Thomas Tibbetts was living at No. 5 Malta Terrace in 1854 when his son Thomas was born there on 28 July 1854. In 1851 he was at 5 St Patrick Square and may have moved to Malta Terrace the following year. His residence was not listed in the PO Directories but a business address at…
Miss Isabella Struthers was listed as tenant and occupant of No. 5 Malta Terrace in the electoral registers of 1888-89 and 1889-90. She then appears to have moved to 14 Ann Street where she was listed as proprietrix in the electoral register and recorded in the 1891 census. Isabella Miller Struthers was born on 18…
In 1913, Mrs Christian Douglas and her adult children moved from No. 6 Malta Terrace to No. 5, next door. She was the widow of John Campbell Douglas, an accountant and company secretary, who died on 10 February 1885 at Southwick Engine Works, Durham. She was born in Edinburgh on 18 December 1841, the daughter…
Charles Rule and Annie H. L. Rule were at listed at No 5 in electoral rolls between 1955 and 1966. They were at 22 Balmoral Place between 1945 and 1955. Charles Rule, an insurance agent, and Annie Hardie Lindsay Smith, a bookkeeper, married in Edinburgh on 21 October 1939. He was born in 1916 son…
Mrs Janet Meikleham occupied No. 5 between 1907 and 1913. She was the widow of William Meikleham, a sugar broker, who died at the age of 45 on 07 July 1890. Janet Currie Beggam was born at Lochranza, Bute on 28 July 1858, daughter of shoemaker Daniel Beggam and his wife Mary Kerr. She married…
Thomas Scott Melville was at No. 4 in 1895-96, before moving next door to No. 5 where he remained until 1907. He was born in Glasgow on 03 March 1851, son of Thomas Melville, cap and hat manufacturer, and Jane Scott. His father died soon after and his mother remarried in 1855, to Robert Kennedy…
Alexander Smart, coal merchant, lived at No. 5 from 1891 to 1895. He was born at Hawick on 27 November 1838, son of Alexander Smart, a baker, and Agnes Prest. He served in the Royal Navy before settling in Edinburgh as a coal merchant. Alexander Smart served as an engineer between May 1859 and July…
John Kerr Craig, minister at the Dean Street United Presbyterian Church, lived at No. 5 from about 1883 to 1887. He was born at Lochwinnoch and baptised there on 22 September 1844, son of Robert Craig and Mary Howie. Robert Craig was a miller, originally from Ayrshire. John Kerr Craig was ordained at Ramsbottom, Lancashire…
Mrs Jane Aitchison was resident at No. 5 from 1868 to 1883. She was a draper, with business premises at 38 Queen Street. Jane Swan or Aitchison was born at Earlston, Berwickshire about 1826, the daughter of Robert Swan, land steward, and Isabella Burnett. She married James Aitchison on 27 March 1848, in Edinburgh. James…
Samuel Bough, a landscape painter who established watercolour as a significant medium in Scottish art, was resident at No. 5 from 1856 to 1867. He was born on 8 January 1822 at Carlisle, the son of James Bough, a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker. He moved from Malta Terrace to 7 Jordan Bank, Edinburgh, where he…