| Administrative History | The Frasers of Culbokie and Guisachan were a branch of main Fraser line of Lovat, being descended from William Fraser, 2nd son of Thomas, 4th Lord Lovat. He received the lands of Guisachan from his father in around 1543.
Most of the correspondence in this collection is that of William Fraser of Culbokie, ninth of Guisachan (1723-1797) who took part in the Jacobite rising of 1745, but was pardoned under the 1747 Indemnity Act. He succeeded his father William Fraser, eighth of Guisachan in July 1755, and in 1756 received a Crown charter (as his former feudal superiors, the Frasers of Lovat, had been forfeited), of the lands of Guisachan, Lurg and Bridaig. He married Margaret, daughter of Stuart of Achnilly, and had nine children, among them Anne (1759-1818), who married Aeneas Ranald Macdonell of Scotus or Scothouse, and who is also represented in this collection |