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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:

Personal and estate papers of the Willison family of Perthshire and Lanarkshire, including farming notebooks, private correspondence and family documents; with family history and genealogical papers compiled by Ralph Willison Simmonds.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11049/1-76
Scope and Contents

Papers of the Willison family, who farmed in both Lanarkshire and Perthshire, covering personal and business matters. The collection includes a detailed family history and genealogy composed by Ralph Willison Simmonds (Edinburgh 1989), detailed transcripts and a booklet with historical notes: The Willisons of South Lanarkshire (Edinburgh, 1994), also by Mr Willison - see Acc.11049/1 and Acc.11049/76.

Dates: Circa 1757-1994, undated.

Photocopy of the extent and value of lands in the estate of Cadboll, Ross-shire, vol 1.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.11478
Scope and Contents

Includes information on the parishes of Fearn, Tain, Edderton, Kincardine and Creech.

Dates: 1813.

Pitfirrane estate accounts., 1696-1856, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.6424-6455
Scope and Contents MSS.6424-6453 are a reconstruction of loose numbered accounts kept by the factors. This series of accounts, as also in the case of the bound volumes (MSS.6454-6455), is arranged on the crop year system, generally estimated from Whitsunday to Whitsunday. Thus, Whitsunday 1705 to Whitsunday 1706 equals Crop 1705. Sometimes the crop year runs from one of the other Scottish Quarter Days, such as Lammas. This causes an overlap and consequently a crop year may be represented thinly or not at all...
Dates: 1696-1856, undated.