Printed: 2024-04-24
Subjects - Land ownership
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
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
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
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
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
Return of Scottish Landowners, submitted to Parliament, 1872-73
Return presented to Parliament: Scotland, Owners of Lands and Heritages, 1872-73 Return—lists all landowners in each county and burgh in Scotland, with acreage of property and gross annual value, and population figures, number of parishes and numb...
Reference code
GB 232 D1139
Date(s)
- 1872-1873 (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
Stuart & Stuart, Cairns & Co, solicitors
This collection of solicitors papers is not wholly relating to the Outer Hebrides but includes the following of interest to the Western Isles:
GD274/29-38 Lewis papers 1844-1895 including contract for Stornoway court house in 1844; Papers in actio...
Reference code
GB 234 GD274
Date(s)
- c1600-c1900 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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