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 1 Collection or Record:
Papers and correspondence of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot, principally of Sir Pulteney Malcolm; with related estate papers, diaries and a small group of papers concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6684/1-49
Scope and Contents
These papers form the surviving archive of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot near Langholm. They consist principally of letters received by the immediate family circle of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1768-1838): his wife, Clementina Elphinstone, his sisters Agnes, Wilhelmina, Helen, and Stephana, and his son William Elphinstone Malcolm (1817-1907). The letters are almost all from members of the family, but this in no way detracts from the interest of the collection. The careers of Sir...
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.