Printed: 2024-04-19
Subjects - Estate management
Achany Estate, Sutherland
Title deeds, inventories etc. 1884-1921; feus and rentals 1794-1956; property development 1877-1951; property maintenance 1868-1923; courts and litigation 1886-1938; valuations and assessments 1906-1931; general administration 1879-1957
Reference code
GB 232 D522/1
Date(s)
- 1794-1957 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
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
Grimersta Estate Ltd, fishing estate, Isle of Lewis
Certificate of Incorporation 1924, minute books 1924-1995, register of members 1924-1985, financial records 1933-1944, correspondence 1860s-1975, property records 1920, 1924, visitor book 1915- , visitor responses 20th cent., game and fishing book...
Reference code
GB GBX TS14
Date(s)
- 1860s-2008 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
John Urquhart, builder, Stornoway, Lewis
Works books 1844-1849; memorandum book 1844-1879; letter book 1845-1849
Reference code
GB 234 CS96/4796-4800
Date(s)
- 1844-1847 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Ledgers of Sir James Matheson, Lewis
Ledger containing rentals and arrears lists of property, shootings, fishings, and feu duties in the Isle of Lewis belonging to Sir James Matheson, Bt., M.P. (parishes of Stornoway, Lochs, Barvas, Uig).
Damaged: Repaired and bound in 2 parts: (1) ...
Reference code
GB 234 GD1/475
Date(s)
- 1844-1857 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis & Harris Estate Plans
Map of Lewis and North Harris showing surveyed routes around Lewis c1920 and Garynahine fisheries c1900; Plan of Leverburgh Harbour 1925
Reference code
GB3002 GD28
Date(s)
- c1900-1925 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
Macdonald family of the Isles of Skye and North Uist
Nomination of tutors and reports by tutors 1747-1762; accounts 1753-1828; correspondence 1807-1830; legal case files 1826-1831; inventories of land and titles 1828; miscellaneous estate papers 1812-1829; legal papers, correspondence, and memoranda...
Reference code
GB 248 UGD 37/2
Date(s)
- 1747-1831 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Macdonald of Macdonald papers
Private act of parliament (10 & 11 Vict., c.29) vesting certain estates in the county of York (England) in Alexander William Robert Bosville and another, and in Skye and North Uist in Godfrey William Wentworth Lord Macdonald, and enabling Lord Mac...
Reference code
GB 1892 MS 4
Date(s)
- 1847 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Mackenzie family of Ross-shire
Obligation 1633-1651, deed 1642, discharges, 1648-1783, bond 1663, execution 1732, tacks 1754, memorial for the synod 1774, correspondence, 1811-1812
Reference code
GB 234 GD1/665
Date(s)
- 1633-1812 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
Messrs Hunter, Harvey, Webster & Will, WS, Edinburgh
Titles to lands in Dumfries-shire and North Uist, 1522-1866.
Miscellaneous estate and legal papers regarding Sir John P Orde of Kilmory, Argyll, and the Orde family 1845-1924, including, papers relating to Lochmaddy pier and harbour 1878-1909.
Pap...
Reference code
GB 234 GD298
Date(s)
- 1522-1916 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
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
Rental for the Island of Lewis from the Forfeited Estate Commission
Rental for the Island of Lewis created by the Forfeited Estates Commissioners 1718
Reference code
GB 248 GU300
Date(s)
- 1718 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Sir Edward H Scott of North Harris papers
Various papers relating to K Macdonald’s account as factor for Edward H Scott of Harris, 1872-1886, including notes and letters by Macdonald, various vouchers, receipts and accounts collected by Macdonald; papers relating to the construction and m...
Reference code
GB 234 GD1/1159
Date(s)
- 1807-1886 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
St Kilda files
Files concerning St Kilda, including correspondence between central government and the islanders, reports, newscuttings, island improvements, evacuation and subsequent management of the islands 1890-1957
Reference code
GB 234 AF57
Date(s)
- 1960-1999 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
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