Category: No 5

Mary Purvis lived at No. 5 from about 1848 to 1853. She was born Mary Brown in Charleston, South Carolina, c.1779, and was the widow of Burridge Purvis (1770-1816) of Glassmount. Burridge Purvis, a cotton trader, purchased Glassmount in 1808. He died at sea travelling back to Scotland in 1816. Mary Brown died in 1861….

John Steel, writer and clerk to the Jury Court, was resident at No. 5 from 1823[1] until his death there on 31 December 1846.[2] He was born at Lanark on 07 September 1774, son of Robert Steel and Jean Aiton.[3] Robert Steel, a writer in Lanark, died at No. 5 Malta Terrace, on 25 August…