Estate Maps, 1750s-1900s
Name: | May, Peter (ca. 1724/35 - 1795); Ainslie, John (1745-1828) |
Title: | A Plan of the Barony of Castle Leod belonging to the Right Hon Lady Elibank reduced to a small scale from an old plan of P May by John Ainslie Land Surveyor Edinburgh |
Imprint: | Original survey 1750s, copied 1796 |
Pagination: | 1 ms. map : hand col.; 67 x 108 cm. |
Shelfmark: | NOSAS CL.2 |
Notes: | Scale: 1:6290. Lady Ellibank was the eldest daughter of George Mackenzie who "came out" in 1745. The estate was forfeited after Culloden, then restored to the family in 1784. Lady Ellibank inherited the estate in 1796. Ths relatively small map is re-drawn from the original 1756 1.3 x 2m Peter May map. Courtesy of the North of Scotland Archaeological Society. |
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