University of Dundee Archives

Letter, Lochwinnock, Paisley, James Wilson to his sons, John and James at Pollokshaws.

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9 October 1827

Concerns arrangements for a forthcoming funeral. [2pp]

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

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9 November 1857

To the creditors and shareholders of the Western Bank of Scotland from the directors of same. Announces their resolution of suspending payment of the Company obligations, both at headquarters and at the branches. [2pp]

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Private cash books/ledgers of William Primrose Wilson, woollen manufacturer.

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1908-1926

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Mainly investments, and including Union Bank of Scotland deposit receipt and general account, 1921-1925.

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Papers relating to shares of the Mysore Gold Mining Company.

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1919-1921

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Printed letter, Glasgow.

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26 November 1857

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Announces a forthcoming meeting organised by 'The Committee now acting in getting up subscriptions for enabling the Bank to recommence business...' [1p]

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Programme of official celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of David Livingstone

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March 1913

Part of Wilson Family Papers

with invitation to attend celebratory reception in Glasgow City Chambers, and programme of reception.

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Announcements and general invitations relating mainly to members of the Wilson family.

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1950

Part of Wilson Family Papers

James Wilson, candlemaker; Helen Primrose Wilson, [grandmother of Helen Primrose Wilson, d.1950]; Agnes McNeil Wilson; also includes announcements of the deaths of James Cowan, Alva, and James Johnstone, Alva, and an invitation to the funeral of Jane Tweeddale [Moodie].

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Papers and correspondence of James Wilson (1848-1919), woollen manufacturer.

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1893-1907

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Letters and ephemera

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

James Wilson's card. n.d.

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Part of Wilson Family Papers

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Birthday and engagement congratulations to Alexander Steven Wilson

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1904-1907

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Includes smaller envelope with twenty-first birthday wishes (1903), including: (1) 28 September 1903, Margaret Wilson, London: "Mr Holoway, who is at present in America, has been struck with the clearheadedness of the American people and attributes it to their abstinence from liquor".

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

"Various letters" immediate family and other relations

MS 82/4/18
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1910-1918

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Including : A.H. Forrest, Mary Johnson, Dorothy Johnson, Helen Primrose Wilson, and Margaret Wilson.

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

James Wilson, "Barnaigh", Alva..

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1893-1919

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Letters relating to the birth of Peter Sidney Steven Wilson, 1925. [19]

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1925

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Also includes letter, 28 August, 1928, from William Primrose Wilson, Edinburgh, enclosing items relating to John and James Wilson, Candlemakers, Glasgow, and Wilson and Anderson, [Woollen Manufacturers], Alva; 1870-1920.

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Miscellaneous bundle: tartan patterns, Craigleith stickers, Willi Düms' card.

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Part of Wilson Family Papers

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Lecture notes and laboratory work books of A.S. Wilson, Physics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Electro-technics, Electric Laboratory: City and Guilds of London Institute, City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury.

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1900-1902

Part of Wilson Family Papers

Include (29-31) brochures by Schuckert & Co., Nürnberg [in (28)]; and (32) lecture: The Life and Work of Lord Kelvin" by Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 1908 [in (24)].

Wilson family of Pollockshaws and Alva

Patent of Arms of Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow.