Estate records.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Documents relating to the management of all aspects of a landed estate, which is to be considered property of notable extent which may include, as general examples, any of the following: dwellings; outbuildings; grounds; pasturage; arable land; woodland; water courses. For papers concerning the administration of personal estates, in the narrow legal sense, on death see 'Estate inventories', 'Probate records'' and 'Probate accounts'.
Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:
Account of charge and discharge between John, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, and William Robertson, writer in Edinburgh, in respect of the Earl's estate.
File
Identifier: MS.988
Scope and Contents
With account of final balance signed in 1780.
Dates:
1769-1777, 1780.
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.
Building plans and drawings of agricultural buildings and installations on the Pitsligo, Fettercairn, and Invermay estates.
Series
Identifier: Acc.6780/1-77
Scope and Contents
A collection of plans and drawings of agricultural buildings in Perthshire, Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire. The estates concerned were owned by Lord Clinton and the Forbes family.
The plans were originally numbered in red, but the sequence is incomplete.
Dates:
1871-1893, undated.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.5139-5164
Scope and Contents
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Dates:
17th century-1928.
Correspondence and papers concerning the estates of the Honourable Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot, Politician, and of his wife, Madeleine Harriet Dagmar Elliot, née Ryan.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19572-19573
Dates:
1875-1945.
Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.11001-13496
Scope and Contents
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
17th century-20th century.
Correspondence and papers of the families of Ramsay of Ochtertyre and Dundas of Ochtertyre.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.10719/1-207
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of the families of Ramsay and Dundas of Ochtertyre in Kincardine-of-Menteith, Perthshire, principally of the latter family.
Dates:
1619-1897, undated.
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.
Correspondence and papers of the Mackenzies of Delvine and their clients.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.1101-1530
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate and a Principal Clerk of Session, of Cramond and later of Delvine (died 1731), his sons Alexander, Writer to the Signet and a Principal Clerk of Session (died 1737), and John, Writer to the Signet, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet (died 1778), and Alexander's grandson Sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baronet, Writer to the Signet (died 1835); formed a distinguished line of lawyers who were active in the affairs of their day and...
Dates:
Late 17th century-early19th century.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and legal papers of the Hunters of Glencarse and Seaside.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19711-19733
Scope and Contents
The contents consist chiefly of the papers of Charles Hunter, Cadet, of Seaside and relating in particular to the sale of his estates in 1848. Also papers of his son, Andrew Hunter, Coffee Planter, Ceylon. Andrew Hunter's papers are of considerable interest providing some useful material for plantation management and colonial life in the Ceylon of the early 1860's.
Dates:
1685-1890, undated.
Correspondence, estate, financial, and personal papers of a cadet branch of the Setons of Cariston, Fife, being the family of James Seton, Lieutenant 54th Foot.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19210-19238
Dates:
1747-1890.
Documents, accounts, memorials and other estate papers, mostly 18th-19th century, relating to the lands of Monreith and the Maxwell family; also some papers relating to property in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 1643-circa 1700.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.299
Dates:
1643-19th century.
Estate account book kept by Alexander Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1732) and his son, John Horsbrugh of Horsbrugh (died 1778) recording accounts of charge and discharge, and of rent, 1689-1631, and accounts of money received from tenants, 1733-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.14832
Dates:
1689-1777.
Estate account books for the 7th Earl of Haddington.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14833-14834
Dates:
1744-1768.
Estate accounts in the hand of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17883-17884
Dates:
1716-1728.
Estate accounts written on the blank leaves, now separated, of the protocol books, late 16th century, of George Abernethy and James Drummond, notaries in Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17885-17886
Dates:
1652-1757.
Estate and family papers, 16th century-18th centuries, of the Livingstons, Earls of Callendar and Linlithgow, with some correspondence, 19th century, of the family of Forbes of Callendar.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9635-9639
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Estate, legal and family papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies, including some of the families of Edmonstoune and Buchanan.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.9941-9981
Dates:
1545-1927.
Estate, legal and family papers, of the military family of Graeme of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven.
Series
Identifier: MSS.19590-19599
Dates:
1555-1918.
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.
Estate papers of the Ogilvy family of Inverquharity.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.158- is now Acc.5012.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Estate rental and account book of the Rose family lands in Nairn and eastern Invernesshire, partly written by Hugh Rose of Kilravock (died 1755).
Item
Identifier: MS.17950
Scope and Contents
Payments are in cash and kind including sheep, poultry and tallow, and contributions towards minister's stipends are also recorded.
Dates:
1724-1742.
Family and estate papers of the Maxwells of Monreith, including correspondence, financial papers and bound estate papers.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.231- is now Acc.7043.
Scope and Contents
Also included are general and literary correspondence, 1863-1933, and some literary manuscripts of Sir Herbert Maxwell, seventh baronet.
Dates:
1673-circa 1947.
Family and estate papers of the Oliphant family of Gask.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.82.1.1-82.9.16
Dates:
1509-19th century.
Family, business and estate papers of the Borthwicks of Crookston.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13699/1-20
Dates:
1779-1868, undated.