Tag: 1907

Peter Kelly, a house painter, lived at 7 St Bernard’s Row between 1907 and 1916. He was born in Edinburgh about 1848, the son of Henrietta Kelly who was the daughter of a building contractor. He appears to have been raised by his grandmother, Mary Kelly, and was recorded in her household at 17 Allan…

Mrs Janet Meikleham occupied No. 5 between 1907 and 1913. She was the widow of William Meikleham, a sugar broker, who died at the age of 45 on 07 July 1890. Janet Currie Beggam was born at Lochranza, Bute on 28 July 1858, daughter of shoemaker Daniel Beggam and his wife Mary Kerr. She married…