Category: No 5

Mrs Purvis of Glassmount lived at No. 5 from about 1849 to 1852. She was the widow of Burridge Purvis of Glassmount, a cotton trader, who died at sea in 1816 while returning to Scotland from South Carolina. She was born Mary Brown about 1779, in Charleston, South Carolina, and was known as ‘Polly Brown’,…

John Steel, writer and clerk to the Jury Court, was resident at No. 5 from 1823 until his death there on 31 December 1846. He was born at Lanark on 07 September 1774, son of Robert Steel and Jean Aiton. Robert Steel, a writer in Lanark, died at No. 5 Malta Terrace, on 25 August…