Estate inventories.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists, catalogs, accounts, or schedules, made by an estate executor or administrator of the tangible and intangible property of the estate, describing the items or classes of property so as to be identifiable and usually placing a value on each.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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.
General financial, legal and miscellaneous papers of the Cunninghame Graham, family., 1826-1936.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11335/162-176
Dates:
1826-1936.
Inventories of titles and title deeds., 1828-1902.
Series
Identifier: Acc.10853/1-2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
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:
1828-1902.
Inventory of the means and estate of Francis Charteris, afterwards (1787) de jure Earl of Wemyss, given up by his Tutors (Helen Charteris, nee Swinton, his matemal grandmother, and others), perhaps on the death of his grandfather, Colonel Francis Charteris, in 1732.
Item
Identifier: MS.3928
Scope and Contents
The inventory includes lands, chiefly in East Lothian, bonds, and the plenishings of houses in Edinburgh and at Stonyhill and Amisfield (Newmill) in East Lothian. Among these are guns and pistols at Edinburgh and paintings at Edinburgh and Stonyhill.
Dates:
[1732, or after.]
Inventory of the whole houses on the lands of Fettercairn and Goseslie which belong to the Proprietor and the Barron Courts of Fettercairn., 1740-1782.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/792
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1740-1782.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Miscellaneous Fettercairn Estate Management Papers.
Inventory, showing the contents of the estate of Fettercairn, belonging to Sir John Stuart., 1812.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/804
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1812.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Miscellaneous Fettercairn Estate Management Papers.
Legal and financial papers, relating to the Wells executry, including inventories of the personal estate of William Elliot and accounts discharged by his executors., 1797, 1818-1825.
File
Identifier: MS.11928
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1797, 1818-1825.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Executries and related papers concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers concerning the executry of William Elliot of Wells, the trustees of Wells estate, and the litigation of Sir William Francis Elliot, 7th Baronet of Stobs, with the latter (1819-1829).
Miscellaneous Fettercairn Estate Management Papers., 1773-1957.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/789-832
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1773-1957.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
Miscellaneous financial records and related correspondence, including papers relating to other estates and houses., 1804-1950.
Series
Identifier: Acc.8816/116-159
Miscellaneous papers collected by Angus Martin, including drafts of parts of Martin's 'Kintyre: the hidden past', with annotations by George Campbell Hay, and material concerning Hay and his family., 1974-1987, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26752
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Angus Martin became a personal friend of George Campbell Hay in the 1970s.
Dates:
1974-1987, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Home family of Whitfield and Ninewells., 1772-1910, undated.
File
Identifier: Acc.6976/3
Scope and Contents
Including an inventory of stock at Mount Aeolus, the Homes' estate in Dominica, 1804.
Dates:
1772-1910, undated.
Papers and correspondence of the Sinclairs of Southdun., 1750-1820.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9872/52-57
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Containing the correspondence, accounts and papers of three Caithness families, the Williamsons of Banniskirk, the Sinclairs of Southdun and the Hendersons of Stemster, Bower. The papers span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. The bulk of the papers relate to the Ulbster estates in Caithness, under the Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Williamson's and Captain David Henderson's respective factorships. There are letters relating to The Caithness Fencible Regiment and the Caithness Highlander...
Dates:
1750-1820.
Papers of Charles Baxter, Writer to the Signet, relating to his role as executor of members of the Stevenson family.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9977/1-63
Scope and Contents
Concerning Baxter's work as executor of Thomas Stevenson, his wife Margaret, and their son, Robert Louis Stevenson, with additional material relating to the literary estate of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dates:
1830-1983.