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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