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| Date | Masters & mistresses names & designations | Servants names | Quality of servants | Number of servants | Bachelor servants | One and two servants | Three and four servants | Five to seven servants | Eight to ten servants | Eleven or more servants | Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 1786 | Mrs Flitcher of Ballinshoe | Alexander Kempie James Fleeming |
H. [House[ Servant Gardener |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | |||||
| 28 Sep 1786 | Capt [Captain] Charles Wedderburn of Pearsie unmarried | George Ogilvie | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | |||||
| 20 Jul 1786 | Capt [Captain] John Hamilton Brown of Glassell unnamed | James Davidson | Groom | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | ||||
| Sir Alexander Douglas | Peter Mcdonald John Bell |
Postillion House Servant |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| Major William Butler | David Wishart | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| Lady Ramsay | John Sydie | Household | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| 24 Jul 1786 | Capt [Captain] David Laird | Alexander Walker | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
| 22 Jul 1786 | Mr Charles Guthrie | John Shepherd | Gardener | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| 25 Jul 1786 | Doctr [Doctor] Robert Stuart | James Duncan | Groom | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| Doctr [Doctor] John Willison unmarried | Thomas Musgrove | Groom | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | |||||
| 27 Jul 1786 | Mrs Michael Luke | James Gallespie | Household | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| 28 Jul 1786 | John Rankine Esq | Archibald Sinclair | Household | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| 29 Jul 1786 | Benjamine Ellett | James Falconer | Waiter | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| William Gordon | Samuel Mitchell Patrick Campbell |
Waiter Waiter |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| 31 Jul 1786 | William Stuart or his Representatives unmarried | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
| 24 Jul 1786 | Alexander Bower Esq | Robert Hill | Groom | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
| 19 | 4 | 19 | £28.15.0 |
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[Page] 23A Survey of the Rates and Duties on Male Servants arisen in the Burgh of Dundee for one Year commencing
fifth day of April 1786, and ending the fifth day of April 1787 by William Greig Surveyor
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19 Single Male Servants of 1 & 2 of named & unnamed persons for one year as above at £1.5.0 each is £23.15.0
4 Single Male Servants of unnamed persons and above the age of 21 Years Additionall Dutie @ £1.5.0 each is £5.0.0
Totall £28.15.0
I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing Duties I find they amount in whole to twenty eight pounds fifteen Shillings Sterling, and that upon the ... day of March 1787 I delivered Mrs James Dick Collector of the said duties for the Burgh aforesaid an exact duplicate of the above Account (as will appear from .....) duly examined and Compared with the foregoing, which contained my Oath that nottices were left with the Several Persons before named or at their dwelling houses of the dates annexed to their respective names requiring them within fourteen days to give in a list of theor Male Servants Retained or employed by them from 5th April 1785 to the fifth day of April 1786, and that the said Account or Survey is made out from the lists returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the
Male Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the nottices left with them as aforesaid.
William Greig Surveyor
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