Account book of William and Robert Ross of Easter Beltie, Kincardine O'Neil

Account book of financial transactions and of family events kept by William Ross and Robert Ross, 1683-1748. Includes record of feeing contracts with farm servants.

Also includes extract divisions of Kincardine O'Neil parish schoolmaster's stipend amongst heritors, 1618 and 1720; extract rental of Lands of Easterbelly, 1744; valued rent of parish of Kincardine O'Neil, not dated (circa 1735); division of Kirk of Kincardine amongst heritors, 1734; and remedy for falling sickness, extracted from the London magazine, 1741.

William Ross (c.1658-1732) and Robert Ross (b. 1702) were farmers at Easter Beltie, Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire. William's wife's name is not given in the family events recorded in the preface, but it is believed she was Agnes Duncan (from her youngest daughter Elspet's baptism record). William and Agnes married in 1682 and had eleven children: Margaret (b. 1683, m. 1702), Agnes (b. 1685), Jannet (b. 1688), Jean (b. 1691), Alexander (b. 1694), William (b. 1697 d. 1706), David (b. 1700), Robert (b. 1702), Marie (b. 1705), Isobel (b. 1707) and Elspet (b. 1710 married George Barren in 1729).

Kincardine O'Neil's parish registers record a Robert Ross marrying Effie Adam in 1734 and having seven children: Elspet (b. 1736), William (b. 1738), Jean (b. 1740), Alexander (b. 1745), Margaret (b. 1747), Katherine (b. 1749 and, David (b. 1752). The parish registers record the death of a Robert Ross in 1782.

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Date range had been recorded variously as 1683-1748, 1683-1780 and 1683-1783. Volume checked 2022 and latest date I could see was 1748, so this record has been updated to reflect that [KK]. Item has been photographed in its entirety and a digital copy is available 14/12/2022 [KS]

Gifted to the Grampian Regional Archives by a descendent of the Ross family in 1976.