Subjects - Crofters

Clan Donald Lands Trust (Lord Macdonald papers)

Titles of lands in Inverness-shire and Argyllshire 1462-1920, including writs of the land and barony of Macdonald 1542-1920 and barony of Strathordell 1696-1881. Titles to other lands 1463-1881. Great Seal grant of Nova Scotia baronetcy to Sir Don...

Reference code

GB 1892 GD221

Date(s)

  • 1462-1955 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Co-Chomunn an Iochdair Ltd, Iochar, South Uist

Minutes 1979-2011; accounts 1979-2011; membership records 1979-2011

Reference code

GB GBX TS3

Date(s)

  • 1980-present day (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Co-Chomunn Nis, community co-operative, Ness, Isle of Lewis

Register of members c1970s-1980s; photographs c1970s-1980s; address stamps n.d.

Reference code

CEN CCN

Date(s)

  • 1970s-1980s (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Congested Districts Board

The records of the Congested Districts Board cover the period 1879-1924 and consist of over 9000 files which include applications for assistance from Board funds. The Board was active across the Outer Hebrides, assisting crofters and fishing, inf...

Reference code

GB 234 AF42

Date(s)

  • 1897-1911 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Crofting Development files

Crofting development files cover a range of subject files relating to the development and implementation of crofting legislation, 1948-1980 Areas covered include: Commission of enquiry into crofting conditions, Crofters Act 1955, grants and loans...

Reference code

GB 234 AF81

Date(s)

  • 1948-1980 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Description of croft life

Reference code

GB GB CEUT DR2140/3/12

Date(s)

  • n.d. (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Douglas-Hamilton Family, Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon

This is a rich and extensive collection of papers and correspondence relating to Robert Brown’s role as factor of the Seaforth estate on Lewis and also his involvement in the Uist and Barra estates where he was a trustee and advisor to the trouble...

Reference code

GB 800001 NRAS2177

Date(s)

  • c1276-1983 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Emigration Files

This series relates primarily to the Colonisation Scheme established under the auspices of Lord Balfour, Secretary for Scotland in 1886 as a response to the congestion and poverty amongst the crofting community. The Scheme concentrated on Lewis an...

Reference code

GB 234 AF51

Date(s)

  • 1885-1956 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Estate Management files

Estate management files, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, plans relating to estates across Scotland generated by the Department for Agriculture and Fisheries in Scotland and its successor departments at the Scottish Office, 1912-1972....

Reference code

GB 234 AF83

Date(s)

  • 1912-1989 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Gillanders family of Highfield

Seaforth Estate papers, including, Lewis estate rentals 1740-1791; mainland (Ross-shire) estates rentals 1730-1787; Lewis estate tacks, sets and related papers 1752-1786; mainland (Ross-shire) estates tacks, sets and related papers 1766-1785; fact...

Reference code

GB 234 GD427

Date(s)

  • 1727-1835 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Gordon of Cluny papers

This collection relates to the management of the various estates belonging to the Gordons of Cluny in the period c 1880 - c 1930. It contains substantial and informative series of records for the estates of Cluny, Slains, Midmar, Kebbaty, Buckie, ...

Reference code

GB 231 MS 3600

Date(s)

  • 1665-c1930 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Highland & Island Emigration Society

Letter books 1852-1859; list of emigrants 1852-1857; promissory note book 1852-1857

Reference code

GB 234 HD4

Date(s)

  • 1852-1859 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Highland & Island Emigration Society

Photocopies of chronological lists (arranged by vessel and port) of assisted emigrants to Australia, 1852-1855

Reference code

GB 232 D295

Date(s)

  • 1852-1858 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Highland Destitution

HD/1 Registers 1840-1852 HD/2 Accounts 1846-1850 HD/3 Letterbooks 1846-1851 HD/4 Highland and Island Emigration Society 1852-1859 HD/5 Schedules 1847 HD/6 Miscellaneous volumes, including reports of the Edinburgh section 1783-1851 HD/7 Commissary ...

Reference code

GB 234 HD

Date(s)

  • 1783-1859 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

James Shaw Grant, 1910-1999, journalist, writer, crofting advocate

Highlands and Islands Development Board 1964-1984; Crofters Commission 1960-1977; Pitlochry Film Theatre 1948-1981; Macaulay Rhodesia Trust papers 1950-1961; Grampian TV 1975-1976; Speeches by James Shaw Grant 1949-1978; Conferences 1953; Research...

Reference code

GB3002 GD5

Date(s)

  • 1900-1999 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Land Settlement files

Allotments and Smallholdings (Scottish Office). This series of files which was raised in the Scottish Office deals with allotments, smallholdings and connected matters

Reference code

GB 234 AF66

Date(s)

  • 1886-1932 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Lord Leverhulme: Business correspondence

The collection consists mainly of subject files containing correspondence. The following provides an overview of what is held Fishing: Trawlers and conveyance of fish 1918-1923; salmon, kippers, crab and lobster 1918-1924; West and East Coast F...

Reference code

GB 1752 TS 27

Date(s)

  • 1903-1925 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

MacDonald Family of Clanranald

Titles to lands in Inverness-shire, 1531-1933. Estate papers, including, rentals, 1691-1839; tacks, 1625-1864; estate vouchers, 1809-1825; accounts of the judicial factor on the trust estate of Clanranald, 1855-1873; inventories of factors' accoun...

Reference code

GB 234 GD201

Date(s)

  • 1520-1881 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Mackenzie Family, Earls of Seaforth (Seaforth Papers)

GD46/1 Legal and estate papers (see also GD46/17) GD46/1/1-116: Legal papers: Mainland estates (Brahan, etc.) and general papers, 1737-1912 GD46/1/117-140: Legal papers: Lewis, 1781-1844 GD46/1/141-211: Legal and estate: Seaforth Trust papers and ...

Reference code

GB 234 GD46

Date(s)

  • 1467-1949 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Mackenzie papers (Skye & Uist)

The family papers relate principally to the Tolmies, tacksmen from 1773 of Uiginish in Skye, and their descendents. H.H. Mackenzie's grandmother Annabella Tolmie, youngest daughter of John Tolmie 1st tacksman, married Hector Mackenzie son of John ...

Reference code

GB 234 GD403

Date(s)

  • 1640-1947 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

North Harris Trust Estate

Estate maps 1930-[1950]; Chartularies 1821-1985; Croft Rental Ledgers 1919-1999

Reference code

GB GBX TS15

Date(s)

  • 1930-1999 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

North Uist Estate, Scotland

North Uist chartularies 1902-2009; rental and collections books 1865-1996; District Salmon Fisheries Board minute book 1981-1996

Reference code

GB GBX TS16

Date(s)

  • 1865-2009 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Papers relating to conditions in and administration of Invernessshire and the Western Isles of Scotland

MS 2023/1: Letter, dated 26 March 1817, from Claud Russell, Edinburgh to Rt. Hon. Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. He encloses MS 2023/2, a copy of which was to be presented to the Lords of the Treasury by the Duke of Atholl, request...

Reference code

GB 231 MS 2023

Date(s)

  • 1817 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Royal Commission Maps of crofting holdings, 1892

Royal commission, (Highlands and Islands, 1892), survey plans of crofting holdings on 1” - 1mile OS showing land scheduled as suitable for extension of existing crofting holdings and land scheduled as suitable for new crofting holdings. Maps cove...

Reference code

GB 232 D434

Date(s)

  • 1892 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Royal Commission on the Highlands and Islands

Minutes 1883-1884; Register of out letters 1883-1884; Register of in letters 1883-1884; correspondence 1883-1884; proprietor returns 1883; evidence 1875-1883 The Commission's Report was published in 1884 together with the great bulk of the written...

Reference code

GB 234 AF50

Date(s)

  • 1875-1884 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Stòras Uibhist / Sealladh na Beinne Mòire, community owned estate, South Uist

The papers are divided into section that reflects the ownership of the estate over time. I. Gordons of Cluny, Lady Gordon Cathcart and her Trustees Estate office and staff 1912-1936; Grogarry lodge 1902-1974; Farms n.d.; Inns & hotels 1880-1958; ...

Reference code

GB GBX TS17

Date(s)

  • 1856-2006 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

The Crofters Commission

CRO1 Board Minutes 1955-1998 CRO2 Annual Reports 1955-1993 CRO3 Papers including Letters to Assessors, reports of the Conference of Assessors, Commission Memoranda and other reports 1978-1989 CRO4 Grounds of Decision and Explanatory Notes 1964-1982

Reference code

GB 234 C0225

Date(s)

  • 1955-2012 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

The Crofters Commission annual reports

Annual reports 1887, 1888, 1890-1899, 1901-1906

Reference code

GB 232 D803

Date(s)

  • 1955-1998 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

William Macdonald, WS, Edinburgh

Accounting records, 1738(?)-1816; Common letter books, 1777-1781; Letter book containing letters to factors of Largie, Sleat, North Uist, Trotterness and Clanranald, 1774-1780; Court process books, 1771-1781; Household book for the Edinburgh house...

Reference code

GB 234 GB1/8

Date(s)

  • 1738-1816 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection
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