12 Albany Street

1809 – 1825 Major David Roberston

Retired army officer

1825 – 1828 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander and Margaret Loraine

Retired army officer

1828 – 1836 Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Bowes

Army officer

1836 – 1846 Mrs Martha Bruce

Widow of James Bruce, Secretary of Excise

1846 – 1848 Catherine Hathorn (neé Maxwell)

Widow of Hugh Hathorn of Castlewigg, estate owner at Castle of Wigg, Whithorn

1848 – 1858 Robert Graham and his four sisters

Owner of Simpson & Graham, silver-platers and saddlers’ ironmongers

1857 – 1869 William and Jane (neé Massiah) and second wife Janet (neé Rankin) Ivory

Advocate

1869 – 1871 Barbara Cheyne and John Cheyne

Widow of Henry Cheyne, Solicitor, and son John, Advocate

1871 – 1884 William R Skinner

Solicitor (Society of the Supreme Courts of Scotland)

1885 – 1887 James Russell

Proprietor of John Matcher & Son, wine merchants

1887 – 1892 William Darling Lyell

Advocate

1893 – 1907 Lodgings

Run by Mrs Ellen Hunter Tait and her sister, Margaret Wilson

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