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Date	Masters/mistresses names and designations	Children under 14	Servants names	Number of servants	Bachelor servants	One servant	Two servants	Duty
27 Jan 1790	Brought forward	25		64	3	35	6	£6.12.6
	John Traill of Westness		Marjory Eunson, Ann Ritch Margaret Eunson Dairy maid	3			2	£0.10.0
	John Wier		Isobella Gray	1	1			£0.5.0
	Mrs Kelday		Jean Peace	1		1		£0.2.6
	Mr William Balfour		Jean Scott	1		1		£0.2.6
	Cicilia Stewart		Barbara Flett	1		1		£0.2.6
	Isobella Riddoch		Ann Delday	1		1		£0.2.6
	James Erskine Shopkeeper		Betty Mouat Ann Tait	2			2	£0.10.0
	Magnus Paul		Janet Murray	1		1		£0.2.6
	Hugh Sclaiter		Margaret Scott	1		1		£0.2.6
		25		76	4	41	10	£8.12.6
				55
	Proof
	4 Batchelor Servants at £0.5.0 each is							£1.0.0
	41 Servants at £0.2.6							£5.2.6
	10 Servants at £0.5.0							£2.10.0
	25 children 12
	other servants not taxable 9
	Total 76							£8.12.6

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I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do make oath That the Female Servants Tax within the Town of [Kirkwall]
amounts to Eight pounds twelve shils [shillings] six pence and that upon the Eleventh day of February Seventeen hundred and Ninety
I delivered to John Heddle Town Clerk of Kirkwall Collector of said duties an exact Duplicate of the foregoing amount
At Kirkwall 11th February 1790
Alexander Fraser Surveyor
Sworn before John Wier JP [Justice of the Peace]

Duplicate
Female Servants Tax within the Town of Kirkwall from 5th April 1789 to 5 April 1790
Ex G S [Examined General Surveyor]
[Page] 60
10/38

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