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COMMERCIAL.
Birss James, hair aresser
Bowzer Frank L. inland revenue officer
Cook Alexander, watch maker
Cooper William, shopkeeper
Craig Margaret (Mrs.), confectioner
Cruickshank Alexander, miller, Brotherfield
Oulter Mills Paper Co. Limited; T N 937 ;
& at Guild Street buildings, Aberdeen;
T N 238
Davie Andrew, grocer, spirit dlr. & draper
Farquhar David M.A. schoolmaster
Farquharson Margaret (Mrs.), beer retailer
Geddes James Lawrence J. P. joint manager
Culter Mills Paper Co. Limited; res.
Cairnlee, Cults
Green Robert H. baker
Insch Wm. commercial traveller, Callievar
Leith Hugh (reps, of), miller, Kennerty
mills
Lindsay James, tailor
Low John, boot maker
McLeod oc Cheyne, plumbers
McPherson William, Gordon Arms hotel
Morrison Frank, builder, Church terrace
Northern Co-operative Society Limited
(William Dawson, manager)
Ogilvie James, boot maker
Eannie Robert M.B., CM. & D.P.H.Aberd.
J.P. surgeon, & parochial medical officer
& medical officer of health for Drumoak,
Eastleigh
Rennie Jane (Miss), schoolmistress
Rennie William, butcher
; Shaw Robert, slater
Shearer John, wheelwright
Stott George, temperance hotel
Thompson James G. grocer & draper
Thomson Bella (Miss), postmistress
Thomson Jessie M. (Miss), grocer
& draper
Thomson William, cycle dealer
Watt James, blacksmith
Watt George, tailor
Willox Simon R. chief clerk, The Brae
FARMERS.
Adams William, Baads
Adams John, Milton of Drum
Bennet James, Binghill
Black Andrew, Bishopdams
ABEKDEENSHIEE.
Booth William, Hill of Milltimber
Buchan Francis, Holl mill
Byers John, Hilltown of Murtle
Christie John, Coblestock
Diack George, Benthoul
Durno Mrs. Mary, Alton
Ferries James (reps, of), Hilton
Findlay John, Upper Cantlaw, Milltimber
Fraser W illiam. North Lynn
Harvey Chas. Nether Beanshill, Milltimber
Jamieson Thomas, Glastberry
Johnstone Alexander, Braeside, Cults
Kemp John, Blackhall
Knowles James, Newmill
Lawson Andrew, South Lasts
Lawson Charles, Mains of Cults
Low John, North Craigton
Lyon Miss Jane, Waulkmill
Middleton James, West Craigton
Moir John, Deeview & Robertson
Moncur William, Milltimber
Nicol John, Garthdee, Cults
Philip James, Mains of Hillhead, Cults
Pirie John, Moss Brodie
Rainnie John, Newton Dee
Raitt Alexander, Blackhall
Reith William, Kennerty
Rennie George, Craigton
Rennie George, jun. Nether Cantlaw
Rennie William, Upper Anguston
Robertson James, Woodend
Rogie John, East Anguston
Sangster William, Oldfold
Shand Alexander, Brotherfield
Sim Thomas, Cults
Smith Alexander, Blackhall
Smith James, West Cairnton
Smith James, East Cairnton
Stewart Alexander, Auchlee
Still Alexander, Nether Anguston
Sutherland Alexander, Anguston
Taylor Alexander, Loan head
Taylor Robert, Leuchar
Thompson Robert, Denmill
Thomson John. Upper Beanshill
Walker Alexander (reps, of), South Lynn
Walker David, Pittengollies
Walker David, Mains of Countesswells
Walker John, Burnieboozle, Rubislaw
Watt William, Butlerburn
Yeats George, West North Lasts
PETERHEAD, 3.53
Milltimber.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Buchan Robert
Clark George, Beechhill
Cook Alexander, The Birches
Griffiths William, Arbeck house
Jamieson Thomas, Glasterberry
Leslie William, Fairgirth
Lumsden Mrs. Camphill
Rust Miss, Lorndale
Rust John, jun. Hawkhill
Scott William, Bellenden
Skene Alexander J.P. Avondow
Smith James, The Lodge
Webster Alexander, Edghill
Wyness James Foote, Louisville
COMMERCIAL.
Allardyce John R. registrar of births,
deaths & marriages (West division), in-
spector of poor & clerk to Parish Council
Dempsey John, boot maker
Murtle.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Beattie James Alexander, Dalbeattie
Brown General David, The Firs
Dunn William J.P. Murtle house
Gordon Miss, Mormond lodge
Johnston Surg. -Major Wm. Newton Dee
Leslie Miss, Murtle cottage
M'Kay Miss, Sunnert house, Murtle
M'Laren Mitchell L. S. Fernielee
Rutherford Mrs. Lynwood
Stewart Alexander
Thomson John, Brackenhills
Westland William, Woodthorp
COMMERCIAL.
Cooper James, station master, Station cot
Deesida Hydropathic- Establishment (Dr.
Stewart, resident superintendent)
Kemp, Walker & Co. millers, Murtle mills
Lindsay Charles A. miller (Kemp, Walker
& Co.), Murtle mills
Lindsay John, miller
PETERHEAD,
WITH THE VILLAGES OF BUCHANHAVEN, BURNHAVEN, INVERNETTJE AND INVERUGIE.
Building Co. in 172G, but that concern
being dissolved, it was bought by the
trustees or governors of the Merchant
Maiden Hospital, Edinburgh, for £3,000,
and they are still the superiors.
The town is governed by a provost and
magistrates and a town council. The
nomination of the magistrates was, by
charter, vested in the superiors of the
town and the magistrates and councillors,
the latter of whom were formerly elected
by a majority of the feuara, but since the
elective franchise was conferred upon the
burgh the magistrates and councillors are
elected by the householders therein. The
town now enjoys the privileges of a
parliamentary burgh, and in conjunction
with Kintore, Elgin, Cullen, Banff, and In-
verurie, returns one member to Parliament
for the Elgin district of burghs, and when,
plied with excellent spring water. In years! in 1868, the county of Aberdeen was
gone by the medicinal wells of Peterhead separated into Eastern and Western paxlia-
were much frequented; the waters are mentary divisions, each returning one
chalybeate and are abundant in the town member to Parliament, Peterhead was
and ' neighbourhood. Fossil shells in great created the returning burgh for the Eastern
quantities and of various kinds are found \ division, and is known as the capital of
in the neighbourhood, 20 or 30 feet above Buchan or East Aberdeenshire, but the
PETERHEAD is a considerable sea-port
town, burgh of barony, and parish, within
the district of Buchan, and is the terminus
cf the Formartine and Buchan section of the
Great North of Scotland railway, opened
1862, I'll miles nprth-by-west of Edinburgh.
34 south-east of Banff, 33 north-east of
Aberdeen, 18 south-south-east of Fraser-
burgh and 584 from London. It is situated
upon a peninsula (the most easterly point
of Scotland), about a mile south of the
mouth of the river Ugie, the isthmus be-
tween the peninsula and the mainland
being only eight hundred yards wide. The
town is built in the form of a cross and is
divided into four districts called the Kirk-
town, Roanheads, Keith Inch and Peterhead
proper. The houses, built of granite, are
many of them commodious and elegant,
and the town is lighted with gas and sup
the level of the sea, and these of kind:
not to be met with in an original state;
many curious pebbles also may be picked
up on the shore. Numerous elegant build-
ings have within recent years been erected
in the centre of the town. The Court
House, a handsome building of granite, is
in Queen street, and here the sheriff's
court is held on the three first Fridays in
the month. The Town House, at the head
of the principal street, is an elegant edi-
fice, with a spire 129 feet hign and an
illuminated clock, and contains the council
chamber. The Music Hall buildings form
a large and beautiful pile, comprising
upper and lower halls, small halls and con-
venient ante-rooms, with shops on the
ground floor. The Police Offices, in Mer-
chant street, erected in 1899, are alsp of
granite. Peterhead was founded and
erected into a burgh of barony by George,
Earl Marischal, in the year 1593; but in
1715 it was forfeited by this family in con-
sequence of their adherence to the unfor-
tunate house of Stuart, and purchased,
with the neighbouring lands, by the York
electoral returns are now made in Aber-
deen. In front of the Town Hall and
facing the main street, on a pedestal of
granite, stands a statue in bronze of Field-
Marshal James Francis Edward Keith ,
born at Inverugie, 1696; killed at the
battle of Hochkirchen, 14 October, 1758.
This statue was presented by William I.
King of Prussia, to the Town of Peterhead,
in August, 1868.
For a long series of years the harbours
of Peterhead have been held to be of great
importance. So early as 1661, in the first
Parliament of King Charles II. an Act was
passed " for a contribution for repairing
the harbours of Peterhead." In 1705 an
Act of the Scottish Privy Council was
obtained for a voluntary contribution with-
in all the parish churches of the three
Lothians and bewest of the Forth, for
building and repairing these harbours ;
and in 1729, and again in 1739, the con-
vention of royal burghs authorised a volun-
tary contribution throughout all the royal
burghs in Scotland for the same purpose.
In 1807, and again in 1827, Acts of Parlia-
ment were obtained for their further im-
provements. In recent years very large
sums have been expended on the harbours,
and Peterhead now possesses the finest and
safest harbours to be found along the
whole of the east coast of Scotland. The
harbours are managed by a rotary board of
trustees, a certain number of whom are
elected annually from among the proprie-
tors of land and heritages in the burgh,
the ship owners and shore due ratepayers.
The revenue can be applied only to the
maintenance of the harbours, the payment
of the interest of the debt, and the liquida-
tion of the principal. In 1884 Peterhead
was selected as the site of a national har-
bour of refuge for the Scotch coast, to be
constructed by convict labour, and a large
convict prison has since been erected, to
which all Scotch convicts are now drafted,
and up to the present year (1903) consider-
able progress has been made with the
breakwater. The South Bay, which is the
site of the projected harbour of refuge, has
good anchorage. Peterhead possesses the
grand advantage of north and south har-
bours, respectively of 11 and 7 acres in
extent, communicating by means of a canal
or channel, over which is a cast-iron swing
bridge, upon the construction of which up-
wards of £8,000 was expended. In the
north harbour there are two graving or dry
docks, and at the entrance to both har-
bours are good lighthouses. Adjacent to
the north harbour is also the boat harbour
of Port Henry. The total number of
British and foreign vessels entered with
cargoes and in ballast in 1902 was 46,
tonnage, 11,689; the number cleared was
57 of 12,242 tons. In the general coasting
trade 446 entered, 46,907 tons; 431 cleared,
tonnage, 44,819. The number of sailing
and steam vessels registered under Part I.
of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, on
Dec. 31, 1902, wae 60 of 2,660 tons net
register. The number of fishing boats
registered as belonging to this port under
Part IV. of the Merchant Shipping Act,
1894, on Dec. 31, 1902, was 375 of 6,772
tons, requiring 1,878 men and boys to work
them. In addition 1,111 regular fishermen
(men and boys) are resident within the
limits of the port, and 760 are occasionally