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FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CLASS HANDOUT Scotland: Records of Property & Inheritance Property records are often neglected supposing that “my ancestor was too poor.” We should never put limits on our ancestors. While property records contain more for the upper to middle classes, some include the lower class. The records dealing with property include services of heirs, deeds, sasines, notarial protocol books, the Great Seal, estate records, and valuation rolls. FamilySearch Wiki at http://wiki.familysearch.org and the National Archives of Scotland at http://www.nas.gov.uk can provide valuable information on all of these records. JURISDICTIONS: PROPERTY Many courts were involved in actions regarding land. Some of the most important courts were: Chancery Court, Court of Session, Sheriff Courts, Burgh Courts, Commissary Courts and Regality Courts. RETOURS AND SERVICES OF HEIRS Heritable (real) or immovable property included land, buildings and mineral rights. “Expanded on p. 4-5” DEEDS Any document someone wanted to be legally binding could be registered in a Register of Deeds. Deeds contain marriage settlements, marriage contracts, partnerships, trust dispositions, transfers of property, etc. SASINES The term ‘sasine’ comes from the action ‘to seize.’ A ‘sasine’ documented the act of taking possession of a piece of land, building or minerals in the ground, and sometimes involved the seller literally taking a handful of soil from the land and placing it in the hand of the buyer. Sasines were for any transfer of land and immovable property, including heritable land and Crown grants of land. These acts were recorded in the Register of Sasines and are a primary source for information on ownership of land and property. The register began in 1617 and continues to today, but earlier sasines do survive. There are actually several divisions of the Register of Sasines: • A general register (centralized in Edinburgh—containing sasines for anywhere in the country) • Particular registers (for each county) • Burgh registers The Register of Sasines is indexed from 1781 and easy to use. Prior to that year, there are partial indexes. The registers are currently being digitized. Here is a list of records available at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh (NAS) and the Family History Library (FHL).
Time Period Before 1540 1600-1609 1617-1867 1868- 1681- Kept by Notary Public Secretary of State Court of Session Court of Session Burghs Records Notarial Protocol Books include early sasines (in abbreviated Latin; best to have an expert examine) Secretary’s Registers (only 7 of 17 districts survive) Indexes 1599-1609 General Register (whole country) Indexes Minute books Particular Registers (by county) Indexes Minute Books Abridgements w/ indexes 1781-1868 General Register—Minute books No more Particular Registers Burgh Registers Availability NAS; FHL (FHLC Keyword Search “Notarial Protocol”) NAS NAS; FHL book Q 941 B4sp or films 0896584-0896606. NAS NAS; FHL 1616-1720 NAS; FHL 1717-1782 (films 0216877- 979), 1805-1867 (FHL book 941 P2sc) NAS NAS; FHL some (Q 941 B4sp) NAS; FHL NAS; FHL 1781-1830, films 0217075- 0217087 NAS; FHL book 941 P2sc (1868-1955) NAS; FHL has a few For further information, see the NAS guide on Sasines at http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/sasines.asp. For records at the FHL, search the library’s online catalog at www.familysearch.org (do a Place search) for a burgh or county of interest, or for ‘Scotland,’ and the topic of ‘Land and property.’ ESTATE PAPERS Most of our Scottish ancestors never owned land but rather lived and farmed on the land of someone else. That someone else likely kept records of their tenants and the management of their lands or estates. Many—though not all— estate papers have survived. Some are deposited at the NAS in their Gifts & Deposits section (GD), and some are still in the hands of the current estate holders. Some large estates, such as Inveraray Castle, ancestral home of the Duke of Argyll and Clan Campbell, have their own archives on-site. Estate papers can include rentals or leases, lists of tenants, and records of tenants who may have been in some trouble. A lease was called a ‘tack.’ Someone who held a lease was called a ‘tacksman’ or a ‘tackswoman.’ Some tacksmen held leases on large pieces of land which they then sublet for smaller farms and to crofters. Read more about them in the NAS online guide at http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/estateRecords.asp. In order to search Estate records you need to know who owned the estate. To find this information search these sources available online and at the FHL: • Parish histories and gazetteers • The Old & New Statistical Accounts of Scotland at the FHL and online at www.edina.ac.uk/stat-accscot/ • Findlay, James. Directory of Gentlemen’s’ Seats, villages, &c. in Scotland… [1843] (FHL book Ref 941 E4d; film 599347 item 3; fiche 6026392): Available online at Archives.org at http://www.archive.org/details/directorytogentl00find
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