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. He was a tailor, born 16 September 1871 at Torphichen, West Lothian, son of William Young and Christina Irvine. The family moved to Edinburgh when he was a young child and were at 22 Caledonian Crescent in 1881. 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. She was the widow of Robert Charles Bell, an elocution teacher, who died at the age of 58 on 08 January 1931. She was born Mary Adeline Jackson at Hightown, Middlewich, Cheshire on 17 May 1879, daughter of John…
Selena R. White and Marjorie R. White were listed at No. 3 Malta Terrace in electoral registers between 1933 and 1936. 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,…
Mary Penn was listed in the electoral register at No. 3 Malta Terrace between 1932 and 1937. She was at 25 Torphichen Street in 1939 and after the second world war at 27 Watson Crescent, which was her home address when she died on 19 February 1950, aged 80 years. Mary Ann Penn was born…
The electoral register for 1932 lists William M. Maitland and Euphemia L. Maitland at No. 3 Malta Terrace. William McCulloch Maitland, a house painter, married Euphemia Lowe Mathewson, by declaration, at 6 Bank Street, Edinburgh on 14 May 1932. Rented rooms at No. 3 were probably their first home. William McCulloch Maitland was born in…
When Thomas Arthur Robb was born in an Edinburgh hospital on 01 October 1938 his parents’ address was No. 3 Malta Terrace.[1] They were Thomas Gray Robb and Isabella Rowe Young Arthur who married the previous year, on 24 December 1937. He was a builder’s labourer and she was a confectionery shop assistant.[2] In 1939…