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Papers of the Christison Family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1817
Content Description
This fonds contains the papers of:
Professor Alexander Christison FRSE (1751-1820), Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh from 1806 to his death in 1820, father of Sir Robert Christison.
Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet, FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1797-1882), toxicologist and physician, father of Sir Alexander Christison (1828-1918).
John Christison (1789-1862),...
Dates:
1785-1904; 1979
Papers of the Cochrane Family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1837
Content Description
Collection of six ornately decorated 18th-century manuscript documents relating to the Cochrane family of Scotland, including two marriage documents and four burgess tickets:
Two documents relating to the marriage of William Cochrane and Agnes Carse, both dated 19 July 1706, Edinburgh: a marriage contract, listing over 400 points on which they pledged agreement, measuring 30 cm x 274 cm ; and a marriage...
Dates:
1706-1789
Papers of the Harman family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1906
Scope and Contents
Sketchbooks and papers relating to the Harman family and their travel around Europe, including Ireland and Italy.
Dates:
1890s-1935
Papers of the Scott family
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2076
Content Description
This fonds consists of the family papers of the Scott Family, whose lineage can be traced back to Walter Scott, who served as a Burgess of Edinburgh around 1521. The material comprises genealogical research notes, correspondence, historical charters (including one dated 1663, with a wax seal), official records (both originals and copies), photographs (including what appears to be daguerreotypes or ambrotypes), as well as a badge and a medal from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.The...
Dates:
1663-1993
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- Family History 5
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- History, 18th century (Scotland) 3
- History, 19th century (Scotland) 3
- Diaries 2
- Edinburgh -- Scotland 2
- Genealogy 2
- Lectures and Lecturing 2
- Legal documents | Scotland | 2
- Photographs 2
- University of Edinburgh -- students 2
- Charters 1
- Christianity 1
- Composers 1
- Diplomas 1
- Education, Higher 1
- Family archives 1
- Family records | 1
- Golf 1
- India -- Madras 1
- Leith (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
- Marriage 1
- Medals 1
- Medicine | Edinburgh (Scotland) | Study and teaching | 1
- Military decorations 1
- Music | 19th century | 1
- Music | 20th century 1
- Peerage claims 1
- Peers 1
- Pilots 1
- Scotland -- Wishaw 1
- Scotland | History | 17th century 1
- Sketchbooks & albums 1
- Soldiers 1
- Travel writing 1
- Violinists 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Watercolor painting 1
- Wax seal 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 | Personal narratives 1
- ambrotypes (photographs) 1
- certificate 1
- daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
- guilds 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 9
- Multiple languages 3
- English 2
- Names
- Anderson (Edinburgh) 1
- Balfour-Melville, Evan Whyte Melville, 1887-1963 (Senior lecturer in history, University of Edinburgh) 1
- Bright, James Franck, 1832-1920 (Master of University College, Oxford) 1
- Bright, Richard, 1789-1858 (Physician) 1
- Carse, Agnes, fl 1706 (wife of William Cochrane, Edinburgh) 1
- Christison, Sir Robert, 1797-1882 (1st Baronet | Scottish toxicologist and physician) 1
- Cochrane, James, fl 1700-1799 (Edinburgh printer) 1
- Cochrane, William, d before 1718 (Edinburgh writer ) 1
- Couper, Frederick, fl 1870s-1920s (Scottish marine engineer) 1
- Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist) 1
- Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1712-1780 (3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and 7th Baronet of Coltness | economist | husband of Lady Frances Steuart (1722-1789)) 1
- Denham, Sir James Steuart, 1744-1839 (4th baronet of Goodtrees and 8th baronet of Coltness | British Army Officer) 1
- Duncan, John V Stuart, d 1943 (British soldier) 1
- Edinburgh University Diagnostic Society 1
- Edinburgh University Dialectic Society 1
- Fry, Elizabeth, 1780-1845 (English prison reformer and social reformer ) 1
- Graham (Edinburgh) 1
- Harman, Nathaniel Bishop-, fl 1890-1935 (physician) 1
- Joachim, Joseph, 1831-1907 (violinist) 1
- Macphail, Earle Monteith, 1861-1937 (Principal of Madras Christian College) 1
- Melville, James Balfour, of Strathkinness, 1815-1897 1
- Melville, John Whyte, of Bennochie and Strathkinness, c 1797-1883 1
- Melville, Mary Louisa Balfour-, d 1930 (née Dundas) 1
- Steuart, Baronets (of Coltness) 1
- Steuart, Sir James, 1608-1681 (Lord Provost of Edinburgh) 1
- Steuart, Sir James, 1635-1713 (Lord Advocate of Scotland) 1
- Steuart, Sir James, 1681-1727 (Solicitor-General of Scotland) 1
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
- Urquhart (Perth) 1
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 (Playwright, Novelist, Poet) 1 ∧ less
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