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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 | 10% per 31 George III |
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1791 | Brought over | 28 | 64 | 2 | 36 | 6 | £6.10.0 | £0.13.0 | ||
11 Oct 1791 | Isobella Keldie Relict of Robert Keldie | Christian Dronimond | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | £0.0.3 | ||||
Mrs. Balfour of Trenibay | Jean Scott & Elizabeth Tullock | 2 | 2 | £0.10.0 | £0.1.0 | |||||
Mrs Alexander Riddoch | Ann Kent | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | £0.0.3 | |||||
Isabella Riddoch | Jean Logie | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | £0.0.3 | |||||
James Erskine Shopkeeper | Ann Tait & Betty Moat | 2 | 2 | £0.10.0 | £0.1.0 | |||||
Maru Sclater Relict of Hugh Sclater | Margaret Scott | 1 | 1 | £0.2.6 | £0.0.3 | |||||
28 | Total | 72 | 2 | 40 | 10 | £8.0.0 | £0.16.0 | |||
N.B. | 52 |
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Proof2 Bachelors Servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] each £0.10.0
40 Servants at 2/6 [£0.2.6] each £5.0.0
10 Servants at 5/- [£0.5.0] each £2.10.0
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52 £8.0.0
13 Servants for children £0.16.0 Ten per cent
7 Servants not taxable £8.16.0
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72 Total
At Kirkwall 15th Nov. 1791
Sworn Before John Weir J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
I Alexandra Fraser surveyor, Do hereby
Certify that agreeable to the Several lists
returned to me of Female Servants within
Kirkwall the amount of the Tax thereof is
Eight pounds, sixteen shillings for the year
to the fifth of April Seventeen hundred & ninety
two and make Oath that upon the fifteenth
Nov Seventeen hundred & Ninety one I delivered
to John Heddle Collector of said Tax for the
Town an exact duplicate of the foregoing
Alexander Fraser
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DANIALSAN, Eleanor Evans
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