Re: Burg officer

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from Keith Henry <kh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

*Kaye Payne* has brought this to us :
Hi,

Would anyone know what a burg officer was in 1844? It seems an
ancestor of
mine assualted one in Hawick Scotland in 1844 and for the life of me
I cannot
find out what the description means.

Kaye Payne

Hi Kaye,
Try *Burgh officer* - One employed in an official capacity, often in
the Customs or in local administration.
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=551&981



Always worth trying a search on GOOGLE BOOKS because you can limit the
date range of the search



The New Statistical Account of Scotland 1845


Prison. There is a prison conjoined with the Town-Council
Hall, consisting of one apartment for debtors, and two apartments
beneath for criminal offenders, in tolerable condition, and supposed
to be quite secure. No prisoner last year. The burgh officer
is the jailor, who in his own person embodies the entire police of
the burgh and parish of North Berwick




Also appears in Charles Dickens

All the Year Round - Page 229

And so it proved. He was tried and condemned ;
but he would not walk to the place of
execution, so they had to earry him by main
foree. He fought and struggled with such tremendous
power, that the executioner, an old
man, could not turn him off; and every one else
refused to touch him. At last a burgh officer
eame forward, and the gipsy was hanged secun-
dum legem artemque ; mit the old pcople about
Dumfries used to say that the burgh officer
never prospered afterwards.
.

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