Family papers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
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, photographs 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
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1663-1993
Photo album of Alexander Falconer Giles and family, 1898-1919
Item
Identifier: Coll-1828/6/1
Scope and Contents
Photorgaph album containing approx. 120 pictures, one postcard and five house plans.
One postcard from Paris representing a Notre-Dame gargoyle, sent to Alexander F. Giles in 1914
Greek archaeological sites in Eleusis, Mycenae and Corinth, undated
Two group pictures of officers at Skateraw Camp, 1905-1906
Photographs of Scottish scenery, such as the...
Dates:
1898-1919
Unsorted legal documents, 1631-1859
Sub-Series — Box CLX-A-1120: Series Coll-1383/1; Series Coll-1383/2
Identifier: Coll-1383/1/19
Scope and Contents
This section contains unsorted legal documents dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, many on vellum, in English and in Latin. It is mostly composed of instruments of sasine, inventories, charters, registration documents, etc.About a third of the documents seem to be related to the Bennet Family, who lived near Kinross in the 18th and 19th centuries. It consists of inventories of writs, instruments of sasine, charters of renounciations and resignations, and other legal...
Dates:
1631-1859
Volume of Correspondence of the Hannay Family
Fonds — Volume Dk.5.22
Identifier: Coll-2198
Scope and Contents
Hannay (W.). Volume containing transcript of correspondence between William Hannay, ship captain, his wife Mary, and Anne Hannay (called Lady) of Kingsmuir, Fife, widow of Captain Erskine of Dun. 1731-1735.
Transcribed from the original letters in his possession by Major S. J. B. Francis, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 9 December 1956.
Dates:
1731-1735 (date of originals); Other: 1956 (date of transcription)