8 Albany Street

1808 – 1817 Edward Earl

Chairman of Board of Customs

1818 – 1827 Colonel James and Lady Dorothea (neé Cuffe) Campbell

Army officer

1827 – 1846 Walter Jollie and Hannah (neé Avarice) Jollie

Solicitor (Writer to the Signet)

1847 - 49 Catherine Ross (neé Hume)

Widow of Dr Adolphus Ross, Physician and the daughter of David Hume, a Scottish judge

1850 – 1854 Robert Rhind

Insurance agent

1854 – 1859 Miss Brown

Nothing traced.

1860 – 1871 Lodgings

These were run by Sophie Donaldson, a widow with time three infant children. The lodgers at the 1861 census were Fergus Carstairs, a landed proprietor, and his wife Anna and his sister; and Elizabeth Rof and her young nephew Alexander. Another lodger was Major Dawson lodging here with his pregnant wife, whose baby was born in the house.

1871 – 1872 George Alexander and Julia (neé Anderson) Ballard

Retired member of Madras Civil Service

1873 W. B. Neilson

Partner in the brewers, Macnair and Company

1874 – 1888 James and Lucy (neé Wood) Wallace

Advocate

1889 – 1895 Robert Lindsay and Isabella (neé Paterson) Lindsay

Solicitor (Writer to the Signet)

1897 – 1902 Alexander Taylor

Advocate

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