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Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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234
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Repository
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National Records of Scotland
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Reference
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GB234/GD16
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Title
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Papers of the Earls of Airlie
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Dates
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1161-1963
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Access Status
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Open
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Description
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Titles to lands in Aberdeen, Angus, Banff, Fife, Lanark, Perth and the Airlie estates in general, 1161-1898.
Estate papers, including, tacks, 1477-1922; rentals, 1560-1927; factors' accounts of whole estate, 1712-1908; estate correspondence, 1589-1954; general estate papers and accounts, 1474-1938; papers concerning estate of Ferry Pen, Jamaica, (including list of slaves), 1812-1873.
Legal and financial papers, including, marriage contracts, certificates and dispensations, 1464-1886; testaments, 1545-1847; bonds of manrent and maintenance, 1486-1597; inventories of legal papers, 1612-1845; general legal letters and papers, 1460-1894; personal accounts, 1582-1898; household accounts, 1621-1954; bonds, discharges and assignations, 1495-1849; financial and business letters and papers, 1570-1897.
Correspondence, including that of: James, 7th Lord Ogilvy and 1st Earl of Airlie, and his wife, 1630-1667, subjects include personal, estate and financial matters; James, 2nd Earl of Airlie, and his wives, 1646-1703, subjects include, precedence between earls of Airlie and Findlater, 1660-1664, influence with Charles II, 1660-1684; master of Ogilvy's visit to Paris and Orleans, 1664-1666; Walter Ogilvy of Clova, later titular Earl of Airlie, 1751-1817, subjects include, the clan system in the Highlands, 1797, careers of his sons in the army and navy and in India, 1800-1816, peers' election, 1812; Clementina Drummond, later Countess of Airlie, 1809-1835, mostly on personal matters; David, 6th Earl of Airlie, 1809-1849, subjects include, riots in Angus, 1830, appointment of J.P.s, 1837, Chartist disturbances, 1839, registration of voters, 1839-1860; William Ogilvy of Loyal, 1814-1870, subjects include, Forfar burgh election, 1831, Roslin chapel, 1861-1862; Lady Anne Ogilvy, 1815-1831, mostly on personal matters; David, 7th Earl of Airlie, 1851-1879, subjects include personal matters and local affairs; David, 8th Earl of Airlie, 1875-1899, subjects include military service in India, 1875-1880, Sudan campaigns of 1884-1885 and 1898-1899.
Letters and papers of Mabell, Countess of Airlie (1866-1956), including, personal accounts, 1885-1905; papers relating to royal and ceremonial occasions, 1903-1937; papers relating to the Red Cross, 1910-1962; correspondence, 1935-1954.
Papers relating to the period of the Civil War, Commonwealth and Restoration, 1637-1684, including, papers relating to Lord Ogilvy's imprisonment in Scotland and the Tower of London and his claims for compensation for losses incurred, 1645-1684; papers relating to the negotiations between the English and Scottish parliaments, c.1647; papers concerning raising and quartering of soldiers in Angus and Perth, 1639-1656.
Military papers, including, papers concerning the Airlie troop of Horse [in Drummond's regiment, 1666-1667, and Graham of Claverhouse's, 1684-1687] and operations against the Covenanters, 1661-1687; papers concerning militia in Angus and Kincardine, 1668-1847; papers concerning the Ogilvy Regiment in French service, 1753-1780; papers concerning the Breadalbane Fencibles, 1793-1824; papers concerning the 15th Forfarshire Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1866-1871; papers and sketch-maps concerning the Nile Expedition, including order book and war diaries of Sir Herbert Stewart's brigade, 1883-1885; military commissions, 1666-1866.
Papers relating to local and ecclesiastical affairs, including, papers concerning roads and bridges in Angus and Perth, 1630-1878; papers concerning local Forfarshire and Perthshire elections, 1831-1835; papers concerning Dundee water supply, 1835-1836; papers concerning police and prisons in Angus, 1833-1866; court books, 1582-1748; general papers relating to the Church, 1410-1893; teinds and stipends, 1488-1903; papers relating to schools, 1668-1887.
Architectural, estate and railway plans (RHP5000-5184, 20633-20672, 38175, 42529-42532, 43371-43383, 93344), 1769-1917.
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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71.08 Linear metres
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Finding Aids
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Typescript catalogue available in National Archives of Scotland
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Publication Note
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Where documents have been printed references are given in the text. A short report on the papers is contained in the Second Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission and many have been printed in Wilson, 'The House of Airlie'.
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Format
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Manuscript
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Associated Persons
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