Joseph Dods occupied Malta House in 1833/34. He was a plumber and glazier with business premises at 71 Northumberland Street. He was born in Edinburgh on 5 June 1804, son of James Dods and Jean Landels. His wife Mary Hawkins at Malta House in July 1834, at the age of 26. They were married on…
Donald Cameron, Esq., of Malta, near Stockbridge, Edinburgh was listed there in the 1815/16 post office directory. About this time he sold the estate of Malta to Henry William Baynes and lived at Albany Cottage. Donald Cameron died on 17 January 1818, at the age of 74. His heir, grandson, George Langlais Cameron, a medical…
William Smith, land steward and gardener, was listed at Malta House in the directory of 1829/30.
Henry William Baynes, Esquire, acquired Malta, near Stockbridge around 1816. He was listed at Malta in the post office directories of 1816/17 and 1817/18. In 1818/19 he was at Ann Street, Stockbridge, and the following year at 11 Raeburn Place. He was again listed at Malta House in the directory of 1820/21. However, in 1820…
J Cameron, a teacher of English and geography, lived at Malta House from 1826 to 1828.
Thomas Dickson, gardener, was at Malta House 1828/29.
George Home of Buskinburn lived at Malta House from about 1840 until his death in 1844. He was the fourth son of Alexander Home of Buskinburn (1741-1823), a captain in the Royal Navy who sailed with Captain Cook, and laid claim to the Earldom of Marchmont. George Home was born about 1797, and died of…
Alexander Bennet, Writer to the Signet, lived at Malta House between 1851 and 1853. He was born on 25 September 1811, in Edinburgh, son of William Bennet and Margaret McCraw; and died in 1855. On 9 March 1846, in Edinburgh, Alexander Bennet married Isabella Nelson. She was born at Dunbar on 24 June 1827, daughter…
William Wilson and his family lived at Malta House from about 1846 to 1849.