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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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NRAS885
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Title
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Bowes-Lyon Family, Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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Dates
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12th century-20th century
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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
HM General Register House
Edinburgh
EH1 3YY
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Description
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This survey has been artificially split into 6 sections in the course of the NRS catalogue conversion project.
Section 1. Papers of Earl of Strathmore, Glamis Castle, 1188-1963:Titles, Angus, Perthshire, Fife, Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh, 12th-18th century; estate and legal papers, 17th-20th century; personal, estate and household accounts, 1675-1781; correspondence, mostly estate and personal, 16th-20th cent; papers on the administration of the Earl of Middleton's estates, 1666-73; papers concerning Glamis church and manse, 1717; military papers, 1648-89 including muster roll, orders and accounts; papers concerning the election of representative peers, 1722; papers relating to Scottish county, burgh and parish affairs, 17th-20th centuries; papers relating to English estates in Co Durham, Yorks, Hertfordshire,Sussex, London and Ridley in Northumberland, mainly 18th-20th cent
Section 2. Volumes, 1308-1977, including genealogies, inventories, estate ledgers, accounts and rentals, diaries; manuscript narrative of Mary Eleanor Bowes (1749-1800), Dowager Countess of Strathmore, of the events of November 1787 with legal papers and correspondence concerning her separation and divorce from Lieutenant Andrew Stoney, 1786-95 and three volumes of her poetry, late 1770s, post 1792 and c.1798;
Glamis Castle library catalogue, c.1870; Cash book of Strathmore Rabbit Clearance Society Ltd, 1959-80; Policy books of the Scottish Union Insurance Company, 1827-1960 and of the North British & Mercantile Insurance Company, 1861-1934; Factors letter books, 1915-51, factor's account books, 1906-64, accounts of charge and discharge for home farms, 1933-51.
Section 3. Maps and Plans, c 1763-c1933: architectural plans of Glamis Castle and buildings within the policies, architectural farm plans, plans of Glamis village, general farm and estate plans.
Section 4. Additional Plans, 1733-1896
Section 5. Bowes-Lyon Letter Books, 1548-1842, including correspondence of Sir George Bowes, 1569-82, including his correposndence on Scottish affairs; other Bowes family correspondence, 1579-1760; papers relating tocoalmines owned by the Bowes family, 1653-1744.
Section 6. Additional Papers of Earl of Strathmore, Glamis Castle, 1653-1954, including mainly legal and testamentary papers and papers relating to the Bowes Estate Trust, 1921-43; title deeds and other papers relating to St Paul's Walden, Herts, 1847-1925, Evenwood, Cockfield and Winlaton, Co Durham, 1692-1921, Mickleton and Hunderthwaite, Yorkshire, 1730-1913, Ronald Kirk, Yorkshire, 1889, Ulsworth, Co Durham, 1904, Redbourne, Herts, 1829-1914, Crosthwaite, Yorkshire, 1743-1820, Harpford and Newton Hoppleford, Devon, 1833-69, Frithelstock, North Devon, 1890-92, Barnstaple, Devon, 1877-1853;Catalogue of library at Streatlam Castle, Co Durham, 1900; Correspondence relating to the foundation of the Roman Catholic chapel at Barnard Castle by John Bowes, 1871-1906, deeds, orders and reports concerning the endowment of Gibside chapel, 1812-1940; Papers relating to collieries and mineral rights in Co Durham, 1816-1903, leases of Ramshaw and Norwood collieries, Co Durham, 1849-74; Correspondence and other papers concerning the Exmouth Water Works Company and the Exmouth and District Water Bill, 1865-92.
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Fonds
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Copies
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A microfilm copy of pp 1-437 is available in the National Archives of Scotland as RH3/118.
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Publication Note
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See 'Archives' volXIV, No63 for articles on 'The Strathmore muniments' and the 'Bowes Bound Correspondence and papers' (1980)
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Related Material
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Replaces Survey 198. See also Survey 3526. Estate and family papers can also be found in NAS GD45. For papers relating to English estates, check HMC 'Principal Family and Estate Collections' (London, 1995) or the NRA website: http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
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