Peter Glen was superintendent of the home at Malta House after the second world war. He was born on 10 June 1884 son of Peter Glen, stereotyper, and Barbara Wilson. He was a plumber by trade when he joined the Royal Marines in 1903. During the first world war he served on HMS Thunderer and…
George Boughtwood succeeded Tom Murray as Superintendent of the Labour Home at Malta House in September 1910 and remained there until his retirement in 1939. He was born on 12 July 1872 at Hanningfield, Essex, son of a labourer, William Boughtwood and his wife Jane. In the 1891 census he was recorded as a farm…
The first Superintendent of the Malta House Labour Home was Tom Murray who was in charge of the Home at its previous location in Sciennes. He had previously been manager of Grove House, which opened in 1900 to provide food and lodging for ‘men of the respectable working class.’ Tom Murray left Malta House in…
Archibald Geikie, perfumer, occupied Malta House in 1835-1836. The previous year he was living at 2 Drummond Street. He was born in 1770, son of John Geikie, barber and hairdresser, and his wife Isabel Gillespie. Archibald Geikie was listed in the 1794-95 directory as a hairdresser in Charles’s Street. His father John was a hairdresser…
J. and D. Mitchelson were listed at Malta House in 1830-31. This was the business name of a firm of painters and glaziers operated by John Mitchelson. John Mitchelson had business premises in Rose Street from 1821 but did not adopt the name J. and D. Mitchelson until 1829. The ‘D’ probably came from his…
Between 1826 and 1828 Malta House was occupied by a boys’ school operated by J. Cameron, a teacher of English and geography. In March 1826, Cameron gave notice in the press that his school, then at 3 Johnston Place, would move to Malta House ‘for the better accommodation of his pupils’. The notice claimed, ‘The…
Robert Fraser Esq. took up residence at Malta House in 1818, having spent several years out of Scotland. He had a son born there on 01 August 1818. A year later, he went to London with two daughters, leaving his wife and younger children at Malta House. His place of domicile was disputed when the…
Robert M. Stark, seedsman and florist, occupied Malta House 1856-1857[1] before moving to 7 South Charlotte Street,[2] where he was recorded in the 1861 census.[3] His nursery was at Edgehill, Dean. Robert Mackenzie Stark was born at Dirleton, East Lothian on 17 June 1815, son of Rev. William Stark and Elizabeth Mackenzie.[4] He published A…
Joseph Dods occupied Malta House in 1833-1834. He was a plumber and glazier with business premises at 71 Northumberland Street. He was born in Edinburgh on 14 May 1804, son of James Dods, a wright in Broughton, and his wife Jean Landels. His first listing in the Post Office Directory in 1826, when he was…
Donald Cameron purchased almost a quarter of a hectare of the former mill lands of Stockbridge in 1804. He named the property Malta and was listed at Malta House in the 1805 Post Office Directory. He remained there until 1816 when he moved to Albany Cottage, where he died on 17 January 1818 aged 74.,…