Family papers.
Found in 301 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
Papers of the Douglas family of Springwood Park, near Kelso, Roxburghshire.
Papers of the Douglas family used by the Hamilton lawyers in the Douglas Cause lawsuit, apparently to establish the principle of the Douglas succession., 1321-1707, 1712, 1761-1762.
Papers of the family of Borthwick of Crookston.
Papers of the family of Chalmers of Auldbar (or Aldbar), near Brechin.
Papers of the family of Douglas., 1592-1759.
Papers of the family of Erskine of Alva.
The papers are chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
For a genealogical tree of the Erskine family, see MS.5115.
Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
Papers of the family of Foulis of Ravelston and Woodhall.
Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet, married in 1843 Henrietta Ramage Liston, the great niece and heiress of Sir Robert Liston, the diplomatist. He then assumed the additional name of Liston before his own.
Papers of the family of Mure of Caldwell.
The Mure of Caldwell papers are chiefly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some of the earlier papers belonged to the Mures of Glanderston, the two families having been united in 1710 by the succession of William, 4th Laird of Glanderston, to the Caldwell estates.
Papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode, from Spottiswoode House.
Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
Papers of the Home family of Whitfield and Ninewells.
Papers of the Johnston family., Circa 1796-1920, undated.
Papers of the Ker family., 1575-early 19th century.
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Papers of the poet and South African civil servant, Charles Murray (1864-1941).
Born in Aberdeenshire, Charles Murray went to South Africa in 1888, where he rose to be Deputy-Inspector of Mines for the Transvaal (1901) and Secretary for Public Works in the Union of South Africa (1910). He never lost touch with Scotland, and many of his poems are in the dialect of the north east.
Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Papers of the Shortreed family of Jedburgh concerning the family's connection with Sir Walter Scott and business and family affairs of the Shortreeds themselves.
Papers of the Steuart family.
Papers of the Strange family., 1718-1854, 1955, undated.
Papers of various members of the families of Trotter.
Papers of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of members of the family of Haliburton of Mertoun, 1633-1672, and Muirhouselaw, 1699-1701, undated, and of John Haliburton, merchant burgess of Edinburgh, apparently unconnected with any of the other families represented here, 1731-1758., 1633-1758.
Papers of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of members of the family of Haliburton of Newmains., 1645-1770, undated
Papers of Walter Scott, Writer to the Signet, and of members of the family of Haliburton of Newmains., 1645-1755, undated.
Papers of Thomas Haliburton (died 1673), 1645-1664; John Haliburton (died 1688), 1670-1683; Thomas Haliburton, Advocate, 1694-1754, undated; Andrew Haliburton, Writer to the Signet and his widow, 1718, 1751-1752; John Haliburton, merchant in Edinburgh, 1737-1755.
Many of the papers refer to lawsuits with the Earl of Home and the Haigs of Bemersyde, and contain much about the lands of Dryburgh and Lessudden.