Mrs Purvis of Glassmount lived at No. 5 from about 1849 to 1852. She was the widow of Burridge Purvis of Glassmount, a cotton trader, who died at sea in 1816 while returning to Scotland from South Carolina. She was born Mary Brown about 1779, in Charleston, South Carolina, and was known as ‘Polly Brown’,…
John Steel, writer and clerk to the Jury Court, was resident at No. 5 from 1823 until his death there on 31 December 1846. He was born at Lanark on 07 September 1774, son of Robert Steel and Jean Aiton. Robert Steel, a writer in Lanark, died at No. 5 Malta Terrace, on 25 August…
Mrs Elizabeth Nicol lived at No. 2 from 1898 until her death in 1906. She was the wife of John Nicol, grocer and wine merchant, and born Elizabeth Fowler, the illegitimate daughter of Rachel Fowler. Census records indicate Elizabeth Fowler was born at Lasswade, Midlothian about 1848. However, she was recorded in the 1851 census…
George Storrar Brown lived at No. 2 for sixteen years, between 1882 and 1898. He was born at East Wemyss, Fife on 21 October 1840, son of brewer James Brown and Isabella Storrar. He was described as a shopkeeper (draper) in 1881, when he lived at 1 Pembroke Place, Edinburgh and as a draper’s assistant…
Robert Cuthbert Johnstone and his family were recorded at No. 2 in the census of 1881, when he was chaplain at Holy Trinity, Episcopal Church. By February 1882 he was living at 37 St Bernard’s Crescent. He was born 20 December 1857, at Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, son of Robert Johnstone and Sophia Wilson. In 1879 his…
William Napier Dick, an accountant, lived at No. 2 between 1876 and 1879. He was born at Bothwell, Lanarkshire on 01 January 1834, son of James Dick and Margaret Haddow. In 1859 he was a clerk at Shotts Iron Company and in 1861 was described as a commercial clerk there. By 1873 the family had…
James Dudgeon, a commission agent, occupied No. 2 between 1875 and 1876. In the 1875 valuation roll he was described as a ‘Traveller.’
Mrs Margaret Burn and family lived at No. 2 Malta Terrace between 1870 and 1874. She was the widow of Thomas Burn, a solicitor and notary public in Bishop Wearmouth, Durham who died aged 47 on 27 August 1862. Margaret Balfour Wright was born in Edinburgh on 24 March 1819, daughter of Alexander Wright of…
The first occupants of No. 3 Malta Terrace were Peter Ewart and his widowed mother, Jane Lundie. Mrs P Ewart was listed there from 1832 to 1835, and Peter Ewart, accountant, was listed in 1834-35. Jane Lundie was the widow of Peter Ewart of Rosefield, Dumfriesshire, a former surgeon in the Honourable East India Company,…