Cowpits Colliery Oncost Accounts

Explanation of Colliery Accounts | Output by Individual Colliers

Cowpits Colliery Oncost Accounts - week ending 2 August 1806

All payments made in running the coalworks apart from payments to colliers for coal produced, are known as oncost.
Only the first 2 two items (coal sold, and debts, rents etc from colliers) are not payments but money received and appear in the 'credit' column of the accounts.

For details of the coal produced, see Coal Output of Individual Colliers

For the week ending 2nd August 1806	Cowpitts Colliery

By Coal sold 1522 tubs Gt @ 2/ 218 sm @ 1/4 - 585 Wood @ 8d Do @ 8d 15 Do @ 4d	186 9 8
By debts from Colliers 29/6 House Rents 12/6	2 2 --
To Earl of Wemyss tenth of 210 tubs of Gt @ 2/- 19 Sm 1/4 40 Wd @ 8d 81 @ 2d	28 6.6
To Colliers payments for working 1593 tubs of Gt @ 8d 230 Sm @ 4d 765 Wd @ 2½ 42 Do @ 3½	65 10 3.5
Cheques [ ]
To Jo Landers 7/ M[ ] 9/ Hunter 7/ Skirving / Richardson 9/
To John Nielson 16/ w[ ] Candle 2/	3 16 -
Midfield Engine
To John Frazer 17/ Allan 12/ Patterson 12/ Two Soldiers 20/-	3 1 -
To Jas Robertsons sons 13/ R Grieve 21/ Roger 14/ Paxton 12/ [………….] 15/ [ ] 6/	4 1 -
To Jo Kinghorn carter 12/	.. 12 -
No1 M six foot
To Will Wood 10/ Geo Richardson 10/ Abm Moffat 14/ P Galloway 4/ Jn Galloway 10d	1 10 6
To Will. Wright 16/ Abm Moffat 14/ P Galloway 4/ Jn Galloway 10	1 14 10
To V Ingles 10d Nanny Moffat 2/6 C Clark 2/6. Bearing	5 10
To Robt Ingles 2 ½ fm west Level @ 15. 38/9 Jas Brown 1½ fm west drift @ 4/6 6/9	2 5 6
To Will Wright 1fm foul coal @ 5/- Wm Arch 2fm East Drift @ 1/9 13/10	.. 18 10
No5 M B[ ] Coal
To Alex Steele 10/- Geo Barclay 10/- Scott Adam 7/ Banking & filling	1 7 ..
To Will Bell 16/ Jo Archd 2d 12/ Dd Russell 12/- R Archd 10/- be[ ] Wright [3/4] Reding	2 13 4
To Geo Lindsay for foul Coal 3/- W Wilson 3fm down & east drift @ 3/ fm 9/	.. 12 ..
To James Brown 1fm East drift @ 2/5 R Arch 1fm upsett Mine @ 2/6	.. 4 11
No 10 Six foot
To Dd Ferguson 10/- Peggy Archd 8/- Banking & filling	.. 18 ..
To Jo archd 14/ Will Drysdale 7/- R king 6/- Ch? Thomson 10d	1 2 10
To Geo Bell 1fm wester six foot sheering room	.. 5 ..
No 16 Six foot
To James Anderson 10/ John Booth 10/ Ag Archd 7/ banking & filling	1 7 ..
To Will King 14/ Jo Nicolson 11/ Vil Archd 5/ Reding	1 10 ..
To Alx Rutherford for foul Coal 4/ Hen Archd 4/ oversheering Dav Wilson Do 3/	.. 11 ..
To Nicol Thomson in full [ ] stone Mine from six foot to Ba[ ] Coal	.. 17 6
No 6 M
To Laird & Company drawing water	1 6 ..
To Will Drysdale 2/- omitted last week	.. 2 ..
Labourage &c
To Chas Handasides horses drawing no [ ] M @ ¼ p x x	1 14 4
To Do horses drawing No2 5 10 & the pitt 8d p x x	2 14 5
To Alx Rutherords extra Rent returned 5/- Th Paxton for boiler ribbets making 5/	.. 10 ..
	£37..9..10
By Cash from James Adam & Co in part ponies £10 By Do from Do in part payment of Hay 10	[Cr] 1 .. ..
Bounty
To Bounty paid the following Colliers for one years sevice from & after the 3d July 1806 Viz
To Robert Ingles 21/ Geo Lindsay 21/ James Lindsay 21/ Geo Bell 21/ Hen Archd 21/ Henrys sons 21/	6 6 ..
To Thos Archd son 21/ Jo Archd fife sen 21/ Will Archd jun 21/ Jas Archd fife 21/ Rob Archd sen 21/	5 5 ..
To Jo Archd fife jun 21/ Do for last year 10/6 John Archd [ ] sen 21/ Davd Ross sen 21/ D Ross jun 10/6	4 4 ..
To Jo Archd [ ] jun 21/ Thomas Archd [ ] 21/ Cov Swan 10/6 Ab Moffat 21/ Robt Moffat 21/	4 14 6
To Peter Currie jun 21/ Will Bell 21/ Jo Wilson 21/ Henry Arch 'm' jun 21/ Alex Moffat 21/	5 5 -
To Thomas Nicolson sen 21/ Th Nicolson jun 21/ Jo Paxton 21/ Alx Hutcheson 21/ Wm Wilson tertius 21/	5 5 -
To Geo Bennet S 21/ Wm Archd fif 21/ Jo Bennet 10/6 Alex Bennet 21/ And Archd jun 21/	4 14 6
To Alex Archd 21/ Tho Wilson jun 10/6	5 15 6

Lent
To lent William Wilson Midfield 40/ Rob Ingles £4 P Galloway £4 Hen Archd sen £7	17 .. ..
To Thomas Archbald £4 David Ross £3 Abm Moffat £3 Will Arch F £3	13 .. ..
To Will Bell £2 Cov Swan £1 Ja Galloway £2 Jas Archd fife £3 Jo Archd jun £3	11 .. ..
To Jo Archd F sen £1 Tho Bennet £4 Jo King £1 Alx Archbald £4	13 .. ..
To Robt Jack £2.2 Geo Bennet £5 Archd Rutherford £1 P Currie £1 Hugh Gray £7	16 2 ..
To And Gray £2 James Archd [ ] 20/ Will Arch jun 20/	4 .. ..
To lent John Niel to pay Penston Colliery	25 8 0½
By Balance loss	56 16 6
£	246 8 2

Abbreviations used in Oncost Accounts:

fm - Fathoms ; Gt - great coal ; Sm - Seam coal ; Wd - Wood coal

Money

'/' = shillings e.g.

21/ = 21 shillings (also known as a 'Guinea' )

10/6 = 10 shillings and 6 pence

Last column

4 8 5 = 4 pounds, 8 shillings and 5 pence

.. 5 .. = 5 shillings

One pound = 20 shillings
One shilling = 12 pence

NAME ABBREVIATIONS -

Abm-Abraham ; Ags-Agnes ; Alexr-Alexander ; And-Andrew ; Arch-Archibald ; Chas-Charles ; Cov-Coventry ; Dav-David ; Geo:-George ; Hen-Henry ; Jas-James ; Jo-John ; Margt-Margaret ; Pet-Peter ; Robt-Robert ; Thos-Thomas ; Vil-Violet ; Wm-William

Cowpitts Colliery Ledger 1804 -09 - National Archives of Scotland reference: GD377/374

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