26 Albany Street

1900- 1902 Elizabeth, Emma and Alice Webster

The Websters were three fifty-year old unmarried sisters, and in the 1901 census they had two boarders staying in the house.

1904 – 1912 Edith McQueen

Nothing traced, except Edith died around 1916.

1914 - 1939 Robertsons

Initially, Marion and Jane Robertson lived here and also ran their dressmaking business having a workroom and salon in part of the house. In 1916 their parents Robert and Margaret (neé Ford) Robertson came to live here as well. Robert was retired, having previously worked for J. Muirhead Builders, and died the year they moved here, aged 76.

In 1922, Jane, married Alexander Laing and moved away. In 1925, Marion married Alexander Cunningham, and he came to live with here in the house. Sadly, three years later Marion died. Alexander lived on the house with his mother-in-law until her death in 1933 and he moved away or died in 1938.

1939 Maisie Connoway (nee Fraser)

In November 1939, Maimie Connoway who was living at Number 26, heard that her husband, Thomas was one of crew who died when the air-craft carrier, Courageous, was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. He was one of over 500 Royal Navy crewmen to die.

1939 – 1946 A. Herd

Nothing traced.

1950s Boarding House

Mid 1960s – (at least) 1979 John Dansken and Purdie

A firm of Chartered Quantity Surveyors. The firm began in Glasgow, and then, under the leadership of James Fyfe, who had joined the firm as an apprentice in the late 1930s and risen to become a partner and then Chairman, the firm expanded to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Liverpool. Fyfe became the chairman of the quantity surveyors' committee of the Scottish branch of Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and, in 1976, the president of the Quantity Divisional Council of RICS in London. The firm continues today.