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| Date | Masters/mistresses names and designations | Children under 14 | Servants names | Number of servants | Bachelor servants | One servant | Two servants | Three or more servants | Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 Aug 1790 | Lanark Town | ||||||||
| Miss Porterfield of Smiellom NB Entered with the Surveyor for the City of Edinr [Edinburgh] and to be paid for to the Collector there | Ann Ritchardson Cook Kate Nimmo Chamber maid |
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| Commissary Bannatyne Esqr of Castlebank | 2 | Two Female Servants | 2 | 1 | £0.2.6 | ||||
| William Hutton Wright | Margaret Gardner housemaid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| Chancelor Thomson Wright a Bachelor | Margaret Scott house maid | 1 | 1 | 1 | £0.5.0 | ||||
| Richard Varry Writer | Janet Varry housemaid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| Mrs Bell | Two Female Servants | 2 | 2 | £0.10.0 | |||||
| Mr John Gardner School Mr [Master] | One Female Servant | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| The Heirs of William Gardner Baker | Grizell Livingston | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| William Todd Surgeon | 2 | Barbara Todd housemaid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | ||||
| Helen Todd housemaid | 1 | ||||||||
| John Wilson Town Clark | Janet Wilson house maid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| Thomas Anderson Baker | Janet Anderson house maid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| Robert Newbiging Writer | 2 | Janet Newbiging housemaid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | ||||
| Mary Newbiging house maid | 1 | ||||||||
| James Hastie Writer | 4 | Janet Hastie house maid | 1 | ||||||
| James Sommervile Surgeon a Bachelor | Janet Sommervile house maid | 1 | 1 | 1 | £0.5.0 | ||||
| Robert Swan Saddler | 5 | Two Female Servants | 2 | ||||||
| Walter French Hosier | Janet French house maid | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | |||||
| Total of Lanark Town | 15 | 20 | 2 | 10 | 2 | £2.5.0 | |||
| Grand Total | 14 | 2 | 10 | 2 | £2.5.0 |
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A Survey of the Duties on Female Servants in the Royal Burgh of Larnark keept from the 5th of April 1789 to the 5th of April 1790 Surveyed on the 3d of August 1790 by William Mure SurveyorLANARK 37
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10 Female Servants £0.2.6 Each pr [per] Year is £1.5.0
2 Female Servants at £0.5.0 £0.10.0
2 Female Servants Bach [Bachelor] at £0.5.0 Each pr [per] Year is £0.10.0
14 £2.5.0
2 Bachelors Servants at £0.2.6 Each pr [per] Year is £0.5.0
Grand Total £2.5.0
I William Mure Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon Carefull Examination of the foregoing Several Rates & Duties
I find they amount in Whole to Two pounds five Shillings Sterling and that upon the I delivered To
James Waggateshaw Collector of the said Duties for the Burgh aforesaid an Exact Duplicate of the above account
Duely Examined & Compared with the foregoing which Contained my Oath that Requisitions were left with the Several
Inhabitants or at their Dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names & that they were to be Charged
with the Sums hereby Certified to be due from them William Mure Surveyor
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