| Description | Council meeting, 18 December 1820 page 240
[Sederunt given]
The Council allocated the Poor's Funds for 1821. The following allocations and additions to pensions were made.
George Mole, late merchant and Burgess of Guild - £10
Patrick Walker, late merchant, at present residing in Cuminestown - £5
John Glenny, manufacturer - £6
William Reid, late bookseller - £5 per warrant
Hugh Cameron, Burgess of Guild - £6 for his children
Mrs Littlejohn, widow of the late James Littlejohn, architect - £8 for herself and £4 for her children
Isobel Gibbon, daughter of the late Alexander Gibbon, shipmaster in Aberdeen - £6
Ann Smith and Hester Smith, daughters of Richard Smith, sometime paper manufacturer - £3 each
Ann Harvey and Elizabeth Harvey, daughters of John Harvey, Burgess of Guild - £2 each
Ann Henderson, widow of the deceased James Henderson, late merchant and Burgess of Guild - £7
Barbara Ritchie, widow of Peter Ritchie, late merchant - £6 for herself and £4 for her children
George Robertson, saddler, Burgess - £6 per warrant
Mary Shepherd, daughter of William Shepherd, merchant - £10 from Mr Thomson of Banchory's mortification, being a relation of the mortifier
Janet Balmanno, widow of the late Robert Balmanno, auctioneer - £5
Ann Anderson, widow of William Anderson, seedsman - £5
Helen Cross, daughter of Hugh Jaffray, sometime merchant and Burgess of Guild - £3 per warrant
Janet Craig, widow of Thomas Craig, sometime shoemaker - £2 per warrant
Isobel Harrow, granddaughter of William Troup, Burgess - £2
Jean Smith, widow of John Smith, shipmaster - a bursary of £3 to one of her children
Margaret Duthie, daughter of the late William Duthie, merchant - £6
William Cruickshank, merchant - an additional £3
Thomas Turreff, Burgess - an additional £2 per warrant
William Mortimer, sometime bookseller, re-instated - £10
Mrs Elphinston, widow of John Elphinston - an additional ? £3
Jean Burnett, widow of Alexander Burnett - an additional ? £1
Alexander Hogg, late brewer - an additional ? £2
John Moir, Burgess - an additional ? £2
Mrs Boyle, widow of John Boyle, bookseller - an additional ? £2
May Dyce, daughter of John Dyce, Burgess - an additional ? £2
Margaret Fiddes, widow of Alexander Fiddes, weaver, grandchild of a Burgess - to be placed on the Bedlam Fund for £3
Helen Watson, grandneice of the late Provost Davidson - £4
Ann Meldrum, residenter in Aberdeen - £3
James and Mary Hill - £3 to his wife, to be paid to Baillie Robert Brown for her behoof
Adam Duncan, sone of the late Robert Duncan, merchant - £1 per warrant
David Thom, burgess - £2
Margaret Duncan (Mrs Balmain), daughter of the late Robert Duncan - £5
Mary Jamieson, daughter of William Jamieson, sometime plasterer - £2 for herself and a bursary of £3 for her sister
George Gray, hosier - £2
The Council remitted to the magistrates and Chamberlain to determine from which Funds the different sums were to be paid, and to continue the pensions payable by them. The Council also remitted to the magistrates to consider any other petitions who appear to have no claim on the Town's Public Funds. (239v - 240v)
The Council instructed the Clerk to intimate to Mr Peter Farquharson, factor of the Lands of Balquharney, to pay to the City Chamberlain the annuity of £20 from the rents of the Lands of Balquharney in accordance with the terms of the mortification of Alexander Thomson Esq of Banchory, dated 12 April 1771 and recorded in the Baillie Court Books of Aberdeen on 25 May 1773. (240v - 241r)
The Council approved the recommendation of their committee and of the Police Commissioners that the churchyard gate should be re-erected in line with the houses to be built in the area of Schoolhill and the north end of St Nicholas Street. (241r - 241v) |