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Country Code
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GB
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Repository Code
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241
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Repository
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Orkney Archives
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Reference
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GB241/D10
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Title
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James Tait papers
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Dates
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1578-1921
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Access Status
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Open
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Description
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Notarial protocol book and personal papers of Bryce MacMurdo Ranken, Kirkwall writer, 1808-1861; account book and related vouchers of John Miller, Kirkwall, 1798-1824; letters from John Lockman, secretary to the Free British Fishery Society, London, to John Riddock, the Society?s Orkney agent, concerning employment of local men on the Society?s herring busses, 1766-1801; letters to James Riddock, collector of customs, Orkney, 1788-1805, including letter from George Chalmers about discovery of possible grave of Margaret, Maid of Norway (1801); memoranda book of John Aim, schoolmaster, Sandwick, 1837-1838; miscellaneous papers about impressing and recruitment of men in Orkney, 1752-1806; papers concerning the planking of lands, 1763-1767; miscellaneous papers abstracted from Sheriff Court and Kirkwall Town Council records, 1669-1894; bailie court book of Westray, 1720-1742; journal of the survey of window lights and day book for impressing men, both in Orkney, 1758; miscellaneous papers (including printed company prospectuses and reports), 1578-1921, including letter from Rev John Gerard, South Ronaldsay, mentioning abortions procured in recent years (1840), and sasine of lands in Couttie, Perthshire (1578).
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Level
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Fonds
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Extent
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0.52 Linear Metres
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Finding Aids
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Item level catalogue in typescript form held by Orkney Archives;
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Language
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English
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