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Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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233
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Repository
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National Library of Scotland
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Reference
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GB233/MS.21101-21198
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Title
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Murray of Ochtertyre
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Dates
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1546-1928
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Access Status
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Open
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Description
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Correspondence, legal, miscellaneous, and estate papers of the Murrays of Ochtertyre, Baronets, and their relations by marriage the Keiths, Earls Marischal, 1546-1928, n.d. The Murray papers relate largely to their estates in Perthshire, but there is also some family correspondence, household accounts and inventories, and letters and papers of Jacobite interest. Of particular interest is the fine series of letters of General Sir George Murray written during his campaigns in the Peninsula and elsewhere. (For further correspondence, military and political papers of General Sir George Murray see Adv.MSS.46.1.1-46.1O.2). The papers of the Keiths, Earls Marischal came to the Murrays of Ochtertyre following the marriage of Helen, heiress of Sir Alexander Keith of Dunnottar and Ravelston to Sir William Murray, 7th Bart of Ochtertyre in 1833, when the family assumed the surname of Keith-Murray. The Earls Marischal were prominent figures in Scottish political life up to the forfeiture of their title and estates following the involvement of George, Earl Marischal (succ.1712) in the 1715 Jacobite Rising. In addition to family and estate papers, there is much of political interest particularly for the Covenanting Movement, the siege of Dunnottar Castle in 1651, and the 1715 Rising. Later papers are mainly of the Keiths of Ravelston and Dunnottar and their attempts to secure the restoration of the title and lands of the Earls Marischal.
MS.21101-72 Murray of Ochtertyre
MS.21101-4 Correspondence
MS.21105 Journals
MS.21106-7Accounts
MS.21108-9 Legal Papers
MS.21110-14 Miscellaneous Papers
MS.21115-18 Genealogy
MS.21119-72 Estate
MS.21173 Murray of Dollerie
MS.21174-91 Keith, Earl Marisclial
MS.21174-5 Correspondence
MS.21176-7 Accounts
MS.21178-81 Legal Papers
MS.21182-6 Miscellaneous Papers
MS.21187-8 Genealogy
MS.21189-91 Estate
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Level
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Fonds
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Finding Aids
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NLS Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925 Volume XIV
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Related Material
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Formal documents for both the Murrays of Ochtertyre and the Keiths, Earls Marischal, 1254-1870, n.d. have been catalogued as Ch.16851-17324.
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Associated Persons
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