Definition of "creatur"

Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.

1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Morning of the Trial”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book fifth, page 118

But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?

1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, part I, page 123

I 'm mighty sorry to hear about the poor old creatur; but she 'd served you a long while.

1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter VIII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 101