Claims. Legal documents.
Found in 92 Collections and/or Records:
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1753-1755.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1756-1762.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1763-1774.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1775-1803, and undated.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1741-1751.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask., 1751-1753.
Papers concerning the estate of Gask, including claims on it after the forfeiture, decreets of the Court of Session on these claims, its purchase by Laurence Oliphant of Condie, the sale of Williamston and Cowgask, a pension for Lady Gask, the transfer of the estate back to the family, the affairs of Alexander MacGregor of Balhaldie, and some discharges., 1741-1803.
Papers concerning the Peers of Scotland., 1707-1761.
Papers concerning the wreck and salvaging of the Dutch East India Company's ship 'Adelaar'., 1728-1738, undated.
Papers connected with the Earldom of Crawford., 18th century, 1808-1834, and undated.
The papers consist of a miscellany of 18th-century papers, some of which relate to Lady Mary Campbell, sister of the 19th Earl of Crawford (folios 1-24), followed by a possibly incomplete collection of letters and papers (including several copies of 18th-century documents) in the unsuccessful claim by Colonel William Claude Campbell to the Earldom of Crawford, 1808-1834, and undated (folios 25-285).
Papers consisting of copies of correspondence, statements, transcripts of documents, and printed legal papers, arranged apparently in a chronological sequence, concerning the competing claims of Reginald George Macdonald of Castletirrim and Alexander Ronaldson MacDonell of Glengarry as Chief of Macdonald., 1822-1824, and undated.
Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Airth by Robert Barclay Allardice of Ury and Allardice (died 1854)., 1835-1839, and undated
Papers in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander (formerly Humphreys)., 1825-1843, and undated.
Papers in the competition to be served nearest heir male general to Alexander, 3rd Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, between Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet, of Newe, and Sir John Stewart Hepburn Forbes, 8th Baronet, of Pitsligo., 1818, ?1828-1833, and undated.
Papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate, and of his clients, and papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of his clients., 1658-1773.
Contains papers of the following: Baird, James, Writer to the Signet, 1707; Bourchier, Charles, Governor of Madras, 1773; Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, 1658; Dempster of Pitliver, 1694-1703; Grant of Balindalloch, 1770-1771; Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton, 1758-1759.
Papers of John Mackenzie, Advocate, and of his clients, and papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of his clients., 1611-1797, undated.
Papers of John Mackenzie, Writer to the Signet, and of various clients., 1735-1768, undated.
Papers received by the 1st Earl of Minto during his absence from India on the Java Expedition., 1811.
Papers (some printed) in the claims to the Polwarth Barony by Anne Anstruther, 1817-1818 (folios 1-46), by Lady Diana Scott, 1824-1825 (folios 47-99), and by Hugh Scott of Harden, 1831, 1833, and undated (folios 100-152)., 1817-1833.
Printed items, 1830-1839, in the claim to the Earldom of Stirling by Alexander Humphreys Alexander., 1830-1839.
Printed papers in Archibald William 13th Earl of Eglinton’s claim to the Earldom of Winton., 1840.
Printed session papers, 1825, 1830-1831, 1834, 1838, 1844, in the claims to the title of Marquess of Annandale, and copies, written in formal hands on paper watermarked 1836, of associated legal papers, 1740, 1765, circa 1792, and undated., 1740-1844.
Riddell`s copy of ‘Abstracts of the Evidence submitted to a jury on Behalf of Andrew Stirling, Esquire, of Drumpellier, claiming to be served heir-male in general of Robert Stirling of Bankeyr and Lettyr’ (1818), containing notes and additions in his hand., 1818.
Rolls of the Mackenzies of Delvine., 1693-1770.
Contains papers of the following: Baird of Newbyth, 1768; Cheap of Sauchie, 1753; Dempster of Pitliver, 1693, 1695; Falconer, 1764; Keith, 4th Earl of Kintore, 1760; Montgomery, 11th Earl of Eglinton, 1770; All these are papers in connexion with serving of heirs.