Thirty years after the construction of Nos. 3 to 9 Malta Terrace, the two unbuilt plots at the western end of the street were advertised for sale in July 1863.1 Nos. 1 and 2 Malta Terrace were built on these plots before 1870. The builder was John Hill. The first occupants of No. 2 appear to have been Mrs Margaret Burn and her family.
Initially, the house was a single dwelling with 6 rooms with windows.2 It was still one property in 19053 but by 1911 the basement flat No. 2a was recorded as a separate dwelling. The 1921 census records two dwellings each with three windowed rooms.
- Margaret Burn
- William Napier Dick
- Robert C Johnstone
- George Storrar Brown
- Elizabeth Nicol
- Mrs Elizabeth Urquhart
- Stuart Lunn
- Daniel Gunn
- Alexander W. D. McGregor
- John Young
- John Campbell
- Thomas Anderson
- Alison Linklater-Betley
References
- Advertisements. The Scotsman. 25 July 1863. p. 5, col. 4. https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk: accessed 29 September 2023.
- Census records. Scotland. St George, Edinburgh. 02 April 1871. BURN, Margaret B. (Head). 685/1 88/ 09. Ancestry collection ‘1871 Scotland Census.’ https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 28 February 2024.
- Valuation Roll.