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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
25 Jan 1790 Mrs Doctor Groat Ann Harcus & Margaret Ballantine
Dairy maid
2 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Richan Margaret Coupland 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss Grizel and Bell Traill Margaret Ross 1 1 £0.2.6
James Stewart Jean Reid & Elspet Eunson
Dairy maid
2 1 £0.2.6
Janet Harcus Spouse to John Sanders Kathrine Slater 1 1 £0.2.6
Edward Keith Jean Gorrie 1 1 £0.2.6
Peter Garroch Wright Margery Esson 1 1 £0.2.6
Charles Erskine Shopkeeper Isobell Yorston 1 1 £0.5.0
Andrew Baikie Landwaiter 4 Margaret Taylor
Helen Wald
Ann Eame
3 1 £0.2.6
26 Jan 1790 Robert Baikie of Tankerness 3 Janet Robertson
Elspet Manson
Margaret Fubister & Elspet Tait Dairy maid
4 2 £0.10.0
William Black Wright 2 Betty Gorrie
Baby Loutit
2 1 £0.2.6
George Ross Comptroler of Customs Barbara Dinnison 1 1 £0.5.0
Mr James Blau Margaret Groundwater Chirstin Satter 2 2 £0.10.0
John Riddoch Barbara Crumartie and Elspet Linclater Dairy Maid 2 1 £0.2.6
James Riddoch Collector of Customs Barbara Linnay
Jean Cryar
Dairy maid
2 1 £0.2.6
John Traill Mary Harvie and Elspet Eunson
Dairy Maid
2 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Traill Merchant 4 Ann Jobister Janet Stevenson
Margaret Williamson
3 1 £0.2.6
27 Jan 1790 Robert Laing Provost 8 Betty Kerrigan Betty Drummond
Barbara Harcus Janet Lamey
Mary Simson Isobell Millar
6 2 £0.10.0
Margaret Liddle for Her Father Isobel Maxwell Janet Hay Dairy maid 2 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Lindsay Merchant Marian Harcus Janet Sinclair
Spinner
2 1 £0.2.6
Patrik Traill Cecilia Robertson 1 1 £0.2.6
Andrew Munro 2 Marian Eunson
Margaret Liddle
2 1 £0.2.6
Jean Traill Isobell Robertson 1 1 £0.2.6
Rosie Reid Barbara Spence 1 1 £0.2.6
Margaret Reid Hellen Harrald 1 1 £0.2.6
James Urquhart Elizabeth Kaithness 1 1 £0.2.6
John Urquhart Shopkeeper 2 Janet Patric Margaret Peace 2 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Stewart Caldale Margaret Robertson 1 1 £0.2.6
William Manson Ann Kent 1 1 £0.2.6
Miss McKinezie Jean Dreaver 1 1 £0.2.6
Mary Manson Mary Sinclair 1 1 £0.2.6
Ann Blau Elizabeth Heddle 1 1 £0.2.6
Alexander Fraser Barbara Harcus 1 1 £0.2.6
Rebecca Laing Elspet Linay 1 1 £0.2.6
James Mainland Janet Tulloch 1 1 £0.2.6
Thomas Jameson Shopkeeper Janet Traill 1 1 £0.2.6
Mrs Greg Margaret Annald 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Nicolson Writer Elizabeth Corston 1 1 £0.2.6
Robert Spence Shopkeeper Margaret Loutit 1 1 £0.5.0
William Paterson Mary Gray 1 1 £0.2.6
David Erskine Shopkeeper Betty Dinnison 1 1 £0.2.6
25 64 3 35 6 £6.12.6

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KIRKWALL 43
Survey FEMALE SERVANTS TAX within the Town of Kirkwall from 5th
April 1789 to 5th April 1790 By Alexander Fraser Surveyor 30

Transcriber's notes

What reads as Baby as a first name is possibly short for Barbara.

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