Volume contents
- 1 - 1785-86 , Aberdeenshire
- 13 - 1785-86 , Argyll
- 19 - 1785-86 , Ayrshire
- 29 - 1785-86 , Banffshire
- 33 - 1785-86 , Berwickshire
- 43 - 1785-86 , Caithness
- 45 - 1785-86 , Clackmannanshire
- 47 - 1785-86 , Cromartyshire
- 49 - 1785-86 , Dunbartonshire
- 53 - 1785-86 , Dumfriesshire
- 57 - 1785-86 , Midlothian (Edinburghshire)
- 81 - 1785-86 , East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
- 89 - 1785-86 , Midlothian continued
- 91 - 1785-86 , Morayshire (Elginshire)
- 95 - 1785-86 , Fife
- 107 - 1785-86 , Angus (Forfarshire)
- 113 - 1785-86 , Inverness-shire
- 115 - 1785-86 , Kincardineshire
- 119 - 1785-86 , Kinross-shire
- 121 - 1785-86 , Kirkcudbrightshire
- 125 - 1785-86 , Lanarkshire
- 141 - 1785-86 , Nairnshire
- 145 - 1785-86 , Orkney
- 149 - 1785-86 , Peeblesshire
- 155 - 1785-86 , Perthshire
- 165 - 1785-86 , Ross-shire
- 167 - 1785-86 , Renfrewshire
- 174A - 1785-86 , Ross-shire continued
- 175 - 1785-86 , Roxburghshire
- 179 - 1785-86 , Selkirkshire
- 181 - 1785-86 , Shetland
- 183 - 1785-86 , Stirlingshire
- 191 - 1785-86 , Sutherland
- 193 - 1785-86 , West Lothian (Linlithgowshire)
- 201 - 1785-86 , Wigtownshire
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1785 | Laurancekirk Parish | ||||||||||
| 28 Sep 1785 | George Murdoch in Laurancekirk | David Tevendall | Waiter | 1 | 1 | £ 0.18.9 | |||||
| Marykirk Parish | |||||||||||
| 23 Sep 1785 | The Right Honble [Honourable]the Earl of Kintore | John Balfower | Gardener | 1 | 1 | £0.18.9 | |||||
| 12 Oct 1785 | The Honble [Honourable]John Arbuthnott of Haltown | Chaise driver | 1 | 1 | £0.18.9 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | £1.17.6 | |||||||||
| Glenbervie Parish | |||||||||||
| 9 Sep 1785 | Mrs Garroch of Mergay | John Smart | Gardener | 1 | 1 | £0.18.9 | |||||
| Parishes Collected | |||||||||||
| No 1 | Ecclesgreeg | 1 | 1 | £1.17.6 | |||||||
| 2 | Benholm | 4 | 2 | 2 | £5.12.6 | ||||||
| 3 | Arbuthnott | 5 | 5 | £6.11.3 | |||||||
| 4 | Dunnottar | 6 | 2 | 4 | £6.7.6 | ||||||
| 5 | Fetteresso | 6 | 2 | 4 | £6.7.6 | ||||||
| 6 | Marry Coulter | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | £10.10.0 | ||||
| 7 | Upper Banchory | 5 | 1 | 4 | £5.8.9 | ||||||
| 8 | Strachan | 1 | 1 | £1.17.6 | |||||||
| 9 | Fettercairn | 6 | 6 | £7.17.6 | |||||||
| 10 | Laurancekirk | 1 | 1 | £0.18.9 | |||||||
| 11 | Marrykirk | 2 | 2 | £1.17.6 | |||||||
| 12 | Glenbervie | 1 | 1 | £0.18.9 | |||||||
| 45 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 11 | £56.5.0 | ||||||
| NB | Total | 45 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 11 | £56.5.0 |
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4 Male Single Servants of unmarried persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £1.17.6 each is -- £7.10.0
3 Male Servants of an unmarried persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £2.1.3 each is -- £6.3.9
12 Male Servants Single of married persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £0.18.9 each is -- £11.5.0
15 Male Servants Single of married persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £1.2.6 each is -- £16.17.6
11 Male Servants Single of married persons & above the age of 21 Years for 3 Quarters of One year at £1.6.3 each is -- £14.8.9
Totall £56.5.0
I William Greig Surveyor aforesaid do hereby Certify that upon carefull examination of the foregoing dutes I find they amount in whole to Fiftie Six
pounds five shillings Sterling, and that upon the -- day of May 1786 I delivered Alexander Gorden Esq Collector of the Cess and of the said duties
f[or] the Shire 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 with 14 ds [days] to give in a list of their Servants retained or employed by them, from the fifth day of [July] 1784 to the fifth day of April 1785, and that the said Account or Survey was made out from the lists returned to me and from the best information I could procure of the Servants of those who neglected or refused to give in a list thereof in terms of the Nottices left with them
William Greig Surveyor
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Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records), Male servant tax - Volume 5 - Counties (see 'More info' for county details), E326/5/5
Volume 5 contains male servant tax rolls, 1785-1786, for each county except the county of Buteshire. Royal burghs are covered by volume 6.
Scottish Exchequer (Tax Records)
The Scottish Exchequer, and subsequently the Court of Exchequer, were concerned with the accounting of collected taxes in Scotland. These taxes include the Carriage tax (1785-1798), Cart tax (1785-1798), Clock and watch tax (1797-1798), Dog tax (1797-1798), Farm horse tax (1797-1798), Servant tax (1777-1798), Hearth tax (1691-1695), Horse tax (1785-1798), Inhabited house tax (1778-1798), Land tax (1645-1831), Poll tax (1694-1698), Shop tax (1785-1789), Window tax (1748-1798). Following the Consolidating Acts (38 Geo. III cap. 40 and 41), the duties on windows, inhabited houses, male servants, carts, carriages and dogs were incorporated in Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes (1798-1799).