Papers of the Campbells of Craignish.
Scope and Contents
These papers form the main archive of the Campbells of Craignish, as preserved by the late Robert R Campbell of the Board of Education, the head of a senior cadet branch of the family. They consist almost entirely of formal estate records, financial papers, rentals, and accounts, and give in general a good view of the running of a highland estate in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Particulalry interesting in this context are the account books of Donald Campbell of Barrichbean.
The Sunderland papers (Acc.6223/12-14) which came to the Craignish family though the marriage of James Campbell of Craignish to Jean Vyse Campbell, heiress of Sunderland, mostly concern the sequestration of the estate in 1780, and give many detials concerning the system of landholding in Islay in the 18th century.
A small selection of the Craignish papers was published by Herbert Campbell in the Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol. 4, pp.296-9.
Dates
- Creation: 1590-1941.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
15 Folders (15 folders.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, 1974, C K S Aylwin, London.2 October 1974
Subject
- Campbell, family, of Craignish (Family)
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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