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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 10% per 31 George III
1793 City of Edinburgh
5 Jun 1793 John McKay Innkeeper Alexander McQueen Waiter 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
6 Jun 1793 Lady Coalston 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Dr [Doctor] Alexander Hamilton John Reoch
James Anderson
Coachman
ho: [house] Servt [Servant]
2 2 £2.10.0. £0.5.0
Revd [Reverend] William Greenfield William Thornton ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Schaw ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Davidson writer 3 3 £4.10.0 £0.9.0
Hble [Honourable] Miss B. Gray James ho: Servt. [house Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Lady M. A. Carnegie ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs. Douglas Clephan George Johnston ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Thomas Tod Esqr 2 2 2 £5.0.0 £0.10.0
7 Jun 1793 William Mcfarlane writer Dougal McLachlan ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Dr. [Doctor] Gregory Grant ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Robert Spence Dentist ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Buchan writer ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 Robert Jamieson writer John Scott ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Dickson Booksr [Bookseller] ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Francis Metcalf Vintr [Vintnter] John Robertson Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 James Horne writer ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
-- Jun 1783 James Hunter Vintr [Vintner] Waiters 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
-- Jun 1783 Robert Arbuthnot Esqr. George Sinclair ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
John Gardiner Banker 2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Robert Anderson Banker footman 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Andrew Bonar Banker ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
William Creech Booksr. [Bookseller] ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Mrs Douglas Vintr [Vintner] James Douglas Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Mrs Fortune Vintr [Vintner] John Jardine
Peter Campbell
Waiter
Waiter
2 2 £2.10.0 £0.5.0
Miles McPhell Vintr [Vintner] Dugald McEwan Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 William Kerr Secy. [Secretary] to Post Office James Carlow ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 0.5.0
-Carruber's Close Adam Campbell writer Charles Gray ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1783 James Sym Esqr of Northfield Robert Campbell 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 Mrs. Elliot ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 Dr. [Doctor] Farquharson William McKay ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
British Linen Coy [Company] Porter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Walter Hogg Esqr. Manr. [Manufacturer] Charles Stephen ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 Dr [Doctor] Hume William Robison ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 1 £2.10.0 0.5.0
Dr [Doctor] Rutherford John Anderson ho: [house] Servt [Servant] 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
-- Jun 1793 James Thom Vintr [Vintner] Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
James Mather Vintr [Vintner] Waiter 1 1 £1.5.0 £0.2.6
Carried forward 45 8 42 3 £67.0.0 £6.14.0

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A Survey of the MALE SERVANTS TAX in the City of Edinburgh
from the 5th of April 1793 To the 5th day of April 1794 by Robert Maughan Surveyor

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