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Dumfries Burgh

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Date: 1395-1990
Places:
  • Dumfries, Dumfriesshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Government, Scotland (local) > Burghs
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C25952 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O41256 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
15th-19th cent: deeds, processes, burgh papers, military documents, misc corresp, misc papers
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
NRA(S)0241
NRA 10799 Ewart Library
2
1654-1655: conistory court proceedings
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 35086
3
17th-18th cent: misc accounts & papers of town clerk, John Maxwell
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
EGD1
NRA 10437 Maxwell
4
1680: minutes of justiciary court with assize coll
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD123
NRA 8400 Erskine
5
1506-1975: court records
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
BA1-5, BC1-5, BD1-5, BE1-5, BF1-3, GF3, GF4, GF5
NRA 31757 Dumfries
6
1777-1975: dean of guild minutes, registers, applications, plans and warrants
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
CB821/4
7
1634-1975: financial records incl accounts, cash books
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
CB821/3
8
1395-1990: records incl town council minutes, police commissioner minutes, letter books
Dumfries and Galloway Archives
WA2-WC3, BF3/6-BF5/9, BG1-BG4, GF5/1-15, GG2/8, GG2/12, RB