Sasines

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:01 am

Hi all,

I was recently told that the Sasines are held at the Mitchell library. If that is so, I was wondering if SKS could please have a look for The Irvine Sawmill ownership? Family rumour has it that it was once owned by the Granelli family (this would have to have been somewhere around 1900 onwards).

I would appreciate someone looking for me very much.

Nina

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:44 am

Hi Nina
I don't know about the Mitchell and they well have sasines for the area you are interested in, but I do know that ALL sasines are held at NAS in Edinburgh. See:
http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/sasines.asp
for more general info.
The indexes for some of these are now availbale on the PCs at NAS with a project on the way to make them available online at some point.

Best wishes
Lesley

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:00 pm

Thanks very much Lesley! I will look into this further when it is not so late at night for me!

Nina

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:33 pm

Be aware that there's a difference between the sasine abridgements, i.e. short summaries, that The Mitchell may well hold, and the full versions that I suspect, but can't confirm, are only accessible at General Register House in Edinburgh, i.e. National Archives of Scotland ..........

The former may well supply all the info that is required by a researcher ....... but be aware that, until some quite late date, they're in Latin ...............

David

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:47 pm

Thank you David.

Nina

hbaird · Post by **hbaird** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:30 am

Nina,

Can't remember the name on the building but I got some brilliant sasine records from the office at the top of Queen Street in Glasgow. I was able to sit with someone and look at the records then I was able to get screen prints of the property transactions, for a small fee, of course!

Helen

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:11 am

Hi Helen,

I wish I could do that! Oh well, thanks for the information!

Nina

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:54 pm

Hi Nina
You could try contacting NAS - with a surname like Granelli it should be easy to establish if there are any relevant entries in the sasine indexes fairly quickly.

Best wishes
Lesley

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:00 pm

Hi Lesley,

Yes that is true. Nothing comes up in the online indexes for this, so it is worth a try. I will get to it right away.

Thanks for your help!

Nina