James Burnet was listed at No. 4 in the directory of 1889/90, and at 1 St Bernard’s Crescent the following year. James Burnet, a farmer at Dalmeny and later Dolphington, was born at Cramond on 21 July 1845, son of Charles Burnet and Janet Gillespie. He died 14 September 1890, having married Emma Ferguson, daughter of merchant James Ferguson and Joanna McHardie, on 20 April 1875, in Edinburgh. Their son James Burnet was born within the year.