Country Code
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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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NRAS2185
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Title
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Forfar, Angus: Miscellaneous Local History
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Dates
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1619-1979
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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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Miscellaneous papers relating to Forfar town council, 1668-1948, including appeal for funds to erect new town house, 1786. records of Forfar trade incorporations, 1619-1848, including: Tailor Incorporation acts, 1619-81, minutes, 1647-1848, legal papers and correspondence, 1668-1844; Weaver Incorporation acts and statutes, 1627-1836; shoe maker Incorporation minutes, 1662-1847, legal papers, 1640-1787, accounting records, 1806-46. Papers of local organisations, 1829-1968, including: east port Savings Association minutes and list of subscribers, 1829-33; Tract Society minutes, 1858-1940; Canmore Angling Club minutes, 1910-29, accounting records, 1877-1939; Y.W.C.A. minutes, 1883-1902; Burns Club minutes, 1933-46, accounting records, 1928-47; papers relating to Strang's Mortification, 1845-1958. Miscellaneous financial papers, 1750-1942, including: accounts of Belmont Castle estate, Meigle, 1750-70; roup roll of farm plenishings, Meikle Milne of Kirriemuir, 1750; accounting records of Forfar businessmen including Charles Gray, merchant, 1786-1811, David Pegg, house painter, 1843-7, and John Guthrie, grain merchant, 1894, 1940-2; account book of harvesters' wages, 1840-44 and of payments to workers on Aberbothrie Farm, Alyth, 1857-80. papers relating to local railways, 1892-1959, including correspondence concerning Caledonian Railway tickets and travel regulations, 1894-1936, and Caledonian, L.M.S. and B.R. timetables and routing instructions, 1903-59.
Papers relating to Glenprosen parish, 1794-1954, including poors' fund book, 1794-1873, register of baptisms, 1811-1954, communion roll, 1868-1954, and description of mission established in 1812. Miscellaneous literary papers, c.1789-1905, including: papers and correspondence of George Chalmers, c.1789-1803; notes on antiquities of Forfarshire by James Thomson, 1827, and on Chinese surgery by J.C. Thomson, 1905; correspondence of John Nevey, mainly concerning publication of his poems, 1833-41. Miscellaneous genealogical collections, 19-20 cent. Music for fife and flute by David Hillocks, Forfar Militia, 1798 with related notes in 1978 by Roderick D. Cannon. Maps and plans of Angus and Forfar, 1675-1912.
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Level
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Fonds
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Related Material
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Replaces Survey 1319.
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