John Edward Vernon, jeweller, watchmaker and optician, lived at No. 4 from 1865 to 1869. His business premises were at 54 Leith Street. He was born in Edinburgh in 1821, son of Thomas Vernon and Ann Elizabeth Harker, who were married at Hanover Square, London on 05 January 1806. Thomas Vernon was a lapidary. John…
Ann Anderson Thomson, John Edward Vernon’ sister-in-law, lived at No. 4 between 1865 and 1872. She was born in Edinburgh on 5 September 1819, daughter of Edward Thomson and Marion Laidlaw. Edward Thomson was Inspector of the Poor for Canongate parish. In the 1871 census, Ann Thomson was described as living on houses, dividends and…
Mrs J. F. Carmichael was listed at No. 3 from 1864 to 1868. This was Christina or Christian Brown Graham, widow of James Ferrier Carmichael. She was born about 1815, daughter of John Graham, a grocer in the Grassmarket, and Charlotte Brown. She married James Ferrier Carmichael at St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh on 6 July 1837….