Tag: 1881

Robert Graham Cochrane lived at No. 1 between 1881 and 1884. In 1885, he was recorded as a proprietor. He was secretary at the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company, whose Edinburgh office was at 10 North St David Street. Robert G Cochrane was born on 16 May 1848 at Covington, Lanarkshire, son of farmer John Cochrane…

George Brown, a law clerk, lived at No. 1 between 1881 and 1887. He was born at Monimail, Fife on 22 December 1844, son of John Brown and Isabella Yule. He was employed by Messrs. Dundas and Wilson, a legal firm with offices at 16 Charlotte Square. He was an elder in the Free Church…

Robert Cuthbert Johnstone and his family were recorded at No. 2 in the census of 1881, when he was chaplain at Holy Trinity, Episcopal Church. By February 1882 he was living at 37 St Bernard’s Crescent. He was born 20 December 1857, at Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, son of Robert Johnstone and Sophia Wilson. In 1879 his…

Frederick Smith and his family lived at No. 3 between 1881 and 1891. Frederick Smith was born at Cambridge in October 1845, son of Charles Amos Smith and his wife Elizabeth Chapman. He was a schoolmaster in Cambridge, recorded there in the 1871 census, before taking up a post at Dollar Academy. Shortly after moving…

Isabella Macfarlan, widow of Walter MacFarlan, lived at No. 7 with her family from about 1881 to 1892. The post office directories listed her as Mrs MacFarlan. She was born Isabella Burnett Aitchison, on 18 March 1849, daughter of James Aitchison and Jane Swan. The widowed Jane Swan or Aitchison lived at No. 5 between…