Tag: 1848

George Plimer and Margaret M. T. Plimer were listed at No. 6 in the Electoral Registers from 1948 to 1955. George Plimer and Margaret Murray Thomson married at St Stephen’s parish church, Edinburgh on 27 December 1929. George Plimer was born in Edinburgh in 1904, son of Andrew Plimer, a jobbing mason, and Sarah Dunse….

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….