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Stuart family, Dukes of Lennox

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Date: 1100-1800
Places:
  • County Cavan
  • County Donegal
  • Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire
  • Brill, Buckinghamshire
  • Cobham, Kent
  • Darnley, Renfrewshire
  • Dunipace, Stirlingshire
  • Inchinnan, Renfrewshire
  • Leighton Bromswold, Huntingdonshire
  • Methven, Perthshire
  • Neilston, Renfrewshire
  • St Andrews, Fife
  • Strood, Kent
  • Tarbolton, Ayrshire
  • Watton, Yorkshire
  • Balloch, Dunbartonshire
  • Inchmurrin, Dunbartonshire
  • Aubigny, France
  • Boarstall, Buckinghamshire
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/F185500 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F11148 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
12th cent-18th cent: Ayrshire (Tarbolton, etc), Dunbartonshire (Balloch, etc), Fife (St Andrews, etc), Perthshire (Methven, etc), Renfrewshire (Darnley, etc) and Stirlingshire (Dunipace) writs and estate papers and Stuart family papers 12th-18th cent, with misc rentals and papers for Lanarkshire (Glasgow and Partick) 16th-17th cent, etc
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD220
NRA 32572 Graham

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [43a]
2
16th cent-17th cent: misc Kent (Cobham, etc) deeds and papers
Medway Archives Centre
U 565
NRA 1179 Bligh
3
1570-1571: letter book of the 4th Earl of Lennox (1516-1571)
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD 149/266
NRA 33875
4
1644-1673: corresp and papers of the 6th Duke of Lennox (1639-1672), incl papers rel to his property in France
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 21947-51
5
1661-1701: bills and papers rel to the debts of the 6th Duke 1661-1701, incl personal inventory 1672
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Eg MS 2435
6
c1662-1674: accounts, financial and other papers rel to the affairs of the 6th Duke
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
La. II. 420, 630
7
1486-17th cent: accounts and papers of the 6th Duke rel to his embassy to Denmark, his estates in France and elsewhere and to his debts c1663-80, with marriage settlement 1662 and misc deeds and papers rel to property in Bucks (Brill, etc), Hunts (Leighton Bromswold), Kent (Cobham, Strood, etc), Oxon (Bletchingdon, etc), Yorks (Watton), cos Cavan and Donegal and elsewhere 1486-17th cent
The National Archives
C 108/9-10, 53-55, 161