Aberdeen Council Register: volume 71 - extract dated 18 December 1823 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. (41v - 42v) 1823