| Description | Council meeting, 8 December 1802
[Sederunt given]
The Council allocated the Poor's Funds for 1803. The following alterations were made to sums granted.
Payments to the poor from the Guild Brethren's Hospital charge:
James Davidson, lime merchant - £6
John Moir, metster - £6
Barbara Hunter, daughter of Peter Hunter, late baker in Old Aberdeen and a Burgess of Guild - an additional sum of £2
Poor's pensions from the Guild Box:
Alexander Henderson, merchant - to be settled on the charge for £8
Margaret Black, Mrs Shinie, daughter of John Black, merchant - to be settled on the charge for £3
Margaret Donald, widow of William Donald, shipmaster - an additional sum of £2
Jean Lindsay, widow of William Cruickshank, merchant - an additional sum of £2
Helen Davidson, widow of Moses Birnie, merchant - to be removed from the mortification of Robert Cruickshank of Banchory and settled on the charge for £6
Poor's pensions from Robert Cruickshank of Banchory's mortification:
Christian Craik, widow of John Walker, merchant - to be settled on the mortification for £4
Poor's pensions from Lady Drum's mortification:
Agnes Fowler, widow of Alexander Fiddes, merchant - to be settled on the mortification for £6
Jean Ferguson, widow of Alexander Ferguson, writer in Edinburgh - to be settled on the mortification for £6
Mary Christal, recommended by Mrs John Menzies to be a relation of Mrs George and Bell Catanach - to be settled on the mortification for £3
Poor's pensions from Katherine Rolland's mortification:
Mary Duncan, widow of James Duguid, hosier - to be settled on the mortification for £6
Helen Martin, widow of James Troup, hosier in Aberdeen - to be settled on the mortification for £4
Children on Dr Guild's mortification:
Two children of the deceased Robert Turnbull, shipmaster, and his widow, Helen Hyde - £4 each, until they reached sixteen years of age
Two children of the deceased Henry Forsyth, sometime of Hallgreen, and his widow, Mary Garden - £4 each, until they reached 16 years of age
Ann Smith, widow of George Moir, merchant, Burgess - £6 by warrant this year for her children
Children on Jean Guild's mortification:
One child of the deceased Robert Turnbull, shipmaster, and his widow, Helen Hyde (certified to be a relation of Dr Guild and Jean Guild) - £3, until sixteen years of age reached
Two children of the deceased Henry Forsyth, sometime of Hallgreen, and his widow, Mary Garden (certified to be a relation of Dr Guild and Jean Guild) - £3 each, until they reached sixteen years of age
Alexander Robson, aged seven, and Jean Robson, aged five, children of the deceased James Robson, merchant, and his widow Catharine Smith - £3 each
A daughter, aged five, of William Duncan, late Master of the Grammar School, on account of the particular distress and straitened circumstances in which he left his family - £3
Payments to the poor from Lady Fraser of Durris' mortification:
Jean Stephen, widow of Peter Dun, vintner at Footdee, and attested to be a relation of Lady Fraser of Durris - to be settled on the mortification for £2 in place of Janet Purse
Elizabeth Ross, widow of James Cullen - £3 by warrant this year.
The Council directed all other pensions from the Town's funds, as listed in the office bearers books at Michaelmas 1802, be continued unaltered.
(102r - 103r)
The Council granted the application of Mrs Jean Hogg, residenter in Aberdeen and teacher of needle work and English for twenty-five years, for the post of Mistress and Teacher of Needle Work in Aberdeen on Lady Rothiemay's mortification, vacated by the death of Anne Ross. (103r - 103v) |