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Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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800001
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Repository
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Private
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Reference
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NRAS2953
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Title
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Callander Family of Prestonhall, Midlothian
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Dates
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1593-1954
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Access Status
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Restricted
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Access Conditions
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All enquiries should be addressed to:
The Secretary
National Register of Archives for Scotland
HM General Register House
Princes Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3YY
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Description
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Writs and legal papers of property in Westerton, Elphinstone, Crichton, Pathhead and Prestonhall, 1593-20 cent. Prestonhall estate papers, 1704-1952, including: correspondence, 1830-1952; accounting records, 1874-1904; gamekeepers books, 1897-1942; papers concerning wagon ways of Carron Company in parishes of Larbert and Bothkennar, 1760-67; valuations and inventories of pictures, glass, and furniture at Prestonhall, 1789, 1812-66; correspondence concerning building of Prestonhall House, 1791; plans of farms and architectural drawings of buildings, 1792-1954, including drawing of proposed mausoleum, 1792; correspondence and reports relating to Elphinstone and Prestonhall collieries, 1820-97, vouchers of household accounts, 1823-49, tradesmen and artists include John Steele, sculptor, Edinburgh, 1849, Charles Trotter, cabinetmaker, Edinburgh, 1828, J Purdey, gunsmith, London, 1844. Family correspondence, 1788-1840, including letters from J Wales, artist, about portrait painting, 1788. Financial papers and correspondence of Alexander Callander in India, 1758-91, including: estimate of commission on revenue of the Jamboseer purgunnah, 1781-82; narrative of treatment of English prisoners taken at Bednore, 1783; papers concerning the Ometah expedition, 1777; accounts of Callander as registrar of the Mayor's Court of Bombay, 1764-71; account of sales of silver and gold at Canton, 1781.
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Level
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Fonds
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Creator Name
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Also known as Burn-Callander
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Associated Persons
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