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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:

Financial and executory papers of Archibald Skirving, painter.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10102
Scope and Contents

Includes lists of his effects, paintings, accounts for frames and valuations of pictures.

Dates: 1800-1819.

Financial and legal papers for Lochgelly and Melgund estates., 1599-1813.

 File
Identifier: MS.13294
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Miscellaneous estate accounts and receipts for Lochgelly and Melgund, 1808-1813 (folio 1); (ii) Memoranda, miscellaneous legal papers, reports, etc., for Lochgelly, 1599, 1655, 1663, 1682, 1704-1746 (folio 69), and for Melgund, 1726-1746 (folio 206).

Dates: 1599-1813.

Financial papers concerning the estate of Wells., 1735-1780, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12932
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Estate accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel William Elliot of Wells, 1735-1752, undated (folio 41); (ii) Rentals of Wells, Ormiston and Haddon, 1759-1760 and 1773-1778 (folio 26); (iii) Letters of Gilbert Eliott of Otterburn, tenant at Wells and estate factor, to Anthony Chamier, 1773-1780 (folio 52).

Dates: 1735-1780, undated.