John C. Alexander and Catherine S. Alexander or Archibald were living at 7 St Bernard’s Row when their daughter was born on 11 May 1954. They were listed at 7 St Bernard’s Row in the 1956 and 1957 electoral registers. They then moved to 9 Magdalene Gardens. John Cameron Alexander was born in Edinburgh on…
Alexander Inglis, warehouseman, was listed in the Electoral Register as tenant and occupier of 7a St Bernard’s Row in 1909. This may have been the Alexander Inglis, warehouseman, listed the previous year at 2 Rillbank Terrace. However, an Alexander Inglis died at 2 Rillbank Terrace on 22 January 1909, before publication of the 1909-10 Electoral…
Thomas Anderson and Margaret J. Anderson were listed at No. 2 in electoral registers between 1951 and 1966.
Alison Sarah Linklater-Betley was listed in the Electoral Register at 2a Malta Terrace between 2003 and 2010. Known as Sally, she was born in 1934, daughter of novelist Eric Linklater and his wife Marjorie Macintyre. She became a painter. On 15 April 1983 she married at St Andrews Jan Andrzej Betley (1926-1991), a Polish historian….
John Young lived at No. 2a between 1915 and 1949.[1] He was a tailor, born 16 September 1871 at Torphichen, West Lothian, son of William Young and Christina Irvine.[2] The family moved to Edinburgh when he was a young child and were at 22 Caledonian Crescent in 1881.[3] In 1911, he was described as a…
Daniel Gunn, a cabman, was listed at No. 2 Malta Terrace in the register of electors in 1911-12 and 1912-13. He was born in Edinburgh on 18 July 1873, son of John Gunn, an ironmonger, and Mary Berry. In 1891 he was a 17-year old butcher’s assistant, but in 1900 his occupation was given as…
Miss Isa Campbell occupied No. 3 in 1905 and 1906, where she ran a boarding house for pets. She was there in May 1905, when an advertisement appeared in the Evening News.
James Muirhead and his family moved from Malta House to No. 3 Malta Terrace in 1906, following the bankruptcy of his poulterer and fishmonger business.[1] He was born in Edinburgh on 21 October 1839,[2] the son of Charles Muirhead, who established the business, and his wife Elizabeth Brown. James Muirhead entered the family business and…
Mrs. Mary Adeline Bell lived at No. 3 for about five years, between 1933 and 1938.[1] She was the widow of Robert Charles Bell, an elocution teacher, who died at the age of 58 on 08 January 1931.[2] She was born Mary Adeline Jackson at Hightown, Middlewich, Cheshire on 17 May 1879,[3] daughter of John…
Selena R. White and Marjorie R. White were listed at No. 3 Malta Terrace in electoral registers between 1933 and 1936.[1] Selena Reid White was born in Belfast in 1868, the daughter of Samuel White and Margaret Cooper Shaw. By 1881 the family had moved to Scotland and were living in Govan. Ten years later,…