Wills.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Legal instruments in which a person declares the disposition of his/her property, to take effect after his/her death, and which is revocable during the lifetime of that person.
Found in 144 Collections and/or Records:
Testament and inventory of Thomas Millar, Milne of Rossie., 1685.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15397
Testament, dated 5 October 1674, confirmed 22 June 1682, of Sir Peter Wedderburn of Gosford, one of the senators of the College of Justice, who died 11 November 1679., 5 October 1674.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6648
Testament of Andrew Kynninmonth of Coquhalie., 15 May 1617.
Item
Identifier: Ch.6489
Testament of Sara Cunynghame, daughter of the deceased George Cunynghame, merchant, burgess of Edinburgh (including a legacy to Janet Finlayson, daughter of Thomas, King`s Printer)., 29 April 1615.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15014
The latter will and testament of Jhon [Spottiswoode] Archbishop of St. Andrews, made by him at Newcastle the 14. of January, 1639.
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Identifier: Acc.13402
Scope and Contents
With a typescript draft transcription.
Dates:
1639
Title deeds, marriage contracts and wills of the Bloxhams of Banbury and title deeds and related papers concerning property in Banbury and Adderbury West, Oxfordshire, with letters and notes concerning the Bloxham family, 1651-1881.
Series
Identifier: Acc.13678/6
Dates:
1651-1881.
Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents
Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates:
1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.
Volumes containing records of the Gray Library, Haddington., 1639-1885.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.16479-16482
Will and testament of ensign Alexander Lamont., 26 July 1710.
Item
Identifier: Ch.7526
Dates:
26 July 1710.
Will and testament of George Watson, captain in Colonel Lee`s Regiment., 12 March 1745.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15197
Will and testament of William Forbous (beneficiaries include John Fletcher, burgess of Dundee)., 3 August 1563.
Item
Identifier: Ch.13740
Dates:
3 August 1563.
Will and testament with attached letters of administration of Jessie Anna Letitia Chalmers, wife of Patrick Chalmers, M.P., antiquary, deceased., 1840.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12778
Will, disposition and settlement of John Willison (died 1889), including account to Morrison and Smith, writers, for drawing up, 1883, 1885., 1883, 1885, 1889.
File
Identifier: Acc.11049/4
Dates:
1883, 1885, 1889.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Genealogy and family documents of the Willison family.
Will of Janet Ferguson, relict of William Willison., Circa 1757.
File
Identifier: Acc.11049/2
Dates:
Circa 1757.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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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.
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Genealogy and family documents of the Willison family.
Will of John Paterson, Ghent [possibly of Lord Stair`s Dragoons]., 12 October 1712.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15186
Will of Major-General George Brown, 1846, with codicil, 1854., 1846, 1854.
File
Identifier: Ch.1449
Will of Thomas Ruddiman, being a holograph disposition in favour of his wife and children.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.21
Dates:
17 May 1736.