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Re: FARQUHARSON JANE BISSET
« Reply #72 on: Friday 01 August 14 10:40 BST (UK) »
Aberdeen Journal, 16-11-1864:

SHEBEEN CASE. - On Saturday, Jane Farquharson or
Bisset, wife of Wm. Bisset, eating house keeper, Upper-
kirkgate, was brought before Baillie Watson, charged with
trafficking in spirits without possessing a licence certificate.
She pled not guilty, but the Magistrate found the charge
proven, and inflicted the penalty prescribed, a fine of £7,
with 16s 6d of expenses, or, failing payment, six weeks' im-
prisonment. the fine, we understand, has been paid. This
is the second offence against this house, the husband having
been committed previously.

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Re: FARQUHARSON JANE BISSET
« Reply #73 on: Saturday 02 August 14 09:05 BST (UK) »
Rev. Charles Skene died in January 1878. The Aberdeen Journal says he was schoolmaster at Skene for 15 years and became minister of John Knox's Church at the Disruption of 1843. He was "survived by only one of a family of three sons, viz., Mr James A. Skene, who is a retired naval surgeon".

Also:

"Bisset, William, Maryculter, shoemaker"

appears in a list of shareholders of the North of Scotland Bank published in the Aberdeen Journal on 26-2-1851. He appears under the same description in 1859, so they obviously did not keep their lists of addresses and designations up to date.