| Description | Alexander Fraser-Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee: literary/historical papers, 1766-1808 (D766/1); Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee: correspondence, 1771-1820 (D766/2); Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee and Ann Fraser Tytler: legal and estate papers, 1614-1835 (D766/3); Patrick Fraser Tytler: correspondence & associated papers, 1771-1828 (D766/4); Sheriff William Fraser Tytler, c.1750-1863 (D766/5); Margaret Grant, 1824-1867 (D766/6); Elizabeth Fraser Tytler, 1817-1820 (D766/7); Captain William Fraser Tytler 1814-1907 (D766/8); Harriet Jane Pretyman, 1900 (D766/9); James MacLeod Bannatyne Fraser Tytler, 1838-1896 (D766/10); Emily Fraser Tytler, 1826-1839 (D766/11); Lieutenant Alexander Fraser Tytler, 1857-1937 (D766/12); Mary Fraser Tytler, 1900-1908 (D766/13); Edward Grant Fraser Tytler, 1874-1896 (D766/14); Edith Fraser Tytler, 1726-1927 (D766/15); Neil Fraser Tytler, 1748-1918 (D766/16); Hester Vere Fraser Tytler, c.1887-1938 (D766/17); Allan George Cameron, 1893-1913 (D766/18); Lady Margaret Cameron, 1890-1914 (D766/19); Colonel Angus Cameron, 1967-1968 (D766/20); Balnain Estate, 1800-1849 (D766/21); Aldourie Estate, 1802-2001 (D766/22); Glenbrayne Trust, 1876-1911 (D766/23) and Miscellaneous, Dec 1859 (D766/24) |
| Administrative History | The Aldourie and Balnain estates passed to the Tytler family through the marriage of Anne Fraser (1753-1837) to Alexander Tytler (1747-1813) in 1776; Alexander added the name of Fraser to his own, so that he and his descendants were thereafter known as Fraser-Tytler. Alexander and his brother James Tytler were the sons of William Tytler of Woodhouselee (1711-1792), lawyer and historian, and his wife Ann Craig, and Alexander was himself a historian, professor at Edinburgh University, biographer and judge under the title of Lord Woodhouselee.
Alexander and Anne had three daughters-Jane, Anne and Isabella-and four sons: James Tytler W.S., Alexander Fraser Tytler, the historian Patrick Fraser Tytler (1791-1849), and William Fraser Tytler (1777-1853), who was appointed Sheriff Depute of Inverness in 1810. He married Margaret Grant of Burdsyards (1801-1861) and they had numerous children, among whom:
Jane Fraser Tytler, (1804-1838), who married Patrick (later Sir Patrick) Grant (1804-1895);
Elizabeth Fraser Tytler (1802-1890)
Charles Edward Fraser Tytler (1817-1881), for whom see below;
Alexander Fraser Tytler (1803-1832)
George Fraser Tytler (1807-1836)
James Bannatyne Macleod Fraser Tytler (1821-1914)
William Fraser Tytler (1815-1878)
Christina Fraser Tytler, who married Arthur Ruxton
Emily Fraser Tytler, who married Richard Torin
Sheriff William Fraser Tytler's eldest son Charles Edward was married twice: firstly to Etheldreda St Barbe (1818-1851), with whom he had three children, including Mary Fraser Tytler, who married G. F. Watts; and secondly Harriet Jane Prettyman, with whom he had two sons, Charles, who died very young, and Edward Grant Fraser Tytler (1856-). He married Edith Selwyn and had two children relevant to this collection, a son Neil Fraser Tytler (1889-1937) who married Christian Shairp, and a daughter Hester Vere Fraser Tytler (1886-1949) who married Allan Cameron (d. 1914)
The family members chiefly represented in this collection are Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, his father William Tytler, his father-in-law William Fraser and his family; his maternal grandfather James Craig, his brother James Tytler, his wife Anne Fraser; their sons James Tytler and Alexander, Patrick and William Fraser Tytler and daughter Isabella; the family of William's wife Margaret (the Grants of Burdsyards, notably her father George Grant and brother Peter Grant); William's daughter Jane and her husband Sir Patrick Grant, as well as Sir Patrick's second wife Frances Gough and her family; William's sons George, Alexander, James Bannatyne Macleod, William and Charles Edward and his daughters Elizabeth, Christina and Emily (Emelia); Charles Edward's son Edward Grant Fraser Tytler, his wife Edith Selwyn and her family; Edward Grant's daughter Hester Vere Fraser Tytler and her husband Allan Cameron; and Edward Grant's son Neil Fraser Tytler. |