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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
14 Dec 1790 Brought Over 30 57 1 32 6 £5.15.0
Baillie Thomas Jamison Jannet Traill 1 1 £0.2.6
Margaret Greig Margaret Annald 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Spence Shopkeeper Peggy Loutit 1 1 £0.5.0
David Erskine Shopkeeper Betty Dinnison 1 1 £0.2.6
William Paterson Mary Gray 1 1 £0.2.6
John Traill of Westness Margaret Taylor,
Ann Ritch &
Margaret Tait Deary Maid
3 2 £0.10.0
William Manson Comptr [Comptroller] Isobel Traill 1 1 £0.2.6
Baillie John Wier Isobel Gray 1 1 £0.5.0
Isobel Petrie Christian Drummond 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Balfour Jane Scott
Elizabeth Tullock
2 2 £0.10.0
Mrs Riddoch Ann Kent 1 1 £0.2.6
Isabela Riddoch Jane Logie 1 1 £0.2.6
James Erskine Shopkeeper Katherine Tait,
Betty Mouat
2 2 £0.10.0
Hugh Sclater Margaret Scott 1 1 £0.2.6
David Scollay weaver Rebecca Maxwell 1 1 £0.2.6
Total 30 76 3 42 12 £9.0.0
57 3
12
57 Servants Taxable
14 for Children
5 Dairy Maids
Total 76

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FEMALE SERVANTS TAX.

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3 Batchelors Servants p [per] @ £0.5.0 £0.15.0
42 Servants p [per] @ £0.2.6 £5.5.0
12 Servants p [per] @ £0.5.0 £3.0.0
57
for Children 14
dairy maids 5
Total 76 £9.0.0


Kirkwall 31 Decmr [December] The amount of the forgoing Survey from fifth April One thousand seven hundred
& Ninety to the fifth April One thousand seven hundred & Ninety One; is hereby Certified to Nine pounds Sterling.
And I make oath that this day I delivered to John Heddle Collr [Collector] of the said duties for the Town of Kirkwall an exact duplicate
at, Kirkwall 31, Decemr [December] 1790 Alexander Fraser
Sworn before John Wier J:P. [Justice of Peace]


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