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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
27 Sep 1787 Cullicuden Parish
George Gun Munro of Points field Cookmaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Grant of Balemore Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
2 2 £0.5.0
Fodderty Parish
29 Sep 1787 Capt [Captain] John McKenzie Castle leod Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Loggie Parish 1 1 £0.2.6
George McKenzie Meddat Housemaid 1 1 1 £0.5.0
1 1 £0.5.0
Cromarty Town & Parish
24 Oct 1787 Capt [Captain] John McKenzie Housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0
Chambermaid 1 1 £0.5.0
Dr [Doctor] Alexander McKenzie Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Anderson Udale Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr George Henderson Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Allan Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr William Forsyth Housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0
Cookmaid 1 1 £0.5.0
John McLeod mercht [merchant] Housemaid 1 1 £0.2.6
Capt [Captain] David Ross Batchelor Housemaid 1 1 £0.5.0
Parishes Collected 10 1 5 4 £1.17.6
Cullicuden Parish 2 2 £0.5.0
Fodderty Parish 1 1 £0.2.6
Loggie Parish 1 1 £0.5.0
Cromarty Town & Parish 10 1 5 4 £1.17.6
14 2 8 4 £2.10.0

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A Survey of the Rates & Duties on Female Servants, Arisen in the Shire of
Cromarty, from 5 Aprile 1787 to 5 Aprile 1788. By Hugh McFarquhar Surveyor
CROMARTY 81

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2 Batchelors Servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £0.10.0
8 Servants @ 2/.6 [£0.2.6] each is £1.0.0
4 Servants @ 5/ [£0.5.0] each is £1.0.0
£2.10.0 Total £2.10.0

I Hugh MacFarquhar Surveyor Aforesaid, do hereby testify, That upon carefull examination
of the forgoing Rates & Duties, I find they Amount in whole to Two pounds, ten shillings
& that upon the fourteenth day of Decr [December] current I delivered to Mr Walter Ross Collector of
said Duties for the Shire aforesaid, An exact Duplicate of the Above list duly examined &
compared with the foregoing, which contained by oath, That the Above lists contained the
number of Servants kept of employed by the aforesaid masters or mistress's. According to the
best of my knowledge or Information
[Signed] Hugh McFarquhar Surveyor
Tain 22nd Decr [December] 1787

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