James B. Bennett, civil engineer and surveyor, was resident at No. 7 Malta Terrace between 1897 and 1904. He then moved to 2 Thorburn Road, Colinton. James Bower Bennett was born in Falkirk on 27 July 1859, the son of George Bennett, a grocer and spirit merchant, and his wife Jane Bower. Educated at Alloa…
George Hamilton was resident at No. 7 between 1892 to 1897, living with his mother and step-father Robert Somerville. He was born at Duddingston on 08 August 1862, the second son of James Clarkson Hamilton and Helen Anderson. His father, clerk to the Colonial Life Assurance company, died in 1866. His mother remarried in 1871….
John Buchanan lived at No. 4 from 1872 to 1883, and then at No. 7 from 1883 to 1890. He was a civil engineer, born in Edinburgh about 1838, son of John Buchanan, a quarryman, and Janet Gray. The 1841 census recorded the family at 7 Bedford Street. He first appears in the Edinburgh Post…
Isabella Macfarlan, widow of Walter MacFarlan, lived at No. 7 with her family from about 1881 to 1892. The post office directories listed her as Mrs MacFarlan. She was born Isabella Burnett Aitchison, on 18 March 1849, daughter of James Aitchison and Jane Swan. The widowed Jane Swan or Aitchison lived at No. 5 between…
George Trimble and his family lived at No. 7 for about ten years, between 1868 and 1879. He was a civil engineer, born about 1828 at Thursby, Cumberland and baptised at St Mary Carlisle on 19 August 1828. His parents’ names were not recorded, and he appears to have been raised in the household of…
The Cleland family occupied No. 7 for almost twenty-five years, between 1843 and 1867. Mrs William Cleland was the listed householder from 1843 until her death there on 12 April 1862. Though some directories in the 1840s listed Mrs Helen Cleland at No. 7, she was in fact Mrs Janet Cleland, widow of William Cleland,…
Mrs Turnbull occupied No. 7 from 1839 to 1843. She was the widow of John Turnbull, the City Chamberlain, who died suddenly on 05 October 1838. She was born Euphemia Mackie, on 31 August 1783, at Ormiston, East Lothian, daughter of William Mackie and Agnes Lightbody. She was at No. 7 Malta Terrace when the…
James Mackay, a merchant and commission agent, lived at No. 7 between 1832 and 1839. In 1833, his business premises moved from 10 Hunter Square to 23 Waterloo Place, and then to 13 North Bridge in 1835.
The first occupant of No. 7 was Mrs Eliza Milne (or Mylne) who was listed there in the Edinburgh Directory between 1821 and 1827.
Mrs Hogg was resident at No. 9 for about two years between 1839 and 1841. This appears to have been the Mrs Hogg who was listed in the PO Directory at 14 St Bernard’s Crescent in 1841-42 and enumerated there when the census was taken on 06 June 1841. She was Margaret Phillips, widow of…