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 from 1881 to about 1887. He was born at Monimail, Fife on 22 December 1844, son of John Brown and Isabella Yule. He married Margaret Buttercase there on 15 August 1879, and their first child, Isabella Brown was born at Comely Bank, Edinburgh on 4 June…

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. He was born 20 December 1857, at Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, son of Robert Johnstone and Sophia Wilson. He attended Edinburgh Theological College, and was ordained in 1880. In 1882 he became…

Frederick Smith was listed in post office directories as resident at No. 3 from 1881 to 1890. Though his occupation was given as artist (oil colour) in the 1881 census, he was a school teacher before this and in 1882 he entered the Edinburgh Theological College. Fred Smith was born about 1847 at Cambridge. In…

Isabella Mcfarlan, widow of Walter McFarlan, lived at No. 7 with her family from about 1881 to 1892. The post office directories list her as Mrs McFarlan. She was born Isabella Barnet Aitchison, on 18 March 1849, daughter of James Aitchison and Jane Swan. Isabella Aitchison married Walter McFarlan on 27 September 1870, in Edinburgh,…