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:
Measure for cattle., 1815.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/800
Scope and Contents
File includes a copy of a poem composed by Alexander Thomson Gardiner at Castlemilk in Spring 1797 after the death of his master Sir John Stuart Bart., undated; a letter of Thomas Livingstone, on the death of Charles, the son of the (unknown) recipient, 1806.
Dates:
1815.
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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Miscellaneous Fettercairn Estate Management Papers.
Memoranda and accounts of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun, Lord Clerk Register, concerning the estates of Clathick, Ryding, Garscadden and Killermont.
File
Identifier: MS.10685
Scope and Contents
Most of the entries concern building and farming operations and agreements with tenants. There are also references to coal-mining on the Ryding estate, and records of crops at Killermont.
Dates:
1799-1820.
Memoranda-book, 1729, of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, with estate accounts, 1721-1722., 1721-1729.
Item
Identifier: MS.16996
Dates:
1721-1729.
Memorial of Sir John Stuart against Archibald Ferguson, a tenant at Craigniston and Coldstream., 1803-1804.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/837
Dates:
1803-1804.
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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Other Estate Papers.
Microfilm of various notebooks of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Item
Identifier: MS.17887 [Mf.MSS.184]
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) MS.E 111. Accounts of General Henry Fletcher as colonel of the 35th Regiment with his agents Gray and Ogilvie (later Ross and Ogilvie), 1775-1794 and 1794-1798;(ii) MS.B 83. Labourers' wages, 1750-1765;(iii) MS.C 203. Cottars' book, 1780-1802, detailing rents and repairs;(iv) MS.C 204. List of letters received by Andrew Fletcher, auditor of exchequer, November 1755-April 1764, with (inverted) a list of prints;...
Dates:
1750-1802.
Minto estate papers., 1658-1913, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.13187-13202
Minto family wills and settlements., 1829-1858.
File
Identifier: MS.11940
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Two autograph copies of the Countess of Minto's will, February 1829 (folio 1);
(ii) Copies of the 2nd Earl of Minto's will and codicils, with related papers and memoranda, 1852, 1858, largely in his own hand (folio 8);
(iii) Autograph will of Lady Harriet Elliot, sister of the 2nd Earl, and other papers relating to the settlement of her estate, 1825 (folio 43);
(iv) Correspondence and papers, 1825, relating to the marriage settlement of Lady Catherine Elliot...
Dates:
1829-1858.
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 of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Legal and financial correspondence and papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Papers on family trusts and marriage settlements of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto.
"Minute book. Keep'd by Alex. Dalziel, factor for the Revd. and Right Honble. John Earl of Glencairn, relative to his Lordship's affairs upon the Estate of Finlayston", 1791-1793., 1791-1841.
Item
Identifier: MS.2683
Scope and Contents
The minute book consists of copies of correspondence between Alex Dalziel, the Earl of Glencairn, and Robert Stewart, writer in Edinburgh. The volume was afterwards used by the Reverend George Craig Dalziel Buchanan, Minister of Kinross, for his receipt and expenditure book, 1837-1841; with further, scattered notes by Buchanan on money matters.
Dates:
1791-1841.
Minutes of meetings of Q.S. parish of Pitsligo, and papers relating to Heritors., Circa 1870-1920.
File
Identifier: Acc.13827/569
Dates:
Circa 1870-1920.
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.
Miscellaneous accounts and memoranda, some relating to Restennet., Early 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17131
Dates:
Early 17th century.
Miscellaneous accounts and receipts for estate expenditure at Lochgelly., 1641-1746, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.13292
Miscellaneous accounts and receipts for estate expenditure for Melgund, 1727-1746, and for Lochgelly and Melgund, 1747-1806., 1727-1806.
File
Identifier: MS.13293
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards and Ashburner families., 1773-1933.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20392-20394
Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards family., 1774-1909.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20392-20393
Dates:
1774-1909.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, business, and genealogical papers chiefly of the Richards family of Gardiner, Maine, and of the Ashburner family.
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Miscellaneous business, financial, and legal papers of members of the Richards and Ashburner families.
Miscellaneous collection of isolated rentals of the estate of Dundas., 17th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.2.50-80.2.51
Scope and Contents
The greater part of the material relating to rents is to be found included in the estate accounts and in the series of rental- and account-books.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to other estates with which the Minto family was in some way involved., 1731-1886.
File
Identifier: MS.13307
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and papers relating to the following:
(i) Whitsome Hill, Berwickshire, the property of Hugh Murray Kynynmound, advocate, 1731-1741 (folio 1);(ii) Invertiel, Fife, the property of Hugh Somervell of Invertiel, Writer to the Signet, father of Isabella Murray of Melgund, 1737-1743 (folio 50);(iii) Bilton near Wetherby in Yorkshire, relating to newly enclosed land at Bilton owned by John Iveson, but over which Anna Mary Amyand, later Countess of...
Dates:
1731-1886.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers., 16th century-19th century.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.1-80.4.16
Dates:
16th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of household plenishing., 1687, 1760, 1793-1794.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.4
Dates:
1687, 1760, 1793-1794.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 17th century-18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.5
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 18th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.6
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 19th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.7
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: inventories of writs and other papers., 17th century-19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.80.4.5-80.4.7
Scope and Contents
Dates refer to the dates of inventories.
Dates:
17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers: papers relating to the management of Dundas Mains., 1810-1812.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.11
Miscellaneous Dundas estate papers relating to coal, roads and wood, some of which have a financial aspect., 1719-1820, and undated.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.80.4.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) Papers relating to coal mining mainly on the Dundas estate, on the lands of Wemyss of Bogie, and at Ormiston, East Lothian, 1719-1759 (folio 1).
(ii) Papers relating to roads and bridges, 1748-1791 (folio 28).
(iii) Papers relating to wood sales, 1796-1820, and undated (folio 39).
Dates:
1719-1820, and undated.