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Places - Lewis, Scotland
County of Ross & Cromarty: Commissioners of Supply
Ross: Minutes 1765-1926; committee minutes 1733-1890
Cromarty: Minutes 1765-1888; committee minutes 1868-1889; finance and miscellaneous 1698-1872
Reference code
GB 232 CRC/1
Date(s)
- 1698-1926 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
County of Ross & Cromarty: Pre-1890 Highway authorities
Highlands Roads & Bridges : Reports 1803-1861
Commissioners for Roads & Bridges: Minutes 1805-1866
General Road Trustees: Minutes 1807-1890
Reference code
GB 232 CRC/2
Date(s)
- 1803-1890 (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
Dr J L Robertson Bequest
Minute books 1930-1974; applications for benefit 1931-1974; registers of beneficiaries 1937-1975; general register: dead and transferred 1931-1970; forms of enquiry 1957-1965; cash books 1928-1975
Reference code
GB3002 RC7
Date(s)
- 1928-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Dun Berisay, residential care home, Lewis, Scotland
Minutes, agenda etc 1961-1970
Reference code
GB3002 RC5/7
Date(s)
- 1961-1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Electoral registers Lewis District
Electoral registers for the Parliamentary County of Inverness and Ross & Cromarty for Lewis District area 1936-1979
Reference code
GB3002 RC8
Date(s)
- 1936-1979 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
Forfeited Estates: letters and memorabilia
Letters and memoranda written by the descendants of peers attainted in the 1715 Rising in an attempt to recover their titles and estates, mostly from the Earl of Mar, addressed apparently to the Earl of Seaforth, 1785 - 1794; Notes and copies of o...
Reference code
GB 233 MS.5209
Date(s)
- 1785-1820 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
George Washington Wilson & Co photographic collection
The George Washington Wilson and Co. photographic collection consists of over 37,000 glass plate negatives, produced by the Aberdeen firm between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
This includes images from...
Reference code
GB 231 MS 3792
Date(s)
- c1850-1905 (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
Repository
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
Repository
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
Repository
Highlands and Islands Development Board / Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Governance: Constitution 1970-1974, annual reports 1990-1991; corporate plans and strategies 1974-1989; progress reports 1973-1991; board papers and reports 1970-1992; external publications by central government, Highland Regional Council 1964-19...
Reference code
GB 232 D204
Date(s)
- 1882-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
John Stuart, Marquis of Bute: journal of tour of the Western Isles
“Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland” in the hand of John, 1st. Marquis of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart), detailing a tour in the revenue cutter 'Royal George' from Bute to Islay, Mull, Lismore, Staffa, Iona, North Uist, Lewis...
Reference code
GB 233 MS.9587
Date(s)
- 1788 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
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
Lewis Combination Poorhouse / Coulregrein House, Lewis, Scotland
Minutes 1893-1970; registers 1897-1968; sick roll 1900-1955; diet book 1934-1952; visiting committee reports 1926-1962; garden crop rotation book 1941-1967; financial records1940-1968
Reference code
GB3002 RC5/6
Date(s)
- 1893-1970 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis District Committee, Lewis
Minutes 1890-1930
Reference code
GB3002 RC2
Date(s)
- 1890-1930 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis District Council, Lewis, Scotland
Council minutes 1930-1935; financial records 1915-1974; roads records 1922-1973; architects department 1954-1971; housing records 1954-1978; social work records 1956-1971; planning records 1959-1968; Sandwick Cemetery Committee 1883-1955
Reference code
GB3002 RC6
Date(s)
- 1883-1978 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis Education District Sub-Committee, Lewis
Minutes and papers 1919-1974, exemption register 1908-1968, education administrative schemes 1929-1950, clerk's papers 1868-1945
Reference code
GB3002 RC4/1
Date(s)
- 1868-1974 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis Public Assistance Joint Committee, Lewis, Scotland
Applications for relief 1930-1948; transitional payments 1937-1975
Reference code
GB3002 RC5/5
Date(s)
- 1930-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lewis Society of Detroit, 1919-1972
Constitution Booklet 1941; Minute Books 1923–1972; Subscription Record 1919–1965; Accounts/CashBook/ 1927-1972; Journal 1927–1955; Annual Picnic Book 1957–1966; Entertainment Committee Minute Book 1950–1960
Reference code
GB3002 GD2
Date(s)
- 1919-1972 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Lews Castle College, Lewis
Admission registers 1977-1990; prospectus and courses offered 1990
Reference code
GB3002 RC4/51
Date(s)
- 1978-1990 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Macaulay Rhodesia Trust
Minutes 1956-1961; correspondence 1953-1961
Reference code
GB3002 GD9
Date(s)
- 1952-1961 (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
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
Presbytery of Lewis
Due to the disordered religious life of the Outer Hebrides, and despite many efforts during the 16th and 17th centuries, it was not until the 18th cent that efficient church government could be set up in the aforementioned islands. King James VI g...
Reference code
GB 234 CH2/473
Date(s)
- 1742-1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Ross & Cromarty County Council: County Clerks Department
CRC/3/1 County Council and Committee Minutes 1890-1975
CRC/3/2 Education Committee 1930-1975
CRC/3/3 Executive Committee 1890-1892
CRC/3/4 Finance Committee 1890-1905
CRC/3/5 Police Standing Joint Committee 1890-1930
CRC/3/6 Police (Legalised Cell...
Reference code
GB 232 CRC/3
Date(s)
- 1878-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Ross & Cromarty County Council: County Clerks Department
CRC/4/1 Abstracts of Accounts 1929-1975
CRC/4/2 Valuation Rolls 1868-1975
CRC/4/3 Loans Registers 1891-present
Reference code
GB 232 CRC/4
Date(s)
- 1868-2013 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Ross & Cromarty County Council: Valuation Rolls
The Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 1854 established a uniform valuation of landed property throughout Scotland, with separate rolls compiled for each burgh and county. In 1989 the rolls were discontinued when the Community Charge ('Poll Tax') for ...
Reference code
GB3002 RC3
Date(s)
- 1899-1973 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
Ross & Cromarty Education Authority
Minutes 1919-1930
Reference code
GB 232 CRC/5/1
Date(s)
- 1919-1930 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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
Repository
Stornoway Public Library, Lewis
Minutes 1906-1964; ledgers 1905-1949; cash books 1943-1947; contributions 1927-1939
Reference code
GB3002 RC4/8
Date(s)
- 1905-1964 (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
Synod of Glenelg
Minutes 1725-1929 (7 volumes)
Reference code
GB 232 CH2/568
Date(s)
- 1725-1929 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Repository
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