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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
1787 Whitekirk Parish
14 Sep 1787 Robert Baird Esqr. Newbyth Susan Bates Ladies maid
Catherine Hunter Chamb. [Chamber] maid
Martha Brown Laundrymaid
Margaret Wood Milkmaid
Martha Heslow Kit. [Kitchen] maid
5 5 £2.10.0
Earl of Haddington seven maids 7 7 £3.10.0
Colonel Hamilton two maids 2 2 2 £1.0.0
14 2 2 12 £7.0.0
Athelstaneford Parish
15 Sep 1787 Mrs Dudgeon West Fortune one maid 1 1 £0.2.6
Sir David Kinloch Gilmerton Margaret Lilly Housekeeper
Dairy
Laundry
two Chamb. [Chamber] maids
5 5 £2.10.0
Miss Kinloch Gilmerton Betty Watts 1 1 £0.2.6
Major Home Killduff one maid 1 1 1 £0.5.0
8 1 3 5 £3.0.0
Preston Parish
George Buchan Hepburn Smeeton six maids 6 6 £3.0.0
Mrs Brown Lenton Euphens Brown 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Nesbit one maid 1 1 £0.2.6
8 2 6 £3.5.0
Haddington Parish
17 Sep 1787 The Earl of Wemyss Isabel Brown Housekeeper
Mary Brown Chamb. [Chamber] maid
Isobel Leech Milkmaid
Jean Beattie Cook at Gosford
Margaret Armstrong sevrt. [servant] at Gosford
5 5 £2.10.0
18 Sep 1787 John Buchan Letham four maids 4 4 £2.0.0
Capt. [Captain] Todd Aderston four maids 4 4 £2.0.0
Sir John Sinclair Stevenson Catherine Hay Housekeeper
Jean Stewart Cook
Jean Scott chamb [chamber] maid
3 3 £1.10.0
Miss Sinclair Betty Brown 1 1 £0.2.6
Dr. [Doctor] George Forrest Gimmersmill Ann Braid 1 1 £0.2.6
Lady Hamilton Monkrigg two 2 2 £0.10.0
Charles Brown Coalston Isobel Taylor House keep. [keeper] & Cook
Margaret Shaw Chamb. [Chamber] maid
Margaret Wilson Dairymaid
3 3 £1.10.0
23 2 2 19 £10.5.0
Dunbar Parish
19 Sep 1787 James Hay of Belton Helen Boyd Cook
Warrander Wright chamb. md. [chamber maid]
2 2 £0.10.0
20 Sep 1787 Mrs Anderson Winterfield Margaret White Dairy maid
Mary Burnet Chamb. md. [Chamber maid]
Hamilton Raeburn Kit. md. [Kitchen maid]
3 3 £1.10.0
Carried over 5 2 3 £2.0.0

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