Retours of Services Heirs Volume C 1700-1859

The Retours of Services of Heirs represent possibly the greatest unused resource for Scottish genealogy and land history, but are not widely available and thus are largely unknown. Essentially, they are abbreviated abstracts of the records of inheritance, the continuity of heritable possession of land and certain associated rights and responsibilities. The original Retours themselves are often long and complicated, and mostly in Latin, but they were indexed and abbreviated into the form presented here. The first series of Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum, quae in Publicis Archivis Scotiae Adhuc Servantvr (Inquiries Retourned to the Chancery of our Lord the King which are Held in the Archives of Scotland) recorded Retours from 1544 to 1699. This book adds to the accompanying Volumes A and B, with the Retours of Services of Heirs 1700-1859. The Retours 1700-1859 can be searched by decade and surname. There is additional material by Dr. Bruce Durie