Content Description | Large bundle of papers similar to those found in Ne 6 G 4.
Includes family trees, details of numerous births, marriages, deaths and baptisms within the family, legal papers concerning the wills of various family members, etc.
Also contains papers concerning the Scottish branch of the Hope family, being the Hopes of Craighall, Hopes of Kerse, and Earls of Hopetoun, who were the descendents of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall [son of Henry Hope a wealthy merchant from Edinburgh and his wife Jacqueline de Tott].
Includes references to the family of Mr Henry Hope who left Scotland for Holland in 1664 [and was presumably an ancestor of the Dutch branch of the Hope family?].
See also Ne 6 G 17, a futher bundle of papers concerning the Hope pedigree. |