42 Albany Street

1819 – 1846 James and Frances (neé Bruce) Dundas

Senior Accountant General of Excise for Scotland and a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland

1846 – 1849 Andrew Smith

Brewer

1849 – 1852 John Ogilvy and Catherine (neé Parker) Ogilvy

Accountant and a director of the Lancashire Insurance Company

1852 - 1871 Lodgings

These were run by two widows, firstly Jane Gow, and later Bertha Thompson. Lodgers included Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh and Florence (neé Penney) Fraser for Florence’s birth of a daughter; Corbet Catty for his weding; and , at the 1871 census, Ian Carmichael from Hawick, attending school; Thomas Smith, a bank clerk; Thomas Campbell and George Emerson, medical students; Alexander Neill, a young member of the army medical staff; Archibald Walker, a clerk; and three students of the arts, John McLean, Robert Russell and Robert Wilson.

1872 – 1886 William and Elizabeth (neé Wallace) Saunders

Solicitor (Society of the Supreme Courts of Scotland)

1887 – 1889 Major-General William Walker

Retired army officer (Bombay Grendariers)

1889 – 1892 Caroline Hebden

75 year old widow, no more known

1895 – 1950s Offices of James McLaren & Sons Limited

Tea Dealers and Shetland Warehousemen

[In the 1900s a number of tea dealers were based in the street]

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