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:
Invermay, rentals book, includes Pitsligo and Tyrie., 1866-1868.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/523
Dates:
1866-1868.
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.
Journal of men and horses labour on the farms of Fettercairn House., 1806-1807.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/888
Dates:
1806-1807.
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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Fettercairn Day Books and Work Books.
Judicial papers chiefly concerning the financial affairs of the Dalrymple family., 1652-1738.
File
Identifier: MS.25774
Judicial papers chiefly concerning the financial affairs of the Dalrymple family., 1654-1742, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.25775
Judicial papers chiefly concerning the financial affairs of the Dalrymple family., 1660-1739.
File
Identifier: MS.25779
Judicial papers concerning Janet Rochead, nee Dalrymple, and the tailzie of the estate of Melgund,, 1686-1740.
File
Identifier: MS.25778
Judicial papers concerning Newhailes estate., 1599-1898, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.25773-25787
Dates:
1599-1898, undated.
Judicial papers concerning the Langlands and Darling families, skippers in Queensferry and Leith., 1660-1668.
File
Identifier: MS.25776
Ledger and other financial papers of the Chalmers of Auldbar family, relating to Auldbar Castle.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13904/1-2
Content Description
Ledger recording estate and household expenditure by the Chalmers of Auldbar family, relating to Auldbar Castle; with a small number of related financial papers which were loosely inserted in the volume.
Dates:
Circa 1766-1818.
Ledger containing ‘Accounts of the monies expended & the work executed on the Barony of Strathbrock’, now Uphall, belonging to the Earl of Buchan.
Item
Identifier: MS.343
Scope and Contents
The accounts were begun ‘by John Millar, Precentor of Uphall and School Master of the Parish, and continued by Ebenezer Faichney, Overseer to the Earl of Buchan'. They relate mainly to the estate of Kirkhill; but they include also some household and personal expenses of the Earl, who passed and signed the accounts, a summary of the enclosures on the estate of Kirkhill, 1780 (folio 26), and a list of the Statute work of the barony (folio 103).
Dates:
1768-1772, 1781-1788.
Ledger including farm and house related expenditure., 1858-1860.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/612
Dates:
1858-1860.
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.
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall. , 1655-1891.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6145-6152
Dates:
1655-1891.
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1655-1681.
File
Identifier: MS.6145
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1682-1694.
File
Identifier: MS.6146
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1707-1797, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.6147
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1807-1842.
File
Identifier: MS.6148
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1843-1849.
File
Identifier: MS.6149
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1850-1857.
File
Identifier: MS.6150
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1858-1859.
File
Identifier: MS.6151
Legal and estate papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall., 1860-1891.
File
Identifier: MS.6152
Legal and financial papers of and concerning George Seton., 1822-1848.
File
Identifier: MS.19220
Scope and Contents
Included are accounts of George Seton's executorship of the estate of David Miller, mariner (died 1812) (folio 1); papers relating to his marriage in 1825 (folio 7); his purchase of Potterhill, Perth in 1833 (folio 11); and papers concerning the settlement of his estate on his death in 1842 (folio 13).
Dates:
1822-1848.
Legal, financial, and estate papers concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, Lord Advocate, and Sir James, 2nd Baronet., 1686-1725, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17723
Dates:
1686-1725, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Papers concerning individuals and families related to the Fletchers of Saltoun, and concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers concerning friends and associates of Lord Milton.
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Papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Hailes, Lord Advocate, and Sir James, 2nd Baronet.
Legal, financial and estate papers of the family of Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath., 1502-20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.27528-27598
Dates:
1502-20th century.
Legal, financial, ecclesiastical and estate papers of the Douglas and Palmer-Douglas families of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11228/1-123
Dates:
1568-1948, undated.
Legal papers concerning Hannagalla Coffee Plantation, Ceylon., 1844-1865.
File
Identifier: MS.19227
Scope and Contents
In 1844 Bruce Bremner, his brother Dugald, and Alexander Geddes, an Aberdeenshire farmer, entered into partnership to purchase and cultivate this plantation, Geddes being the resident partner. Included here are copies of the 1844 agreement (folios 1,6), and of the case between Bruce and Dugald Bremner v Mrs Bathurst Geddes, widow of Alexander, in 1854 (folio 9), there are also plans of the Hannagalla estate, 1854, 1856 (folios 6-19), and insurance policies for Hannagalla coffee shipped from...
Dates:
1844-1865.