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Businesses (25)
- Arthur L Laing, chemist and druggist, mineral water manufacturer Lerwick, Shetland
- Charles Mitchell & Son, fish curers Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire
- Ganson Brothers Ltd, motor dealers Lerwick, Shetland
- Garriock & Co, blacksmiths Skeld, Shetland
- General merchant Lerwick, Shetland
- Gideon Gifford, merchant Busta, Shetland
- Grutness Station Co, grocers Sumburgh, Shetland
- H McDonald & Co, fish curers Lerwick, Shetland
- Harcus, Linklater & Co, grocers Scalloway, Shetland
- Hay & Co (Lerwick) Ltd, merchants and insurance agents Lerwick, Shetland
- Hay family, merchants Lerwick, Shetland
- Henderson's Hotel, Spiggie Dunrossness, Shetland
- Isbister & Co, merchants Sumburgh, Shetland
- J & M Fraser, fish merchants Lerwick, Shetland
- James Hunter, merchant Lerwick, Shetland
- Joseph Leask, merchant Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Town Hall Co Ltd Lerwick, Shetland
- North Star Cinema, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- R & C Robertson, grocers and spirit dealers Lerwick, Shetland
- Smith & Schultze, fish salesmen Lerwick, Shetland
- T & J Manson Ltd, printers and publishers Lerwick, Shetland
- TM Adie & Sons, general merchants and woollen manufacturers, Voe Voe, Shetland
- Tulloch of Shetland Ltd, woollen goods manufacturers Lerwick, Shetland
- Vaila Fishing Co Walls, Shetland
- William Irvine, insurance agent Lerwick, Shetland
Organisations (87)
- Acis, schooner
- Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers: Lerwick branch Lerwick, Shetland
- Andrew Heddell, comptroller of the customs, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Ann, sloop Lerwick, Shetland
- Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland: Morton Lodge No 89, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Antient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland: Viking Lodge No 671, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Black River Packet, barque
- Bressay Kirk Session Bressay, Shetland
- Burravoe Presbytery Burravoe, Shetland
- Campaign against Dounreay expansion
- Civil Aviation Authority: Sumburgh Airport Sumburgh, Shetland
- Delting Church of Scotland Brae, Shetland
- Delting Kirk Session Delting, Shetland
- Dunrossness and Sandwick District Road Dunrossness, Shetland;Sandwick, Shetland
- Dunrossness Kirk Session Dunrossness, Shetland
- Dunrossness School Board Dunrossness, Shetland
- Dunrossness United Free Church Dunrossness, Shetland
- Dunrossness, Sandwick and Cunningsburgh Parochial Board Dunrossness, Shetland
- East Yell School Yell, Shetland
- Fetlar Kirk Session Fetlar, Shetland
- Independent Order of Rechabites: St Columba Tent, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Islesburgh Motorcycle Club, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Janet Hay, schooner
- Lerwick Burgh Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Club Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Congregational Church Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Instruction Society Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Kirk Session Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Nursing Association Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Presbytery Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Sick Aid Society Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Subscription Library Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick Tolbooth Lerwick, Shetland
- Lerwick United Free Church (continuing) Lerwick, Shetland
- Lunnasting Kirk Session Lunnasting, Shetland
- Mary, schooner
- Mid Yell Kirk Session Yell, Shetland
- Naiad, brig
- Nesting Kirk Session Nesting, Shetland
- North Yell Kirk Session Yell, Shetland
- Northmavine Kirk Session
- Olnafirth Home Mission Station Shetland
- Olnafirth Presbytery Shetland
- Orkney and Shetland elections Shetland;Orkney
- Presbytery of Burravoe Schoolmasters Widows Fund Burravoe, Shetland
- Royal Naval Reserve Relief Fund, Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Sandsting and Aithsting Kirk Session Shetland
- Sandwick and Cunningsburgh Kirk Session Sandwick, Shetland;Cunningsburgh, Shetland
- Sandwick Parochial Subscription Library Sandwick, Shetland
- Scalloway United Free Church Scalloway, Shetland
- Scottish Union of Bakers, Confectioners and Bakery Workers: Lerwick branch Lerwick, Shetland
- Scout Association: Lerwick Lerwick, Shetland
- Shetland (Zetland) Commissioners of Supply Shetland
- Shetland Book Club Shetland
- Shetland Branch Labour Party Shetland
- Shetland Council of Social Service Shetland
- Shetland Craft Guild Shetland
- Shetland Fishermen's Widows' Relief Fund Shetland
- Shetland Folk Lore Society Shetland
- Shetland Hospitals Board of Management Shetland
- Shetland Islands Council Shetland
- Shetland land tax Shetland
- Shetland Literary and Scientific Society Shetland
- Shetland public hospital Shetland
- Shetland sheriffs Shetland
- Shetland Subscription Library Shetland
- Shetland United Free Church Presbytery Shetland
- Shetland United Free Church Women's Home Mission and Foreign Mission committee Shetland
- Shetland Womens Suffrage Society Shetland
- South Yell Kirk Session Yell, Shetland
- Spy, smack
- SS Mandalay
- Synod of Shetland Shetland
- Tingwall Kirk Session Tingwall, Shetland
- Twatt School Twatt, Shetland
- Ultima Thule Curling Club, Shetland Shetland
- Unst Kirk Session Unst, Shetland
- Up Helly Aa festival, Shetland Shetland
- Uyeasound Kirk Session Uyeasound, Shetland
- Victoria, schooner
- Walls and Sandness Kirk Session Walls, Shetland
- Westray baillie court Westray, Orkney
- Whalsay Kirk Session Whalsay, Shetland
- Whalsay School Whalsay, Shetland
- Whiteness and Weisdale Kirk session Whiteness, Shetland;Weisdale, Shetland
- Yell School Board Yell, Shetland
- Zetland County Council Shetland
Persons (41)
- Anderson, Arthur, (1792-1868), shipowner
- Anderson, Basil Ramsay, (1861-1888), poet
- Babington, Charles Cardale, (1808-1895), botanist and archaeologist
- Biot, Jean Baptiste, (1774-1862), French Scientist
- Blind, Karl, (1826-1907), German politician, author
- Brown, George Mackay, (1921-1996), author
- Burgess, James John Haldane, (1862-1927), author
- Cheyne, Andrew, (1817-1866), trader in the Pelew Islands
- Donaldson, Gordon, (1913-1993), historian
- Edmondston, Thomas, (1825-1846), naturalist
- Edmonston, Laurence, (1795-1879), naturalist
- Edmonston, Thomas, (1825-1846), botanist
- Fothergill, Charles, (1782-1840), Journalist and Naturalist
- Goudie, Gilbert, (fl 1873-1915), Shetland antiquary
- Greig, Archibald, (1797-1839), schoolmaster
- Greig, Archibald Forbes, (1850-1888), Shetland diarist
- Grieve, Christopher Murray, (1892-1978), poet
- Hay, Westwood Norman, (1871-1946), Colonel, Indian Army
- Henderson, Tom, (1911-1982), Shetland historian
- Huggins, William, (1854-1932), Brethren preacher
- Hunter, John, (d 1761), episcopalian minister in Shetland
- Jamieson, Christina, (fl 1907-1917), folklorist
- Jamieson, Peter, (1897-1976), Shetland author socialist historian
- Laurenson, Arthur, (1832-1890), antiquary
- Lewis, John, (1788-1866), Methodist missionary in Shetland
- MacGillivray, William, (1796-1852), naturalist
- Marwick, Ernest Walker, (1915-1977), historian and author
- Mathewson, Andrew Dishington, (1799-1887), schoolmaster and land surveyor
- Mill, John, (1712-1805), minister of Dunrossness
- Neven-Spence, Sir Basil Hamilton Hebden, (1888-1974), Knight Colonel MP
- O'Dell, Andrew Charles, (1909-1966), geographer
- Rampini, Charles Joseph Galliari, (1840-1907), Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway
- Robertson, Thomas Alexander, (1909-1974), poet
- Saxby, Jane, (fl 1930-1950), Shetland antiquary and folklorist
- Stewart, John, (1903-1977), place-name scholar and antiquary
- Tait, Edwin Seymour Reid, (1884-1960), Shetland antiquary
- Tait, Robert W, (1891-1954), poet
- Tait, William, (1918-1992), poet
- Thomason, Edward, (1922-1997), convener of Shetland Islands Council
- Wellesley, Arthur, (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- Williamson, Laurence, (1855-1936), scholar and antiquary
Diaries (1)
- Leisk, Thomas Shetland
Families (10)
- Bruce family of Sumburgh Sumburgh, Shetland
- Bruce family of Symbister Symbister, Shetland
- Cheyne family of Vaila Vaila, Shetland
- Douglas family, Earls of Morton Auchterhouse, Angus;Conaglen, Argyllshire;Inverscadle, Argyllshire;Cranshaws, Berwickshire;Applegarth, Dumfriesshire;Aberdour, Fife;Bellfield, Fife;Dalkeith, Midlothian;Dalmahoy, Midlothian;Westcraigs, West Lothian;Smithfield, Peeblesshire;Melrose, Roxburghshire
- Dundas family, Marquesses of Zetland Moor Park, Hertfordshire;London;Aske, Yorkshire;Loftus, Yorkshire;Marske, Yorkshire;Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire;Ballinbreich, Fife;Flisk, Fife;Falkirk, Stirlingshire;Grangemouth, Stirlingshire;Kerse, Stirlingshire
- Edmonston family of Buness, Unst Buness, Shetland
- Gifford family of Busta Busta, Shetland
- Irvine family of Midbrake Yell, Shetland
- Neven family of Windhouse Windhouse, Shetland
- Nicolson family, baronets, of Lasswade and Fetlar Lasswade, Midlothian;Fetlar, Shetland
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (31)
- NRA 35172 TM Adie & Sons, general merchants and woollen mfrs, Voe link to online catalogue
- NRA 15470 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Scotland: Morton Lodge No 89, Lerwick
- NRA 13555 Bruce family of Sumburgh: family, estate and business papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 27342 Bruce family of Symbister: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22620 James John Haldane Burgess, author and teacher: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22625 Cheyne family of Vaila: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37901 Gordon Donaldson, historian: corresp and papers rel to Shetland link to online catalogue
- NRA 32338 Douglas family, Earls of Morton: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25549 Douglas family, Earls of Morton: Shetland estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 13501 Edmonston family of Buness: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 15637 Hay & Co (Lerwick) Ltd, merchants and shipping agents link to online catalogue
- NRA 13556 Hay family of Laxfirth: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19328 Tom Henderson, Lerwick: local history collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 27333 Independent Order of Rechabites: St Columba Tent, Lerwick link to online catalogue
- NRA 10177 Irvine family of Midbrake: family and business papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22622 Peter Jamieson: corresp and papers rel to local history and politics link to online catalogue
- NRA 23257 Arthur Laurenson, antiquarian: family and personal corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42658 Andrew Dishington Mathewson, schoolmaster and land surveyor: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 23870 Laurence Henry Mathewson: Shetland local history collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 13558 Neven family of Windhouse: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43375 Thomas Alexander Robertson, poet: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 36505 James Shand: scrapbooks rel to Shetland history link to online catalogue
- NRA 13554 Shetland Archives: misc accessions
- NRA 44449 Shetland Council of Social Service link to online catalogue
- NRA 32522 Shetland Folk Society: MS collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 37991 Shetland Library: MS collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 22553 Shetland Literary and Scientific Society link to online catalogue
- NRA 44029 John Stewart, place-name scholar and antiquary: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 21086 Edwyn Seymour Reid Tait, Shetland antiquary: MS collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 37902 William J Tait, poet: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 13557 Laurence Williamson, scholar: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
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