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NRAS770 | Brodie Family, of Brodie, Moray | 1312-20th century |
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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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NRAS770/Bundle 4
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Title
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Legal papers, and assorted personal documents relating to various members of the family
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Dates
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1773-1822
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Access Status
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Restricted
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Access Conditions
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These records are held privately. All enquiries should be addressed to:
The Registrar, National Register of Archives for Scotland, H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY
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Description
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Including:
"Testament and latter will and settlement in favour of several relations and friends enclosed here by James Brodie", 1776. Also contains a list of James Brodie's children.
Personal letter by James Brodie of Muiresk to his wife to be opened after his death, containing instructions for his burial and the settlement of small bequests. Elgin, 13 March 1776.
Letter to Mrs Brodie of Muiresk by Dr James Hay, minister of Dyce, consoling her on the death of her husband. Manse of Dyce, 29 May 1777.
Tickets certifying the attendance of Mr James Brodie at mathematics and other classes at Marischal College, 1784-5.
Commission in favour of James Brodie as an ensign in the 2nd or Queens Regiment; 1792.
Commission of James Brodie as collector of customs at St Lucea in the island of Jamaica. London, 3 December 1813.
Letter from Vice-Admiral Home Popham to James Brodie, collector of H M Customs at St Lucea, acknowledging receipt of Brodie's letter and thanking him for the information it contained. 20 June 1819. [See below.]
Letter from the same to the same. The admiral is collecting information to enable him to form a hydrographical directory for the Jamaica station. Asks Brodie to obtain as accurately as he can, accounts of the weather in his neighbourhood during every month of the year, and information about the currents and sea and land breezes expected in the area each month. Admiral's Pier, Kingston. 12 February 1819.
Letter to James Brodie from Alexander Grant, (Brodie's substitute as collector of customs at St Lucea during his absence in England) giving an account of a "very unfortunate occurrance". A negro had been condemned to death in Montego Bay, but his sentence commuted to banishment to Cuba for life on the understanding that his life was forfeit if he should return to Jamaica. He had returned to Lucea and was apprehended and had been condemned by Grant and his fellow-magistrates without further trial. The Lt-Governor had declared the act of the magistrates illegal and had dismissed them from their magistracys in addition to which Grant had been dismissed as acting collector of customs. Complains of the injustice of his treatment. Lucea, Jamaica, 29 January 1822.
Postscript to the St Jago Gazette 24-31 July 1824, including among sundry Jamaican and home news, a notice of the death of Louisa, eldest daughter of James Brodie, collector of customs at Lucea.
Certificate of membership of the Honourable Artillery Company in favour of James Brodie, 30 May 1848.
Certificate by J. Beattie, professor of Moral Philosophy in Aberdeen, that James Brodie had studied under him and acquitted himself satisfactorily. 2 April 1787.
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Level
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File
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Arrangement
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(Numbered 233-278).
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