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Date Masters/mistresses names and designations Servants names Number of servants Bachelor servants One servant Two servants Three or more servants Duty
1788 Corstorphine Parish
31 May 1788 Alexander Keith Esqr. Isobel Dickson
Janet Gray
2 2 £0.10.0
George Smieton Jean MacGill
Mary Stewart
2 2 £0.10.0
General Leslie Belle Findlay
Nelly Fowler
Margaret Thomson
3 3 £1.10.0
William Anderson 1 1 £0.2.6
Dr. [Doctor] James Stewart Mary Paterson 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Muckle 1 1 1 £0.5.0
Mrs Porteous 1 1 £0.2.6
George Anderson 1 1 £0.2.6
Mr Dunsmuir 1 1 £0.2.6
John Toumar 1` 1 1 £0.5.0
Samuel Mitchelson 3 3 £1.10.0
Lady Gibson 1 2 2 £0.10.0
John Comb 1 Ann Davie 1 1 £0.2.6
James Nimmo Sighthill 1 1 1 £0.2.6
James Leslie Ravelston 1 1 1 £0.5.0
James Baron 1 1 £0.2.6
23 3 11 6 6 £6.5.0

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Survey of the Female Servants Tax, arisen in the
exterior part of the County of Edinburgh from 5th April 1788 by John Wood Surveyor

N.B. The figures marked
in this column [Master/Mistresses Col.] are meant
to point out the number of
children under 14 in the
dift. [different] families so far known

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