Desmond A. E. Ker and Priscilla Ker were listed in the 1951 electoral register at No. 4 Malta Terrace. They moved to 6 Lonsdale Terrace where they remained until 1957. At the time, Desmond Agar-Ellis Ker was a journalist. He was born at Grantham, Lincolnshire on 26 May 1915, son of Reginald Arthur Ker, a…
James Bannerman McAra lived at No. 4 between 1934 and 1940. He was born in Edinburgh on 28 January 1900, son of James McAra and Ann Bannerman. He enlisted, aged 18, on 03 April 1918, qualified as a signaller and was transferred to the Royal Army Pay Corps. He was discharged from service on 28…
Alexander Wilson and his wife May Wiseman Crawford were living at No. 4 Malta Terrace in 1936 when their twin daughters were born prematurely at the Elsie Inglis Maternity Home. Tragically, Frances Wilson died on 16 March 1936 and May Jean Wilson died on 21 March 1936. Alexander Wilson, a seedsman, married Annie May Wiseman…
The 1930-31 Valuation Roll shows Miss Jessie McLeod as tenant and occupier of No. 4. Jessie MacLeod and Malcolm MacLeod were listed there in electoral registers until 1933.
In 1913, Mrs Christian Douglas and her adult children moved from No. 6 Malta Terrace to No. 5, next door. She was the widow of John Campbell Douglas, an accountant and company secretary, who died on 10 February 1885 at Southwick Engine Works, Durham. She was born in Edinburgh on 18 December 1841, the daughter…
Charles Rule and Annie H. L. Rule were at listed at No 5 in electoral rolls between 1955 and 1966. They were at 22 Balmoral Place between 1945 and 1955. Charles Rule, an insurance agent, and Annie Hardie Lindsay Smith, a bookkeeper, married in Edinburgh on 21 October 1939. He was born in 1916 son…
Mrs Janet Meikleham occupied No. 5 between 1907 and 1913. She was the widow of William Meikleham, a sugar broker, who died at the age of 45 on 07 July 1890. Janet Currie Beggam was born at Lochranza, Bute on 28 July 1858, daughter of shoemaker Daniel Beggam and his wife Mary Kerr. She married…
George Plimer and Margaret M. T. Plimer were listed at No. 6 in the Electoral Registers from 1948 to 1955. George Plimer and Margaret Murray Thomson married at St Stephen’s parish church, Edinburgh on 27 December 1929. George Plimer was born in Edinburgh in 1904, son of Andrew Plimer, a jobbing mason, and Sarah Dunse….
Robert Duns, a builder, died at No. 6 on 13 January 1949, aged 51 years. He had lived in Raeburn Place, until at least 1945. He was born in Edinburgh in 1897, son of James Duns and Isabella Brodie. James Duns, who was born in England, was a Clerk of Works in 1901, and a…
John Hodgson and his family took up residence at No. 6 in 1914 but a few months later he died there, of cancer, aged 57, on 17 March 1915. Members of his family remained at No. 6 until the end of the second world war. John Hodgson was born at Lancaster, Lancashire in 1858, the…