Burgess
Records tagged with Keywords: Burgess
Helen Halyburton Symers
Submitted by Alison McCall on 3 November 2012 - 9:45am
Revised: 3 November 2012 - 10:20am — Alison McCall
Dates:
c1831- November 1906
Helen Symers was born into a noted Dundee family. She was a member of St Paul’s United Free Church. Although a quiet woman, she took a full part in Dundee's charitable institutions, being at various times president of Dundee Ladies’ Union, treasurer of the Female Society for Visiting & Relieving Aged Females in Distress and a member of both the Industrial Schools Society and the Home for Reformation of Females.
She donated ÂŁ10,000 to start the Fund for Indigent Females and also made donations to the Convalescent Home, Royal Victoria Hospital and the Salvation Army Rescue Home.
Mariote Ker
Submitted by Alison McCall on 21 October 2012 - 3:29pm
Revised: 9 February 2014 - 8:14pm — Alison McCall
Dates:
fl. 1500s
Mariote Ker was made a burgess of the Royal Burgh of Dundee on 12 November 1529, at the request of the young king, James V. The reason for this is not known, but it would have given her an important place in the business world at the time. Burgesses held monopolies in the production of goods including bread, beer and cloth. She was Dundee’s first woman burgess. The city’s second woman burgess was appointed 360 years later.
