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George Stewart and Mrs Maria E. Stewart were listed in the electoral register at 7a St  Bernard’s Row between 1937 and 1950. Mary M. Stewart was also listed in 1945 and 1946.

Aeneas Alexander Henderson and his wife Jean Allan Miller Henderson were listed at No. 7 St Bernard’s Row in the electoral registers of 1947 and 1948. Aeneas A. Henderson was born at Falkirk on 25 May 1921, son of Aeneas A. Henderson, a school teacher, and his wife Agnes Constance Keith. He was engineering student…

Hugh Wynne and Mary M. Wynne were registered electors at 7a St Bernard’s Row in 1954. Hugh Joseph Wynne and Mary Margaret Stewart married in Edinburgh on 08 November 1945. Hugh Wynne was born in 1926 son of Owen Wynne, a basket maker, and Eliza Douglas. He was described as an apprentice optician and signalman…

Ronald Wardropper and Elizabeth M. Wardropper were resident at 7a St Bernard’s Row from 1950  until 1966. Ronald Wardropper was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 12 October 1926, son of Charles Snowden Wardropper, hairdresser, and Eliza Mackinson. He served as an aircraftman in the RAF during the second world war but his occupation after the war,…

John C. Alexander and Catherine S. Alexander or Archibald were living at 7 St Bernard’s Row when their daughter was born on 11 May 1954. They were listed at 7 St Bernard’s Row in the 1956 and 1957 electoral registers. They then moved to 9 Magdalene Gardens. John Cameron Alexander was born in Edinburgh on…

Alexander Inglis, warehouseman, was listed in the Electoral Register as tenant and occupier of 7a St Bernard’s Row in 1909. This may have been the Alexander Inglis, warehouseman, listed the previous year at 2 Rillbank Terrace. However, an Alexander Inglis died at 2 Rillbank Terrace on 22 January 1909, before publication of the 1909-10 Electoral…

Alexander Wight, dairyman, and his family were recorded at No. 1 in the 1911 Census. He was born at Newbattle on 5 May 1857, son of blacksmith Alexander Wight (1823-1896) and his wife Margaret Robb (1821-1916). The family moved to Dalkeith when he was young, and in 1871 he was working there as a blacksmith,…

Antonio Gargaro, ice cream dealer, is recorded in the 1905 Valuation Roll as a tenant and occupier at No. 1 Malta Terrace. He was born in Italy about 1869. He was recorded in the 1901 Census at 6 West Richmond Street, occupation ice cream maker. In 1903, he was listed as a confectioner at 2…

William Smith, a chemist and druggist, took up residence at No. 1 in 1896 and remained there until his death in 1931. His daughter Catherine Janet Smith, also a chemist, continued to occupy the apartment until 1959. William Smith was born at Lerwick, Shetland on 20 February 1848, son of bookseller Robert Smith and his…

Margaret Milne and three of her children occupied a ground floor apartment at No. 1 when the 1891 census was recorded. She was born Margaret Archibald on 17 February 1831, at Urquhart, Moray, daughter of John Archibald and Margaret Allan. She married John Milne, a mason, on 21 December 1850, at Urquhart, Moray. Margaret Archibald…