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Orkney Library & Archive D1: MISCELLANEOUS SMALL GIFTS AND DEPOSITS D1/1 Kirkwall Gas Works and Stromness Gas Works Plans 1894-1969 Plans of lines of gas pipes, Kirkwall, 1910-1967; Kirkwall Gas Works, layout and miscellaneous plans, 1894-1969; Stromness Gas Works plans, 1950-1953. 1.08 Linear Metres Some allied material relating to gas undertakings is in National Archives of Scotland and plans and photographs in Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. D1/2 Charter by Robert, Earl of Orkney to Magnus Cursetter 1587 & 1913 Charter by Robert, Earl of Orkney to Magnus Cursetter of lands of Wasdale and others (parish of Firth), 1587; printed transcript of the charter, 1913. The transcription was made by the Reverend Henry Paton, M.A. 0.01 Linear Metres D1/3 Papers relating to rental of lands in island of Rousay 1742-1974 Rental of lands in island of Rousay, 1742; correspondence about place of manufacture of paper used in the rental, 1973-1974. 0.01 Linear Metres English D1/4 Eday Peat Company records 1926-1965 Financial records, 1931-1965; Workmen’s time books, 1930-1931, 1938-1942; Letter book, 1926-1928; Incoming correspondence, 1929-1945; Miscellaneous papers, 1926-1943, including trading accounts (1934-1943). 0.13 Linear Metres English D1/5 Craigie family, Harroldsgarth, Shapinsay, papers 1863-1944 Rent book, 1863-1928; Correspondence about purchase and sale of Harroldsgarth, 1928-1944; Miscellaneous papers, 20th cent, including Constitution and Rules of the Shapansey Medical Asssociation. 0.03 Linear Metres English D1/6 Business papers of George Coghill, merchant, Buckquoy 1871-1902 Business letters, vouchers and memoranda of George Coghill, 1874- 1902; Day/cash book, 1871. 0.02 Linear Metres English D1/7 Barony and District Stock Improvement Society records 1954-1968 Minute book, 1954-1968; Account book, 1954-1968. 0.03 Linear Metres English D1/8 Sandwick Mutual Improvement Society records 1878-1907 Minute books, 1878-1907. 0.03 Linear Metres English D1/9 W B Peace and Sons, wood merchants, Kirkwall, records 1851-1955 W B Peace and Son: ledgers, 1851-1955; Thomas Smith Peace: drawings account book, 1866-1872. 0.32 Linear Metres English D1/10 Diary of John Pollexfen Peace 1883 Personal diary (kept well for first half, then only intermittent entries), 1883. 1 volume English D1/11 Birsay Literary Guild 1924-1926 Minute book (with subscribers’ lists), 1924-1926. Volume also contains subscribers’ lists for unknown society, 1907-1913. 0.02 Linear Metres English D1/12 Volume of music and prayers 1605-1615 Volume, partly printed, partly manuscript, containing lists of military and medicinal books, music of psalm tunes, words and music of German church music, and texts of prayers, c1610. Small (100mm x 70mm) ms volume containing "The Ground of Musick", a list of titles of "Books of Military Discipline", music of 32 psalm tunes, words and music of German church music and various prayers Bound in is part of a printed English 16th century prayer book. Original binding. Cover stamped "R.S". circa 1610 with later hand circa 1700 100mm x 70mm English Digital images of pages containing music available in archive.shared/digital images D1/13 Melsetter Estate letter book no. 4 1912-1914 Includes, 8 April 1912, letter to Frederick C Potter, Colchester, asking advice on forming oyster beds in the Bay of Longhope "where there appear to have been formerly considerable oyster beds [Transferred to D34] D1/14 Volume of proof of parentage of David Traill 1843-1844 Volume of proof, containing witnesses’ testimony about parentage of David Traill, 1843-1844. 0.04 Linear Metres English The Sheriff of Orkney and Shetland accepted commission from the Lords of Council and Session for examination of local witnesses in the conjoined actions of advocations of brieves before them between Robina Sinclair, Kirkwall, and Thomas Traill of Holland and others, against Hudson Blackburn Blackett, mariner, Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Traill or Forster, Low Felling, Durham. At issue was whether or not David Traill had been born a natural son of George Traill, laird of Skaill, Westray. D1/15 Documents belonging to Alexander Peterkin, author c1818-1884 Notebooks of Alexander Peterkin on Orkney antiquities, c1818-1820; Published works of Peterkin, 1822-1823; Printed Poor Law and Public Health reports, 1868-1884; Letter about vacant mastership in grammar school, 1823. 0.13 Linear Metres English D1/16 Title deeds of various Orkney lands 1628-1702 Title deeds for various lands in parishes of Stenness, Deerness, Sandwick, Stromness and others, 1628-1702. 0.06 Linear Metres English D1/17 Legal documents relating to the Flett and Hourie families, Bea, Harray 1747-1895 Law prints and other legal documents relating to the families of Hourie of Bea and Flett of Bea, 1747-1895. 0.03 Linear Metres English D1/18 Provost Samuel Reid correspondence 1884-1919 Exchange of letters between Samuel Reid and Horace Seymour, 10 Downing Street, London, offering bust of W E Gladstone to Kirkwall, 1884; Circular letter of appreciation from the Admiralty of work of cable ships during First World War, 1919. 0.01 Linear Metres English D1/19 Testimonial by John Cragy, lawman of Orkney 1509-1509 Testimonial of division of property in South Ronaldsay, 1509. 0.01 Linear Metres English John Cragy was lawman of Orkney from at least 1496 to 1509. As a judicial officer in the earldom of Orkney he presided over courts, and issued documents testifying to the findings of the courts.The provenance of this document is unknown. D1/20 R F Slater collection 1845-1919 Printed broadsheets and other papers relating to candidates for Orkney and Shetland in the general election, 1872; Bay of Firth Oyster Fishery Ltd papers, 1912-1919; Miscellaneous printed Orkney papers, including pamphlet defence of the established church against the seceders (1845), 1845 - 1908. 0.05 Linear Metres English D1/21 Stenness Agricultural Society records 1924-1975 Minute books, 1924-1975; Financial papers, 1924-1975; Rolls of members, 1924-1970; Rolls of competition entries, 1925-1953; Roll of prizewinners, 1932-1974; Miscellaneous papers, 1925-1972, including newspaper cuttings (1925-1968). 0.13 Linear Metres English D1/22 Notice of Queen’s Birthday trip to Rousay 1870-1880 Printed poster advertising Queen’s Birthday excursion between Kirkwall and Rousay, c1875. 0.01 Linear Metres English D1/23 Orkney and Zetland Association 1870-1873 Letter book, 1870-1873. 0.01 Linear Metres English D1/24 Plan of Mackenzie and Matthews, architects 1853-1853 Plans, sections and elevations of additions and alterations to the manse of Firth and Stenness, 1853. 0.06 Linear Metres English R M Bailey, Scottish Architects’ Papers: A Source Book (Edinburgh, 1996), esp. p. 97. D1/25 Kirkwall Young Men’s Literary Society records 1887-1889 Minute book, 1893-1899; Cash book, 1887-1899; Roll of members, 1891-1899; Constitution (as amended), 1897. 0.06 Linear Metres English D1/26 Kirkwall United Presbyterian Sabbath School 1872-1877 Sabbath School Superintendent’s roll book, 1872-1877. 0.02 Linear Metres English D1/27 Cromarty family papers 1807-1897 Correspondence, mostly to Magnus Cromarty from relations in British Columbia, and family legal papers, 1807-1897. 0.03 Linear Metres English D1/28 Kirkwall Unionist Club 1911-1939 Minute books, 1911-1938; Abstracts of accounts, 1925-1937; Miscellaneous papers, 1934-1939. 4 items separately listed English D1/29 Destitute Sick Society of Kirkwall 1829-1833 Account book, 1829-1833. 0.02 Linear Metres English D1/30 Orkney valuations and rentals 1653-1820 Valuations of Orkney, 1653 and 1820 (copies, c1810-1820); Bishopric lands rental, c1765; Earldom lands rental, c1795. 0.07 Linear Metres English D1/31 Orkney valuations and charters 1653-1874 Valuations of Orkney, 1653, 1817 (copies, c1817-1834); roll of land tax, 1874; copies of documents relating to Capt James Moodie of Melsetter (c1645-1725) and his descendants, c1815; printed and manuscript copy charters about lands in Orkney (1472-1760), c1860. 6 items separately listed. Includes later copies. English D1/32 Captain John Yates’ photographs c1875 Photographs of Capt John Yates (1825-1905), Adjutant, Administrative Brigade, Orkney Artillery Volunteers, and his family, c1875. 0.01 Linear Metres English Captain John Yates, Royal Artillery (1825 - 1905), came to Orkney from the Gunnery School, Royal Artillery, in May 1867 to take up the post of Adjutant with the Orkney Brigade Garrison Artillery. He married Elizabeth Grace Saville in 1858, and died in Hull in 1905. D1/33 Papers of John Copland 1898-1953 Essay on history of Orkney by James Copland (c1878-1906), Kirkwall, 1898; Correspondence of James Copland, law clerk, Dumbarton, to his family in Kirkwall, and letters of condolence after his death, 1900-1908; Business papers of D M Kirkness, joiner and Orkney chair-maker, Kirkwall, 1909-1914; Press cuttings about Boer War, 1899-1902; Harray and Birsay parishes teind roll, 1953 0.16 Linear Metres English James Copland was born around 1878 and trained as an office clerk, working in Glasgow. His father was born in St. Ola and his mother in South Ronaldsay, and the family lived in Walls. He appears to be the same James Copland who died in 1906 of the effects of a brain tumour in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. D1/34/1-3 Heddle papers : transcriptions 1754-1904 Transcripts by Miss Heddle of letters in the Heddle Papers (1754- 1904), 1970s. Three volumes, two of which contain transcripts of correspondence from the collection held on the National Archives of Scotland and known as GD263. The third volume is an index to the other two. The correspondence is mainly concerned with the following Orkney families, to which Miss Heddle was related: Moodies and later Heddles of Melsetter, and later Heddles of Cletts, Fotheringhame and their Fea ancestors, Traills of Westove, Westness and Woodwick with further links with the Traills of Hobbister, Ratter and Frotoft.
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