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GB
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Repository Code
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618
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Repository
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Angus Archives
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Reference
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NRAS1828
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Title
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Jospeh Johnston and Sons Ltd, Salmon Fishers and Merchants, Montrose, Angus
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Dates
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1803-1978
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Access Status
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Open
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Access Conditions
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Enquiries to Angus Archives
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Description
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Minutes, 1885-1978; accounting records, 1843-1970; wages records, 1837-1964; contract book, 1914-55; sales records, 1899-1955; cartularies, 1924-75; catch statistics, 1861-1977; fishing station log books, c.1900-1977; salmon and mussel analyses, 1927-48; accident reports, 1910-54; inventories and valuations of stock, 1904-60. Titles, leases, correspondence and other papers relating to lands and fishings in Fife, Angus and Kincardineshire, 1701-1970. Miscellaneous legal papers, 1750-1975, including leases of salmon fishings in Aberdeenshire, Angus, Berwickshire, East Lothian and Fife, 1824-1975, and of property in Aberdeenshire and Angus, 1859-1969; papers relating to boundaries of Milldown and Coldingham, and Northfield and Hallydown, 1839-1950, Strathairley and Carnoustie, 1901-4, River Tay estuary and German Ocean, 1901-4. Correspondence, 1844-1973, on subjects including Billingsgate statistics, 1852-82; Restigouche frozen salmon, 1879; discovery of salmon in stomachs of Greenland sharks, 1885; proposed amalgamation with Tay Salmon Fisheries Co. Ltd., 1927-9; examination of nets for pollution, 1934-5; changes in mouth of North Esk, 1945-9. Miscellaneous papers relating to fishing, 1824-1951, including printed material on salmon fishing industry, 1824-68; papers on Montrose harbour, 1836-1927; sederunt book of Fishermen's Society of Ferryden and Usan, 1853-74; journal of Carpie salmon fishings, 1877; reports and accounts of Berwick Salmon Fisheries Co. Ltd., 1897-1951; printed reports of Salmon Net Fishings Association, 1911-12; record of flow of River Dee, 1934. Papers relating to mussels, 1834-1966, including miscellaneous correspondence, reports and press-cuttings, 1834-1946; leases of Dun mussel scalps, 1859-1912; titles, legal papers and correspondence relating to Ferryden and Usan Fishermen's Mussel Society, 1877-1901; printed material relating to mussel fishing in Scotland, 1888-9; report on possibility of canning mussels commercially, 1946. Plans, c.1750-1978, including fishings and fishermen's cottages; bag and fly nets in Fife, n.d.; Bervie Bay, Water, and river mouth, 1833-1926; Gourdon village, 1926; Montrose shore and harbour, 1803-1911; property in Montrose, 1884-1970; Rivers North Esk, 1839-1978, South Esk, 1850 1909, and Tay, 1809; lands of St. Cyrus, c.1750. Photographs, c.1870-c.1970, depicting Qshings, fishing boats, premises, processes, etc.
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