| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 41v - 42v
Council meeting, 18 December 1823
[Sederunt given]
The Council allocated aid from the Poor's Fund to the following applicants:
Alexander Booth, merchant - £6
Mrs Martha Thomson or Lyall, widow of William Lyall, sometime land waiter in Aberdeen - £5
Mrs Ann Smith or Joss, widow of John Joss, sometime maltman in Aberdeen and Burgess - £6
Mrs Janet Reid, widow of James Reid, sometime shipmaster - £4 bursary for one of her children
Mrs Elizabeth Farquhar, widow of James Farquhar, sometime Controller of the Customs at Banff - £4
Alexander Smith, mason and Burgess - £4
Mrs Janet Glennie, daughter of the deceased Gilbert Glennie, sometime stocking merchant - £3 bursary
The Misses Turners, being the five unmarried daughters of the late Keith Turner of Turnerhall - £12, formerly enjoyed by their mother, now deceased, payable from Turnerhall's mortification
Alexander Glennie, leather merchant - £6
Mrs Margaret Leslie or Sim, widow of the late Rev David Sim, Minister of Union Chapel in Aberdeen - £5
The following pensioners were granted additional sums to their existing pensions from the Poor's Fund:
James Harthill, merchant - £2
Mrs Barron, widow of Patrick Barron, merchant - £1
Mrs Lewis Wilson, widow of Lewis Wilson, tailor - £1
Mrs Maitland, widow of James Maitland, candlemaker - £2
Mrs Cruickshank, widow of William Cruickshank - £2
Alexander Stuart, shoemaker - £2
Mrs Mary Bean, daughter of the late John Bean and relict of Andrew Braid - £1
The Council directed all other pensions from the Town's Funds to be continued unaltered.
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