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Lord and Lady Alva’s Georgian House: The Special Inventories

Lord AlvaKaren Baston28/09/20160

Special inventories were taken for linen, coins and jewels, pamphlets, and pictures and prints found at Drumsheugh House after Lady Alva’s death in 1797. These were designed to resolve inheritance queries raised by her step-daughter-in-law Isabella Erskine. Linen The linen inventory is particularly interesting since it includes the marks the family used to identify their…

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