51 Albany Street

1818 – 1845 William and Helen Pringle

Depute-Clerk of the Court of Session.

1845 – 1850 John and Catherine (neé Mackay) Brown

Physician and essayist

1850 – 1852 Robert William Fraser and Margaret (neé Buchanan) Fraser

Minister of the parish of Burntisland, Fife and writer

1852 – 1871 William and (second wife) Elizabeth (neé Wallace) Saunders

Solicitor (Society of the Supreme Courts of Scotland) Moved to Number 42

1872 – 1914 Apartments

These were managed by Mrs Cunningham. Three young ladies lived in one apartment and had their own lady maids.;Mrs Simpson, a landowner, had another apartment and her own ‘companion to do’: and Jeannie Young, a music lecturer, was the other lodger. In 1887, two sisters in their 30’s, Jane and Maggie Bardner, took over managing the apartments. At the 1901 census. living here were a typist, an army captain with his wife and daughter, and a Christian Science healer, Emily Mary Ramsay, author of Christian Science and its Discoverer.

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