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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
Burgh of Kirkcudbright
1 Dec 1789 William Lennox Mercht [Merchant] Peggy Thomson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Walker [Surgeon Batchelor] Janet Mcmicken 1 1 £0.5.0
Matthew Buchanan [Writer] Janet Kaig 1 1 £0.5.0
William Laurie Esqr May Cairns 1 1 £0.2.6
James McCourlie [Writer] Janet Newall 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs McKenzie Joany Martin 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Anderson Ann Kirk 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Coltart Agnes Nairn 1 1 £0.2.6
John Baird [Landwaiter] Isobel Sym 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Halliday Catharine Comlin 1 1 £0.2.6
John McNish McClune 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Forrest [Surgeon] Peggy Wright 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Smith Catharine Wilson 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie Lennox Betty Brydson 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillies Henderson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Martin Mary Malcolmson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Joseph McWhan Jenny Carruthers 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Ireland [Writer] Malcolmson 1 1 £0.2.6
18 2 16 £2.10.0

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KIRKCUDBRIGHT
Survey of the FEMALE SERVANTS TAX. in the Burgh of Kirkcudbt. [Kirkcudbright]
fro the 5th April 1789 to the 5th April 1790 by Anthony Macmillan
29 42
[Page] 57

Proof 2 Batchelors female servt. [servants] at £0.5.0 each is £0.10.0
16 Servants at £0.2.6 is £2.0.0
£2.10.0 Total


I Anthony Macmillan Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon careful
examination of the foregoing several rates & duties I find they amount in whole
to the sum of Two Pounds ten shillings Sterling and that upon the
Fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred & Ninety years
I delivered to Mr David McLellan Collector of the said duties for the
Burgh aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the foregoing which contained
my oath that requisitions & Notices were left with the several foregoing
Persons or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to the respective
names that are to be charged with the sums certified thereby to be due
by them
Anthony Macmillan

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