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Records Relating to Genealogy: Part One

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Reference	Kloc /054
Collection	Kinnear Local Book Collection
Date	1681-1695
Description	Copy of typescript "Register of Births and Baptisms Episcopal Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland"

Reference	MS 6/1
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY
Date	c1831-1936
Description	Cox Brothers Business records: See full list for more details

Reference	MS6/1/2/1
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1842
Description	Copy summons of poinding the ground. James Watson against James Cock Jnr and others.

Reference	MS6/1/2/2
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1844
Description	Statement of guarantee against Mr Henry Cox. James Ogilvie, writer in Dundee. Statement of guarantee against Mr Henry Cox of Manchester..

Reference	MS6/1/2/3
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS,
Date	1861
Description	Copy interdict by Joseph Grimond. George Addison Cox, Cox Brothers.

Reference	MS 6/1/3/2/4
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1853
Description	Note. Informing of the death of James Carmichael Senior, Dundee.

Reference	MS 6/1/3/2/14
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1872
Description	Note from James Cox? to C.S. Concerning population of Lochee from census returns.

Reference	MS 6/1/6/4/9
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1928
Description	Evening Telegraph cutting ‘The days when Lochee was still a village’

Reference	MS 6/1/7/1-3
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1870-1872
Description	Employee Returns. Showing number of hands employed at Camperdown Linen Works, Lochee

Reference	MS 6/1/7/4
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1870
Description	Notebook. Containing names of the committee and members of Lochee Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Reference	MS 6/2/1/1
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1884
Description	James Cox. Copy trust disposition and settlement

Reference	MS 6/2/1/2
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	c 1800
Description	Marriage license. James Cock and Miss Helen Scott, Liff Parish.

Reference	MS6/2/4/3
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1835
Description	Letter from James Cock to Clementina (wife). Fleuchars Craig. Family news.

Reference	MS6/2/4/8
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1838
Description	Letter form James Cock to wife Clementina. Bristol. Returning home next week; Concerns for family members; lodgings.

Reference	MS6/2/4/22
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS,DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	12 Apr 1855
Description	Letter from James Dixon, Liff to Mr James Cox. Extracts from registers of births of Cox’s children.

Reference	MS6/2/4/22/1
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS,DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	12 Apr 1855
Description	Extracts from register of births in United Parish of Liff, Logie, Benvie and Invergowrie.

Reference	MS6/2/4/35
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS,DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1861
Description	Notice of death of William Kerr, writer, Dundee.

Reference	MS 6/2/5/1
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY
Date	c 1880
Description	Journal of James Cox. Autobiographical account of the life of James Cox, 1808-1885. With loose papers. Concerning the shipwreck of his brother, David Tullo Cock (b. 1810) and referring to his first born son, James (b. 1835) who died at the age of 3.

Reference	MS 6/4/1/2
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS,
Date	1892
Description	Registered Trust Disposition and Settlement of Thomas Hunter Cox 14 Aug 1891.

Reference	MS 6/5/6
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1885-1913
Description	Press cuttings relating to members of Cox family

Reference	MS 6/6/1/3/8
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	c1972
Description	Letter reguarding tate of finances of shareholders (including several Cox purchases, family members, share deals, etc.) [Badly damaged]

Reference	MS 6/6/2/10
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	c1924
Description	Letter from Elie Cox, Marcus, near Forfar to J. Ernest Cox. Family history. Copy of Haws family crest enclosed

Reference	MS 6/6/2/12-14
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1932
Description	Letters from George W. Haws, Captain, North Queensferry, Fife to J. Ernest Cox. Discuss his book on pedigrees of Haws and Cox families and other genealogical matters

Reference	MS 6/6/2/15
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1932
Description	Three letters to J. Ernest Cox regarding family history.

Reference	MS 6/6/2/16
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1932
Description	Letter from George W. Haws, Captain to Mr Cox. Encloses book, family history which contains pedigree of Robb Cox branch.

Reference	MS 6/6/2/18
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1933
Description	Letter from George W. Haws, Chelsea, London to J. Ernest Cox. Discusses Scott pedigree [copy not enclosed]

Reference	MS 6/6/2/19
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1933
Description	Letter from William [?], Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire to J.E. Cox. Family history. List of family members enclosed [annotated].

Reference	MS 6/6/2/20
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1933
Description	Letter from Marion E. Hillier, Bracknell, Berkshire to J.E. Cox. Family particulars

Reference	MS 6/6/2/21
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1933
Description	Letter from [?Clementina] C. [?Dewar], Dunbar, East Lothian to J.E. Cox. Particulars of family members.

Reference	MS 6/6/2/37
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1941
Description	Letter, W.H. Cox, Murthly, Perthshire to J.E. Cox asking for particulars of J.E. Cox’s immediate family. With Typescript and MS notes on family history. [17pp].

Reference	MS 6/6/2/38
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1941
Description	Letter from Hilda to J.E. Cox . Information re family tree.

Reference	MS 6/6/2/39-40
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1941
Description	Letters from Evelyn Smith, Broughty Ferry to J. Ernest Cox. Family history, enclose list of family members and dates and Smith FamilyTree

Reference	MS 6/6/4/1/1-29
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	c. 1843-1920
Description	J. Ernest Cox. Cox family history papers. Includes Marriage certificates and notes on family members including Tod family.

Reference	MS 6/6/4/4/1-3
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1920
Description	Notes on Cox family Gravestone inscriptions

Reference	MS 6/6/4/5/1-11
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1877-1914
Description	Extracts from baptism registers for cox family births.

Reference	MS 6/6/4/6/1-6
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1905-1916
Description	Newspaper extracts of birth announcements of Cox children

Reference	MS 6/6/5/1-2
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1890
Description	Newspaper cuttings concerning Thomas Cox of Maulesden and Duncarse and George A. Cox

Reference	MS 6/6/7
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	c1865-c1940
Description	James Ernest Cox Photographs of family and friends. See full list for more details

Reference	MS 6/7/3/2-4
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY
Date	1933
Description	Correspondence relating to Margot Cox's family members

Reference	MS 6/7/3/10-14
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY
Date	1962-1968
Description	Margot Cox's correspondence relating Cox family, and wedding of Dougal Cox

Reference	MS 6/7/5/1
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1868-1915
Description	Newspaper cuttings, including marriage J. Ernest Cox & Agnes Tod. With loose papers

Reference	MS 6/7/5/3-6
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	1897-1964
Description	Newspaper cuttings including details of Cox family affairs

Reference	MS 6/7/10
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	c1875-c1960
Description	Margot Cox. Photographs of family and friends. See full list for more details

Reference	MS 6/9/4/2
Collection	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date	21 Jul 1879
Description	List of tenants on Cardean Estate. With names of farms.

Reference	MS 9
Collection	Glasite Church
Date	1790-1896
Description	Correspondence, "exhortations", sermons and miscellaneous papers, including papers relating to Michael Faraday.

Reference	MS 9/2/4
Collection	Glasite Church
Date	19th C.
Description	Genealogical notes on family of Patrick Cochran, printer, Arbroath (1748 - 1833).

Reference	MS 10
Collection	Boase & Co. Ltd., [previously Turnbull & Co.], Claverhouse Bleachfield
Date	1833-1966
Description	Ledgers, cash books, day books, miscellaneous financial records, annual reports, wages books, miscellaneous records including patents.

Reference	MS 11/3/6-10
Collection	Baxter Brothers, Linen and Jute Manufacturers, Dundee
Date	1873-1942
Description	Various monthly wages books. Refers to mills, factory, schools etc.

Reference	MS 11/5/44,48,49
Collection	Baxter Brothers, Linen and Jute Manufacturers, Dundee.
Date	[1670-1933]
Description	Family trees, John Baxter. Pedigree of Baxter family and genealogical notes on various branches of the Baxter family.

Reference	MS 15/42
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	19th Century
Description	Papers relating to the family of Scott (Forfar and Lundie) claiming descent from Thomas Scott of Cambusmichael, sheriff depute of Perth, 1566, who was executed for his part in the Gowrie Conspiracy.

Reference	MS 15/43
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	1682
Description	Guthrie-Shiell linkages. Genealogical table and notes compiled by Emeritus Professor A.C. Lendrum, relating to the descendants of Alexander Guthrie and John Shiell.

Reference	MS 15/55
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	19th C.
Description	Genealogical notes on families of William Henry Brittain and Arabella Eliza Macdonald.

Reference	MS 15/67
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	18th-19th C.
Description	Eccles family. Genealogical notes relating to Eccles family of Greenock and Trinidad. n.d. [fragment].

Reference	MS 15/68
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	1647-1968
Description	"Pedigree of Cullwick": family tree extracted from the Records of the College of Arms, London.

Reference	MS 15/144
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	c.1400
Description	Book belonging to Canon Giovanni, Andrea Agap(?) Vassalo, mainly containing a list of wills, apparently Maltese.

Reference	MS 15/179
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	19th C.
Description	Illustrated history of Mid Wynd International Investment Trust PLC (1797-1987), Raymond Scott, includes genealogical tree of Scott family.

Reference	MS 15/209
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	2 March, 1932.
Description	George William Haws, Chelsea, London, to Mrs Patterson. Accompanies copy of his book the "Haws family and their sea faring kin"; which he is forwarding. Discusses his research into his family name, also mentioning the derivation of the Cox family name 4pp.

Reference	MS 15/218/4.
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	1679-1900s
Description	Papers relating to Naughton Estate and Castle and the Crawford family.

Reference	MS 15/261/2
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	1903
Description	Seaman's Register of Seamen engaged on the "Vega".

Reference	MS 15/293
Collection	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date	1824-1915
Description	Miscellaneous notes relating to the Armitstead family. Includes family tree and biography of George Armitstead, Baron of Castlehill (1824-1915). Compiled 1982.

Reference	MS 17/1/1
Collection	The Thornton Collection
Date	1862-1874
Description	List of Tayfield [Fife] feus.

Reference	MS 17/4/1(13)
Collection	The Thornton Collection
Date	[1683-1823]
Description	Extracts from valuation rolls; valued rents for the parishes of Monifieth, Mains and Strathmartine.

Reference	MS 17/7
Collection	The Thornton Collection
Date	1518-1837
Description	Title deeds of Feddinch and Cairnsbank in the regality and barony of St Andrews, Cairns and other lands in the barony of Strathmiglo, Fife and lands in Dundee (High Street, Market Street, Overgate, Seagate) chartularies of Ferryden, in the parish of Craig [Angus].

Reference	MS 17/9/20
Collection	The Thornton Collection
Date	1724-1990
Description	Family trees and other papers relating to the Morgan and Crammond families

Reference	MS 18
Collection	Andrew Gilchrist
Date	1899-1926
Description	Notes mainly on derivation and meaning of Gaelic personal and place names.

Reference	MS 19
Collection	George Duncan Paterson, F.S.A. (Scot.)
Date	[1500-1924]
Description	Notes on Scottish family and place names, mainly 20th century. Includes: typescripts by Donald A. Tod:The Patersons of the Highlands and Shires of Aberdeen, Fife and Stirling. (1924).The Flemings of Athol and Glen Shee, 1500-1800. (1927).The Rintoul Family, 1612-1921. (1933).(Printed) Hallen, A.W. Cornelius: “An account of the Family of Younger, County Peebles”. (Edinburgh 1890).

Reference	MS 24/2,3
Collection	Low and Bonar Ltd, Jute Spinners, Manufacturers and Merchants, Dundee
Date	1930-33
Description	Low and Bonar Ltd, Eagle Jute mills, Dundee. Wages books.

Reference	MS 33/3
Collection	Dundee School of Economics
Date	1931-1954
Description	Record of final examination results.

Reference	MS 33/4
Collection	Dundee School of Economics
Date	c.1931-1951
Description	Dundee School of Economics. Student record cards, (2 box files).

Reference	MS 33/6
Collection	Dundee School of Economics
Date	1932-1957
Description	Students' Union Visitors' Book.

Reference	MS 34
Collection	Kennedy Family Miscellany
Date	1777-1860
Description	Kennedy Family Miscellany. Relates to John Kennedy in parish of Logierait, b.1773, and descendants in Perthshire.

Reference	MS 38
Collection	Torrance Collection
Date	1806-1971
Description	Miscellaneous papers, letters, diplomas, certificates, newspaper cuttings and a diary relating to the Torrance Family.

Reference	MS 39/3
Collection	William Fraser Mitchell
Date	n.d.
Description	A short family history, being an account of a family of Lawson, their progenitors and kinsmen. Also includes mention of Burnett, Carnegie, Johnson, Kinnear, Laing, Mitchell, Petrie, Watson, Wood.

Reference	MS 39/4
Collection	W. Fraser Mitchell
Date	1977
Description	Letter, 21 August 1977, W. Fraser Mitchell, Dundee to A.F. Meredith, Esq., University of Dundee. Thanks for information received about the Baxter family. Refers also to the Duncan family, the history of Dundee High School, comments on education in Dundee, the office and title of 'Rector'; mentions genealogy of Sir Robert Watson Watt.

Reference	MS 43/10
Collection	Alexander Shanks & Sons Ltd, Engineers, Arbroath.
Date	1892-1910.
Description	Volume containing details of apprenticeships, dates, names and times to be served.

Reference	MS 44/2,3
Collection	James Allison & Sons
Date	1890-1957.
Description	Time/wages and wages books.

Reference	MS 44/10/1,11
Collection	James Allison & Sons
Date	1890-1918 and 1924-1957
Description	Apprentice indentures, printed.

Reference	MS 45/9/27
Collection	Lewis C.Grant Limited, Engineers, Dysart, incorporating Douglas & Grant Ltd.
Date	1920-1951
Description	Apprentice book, including index.

Reference	MS 46/2
Collection	Marshall & Edgar, Lilybank Foundry, Dundee
Date	1845-1847
Description	Workers' time book.

Reference	MS 52
Collection	West Highland Salmon Fisheries Co. Ltd, Portree
Date	1951-1958
Description	Wages book.

Reference	MS 57/1/1
Collection	Ogilvie Cowan & Co., Solicitors, Dundee
Date	1632-1935
Description	Papers relating to Stirling, Graham, Stirling-Graham and Lacon families.

Reference	MS 57/1/29
Collection	Ogilvie Cowan & Co., Solicitors, Dundee
Date	1679-1823
Description	Small leather volume containing genealogical notes on Graham family.

Reference	MS 57/3/3
Collection	Ogilvie Cowan & Co., Solicitors, Dundee
Date	1828-1829
Description	Dorothy Whale Fishing Co.: miscellaneous papers concerning wages and oil money of crew of Dorothy, including arrestments against crew members.

Reference	MS 57/3/6
Collection	Ogilvie Cowan & Co., Solicitors, Dundee
Date	1797
Description	Notes as to seamen's wages.

Reference	MS 57/3/9
Collection	Ogilvie Cowan & Co., Solicitors, Dundee
Date	1706-1820
Description	Miscellaneous writs relating to Dundee property and family of David Cook, merchant there, including contracts.

Reference	MS 59/2
Collection	Tay Whale Fishing Company
Date	1791-1922
Description	Microfilm Reel 2. Includes Book of press cuttings reporting the success of the Dundee sea and whale fishing fleet, including refrences to deaths of crew members

Reference	MS 63
Collection	Dundee Medical Society
Date	1864
Description	Roll of members.

Reference	MS 66/II/5
Collection	Cox Brothers Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufactures, Dundee
Date	1860-1862, and 1893-1921.
Description	Cox Brothers Ltd., Wages records (indexed).

Reference	MS 66/IV/11/1
Collection	J. & A.D. Grimond Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee
Date	1912-1922
Description	Wages book.

Reference	MS 66/V/3/1
Collection	John N. Kyd & Co. Ltd, Jute Spinners, Dundee
Date	1901-1902
Description	Register of young persons (under 18 years of age) employed full-time.

Reference	MS 66/V/3/4,5
Collection	John N. Kyd & Co. Ltd, Jute Spinners, Dundee
Date	1897-1907
Description	Time books, include wages.

Reference	MS 66/VI/4/1
Collection	Harry Walker & Sons Ltd
Date	1912
Description	Memorandum book with note of wages paid.

Reference	MS 66/X/5/1-26
Collection	Sidlaw Industries Ltd (Jute Industries Ltd), Dundee
Date	1919-1963
Description	Wages and salaries books.

Reference	MS 66/X/10/11
Collection	Sidlaw Industries Ltd (Jute Industries Ltd), Dundee
Date	1921-1939
Description	Directors' salaries.

Reference	MS 66/XII/2/1-3
Collection	Sidlaw Industries Ltd: Miscellaneous and Unidentified Records
Date	1911-1912, 1919-1920
Description	Wages books, including wages book for Brussell loom employees.

Reference	MS 67/1/3(10)
Collection	Robert Cochrane Buist
Date	1890-1911
Description	Roll of members of the Dundee Symposium.

Reference	MS 67/1/4,5
Collection	Robert Cochrane Buist
Date	[c.1500s-1900]
Description	Notebooks containing lists of Dundee medical practitioners.

Reference	MS 67/1/6
Collection	Robert Cochrane Buist
Date	[c.1526-1936]
Description	Index cards, mainly of Dundee doctors, with some related correspondence and papers, including genealogical notes on the families of Crichton and Ewing.

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