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Correspondence, 1735-1844. Legal and financial records mainly relating to lands in Whalsay and Scalloway, 1741-1840. Miscellaneous records including passports, 1819, 1820, life insurance receipt, 1832, list of sloops, 1832-1833, and scroll last will and testament of Andrew Hay of Singapore, 1836.

Translated works by, and other papers of, Kathrine Irvine, 1883-1908, undated; Catherine Stafford Spence's notebooks, 1903, undated; Papers of Arthur Laurenson including correspondence, 1860-1890, 1933, essays, 1872, genealogical and antiquarian papers, 1767-1813, translations, undated, legal documents, 1707-1906 , printed literature, 1881, financial records, 1867-1884, photographs, 1932, 1961, miscellaneous papers, 1784-1899.

Court books, registers and processes contain details of cases coming before the court as well as records of administrative matters. Records of criminal cases are in the main series of registers and processes until the end of the 19th century. The collection also contains extensive commissary court material, and registers of juvenile courts set up by the 1908 Children Act (c.67). For more details on Sheriff Court records see http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/sheriffCourt.asp

There are 10 series of records: Methodist Church of Shetland Minute Books, 1839-1990; Methodist Church of Shetland Accounts, Cash Books and Ledgers, 1851-1995; Methodist Church of Shetland Collection Books, 1911-1991; Methodist Church of Shetland Registers of Baptisms, 1832-1992; Methodist Church of Shetland Class Books and Roll Books, 1883-1989; Methodist Church of Scotland Pulpit Notices, 1832-1990; Methodist Church of Shetland Schedules, 1843-1986; Methodist Church of Shetland Order of Services, 1934-1994; Methodist Church of Shetland Directories and Reports, 1946-1980; Methodist Church of Shetland Miscellaneous Papers, 1832-1986.