Family papers.
Found in 301 Collections and/or Records:
1st Earl of Tweeddale papers., 1606-1646.
1st Marquess of Tweeddale papers, 1639-1695.
A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
A miscellaneous collection of documents.
Ch.5902-5903 and Ch.5905 refer to members of the Pitcairn family of Forthar; the remainder concern transactions between John Mowat and James Fullarton, burgesses in Edinburgh. Ch.5901 is an abstract of the documents.
Abercromby of Abercromby., 1561-1612.
Administrative, legal and financial papers concerning the estates of the families of Gray of Carntyne, and Anstruther Thomson, afterwards Anstruther Gray, of Kilmany, including records of coal mining interests, and also some private family papers.
Alexander Meek, skipper, burgess of Kirkcaldy, and Henry Oswald, provost of Kirkcaldy., 1687-1716.
Assorted papers of and concerning the family of Erskine of Alva., 1634-[1904, or before].
Boswell of Easter Lochgelly and Boswell of Craigincat., 1620-1647.
Charters and formal documents from the Saltoun Papers.
More detailed lists of contents are available on request.
Charters and other formal documents relating to the Minto family.
Charters, other formal documents, and plans, from the Richards and Ashburner papers.
These papers relate mostly to personal and business affairs. An inventory of these charters is available.
Colville in Pitcairn., 1646.
Correspondence and family papers of the Marquesses and Marchionesses of Lothian, received unbound., 1729-1900, undated.
Correspondence and legal and official papers of Sir Patrick Murray of Saltcoats., 1611-1612, 1654-1720, undated.
This volume has been divided into the following sections: correspondence (folios 1-26), family legal papers (folios 27-70), official legal papers (folios 71-80), official accounts (folios 81-154). The official papers concern Sir Patrick Murray in his capacity as General Receiver of Crown Rents and Foreign Excise.
Correspondence and other papers of John Richardson, of Kirklands, Writer to the Signet, and his family.
A note on John Richardson's children will be found in MS.3989, folio i.
Correspondence and other papers of the Pinkerton family of Lyttle Park, Renfrewshire.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly 19th century, of the Paul family; including some papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
Robert Paul, manager of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, married Charlotte, the daughter of John Erskine of Cambus, advocate, in 1814. The connection of the Pauls with the Erskines of Alva, and later with the Erskine Murrays, remained strong, and the antiquarian interests of the Reverend Robert Paul, Free Church minister at Dollar, led him to examine many of the Erskine papers. Some of these remained with the Paul’s and now form part of the collection.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly undated, of the family of Forbes of Culloden., [1625-1800.]
Correspondence and papers, including sermons, lectures, diaries and photographs, of Sir George Adam Smith, Lilian Adam Smith and their family.
The George Adam Smith Archive, comprising correspondence and papers, 1859-1949, of the Very Rev Sir George Adam Smith (1856-1942), theologian, Moderator of the United Free Church General Assembly, 1916, and Principal of Aberdeen University, 1910-35; of his wife Lilian, née Buchanan (1866-1949) and her family; and of their family, particularly George Buchanan Smith (d.1915) and Robert Dunlop Smith (d.1917).
Correspondence and papers of and relating to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
MSS.2884-2888 and several letters in MS.2883 (indicated under that number) formed part of a collection of material relating to Thomas Carlyle, formed, at least in part, by Frederick Martin, a copyist employed by Carlyle, who commenced a biography of Carlyle in the ‘Biographical Magazine’, 1877.
Correspondence and papers of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Correspondence and papers of Mary Buchanan Drew, with correspondence of Lady Lilian Adam Smith.
Correspondence and papers of Rear-Admiral Robert Kirk Dickson (1898-1952) and of his younger brother, Midshipman Archibald Kirk Dickson (died 1916), with some papers of their father, William Kirk Dickson (1860-1949), first Librarian of the National Library of Scotland.
Correspondence and papers of Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan (1856-1928), the statesman, lawyer and philosopher, and of his sister, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937), philanthropist and author.
The papers include correspondence of other members of the family of Haldane of Cloan covering a period of almost a century and a half from the beginning of the 19th century, especially rich for the period 1875-1937.