents. 2
Fettercairn. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Aberdeenshire. Inhabited place. Longitude: -2.5667. Latitude: 56.8500. 2
Fife. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. County. Longitude: -3.0333. Latitude: 56.2500. 2
Journals. Accounts. 2
Literature (writings). 2
Military records. 2
Photographs. 2
Publications. 2
Sederunts. Administrative records 2
Antiphoners. 1
Architectural drawings. 1
Assignations. Legal Instruments. 1
Blazons. Instructional materials. 1
Business records. 1
Cashbooks. 1
Castle of Pitsligo. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Aberdeenshire. Ruins. Longitude: -2.1167. Latitude: 57.6833. 1
Catalogues. 1
Charges. Legal instruments. 1
Chartularies. 1
Commissions. Permissions. 1
Compendiums. 1
Diagrams. 1
Discharges. Legal Documents. 1
Drafts. Documents. 1
Drawings. Visual works. 1
Essays. 1
Estate inventories. 1
Exercise books. 1
Financial statements. 1
Game Books. 1
Genealogical tables. Genealogies. 1
Histories. 1
Jamaica. North and Central America - Jamaica. Island. Longitude: -77.5000. Latitude: 18.2500. 1
Kincardine. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. County. 1
Lancashire. Europe - United Kingdom - England. County. Longitude: -2.6667. Latitude: 53.7000. 1
Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
Marriage-contracts. Contracts. 1
Memorials. Legal documents. 1
Microfilms. 1
Muniments. Legal documents. 1
Notebooks. 1
Pedigrees. Genealogies (histories). 1
Personal papers. 1
Photocopies. 1
Photograph albums. 1
Pitlour House. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Fife - Strathmiglo. Estate. Longitude: -3.2791. Latitude: 56.2861. 1
Pocket books. 1
Printed materials. Object genre. 1
Proceedings. Reports. 1
Recipes. Instructions (document genre) 1
Recipes. Instructions (document genre). 1
Rentals. Records (documents). 1
Reports. 1
Returns. Military reports. 1
Ross and Cromarty. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. County. 1
Signatures. Names. 1
Site plans. 1
Sketchbooks 1
Sketches. 1
Speeches. Documents. 1
Summaries. 1
Tain. United Kingdom - Scotland - Highland. Inhabited place. Longitude: -4.0667. Latitude: 57.8000. 1
Teinds. Legal instruments. 1
Treatises. 1
Typescripts. 1
Wills. 1
Writs. Judicial records. 1
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Dutch; Flemish 1
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Maxwell, family, of Monreith 3
Sutherland Estates 3
Malcolm, family, of Burnfoot 2
Anstruther-Gray, Clayre Jessie Tennant, 1872-1958 (justice of the peace and wife of William Anstruther-Gray) 1
Anstruther-Gray, Monica Helen Lambton, 1915-1985 (justice of the peace and wife of William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray) 1
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Anstruther-Gray, William John St Clair, Baron Kilmany, 1905-1985 (soldier and politician) 1
Anstruther-Gray, William, 1859-1938 (soldier and politician) 1
Ballantyne (family, of Holylee ) 1
Baring, Lady Harriet Mary, 1st wife of 2nd Baron Ashburton, née Montagu, 1805-1857 1
Baring, Louisa Caroline, 2nd wife of 2nd Baron Ashburton, née Stewart-Mackenzie, 1827-1903 1
Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton (succeeded 1848), 1799-1864 1
Blair, family, of Adamton 1
Borthwick, family, of Crookston : author 1
Cadboll Estates, Ross-shire 1
Cadell, Robert, publisher, 1788-1849 1
Cadell, family, of Grange 1
Cameron, family, of Fassiefern 1
Campbell, Jean Helen St Clair, Baroness Stratheden of Cupar and Campbell of St Andrews, nee Anstruther-Gray, d 1956 1
Carlyle, Thomas, essayist and historian, 1795-1881 1
Carnegie, family, of Craigo 1
Cauvin, Joseph, Writer to the Signet, d 1815 1
Chalmers, family, of auldbar 1
Douglas (family, of Cavers) 1
Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Dunbar, family, of Mochrum 1
Dundas, family, of Dundas 1
Dundas, family, of Ochtertyre 1
Fraser, family, of Lovat 1
Fraser, family, of Strichen 1
Gordon, family, of Halmyre and Gordonstoun 1
Graham, Robert Bontine Cunninghame (of Gartmore and Ardoch, author, formerly Bontine) (1852-1936) 1
Graham, Robert Cunninghame Cunninghame, of Gartmore, Ardoch and Finlaystone, formerly Bontine, 1799-1863 1
Graham, Robert Cunninghame, of Gartmore, politician and poet, formerly Graham, then Bontine, 1735-1797 1
Gray (family, of Carntyne and Anstruther ) 1
Gray (family, of Kilmany ) 1
Halkett, John Cornelius Craigie, of Cramond, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1830-1912 1
Hay, family, of Hayfield 1
Henderson, family, of Stemster, Bower 1
Invermay, estate 1
Lindsay, family, Earls of Crawford and Balcarres 1
Lockhart, John Gibson (biographer of Scott) 1
Malcolm, Clementina, wife of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Knight, Admiral, née Elphinstone, d 1830 1
Malcolm, Sir Pulteney, Knight, Admiral, 1768-1838 1
Malcolm, Stephana, sister of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Knight, Admiral, fl 1790-1791 1
Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, 7th Bart., of Monreith, 1845-1937. 1
Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace, 7th Baronet of Monreith, politician and author, 1845-1937 1
Menzies, Elizabeth, wife of William, surgeon, Rannoch, née Robertson, d 1846 1
Menzies, James Alexander Robertson, runholder, politician and provincial superintendent, New Zealand, 1821-1888 1
Menzies, William, surgeon, Rannoch, d c 1839 1
Minto, family, Earls of Minto 1
Monreith estate, Dumfries and Galloway 1
Ogilvy, family, of Inverquharity 1
Palmer Douglas, family, of Cavers 1
Robertson, family, of Struan 1
Sinclair, John, Sir (1st Baronet of Ulbster) 1
Sinclair, family, of Southdun 1
Skene, family, of Pitlour 1
Skirving, Archibald, painter, 1749-1819 1
Smythe, family, of Methven 1
Stuart Forbes (family, of Fettercairn and Pitsligo ) 1
Sutherland, family, Earls and Dukes of Sutherland 1
Tods, Murray and Jamieson, Edinburgh, WS 1
Williamson, family, of Banniskirk 1
Willison, family 1
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