Thomas Anderson and Margaret J. Anderson were listed at No. 2 in electoral registers between 1951 and 1966.
Thomas Anderson
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Alison Linklater-Betley
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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
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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
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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…
Stuart Lunn
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Stuart Lunn, a recently qualified dentist, occupied No. 2 between 1911 and 1913. He was born in Edinburgh on 03 June 1886, son of Robert Lunn and Mary Ann Courtneidge, and grew up at No. 4 Malta Terrace. He was recorded in the 1911 census as living at No. 4. He was admitted Licentiate in…
Alexander W. D. McGregor
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Alexander W. D. MacGregor, a typewriter dealer and repairer, occupied No. 2 from 1915 until his death in 1945. His widow Elizabeth T. MacGregor remained at No. 2 until 1959. Alexander William Duncan Macgregor was born in Gorbals, Glasgow in 1884, son of John Bryce McGregor and Elizabeth McDonald. In Alexander’s death registration, John McGregor’s…
Mrs Elizabeth Urquhart
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Mrs W. M. Urquhart occupied No. 2 between 1906 and 1910. She was the widow of William Mackie Urquhart (1846-1897) who operated the bookstall at Waverley station for 30 years before establishing his own stationery shop. She and her son Edward A. Urquhart, who also lived at No. 2, were both involved in running the…
Elizabeth Nicol
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Mrs Elizabeth Nicol lived at No. 2 from 1898 until her death in 1906. She was the wife of John Nicol, grocer and wine merchant, and born Elizabeth Fowler, the illegitimate daughter of Rachel Fowler. Census records indicate Elizabeth Fowler was born at Lasswade, Midlothian about 1848. However, she was recorded in the 1851 census…
George Storrar Brown
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George Storrar Brown lived at No. 2 for sixteen years, between 1882 and 1898. He was born at East Wemyss, Fife on 21 October 1840, son of brewer James Brown and Isabella Storrar. He was described as a shopkeeper (draper) in 1881, when he lived at 1 Pembroke Place, Edinburgh and as a draper’s assistant…
Robert C Johnstone
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Robert Cuthbert Johnstone and his family were recorded at No. 2 in the census of 1881, when he was chaplain at Holy Trinity, Episcopal Church. By February 1882 he was living at 37 St Bernard’s Crescent. He was born 20 December 1857, at Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, son of Robert Johnstone and Sophia Wilson. In 1879 his…