| Collection & Reference | Description |
|---|---|
| DD8 Menzies of Pitfodels | This collection comprises estate and trust papers relating to Menzies family of Pitfodels, papers relating to Gilcomston Brewery Company, Gilcomston Friendly Society and Union Company of Gilcomston, and miscellaneous legal papers. |
| DD25 Forbes Robertson family of Hazlehead | Hazlehead Estate papers, 1812 - 1851. |
| DD78 Jaffray Diary and Barclay Letters, DD3170 Jaffray Manuscript | Diary and manuscript of Alexander Jaffary (1614-1673) Provost and Quaker, and letters of Robert Barclay (1648-1690), Quaker . Jaffray Manuscript purchased with funding from Friends of the National Libraries, National Fund for Acquisitions and the Niven Bequest. |
| DD21 Garden of Troup | The Garden family acquired the lands of Troup in Banffshire in the mid-17th century. Alexander Garden founded the village of Gardenstown in 1720 as a fishing port. The family also developed Laurencekirk in Kincardineshire from the 1760s to be a small manufacturing town. The records include writs, title deeds, tacks, leases, renunciations, valuations, accounts, correspondence about disputes with tenants and farm improvements, and other papers relating to the family. |
| DD391 Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone | Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone (1837 - 1884) was a granite merchant and proprietor of Aberdeen Granite Works in Constitution Street, Aberdeen. He was also a notable art collector, and bequeathed his collection of paintings, etchings and drawings to Aberdeen Town Council together with a third of the residue of his estate to purchase further works of art. This collection is now held by Aberdeen Art Gallery. The collection consists of correspondence and other papers generated by Alexander Macdonald, including letters from the artists that Macdonald patronised, and papers of his trustees relating to the administration of his estate between 1884 and 1902. |
| DD627 Niven-Cruickshank Archive | Includes papers of the Leslie Family of Rothie and Kinbroon estates, Rothienorman, and the Niven and Cruickshank family, Aberdeenshire. |
| DD641 Berry Family Collection | Papers including correspondence of the Berry family of Aberdeenshire and other family members in Edinburgh, Somerset and Denmark. The family includes Walter Oliphant Berry (1827-1904), Danish Consul General in Scotland, and Dr George Barclay, who worked in Aberdeen, both at the Infirmary and the Lunatic Asylum. The Berry and Barclay families were partners in Berry, Barclay and Company, a grain business in Leith. The letters are on a range of topics, notably on medical matters in the case of Dr Barclay's correspondence. There are also references to India, Jamaica, the 1831/2 cholera epidemic and the family's reaction to Walter Berry's second wife's alcoholism. |
| DD1460/A Frasers of Castle Fraser Papers | The majority of the papers are discharges, but there are also three lists of damage done to the Fraser family's lands by the Marquis of Huntly's forces during the 1650s (DD1460/A/64-66) and a memorandum of damage by a Captain Clare in the same time period (DD1460/A/75); a royal guarantee for the release of Lord Fraser in 1651 (DD1460/A/67); DD1460/A/68; a receipt for the payment of a fine for failing to keep the peace by the 3rd Lord Fraser in 1653 (DD1460/A/69); a rental for Durris (DD1460/A/70); and a receipt for shoe repairs (DD1460/A/74). |
| DD1460/B Auchmedden Estate Papers | Papers relating to the purchase of the Auchmedden estate in 1750, and ascertaining a value for the purchase. |
| DD1460/C Auchinbadie Papers | Disposition and underlying documents establishing the annualrent purchased by Andrew Hay in 1722, running back to a marriage contract between George Mortimer and Elizabeth Leslie of 1679. |
| DD1861 John Morgan, master mason and politician | Papers and writings of Aberdeen builder and politician John Morgan. Held at the Town House branch. |