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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