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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 receipts probably for Fettercairn., 1864-1865.

 File
Identifier: Acc.13827/768
Scope and Contents

File includes account, charge and discharge relating to Sir John Hepburn Stuart Forbes, 8th Bart. and Mackenzie and Kermack, W.S., and notes on regulations for punishment of minor rural offences.

Dates: 1864-1865.

Miscellaneous reports, maps and other papers concerning various estates and lands in Scotland., 1781-1864.

 File
Identifier: MS.3273
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Report, 1813, by George Brown on damage caused to the lands of Easter and Wester Bonar by the construction of the Bonar bridge and road;(ii) Papers relating to the sale or lease of estates of Letterfourie, Corriedown, and Walkerdales, Banffshire, 1781;(iii) Plan, 1795, of ground in Muirtown, Elgin, leased to the New Thread Company;(iv) Particulars of sale, and abstract of the contents and rental of the lands of...
Dates: 1781-1864.

Muniments of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance., Late 15th century-early 20th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.5320-5345
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of miscellaneous legal documents, estate papers, letters, account-books and legal volumes, not only concerning the Stuarts of Castlemilk and Torrance, but also the Crawfurds of Milton; this family was linked to the Stuarts of Castlemilk when Margaret Crawfurd, heiress to the entailed estate of Milton, married Sir William Stuart, 2nd Baronet, of Castlemilk.

Dates: Late 15th century-early 20th century.

Newhailes estate papers.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.25767-25839
Dates: 17th century-19th century.

Notebook containing another copy of the account in MS.17460: "Compt of Intromission had [by Saltoun and his] Factors with Sir Andrew Fletc[her's executorie] ...", followed by accounts concerning Archiblad and John Fletcher of Aberlady., 1675-1686.

 Item
Identifier: MS.17462
Scope and Contents The "Compt of Intromission had [by Saltoun and his] Factors with Sir Andrew Fletc[her's executorie] ..." (folio 1) is followed by 'Blackbaronies Sir Patrick Murrayes and Saltounes compt book of intromissiones as Curators to Archibald Fletcher of Aberlady Containing the Cropts 1680, 81, 82, 83 and 84 of Aberlady and Butterdane with the former rests' (folio 17 verso) and 'Blackbarony and Sir Patrick Murrayes Compt book of intromission as Curators to John Fletcher of Aberlady Containing the...
Dates: 1675-1686.

Notebooks of General Henry Fletcher., 1769-1790.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17892-17893
Scope and Contents

There are some entries in hands other than that of General Fletcher. The contents are very miscellaneous - financial and estate matters, medical recipes, draft letters, etc.

Dates: 1769-1790.