Family papers.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Personal papers of members of a single family; usually of parents and their children, but sometimes including papers of spouses and their families as well.
Found in 301 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous papers chiefly of the Douglas and Campbell families.
Series
Identifier: MSS.973-979
Dates:
1589-1760, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Patrick Geddes., 1808-1954, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10604-10657
Dates:
1808-1954, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Charles Murray., 1866-?1941, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.27284-27285
Dates:
1866-?1941, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of Duncan MacKinnon., 1808-1878.
File
Identifier: Acc.6168/15
Dates:
1808-1878.
Miscellaneous papers of the Dunlop family., 1797-mid 20th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9301-9307
Dates:
1797-mid 20th century.
Miscellaneous papers of the family of Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10283-10286
Dates:
1653-1804.
Miscellaneous papers of the Hannah and McLellan families., 1854-1962, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26458
Dates:
1854-1962, undated.
Miscellaneous papers of the Murray family., 1644-1904, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.21110-21114
Miscellaneous papers of the Murray family., 1644-1891, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.21110
Scope and Contents
Included are a pole, 1695, of the parish of Fowlis Easter; papers, 1703, concerning the purchase of Monzievaird; household inventories of 1763, 1800 and 1861 for Ochtertyre and of 1884 for Ravelston.
Dates:
1644-1891, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal.
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Papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre.
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Miscellaneous papers of the Murray family.
Miscellaneous papers of the Oswald family., 19th century.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9041-9042
Dates:
19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
Miscellaneous papers of the Richards family., 1778, 19th century.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20399-203400
Miscellaneous papers of the Richardson family., 1749-1778.
Series
Identifier: MSS.20984-20987
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 other branches of the Boswell family., 1606-1667.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9612-9622
Miscellaneous personal and business papers and family photographs of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1916-1977, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26665
Miscellaneous Traill family papers., 1670-1863, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19399
Scope and Contents
The papers include geographical notes and tables; a list of guests at the wedding of Robert Omond and Mary Eliza Traill, 1838; extracts from the journal of Thomas Rickman, the architect, concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, 1811-1819; papers of Traill's executors, 1862-1863; and notes by Traill on fossil fishes found at Skaill, Orkney, published in ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’, volume XV, part 1, 1841.
Dates:
1670-1863, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence, diaries, and literary papers of Thomas Stewart Traill, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh University, and of his family.
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Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family.
Miscellaneous volume of family and service correspondence and papers of Sir Alexander and Sir Thomas Cochrane., 1779-1847, 1855-1856.
File
Identifier: MS.2295
Dates:
1779-1847, 1855-1856.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Correspondence and papers, of the personal affairs of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Mitchell of Balbardie., 1687-1702, 1733.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9743-9753
Moultray of Roscobie, 1680-1725, with an inventory, 1748., 1680-1725, 1748.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9754-9798
Scope and Contents
This group consists mainly of discharges, and records the clearances of incumbrances on the estate of Roscobie.
Dates:
1680-1725, 1748.
Moultray of Roscobie, 1710, 1727, with inventories, 1710, 1741, 1748., 1710-1748.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.9799-9815
Murray family papers, including correspondence, financial papers, diaries, journals, notebooks and passports., 1826-1953.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13236/170-411
Scope and Contents
The principal Murray family members are John Murray III (1808-1892), Sir John Murray IV (1851-1928), Alexander Henry Hallam Murray (1854-1934) known as Hallam, brother of John, Murray IV, resigned from the firm in 1908, Katherine Evelyn Murray nee Leslie (1878-1938) known as Evie, wife of John Murray IV and Sir John Murray V (1884-1967) known as Jack.
Dates:
1826-1953.
Narrative of Robert Landess of Robroyston, Minister of Blantyre, in his autograph, with related material.
File
Identifier: MS.548
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The narrative (which begins on page 39 - pages 1-38 are wanting). The portion from 1662 to 1672 (pages 39-67) is printed in Robert Lamond, ‘Ecclesiastical persecution in the seventeenth century’, ‘Scottish Historical Review’, volume vi (1909), page 373. See also, ‘Scottish Historical Review’, volume vii, page 215. (Folio 6.)(ii) Record by Robert Landess, son of the Minister, of the births and deaths of his children, 1732-1757, and other...
Dates:
1662-1757.
Papers, 1598-circa 1802, of the family of Ogilvie of Barras, with many concerning the preservation of the Scottish Regalia in 1651., 1598-1893.
File
Identifier: MS.2051
Scope and Contents
Also included is correspondence, 1892-1893, on the restoration of the belt of the Sword of State by the Reverend Samuel Ogilvy Baker (folios 1-7 verso).
Dates:
1598-1893.
Papers and correspondence of James Miller.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9484/1-44
Scope and Contents
With documents, 1782-1930, concerning his family.
Dates:
1782-1986.
Papers and correspondence of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot, principally of Sir Pulteney Malcolm; with related estate papers, diaries and a small group of papers concerning the family of Douglas of Cavers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6684/1-49
Scope and Contents
These papers form the surviving archive of the family of Malcolm of Burnfoot near Langholm. They consist principally of letters received by the immediate family circle of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1768-1838): his wife, Clementina Elphinstone, his sisters Agnes, Wilhelmina, Helen, and Stephana, and his son William Elphinstone Malcolm (1817-1907). The letters are almost all from members of the family, but this in no way detracts from the interest of the collection. The careers of Sir...
Dates:
18th century to 19th century.