Miscellaneous papers, including documents relating to lease and development of land at Dudhope

• Reference:GB 254 MS 100/5/5/1
• Former Reference:GB 254 MS 100/V/4 [1-39]
• Dates of Creation:1795-1955
• Physical Description:
  1 item

• Scope and Content

  Miscellaneous papers, including tacks, assignations, and agreements, relating to lease and development of land and Dudhope Park, Dundee, especially to South Dudhope Mill [Henderson's Mill]. Also includes correspondence regarding land at Newport and St. Fort, Balgay; list of certificates for shares and stock taken over by Alexander Henderson & Sons from Alexander Henderson's trustees; correspondence concerning trust of Alfred S.H. Smith; copy will of William Suttie. 1795-1955. Parties mentioned include: Blackadder [-], surveyor, Dundee; Boyack [William]; Bruce [Alex] merchant, Dundee; Carmichael, [Charles] engineer, Dundee; Christie [William], trustee, Eastern Bank of Scotland; Davie, [Peter]; Douglas [Archibald], R.H. Lord; Douglas [William]; Dundee Royal Exchange Association; Eastern Bank of Scotland, trustees, Dundee; Gordon [John] merchant, Dundee; Henderson [Alexander], trustees; Henderson, [Alexander] & Sons, spinners, Dundee; Henderson [William], spinner, Dundee; Henderson [William] & Sons, millspinners, Dundee; Johnstone & Simpson, solicitors, Dundee; Kidd [Robert]; Lickley [-]; Lindsay, McKay & Howe, writers, Edinburgh; McLaren [James] architects, Dundee; McPherson [Duncan], flesher, Dundee; Morrison [Matthew], flesher, Dundee; Ogilvie [William] flesher, Dundee; Rait [George], trustees; Reid [P]; Ruthven [John], flesher, Dundee; Scott [Sir William] and Scott [Lady -]; Smith [Alfred S.H.], managing director, Alexander Henderson & Sons Trust; Stewart [Henry]; Suttie [William]; Thomson [J.W.], writer, Dundee; Urquhart [Daniel], nursery and seedman, Dundee; Warden [Alexander Johnston], manufacturer, Dundee; Westland [James], Eastern Bank of Scotland. Properties mentioned include: Anchor Mill; Balgay; Dudhope Park; Douglas Mill; Henderson's Mill; Laigh Park of Dudhope; Newport and St. Fort; Smellie's Lane P.L. Factory; South Dudhope Mill.

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• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Kenneth Baxter, January 2010

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• Additional Information

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