Category: No 3

Miss Isa Campbell occupied No. 3 in 1905 and 1906, where she ran a boarding house for pets. She was there in May 1905, when an advertisement appeared in the Evening News.

Mrs. Mary Adeline Bell lived at No. 3 for about five years, between 1933 and 1938.[1] She was the widow of Robert Charles Bell, an elocution teacher, who died at the age of 58 on 08 January 1931.[2] She was born Mary Adeline Jackson at Hightown, Middlewich, Cheshire on 17 May 1879,[3] daughter of John…

Selena R. White and Marjorie R. White were listed at No. 3 Malta Terrace in electoral registers between 1933 and 1936.[1] Selena Reid White was born in Belfast in 1868, the daughter of Samuel White and Margaret Cooper Shaw. By 1881 the family had moved to Scotland and were living in Govan. Ten years later,…

Mary Penn was listed in the electoral register at No. 3 Malta Terrace between 1932 and 1937.[1] She was at 25 Torphichen Street in 1939[2] and after the second world war at 27 Watson Crescent,[3] which was her home address when she died on 19 February 1950, aged 80 years.[4] Mary Ann Penn was born…

The electoral register for 1932 lists William M. Maitland and Euphemia L. Maitland at No. 3 Malta Terrace. William McCulloch Maitland, a house painter, married Euphemia Lowe Mathewson, by declaration, at 6 Bank Street, Edinburgh on 14 May 1932.[1] Rented rooms at No. 3 were probably their first home. William McCulloch Maitland was born in…

When Thomas Arthur Robb was born in an Edinburgh hospital on 01 October 1938 his parents’ address was No. 3 Malta Terrace.[1] They were Thomas Gray Robb and Isabella Rowe Young Arthur who married the previous year, on 24 December 1937. He was a builder’s labourer and she was a confectionery shop assistant.[2] In 1939…

Mrs Margaret Torok de Varad lived at No. 3 from 1939[1] until her death there on 03 September 1951.[2] She was the widow of Julius Martin Ladislaus Torok de Varad, who died on 08 April 1918 at 32 Fenney Street, Salford, Lancashire.[3] Before occupying No. 3, she lived next door at No.4 with her daughter…

The electoral register in 1956 and 1957 listed Edward and Violet Keenan at No. 3 Malta Terrace. They moved from Malta Terrace to 39 India Place before the birth of their first child on 03 December 1957, and remained there until at least 1960. Edward Montague Keenan had married Violet Isabella Adam in Edinburgh in…

Robert Gardner, a retired pharmacist, took up residence at No. 3 in 1912.[1] He lived there until his death on 27 December 1929.[2] He was born at Limekilns, Fife, on 28 July 1853, son of William Gardner, a marine pilot, and Catherine Bryce, and baptised on 21 August 1853 at United Association Burgh Seceders church.[3]…

The first occupants of No. 3 Malta Terrace were Peter Ewart and his widowed mother, Jane Lundie. Mrs P Ewart was listed there from 1832 to 1835, and Peter Ewart, accountant, was listed in 1834-35.[1] Jane Lundie was the widow of Peter Ewart of Rosefield, Dumfriesshire, a former surgeon in the Honourable East India Company,…