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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 |
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1787 | Buncle parish | ||||||||||
25 Jul 1787 | John Lumisdain Blanerne | William Carlisle Alexander Bonner Thomas Lumisdain |
Groom Gardener House servt. [servant] |
3 | 3 | £4.10.0 | |||||
Coldinghame Parish | |||||||||||
Sir John Home of Renton | George Pedoie William Winter |
Gard. & Ch. [Gardener & Chaise] Driver House servt. [servant] |
2 | 2 | 2 | £5.0.0 | |||||
Daniel Gordon Press | Andrew Lyal | Waiter | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
27 Jul 1787 | Miss Home Burnhall | George Sligh | Postillion | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
4 | 2 | 4 | £7.10.0 | ||||||||
Chirnside parish | |||||||||||
26 Jul 1787 | Capt. [Captain] Johnston Ninewells | Charles Dickieson | House servt. [servant] | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
Joseph Home Esq. Ninewlls | James Middlemas | Gardiner | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | |||||
William Hall Esqr. Whitehall | Alexander Riccalton John Cameron |
Gardiner House servt. [servant] |
2 | 2 | 2 | £5.0.0 | |||||
4 | 3 | 4 | £8.15.0 | ||||||||
Ayton parish | |||||||||||
Alexander Robertson Prenderguest | Henry Gibson | Ch. [Chaise] Driver | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
John Fordyce Esqr. Ayton | James Mill John Fraser James Moffat |
Butler House servt. [servant] Gardiner |
3 | 3 | £4.10.0 | ||||||
4 | 1 | 3 | £5.15.0 | ||||||||
Eymouth parish | |||||||||||
30 Jul 1787 | John Renton Esqr. Eymouth | David Taylor | Ch. [Chaise] Driver | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | |||||
Robert French Eymouth | Ralph Creighton | House servt. [servant] | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
Thomas French Eymouth | John Nisbet | House servt. [servant] | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
Robert Robertson Eymouth | John Turnball | House servt. [servant] | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
4 | 4 | £5.0.0 | |||||||||
Mordington parish | |||||||||||
1 Aug 1787 | Alexander Renton Mordington | William Sherriff William Hood George Smeeton Ninian Ker |
Butler Stable boy Stable boy Gardener |
4 | 4 | 4 | £11.0.0 | ||||
William Marshall Edrington | Thomas Harvey | Footman | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | £12.5.0 | |||||||
Fowlden parish | |||||||||||
Mrs Simpson Ninelands | John Cow | Ch. [Chaise] Driver | 1 | 1 | £1.5.0 | ||||||
James Wilkie Esqr. Fowlden | Robert Nicholson William Sheppard Nichol Brown |
Chaise Driver Gard. [Gardener] Groom |
3 | 3 | £4.10.0 | ||||||
4 | 1 | 3 | £5.15.0 | ||||||||
Hutton Parish | |||||||||||
2 Aug 1787 | William Ker Esqr. Meadowhouse | David Heugh John Martin |
Footman Postillion |
2 | 2 | £2.10.0 | |||||
Sir James Baird Huttonhall | John Douglas Andrew Marjoribanks William Johnston David Hislop |
House servt. [servant] Gard. [Gardener] Chaise driver Groom |
4 | 4 | £6.0.0 | ||||||
William Jaffray Sunnie | House servt. [servant] | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | ||||||
7 | 1 | 3 | 4 | £11.0.0 | |||||||
Ladykirk parish | |||||||||||
John Bell Herndean | John Wood | Groom | 1 | 1 | 1 | £2.10.0 | |||||
William Robertson Esqr. Ladykirk | Adam Young Thomas Moffat Adam Edington William Thomson |
House servt. [servant] Gardr. [Gardener] Groom Stableboy |
4 | 4 | 4 | £11.0.0 | |||||
5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | £13.10.0 |
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BERWICKSurvey of the MALE SERVANT TAX in the County of Berwick
for the year ending 5 April 1788 by William Johnstone Surveyor [Page] 29
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