Tag: 1839

Mrs Euphemia Turnbull lived at No. 7 from about 1839 to 1841. She was born Euphemia Mackie (c.1790) and was the widow of John Turnbull, a grocer in Rose Street, who died in 1821. In 1841 three of their children were living with her at No. 7, Agnes Turnbull (born in 1808), John Turnbull, a…

A Mrs Hogg was resident at No. 9 for about two years, 1839-1840. This was most almost certainly Margaret Phillips, widow of James Hogg, “the Ettrick Shepherd,” who was recorded in the 1841 census at 14 St Bernard’s Crescent. She was born c.1790, daughter of Peter Phillips (1749-1826), farmer in Longbridgemuir, Dumfriesshire. Margaret Phillips married…