Ogilvie, Cowan & Co, Solicitors, Dundee
Reference:
GB 0254 MS 57
Title:
Ogilvie, Cowan & Co, Solicitors, Dundee
Dates of creation:
1632-1991
Held at:
Dundee University Archives
Extent:
1.52 linear metres.
The records are on paper and include outsize plans.
Name of Creator:
Ogilvie, Cowan & Co
Level of Description: fonds
Creation Information:
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Revisions:
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Modified at:
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Note
Fonds level description compiled by Sarah Chubb, Archives Hub Project Archivist, October 2001.
Language of Material: eng
Administrative/Biographical History
The firm was established as J & J Ogilvie c.1806, possibly by James Ogilvie and his brother, John. It represented many of the landed families in the area, particularly the Estate of Duntrune, as well as local companies such as Gourlay Bros & Co. George Ogilvie, who continued the practice until his death in 1912, was one of the founders of Dundee Social Union. In 1973-4 the name of the firm changed to Ogilvie, Cowan & Co.
Scope and Content
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MS 57/1 Duntrune Estate, Dundee (families of Stirling, Graham, Stirling-Graham, Lacon)
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MS 57/2 Gourlay Brothers & Co, (Dundee) Ltd, engineers and shipbuilders
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MS 57/3 Dorothy Whale Fishing Co and other papers
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MS 57/4 J & J Ogilvie, Solicitors, Dundee
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MS 57P Ogilvie, Cowan & Co: maps and plans
System of Arrangement
Records are arranged into sub-fonds by client.
Administrative Information
Custodial History
Unknown
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Details of the original accession are unknown. Additional records were deposited by the Dundee City Archivist in 1987 (AccM/241) and by the director of the firm in 1991.
Accruals
None expected.
Access Conditions
Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation.
Copyright/Reproduction
Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges are made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply.
Existence of Copies
No known copies.
Existence/Location of Originals
The material is original.
Further Information
Finding Aids
Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.
Reference:
GB 0254 MS 57/1
Duntrune Estate, Dundee (families of Stirling, Graham, Stirling-Graham, Lacon)
Dates of creation:
1666-1991
Extent:
0.86 linear metres.
The records are on paper and include outsize plans.
Name of Creator:
Ogilvie, Cowan & Co
Administrative/Biographical History
Duntrune was first granted to Walter Northington by King Robert Bruce and later appears to have passed to the Ogilvies of Easter Powrie, who were in possession by the beginning of the 15th century. The estate then passed to the Scrymgeours, Viscounts of Dudhope and Constables of Dundee, before it was acquired by Walter Graham in the early seventeenth century.
The Grahams of Duntrune were closely related to the Grahams of Fintry and Claverhouse; Walter Graham was the son of John Graham, who was the second son of Sir Robert Graham of Fintry. The estate remained in the Graham family until 1802, when Alexander Graham of Duntrune died without issue. His sisters Amelia (the wife of Patrick Stirling of Pittendreich) and Clementina (wife of Captain Gavin Drummond of Keltie) became his co-heirs. Mr and Mrs Stirling assumed the surname and arms of the Graham family, and were succeeded first by their son William Stirling Graham, who died without issue, and then by their daughter Clementina Stirling Graham, the author of Mystifications. She died in 1877 and was succeeded by her nephew John Edmund Lacon.
Scope and Content
Title deeds, writs, trust and executory papers and miscellaneous legal papers, 1632-1959; estate papers, 1767-1905, including rentals 1767 and 1892, farm labour books and wages books 1869-1893; Graham family genealogical notes 1679-1823; notes on Clementina Stirling Graham, and the Graham families of Duntrune and Fintry 1991.
System of Arrangement
Records are arranged within series.
Administrative Information
Custodial History
Unknown
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Details of the original accession are unknown. Additional records were deposited by the Dundee City Archivist in 1987 (AccM/241) and by the director of the firm in 1991.
Accruals
None expected.
Access Conditions
Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation.
Copyright/Reproduction
Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges are made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply.
Existence of Copies
No known copies.
Existence/Location of Originals
The material is original.
Further Information
Finding Aids
Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.
Related Units of Description
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MS 57P/5 Plan of the estate of Duntrune, 1805
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MS 17P/9 Plan showing proposed pipe line through estate of Duntrune, mid 19th C
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MS 17P/136 Plan of Duntrune Pavement Quarry, Angus
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MS 113 Clementina Stirling Graham
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MS 124 Graham of Fintry: Household Records
Reference:
GB 0254 MS 57/2
Gourlay Brothers & Co (Dundee) Ltd, Engineers and Shipbuilders
Dates of creation:
1870-1910
Extent:
0.34 linear metres.
The records are on paper.
Name of Creator:
Ogilvie, Cowan & Co and Gourlay Bros & Co (Dundee) Ltd
Administrative/Biographical History
Gourlay Brothers & Company (Dundee) Limited was incorporated on 1 March 1904. Shares of the company were equally divided between Henry, Charles, Fanny, Kenneth and William Gourlay, James Lyon and William Fyffe. By 1905 the company showed a debit balance of over £19,000, a loss which was attributed to the 'serious depression in trade'. By 1907 the loss was over £1,000, much of which had been spent on new buildings and machinery at the shipyard. In 1908 the company's debts forced it into liquidation and the company was wound up.
Scope and Content
Minutes 1904-1908; memorandum and articles of association 1904; inventories and valuations 1900-1908; papers re. incorporation 1903-1907; minutes and papers re. liquidation of the company 1907-1910; leases, legal papers and correspondence 1870-1908; balance sheets 1903-1904; plan of Camperdown shipyard 1908.
System of Arrangement
Records are arranged within series.
Administrative Information
Custodial History
Unknown
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Details of the original accession are unknown. Additional records were deposited by the Dundee City Archivist in 1987 (AccM/241) and by the director of the firm in 1991.
Accruals
None expected.
Access Conditions
Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation.
Copyright/Reproduction
Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges are made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply.
Existence of Copies
No known copies.
Existence/Location of Originals
The material is original.
Further Information
Finding Aids
Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.
Related Units of Description
MS 57P/36 Plans of tenements in Ferry Road, Dundee, for Henry Gourlay, 1887
Other records, including shipping plans, are held at Dundee City Archives.
To MS 57/3, MS 57/4, MS 57P
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