Jane Walker

Mrs James Walker occupied No. 4 from 1832 to 1837. This was probably the same Mrs James Walker listed at 29 St Bernard’s Crescent from 1837 to 1841. She was Jane Somerville, who married James Walker, a farmer, at Athelstaneford, East Lothian on 21 October 1828. She was widowed before 1841. Jane Somerville was born…

The Ewart family

The first occupants of No. 3 Malta Terrace were Peter Ewart and his widowed mother, Jane Lundie. Mrs P Ewart was listed there from 1832 to 1835, and Peter Ewart, accountant, was listed in 1834-35. Jane Lundie was the widow of Peter Ewart of Rosefield, Dumfriesshire, a former surgeon in the Honourable East India Company,…

James Mackay

James Mackay, a merchant and commission agent, lived at No. 7 between 1832 and 1839. In 1833, his business premises moved from 10 Hunter Square to 23 Waterloo Place, and then to 13 North Bridge in 1835.