Country code |
GB |
Repository code |
234 |
Organisation |
NAS |
Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
Reference |
GD1/730 |
Title |
Lord Lovat letters |
Dates |
1741-1784 |
Access status |
Open |
Description |
Nos. 1-13 comprise letters from Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, to Bailie James Fraser, Inverness, who was, it seems clear, one of the Frasers of Achnagairn. In 'Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness', vol. 26, p. 175 another letter to him from Lovat is printed, and it is stated he was a brother of Dr Duncan Fraser of Achnagairn and son of James Fraser of Achnagairn. The identification has been repeated in Duncan Warrand's 'Fraser Genealogies', but it seems clear from the present correspondence that he was a son of John Fraser, Provost of Inverness at the Jacobite rising of 1745-46, who was possibly younger brother to James Fraser of Achnagairn, father of Dr Duncan Fraser, and who died in 1737. Lady Achnagairn of the correspondence is the widow of that James Fraser and sister of Duncan Forbes, the Lord President. |
Level |
Fonds |
Format |
Text |
Language |
English |
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