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 1259 Collections and/or Records:
Estate papers, including rentals, and miscellaneous personal and household accounts and papers of the Scawen family., 1695-1779, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12946
Dates:
1695-1779, undated.
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 chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Scawen and Meade family papers.
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 Douglas family of Springwood Park., 1742-1945.
Series
Identifier: MSS.8030-8091
Estate papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., Early 16th century-1903, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17129-17497
Dates:
Early 16th century-1903, undated.
Estate papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies., 1545-1888, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9949-9958
Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families., 1801-1956.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/421-993
Estate papers of the Ogilvy family of Inverquharity.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.158- is now Acc.5012.
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Estate Papers relating to Pitsligo., 2nd half of 17th century.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/497
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
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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Pitsligo and New Pitsligo estate papers.
Estate Papers relating to Pitsligo., 2nd half of 17th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/498
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.
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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Pitsligo and New Pitsligo estate papers.
Estate Papers relating to Pitsligo., 2nd half of 17th century - 1st quarter of 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/499
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century - 1st quarter of 18th century.
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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Pitsligo and New Pitsligo estate papers.
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.
Estate rentals., 1783-1914.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/843-858
Dates:
1783-1914.
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.
Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks., 1883-1889.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5813-5815
Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks., 1883.
File
Identifier: MS.5813
Dates:
1883.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Accounts of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian, from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Estate accounts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks.
Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks., 1887.
File
Identifier: MS.5814
Dates:
1887.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Accounts of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian, from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Estate accounts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks.
Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks., 1889.
File
Identifier: MS.5815
Dates:
1889.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Manuscripts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Accounts of the Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian, from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Estate accounts from the library at Newbattle Abbey.
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Factor's accounts for the Marquess of Lothian's estates in Roxburghshire and Midlothian, with brief accounts for the Newbattle Colliery and Limeworks.
Factors Letters., 1801-1886.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13827/421-471
Dates:
1801-1886.
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.
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.
Family legal and financial papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7107
Scope and Contents
The papers include, in one chronological sequence, formal legal documents such as bonds and contracts (except those too large to be bound, which have been treated as charters), informal legal notes, personal accounts, and estate accounts and papers.
Dates:
1550-1764.
Family papers, chiefly eighteenth to nineteenth century, of the Grahams of Airth.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.10801-10969
Scope and Contents
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
1668-1897, undated.
Family papers, chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Robertsons (a branch of the Robertsons of Strowan), the Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart, and, on the marriage in 1799 of Margaretta Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart with Lieutenant-Colonel David Robertson, son of Principal Robertson, the Robertson-Macdonalds of Kinlochmoidart.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3942-3988
Scope and Contents
Among the papers of the Robertsons the chief correspondents are Principal William Robertson, the historian, and his son William, a Senator of the College of Justice. The correspondence of the Principal includes letters of scholars, British and foreign (Voltaire among others), about his works, information on the American Indians, 1774-1777, and threats regarding his attitude to Roman Catholics, 1778-1779. That of Lord Robertson deals with his legal and political activities and the publication...
Dates:
1608-1913, undated.
Family papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale., 1550-1764.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.7105-7113
Farm Book Account., 1857.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/607
Dates:
1857.
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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Accounts for Fettercairn and other estates.