Fife. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland. County. Longitude: -3.0333. Latitude: 56.2500.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
27 letters to J Scott.
Concerning the Fife potato trade.
"Accomptt of each Heretores frie Rent with in the Shyre of", Fife.
Contempory copies of correspondence concerning payment by the Leven Railway for passage over the Balgonie estate, Fife, the legal arrangements being made by John Gibson, WS.
Interleaved copy of Erskine Beveridge, "Bibliography of Dunfermline and West Fife" with numerous corrections and additions by the author.
Letters of George Willis, minister in Fife.
Six letters, 1798-1802, of George Willis, Church of Scotland minister in Leslie, Fife. All letters are addressed to Thomas Adams, and in the earliest letter dated 3rd December 1798, Willis complains bitterly about the growing influence of Methodism within the Church of Scotland. Later letters cover a range of topics, not least Willis`s son, his debts, and attempts to find him suitable employment in the East India Company or the Army.
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Papers concerning the Roxburghshire Estate of the Minto family.
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.
Papers of Archibald Shiells, merchant in Edinburgh, and his family.
Includes papers of, and relating to, the family of Wilsone of Murrayshall, Stirlingshire, 1701-1925; and Scottish charters and other legal and administrative documents, mainly from Fife.
Papers of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres.
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.
Scrapbook, 1986-1989, of the International Brigades Committee 1936-1986 containing letters, ephemera and photographs relating to `A Tribute to Democracy` and the Spanish Civil War.
The scrapbook contains some correspondence and mostly ephemeral material relating to the organisation of several public events, lectures, the publication of a booklet and other activities by the International Brigade Committee 1936-1986 to promote knowledge and understanding of the Spanish Civil War in its 50th anniversary.