Guide to the Collections held by the Ayr Record Office (as filmed by the AJCP)

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Created: 2018

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Fonds ATD 8. David W. Shaw and Co. Solicitors, Ayr, 1892 - 1895

Series 4/1-52. Earl of Glasgow. Correspondence, October 1892 - August 1895

Letters from Earl of Glasgow (Governor of New Zealand, 1892-1897) in Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin and Melbourne to Charles G. Shaw, County Clerk of Ayrshire, the Earl's personal friend, solicitor and factor, 10 October 1892 - 17 August 1895 (File)

Subjects Include: The constitutional crisis re appointing Legislative Council Members; he needs £1,500 beside his pay in New Zealand to live as a Governor 'I give very little champagne and a good deal of Australian wine'; 'I think we are hitting it off with the people out here very well'; Government House, Auckland; personal finances and expenditure as Governor; economic conditions in New Zealand; visits by Lord and Lady Hopetoun and Duchess of Buckingham; New Zealanders' enthusiasm for horse-racing; Premier dying - possibility Sir Robert Stout will succeed; execution in Auckland of man convicted of poisoning the husband of his paramour -problem in not interfering in face of appeals from friends and relatives; celebrations for Queen's birthday; fancy dress ball held on 31 Aug. 1893 'some of the girls were really very pretty'; his cousin, Alec Boyle's business as auctioneer at Christchurch; visit to Hopetouns at Melbourne - hot weather, daughter Augusta's coming out; seven bishops staying at Government House for consecration of new Bishop of Wellington; Augusta's riding accident; fear of another native uprising; 'I am now in the thick of two separate differences of opinion with my ministers, both of which I hope to carry to a triumphal issue - I really rather like these squabbles - it is something to do' (no. 46); severe Winter of 1895; poor financial state of New Zealand...

Fonds ATD 25. Cunningham of Auchenharvie, 1867

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Series 14. Miscellaneous Correspondence, June 1867

Jane Gordon (Glasgow) to John Cunningham, 24 June 1867 (File 68)

Received news from their brother in Australia (1p).

Fonds ATD 56. Miscellaneous Deeds, 1862

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Series 17. Miscellaneous, May 1862

Certificate signed by Sir George Grey appointing Alexander F. Morris, Harbour Master of Southland Province, New Zealand (1p), 28 May 1862 (File 14)

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