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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:

Miscellaneous estate papers of the family of Menzies of Menzies., ?1631-1842, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.9958
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of: (i) Rolls of freeholders, and papers concerning Perthshire elections and Commissioners of Supply, 1737-1833 (folio 1); (ii) Papers concerning church affairs in Perthshire, 1722-1821, undated (folio 72); (iii) Petitions of tenants, 1795-1831, undated (folio 90); (iv) Offers for leases, 1806-1819 (folio 132); (v) Miscellaneous estate papers, ?1631-1842, undated (folio 157).

Dates: ?1631-1842, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of Bruce Allan Bremner., 1817-1890.

 File
Identifier: MS.19234
Scope and Contents

The papers include genealogical notes of the Bremner family (folios 1-3), a plan of Streatham House, Canaan Lane, Edinburgh, where the Bremners lived from 1865 (folio 4), and papers of the estate of Annie Mustard, servant of Bruce Bremner, 1888-1890 (folios 7-34).

Dates: 1817-1890.

Miscellaneous papers, relating chiefly to lands and families of Angus, several accompanied by modern transcripts.

 File
Identifier: MS.3044
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Papers, 1626-1686, undated, relating to the lands of Ardoch and Craigo in the Parish of Logie-Montrose (numbers 1-42);(ii) Papers, 1550, 1591, relating to Fullartoun of Ardoch (numbers 43-45);(iii) Correspondence, 1668-1759, of David Carnegy of Craigo and his descendants (numbers 46-53);(iv) Letters and papers, 1612-1726, of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Earls of Kellie (numbers 54-63), including 'En acouent of Lady...
Dates: 1550-1855, undated.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the estate., 4th quarter of 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/826
Scope and Contents

Folder contains mostly printed advertisements and catalogues for stock and equipment, late 19th century.

Also includes:

‘Register of voters in County of Kincardineshire, 1863-1864’.

‘The comparative economy of grazing and corn-crop’, 1861.

Dates: 4th quarter of 19th century.