Thomas Wishart and his family lived at No. 4 between 1869 and 1871. He was born about 1830at Abbotshall, Fife, son of James Wishart, a bootmaker, who was at No. 4 in 1871. Thomas Wishart was a shopman in the glass trade. He married Mary Anne Taylor at Stirling on 18 September 1865. They had…
John E Vernon, jeweller, lived at No. 4 from 1865 to 1869. His business premises – jewellers, watchmaker and opticians – was at 54 Leith Street. He was born c1821, in Edinburgh, and died in 1899. He married Elizabeth Shepherd Thomson (1823-1873) and had 12 children. The family moved to Lothian Road about 1870.
Robert Lunn and his family lived at No. 4 from 1896 until after 1901. He was a plumber and gasfitter, with business premises at 3 Deanhaugh Street. Robert Hume Lunn was born about 1855 in Edinburgh, son of James Lunn, an auctioneer’s porter, and Mary McDougall. He died at Portobello on 29 January 1938. Robert…
James Hay, who worked for the North British Railway, was at No. 4 from about 1892 to 1895. He was born in Edinburgh about 1843.
James Burnet was listed at No. 4 in the directory of 1889/90, and at 1 St Bernard’s Crescent the following year. James Burnet, a farmer at Dalmeny and later Dolphington, was born at Cramond on 21 July 1845, son of Charles Burnet and Janet Gillespie. He died 14 September 1890, having married Emma Ferguson, daughter…
Mrs Thomson was resident at No. 4 from about 1884 to 1886.
W Thomson M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E. was listed at No. 4 in 1883/84. Sir William Thomson was a mathematician, born 31 December 1856 at Kirkton of Mailler, Perthshire, and died 6 August 1947. He was an Assistant in Mathematics at Edinburgh University, 1878-83; and appointed Professor of Mathematics at Stellenbosch University in 1883. Principal 1924-8 Witwatersrand…
Ann Anderson Thomson lived at No. 4 from 1865 to 1872. She was born in Edinburgh on 5 September 1819, daughter of Edward Thomson and Marion Laidlaw. Edward Thomson was Inspector of the Poor for Canongate parish. In the 1871 census, Ann Thomson was described as living on houses, dividends and interest. She died, unmarried,…
James F Henderson, who worked for the Bank of Scotland, was at No. 4 from about 1856 to 1864. James Forman Henderson was born at Muckart, Perthshire in June 1811, son of Alexander Forman and Grizel Forman. He married Ann Edgar White, daughter of Robert White and Ann Edgar, on 15 July 1841, in Edinburgh….
James Lawson, W.S., lived at No. 4 from about 1846 to 1853. He was born about 1795, son of Peter Lawson, a seedsman in Edinburgh. He was a legal apprentice to James Laidlaw, and admitted W.S. on 19 June 1818. He died on 27 February 1864. In april 1826, James Lawson married Margaret Clark, youngest…