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Appendix 1: Women Shopkeepers in the Records of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh Appendix 1: Women Shopkeepers in the Records of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh Note: These lists represent merely a sample of working women found, in order to given some idea of the nature and scale of their employment and information on their social background. Most women who are discussed at length in the text do not appear in the Appendices. The Appendix material is not included in the Index. AIRD, Annabella: poinded; had been apprentice to Charles Gray; to be enrolled in Company for £6 Scots and 6d quarter dues; if she marries, husband to enter as member and pay dues; 1713 AITCHISON, Louisa, lately come from London, her husband John Roughhead, surgeon-apothecary, intending to come back to Edinburgh being a burgess's son; to be fined £20 which is to be his entry money; 1712. Produced her hus­ band's burgess ticket; 1712 ALESER, Mrs, Quaker, in Old Provost's Close: poinded; 1709 ALLAN, Christian, sp. Thomas Mathie, seaman: denies trade except some napkins her husband sent home; he has been away 7 years; fine delayed pending enquiry; 1710. Goods for apparel seized, to pay £20 Scots; 1712 ALLAN, Janet, w. Ensign Wm. Haliburton: asks back her poinded 'webb of coarse stuff'; fined and warned to trade only on market day; 1705 ANDERSON, Elizabeth, burgess's dau., shopkeeper in Laigh Exchange; paid dues; 1708 ANDREW, Mrs: sp. Mr Geo. A., minister, he 'to be spoken to as his wife is said to trade in several sorts of goods'; 1704 BARTLEMAN, Mrs: sold muslin for George Jolly in Prestonpans; to pay fine of £20 Scots; 1709 BELL, Betty: found unfree, in the Exchange, 1709. Poinded, to pay £8 3s 8d dues; if she marries, husband not to be obliged to enter; 1713. To be taken off list of those paying dues as out of trade, insolvent or dead; 1721. Charity to Elizabeth Bell; 1748 BELL, Helen: burgess's dau., poind returned; lately set up; entry money delayed pending enquiry; 1713. 'Long time trader', to be poinded and burgess rights verified; 1713 BENNETT, Elizabeth: shopkeeper in the Exchange, admitted burgess and paid dues; 1685 BLAIR, Mrs: compears on behalf of her dau.- Watson, admits that latter lately brought goods from London, some on commission for others; asserts that most of her trade is making and dressing linens; buys from Edinburgh merchants; 173 174 Appendix I working to support her mother; dismissed but warned not to trade under pain of £20; 1709 BOOG, Widow: ?Christian Boog, owes quarter dues; 1684-5. On list of non­ entrants; 1698 BRAND, Margaret: discovered having kept a shop for 2 years; officer seized cloth from her which had been entrusted to her by a Bo'ness merchant; ac­ knowledged she had 'no privilege'; fined; 1703 BROADFOOT, Grizel: burgess's dau., very poor, given back remnant of Holland poinded; 1706 BRODIE, Mrs: Mr Brodie, mason, accused of unfree trading, his wife compeared and acknowledged selling stockings, linens, etc. 'in a laigh chop off mercat days'; to pay fine but if he produces his burgess ticket, and pays ordinary dues, will be accepted as fine; 1705 BROWN, Elizabeth: burgess's dau., paid dues; 1713. Action by her against debt­ ors, 1711 (ECA Burgh Court Processes Box 48 Bundle 126); (?)in John Bell's ledger, 1716-23 (SRO GD 241/434) BROWN, Mrs: accused of unfree trading; sells muslin, cambric, silks; 1706 BROWN, Mrs: in the Exchange, states her husband's dues have been paid; 1703 BROWN, Mrs: her husband Malcolm B. states that goods in his custody were partly given to his wife by a debtor for candles, ale, etc.; 1705 BROWN: 'two Mistresses', in the Exchange, poinded, to pay £8 3s 8d quarter dues; if they marry, husbands not to be obliged to enter; 1713 BUCHAN, Bethia: dau. John B., advocate and agent for the royal burghs' vote, to be enrolled and to pay quarter dues, fine reduced to £10 Scots, paid by Robert B. W.S. onher behalf; 1714. Also in John Bell's ledger, 1713 (SRO GD 241/ 434). Died 1725 (SRO CC8/8/89) BUCHANAN, Janet: 'denies trade except in soap and threid', to be looked into; 1709 BUNTIN, Mrs: from Glasgow; Company treasurer found linen in her chamber and many people buying and selling; to get goods back on payment of fine of £20; 1705. To be poinded to value of £20; 1706 BYERS, Mrs Mary: denied she ever traded 'in a shillingsworth'; officer to make further enquiry; 1704 CAMERON, Helen: dau. Daniel C., merchant, and Anne Denholm, shop-keeper (disposition, 1710: SRO CC8/4/84); refused to pay a bill; 1698 (SRO RD 4/82. fo 412); paid dues to Company; 1699. Paid dues; 1701 CAMPBELL, Lilias: had been apprentice to Agnes Broadfoot, to be enrolled on payment of £6 and 6d quarter dues; if she marries, husband to enter as member and pay dues; 1713. To be taken off list of those out of trade, insolvent or dead; 1721; expunged for non-payment of dues; 1727. Account for shoes and ribbon due to her; 1718 (SRO Campbell of Barcaldine Muniments: GD 170/358). In John Bell's ledger, 1714-16 (SRO GD 241/434) CAMPBELL, Sarah: sp. George White, merchant in Luckenbooths, married 1693. Paid dues; 1690, 1692. Consigned husband's dues; 1703 CAMPBELL, Mrs: at head of Gray's Close, admitted she dealt in cambric, Holland and muslin, fined; 1704. Denied trading in women's apparel; 1704 CHALMERS, Janet: paid dues; 1701. On list of those whose quarter dues to be expunged; 1707. (?) Accounts to her from Clerks of Penicuik; 1704-9 (SRO GD18/2172) Women Shopkeepers 175 CHEISLEY, Elizabeth: burgess's dau. lately set up; point returned, entry money delayed pending enquiry; 1713 CHEISLEY, Janet: burgess's dau., paid dues; 1708 COCKBURN, Mrs Anna: in Todrick's Wynd, found unfree; 1710 COCKBURN, Cecilia: burgess's dau. lately set up: poind returned; entry money delayed pending enquiry; 1713. 'Long time trader', to be poinded and burgess rights verified; 1713. To be taken off list of those paying dues as out of trade, insolvent or dead; 1721. In John Bell's ledger, 1720 (SRO GD 241/434) COCKBURN, Sarah: sp. Robert Kyle, W.S., married 1670; dau. John C., tailor, and Sarah Inglis (surgeon's dau.); paid entry; 1686. Paid dues; 1692, 1693. COUTTS, Janet: in the Luckenbooths, sp. Thomas Mushet, merchant; found unfree and failed to compear after several warnings; 1721. Out of trade; 1733. Made a disposition to the Orphan Hospital of a shop in the Luckenbooths, reserving the liferent; 1742. Died by 1755 (SRO Records of the Dean Orphan­ age: GD 417/209/1, GD 417/183/7a) COW AN, Mrs: w. James C., merchant: another woman admitted buying muslin from her; 1710. Produced her husband's burgess ticket and paid upset; 1713 CRAIG, Katherine: w. Alexander Short in Stirling: found selling serges in Edin- burgh; 1699 CROOKS, Jean: out of trade; 1733 CUMMING, Katherine: out of trade; 1733 CUMMING, Mrs: her husband, James C., having served apprenticeship asks time to pay for his burgess-ship, 'especially as his wife has paid her fine'; 1704 CUMMING, Margaret: sister of James C., who was his servant and apprentice, has paid £9 Scots and is willing to pay quarter dues thereafter, approved; 1712 CUNNINGHAM, Nelly: in the Low Exchange, burgess's dau., consigns dues; 1712. (?)in John Bell's ledger, 1716-19 (SRO GD 241/434) CURRIE, Jean: paid part of fine for unfree trading; 1688 CURRIE, Margaret: in the Exchange, paid entry; 1688 CUTHBERTSON, Janet: in the Grassmarket, on list of non-entrants; 1698 DALLAS, Alison: shopkeeper in the Laigh Exchange, burgess's dau., paid dues; paid £8 8s 8d entry; 1714 DICKS, Mrs: promised to pay dues; 1703 DOBSON, Sarah: fined for unfree trading; 1688 DON, Margaret: in the Exchange, paid entry, having Dean of Guild licence; 1688 DONALDSON, Mrs: in Blackfriars' Wynd, trades only in a little muslin, not resolved to stay in Edinburgh as her husband is to get a job with the Excise; Company decide to fine husband £14; 1709. She compears and states that by all her trade 'she never made a crown in the year'; had bought muslin from Mrs Cowan in Niddry's Wynd; she and husband willing to grant bond for past transgressions, poind ordered back; 1710 DRUMMOND, Margaret: dau. late John D., skinner, allowed small timber shop possessed by her at west door of Tolbooth Kirk, 1698 (ECA Town Council Minutes, Vol. 36, p. 117). On list of non-entrants; 1698. Petitions for time to pay entry money, granted, as 'she is but mean and a burgess's daughter keeping a shop of £6 Scots'; 1699 DUNBAR, Ann: out of trade; 1737 EDMONSTON, Marion: in the Bowhead, on list of non-entrants; 1698 176 Appendix 1 EDWARDS, Mrs: an Englishwoman, states that she only makes linens for women, for which she pays dues to the Tailors' Incorporation, but when she goes to London she buys goods to sell in Edinburgh to defray the expense of travelling; to pay 30s: 1705. A gentlewoman of the Countess of Moray, to be allowed to keep a shop; 1705 (ECA Town Council Minutes, Vol. 36, p. 386). Compears and pays £24 Scots for bygone trade and bound herself to pay l5s sterling annually for her trade; 1706 ELIOT, Mrs: burgess's dau., poind returned as lately set up; entry money delayed pending enquiry; 1713 ELPHINSTON, Jean: out of trade; 1733 EWING, Anna: allowed 14 days to pay her fine of £20; 1706 FAIRFAX, Mary: goods poinded on being discovered selling plaids and muslin; 1698.
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