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Dalrymple Crescent a Snapshot of Victorian Edinburgh DALRYMPLE CRESCENT A SNAPSHOT OF VICTORIAN EDINBURGH Joanne Lamb ABOUT THE BOOK A cross-section of life in Edinburgh in the 19th century: This book focuses on a street - Dalrymple Crescent - during that fascinating time. Built in the middle of the 19th century, in this one street came to live eminent men in the field of medicine, science and academia, prosperous merchants and lawyers, The Church, which played such a dominant role in lives of the Victorians, was also well represented. Here were large families and single bachelors, marriages, births and deaths, and tragedies - including murder and bankruptcy. Some residents were drawn to the capital by its booming prosperity from all parts of Scotland, while others reflected the Scottish Diaspora. This book tells the story of the building of the Crescent, and of the people who lived there; and puts it in the context of Edinburgh in the latter half of the 19th century COPYRIGHT First published in 2011 by T & J LAMB, 9 Dalrymple Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 2NU www.dcedin.co.uk This digital edition published in 2020 Text copyright © Joanne Lamb 2011 Foreword copyright © Lord Cullen 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form without the express written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-9566713-0-1 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Designed and typeset by Mark Blackadder The publisher acknowledges a grant from THE GRANGE ASSOCIATION towards the publication of this book THIS DIGITAL EDITION Ten years ago I was completing the printed version of this book. This year I sold the last copy. So when it was suggested that I produced a digital version, I decided to look into the matter. In the intervening years I have gathered more information about the families of Dalrymple Crescent, but I took the decision to reproduce the text exactly, apart from one or two glaring mistakes. This also means that the Afterword describes the resources available ten years ago; today more exist, but many have changed format, or are no longer there. The family trees of the residents of the Crescent can currently be found on my website www.dcedin.co.uk , and I am in the process of transferring the information to www.wikitree.com. In the meantime, I would like to thank the many people who contributed making a sucess of the digital version of the book, and of the ongoing project. They include Jean Ayler, Andrea Edgar, Judy Fillion, Barbara Hindle, Ken Moore, Anne Parkhill, Mike Taylor and Richenda Wakefield. FOREWORD BY THE RT HON LORD CULLEN OF WHITEKIRK KT Seen from the perspective of the passing centuries, the history of Dalrymple Crescent is short, certainly by comparison with that of the historic Grange of St Giles and Grange Loan, its ancient thoroughfare, where once upon a time highwaymen lurked and Bonnie Prince Charlie was welcomed as he entered Edinburgh. However, much has been going on during the life of the street. This book tells the story of each house and its inhabitants. It provides a fascinating social history of those who lived and worked in this part of the Grange when it was being developed in the latter part of the nineteenth century. For them and so many others, as you will discover from its pages, the Grange was their home for most of their lives. This book contains a mine of information and should be of interest not only to those who live in the street, such as myself, but also to those who live further afield. Joanne Lamb is to be congratulated on her assiduous research and the imaginative way in which she has used it in creating this account. CULLEN OF WHITEKIRK DEDICATION To Dorothy, who linked the past with the present TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE BOOK COPYRIGHT THIS DIGITAL EDITION PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART 1: BUILDING DALRYMPLE CRESCENT Chapter 1: Dalrymple Crescent in context Chapter 2: The feuing of Dalrymple Crescent PART 2: LIVING IN DALRYMPLE Chapter 3: The North side Chapter 4: The Southeast Chapter 5: the Southwest Chapter 6: The families Chapter 7: A Servant’s Lot PART 3: LIFE IN VICTORIAN TIMES Chapter 8: Life in the 1860s Chapter 9: Life in the 1870s Chapter 11: Life in the 1890s Chapter 12: Snapshots of Victorian Edinburgh AFTERWORD BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY OF ARCHITECTURAL TERMS PRINCIPAL PEOPLE IN DALRYMPLE CRESCENT NOTES PREFACE Although this is a book about Victorian Edinburgh, it is very much a product of the 21st century. It would not have been possible without the digitisation of official records, and the availability of information on the World Wide Web. I have, of course, also used traditional written material, and a bibliography is given at the end of the book. Electronic sources are divided into two: the general ones, which are described below, and particular ones, which are cited in the notes for each chapter. The general sources are: 1. The official records come mainly from Scotland’s People.[1] These include wills, births, marriage and deaths from both Old Parish Records, and Statuary Records, and census records from 1841 to 1901. 2. A supplementary source is the International Genealogical Index of the Church of the Latter Day Saints site,[2] which gives information on births marriages and deaths from the whole world, but is supplied by volunteers and so is incomplete. It also gives information on the 1881 census from England and Wales, Canada and the USA. 3. Edinburgh City Library [3] provided census data for the city, and also the Post Office Directories for the period. 4. The National Archive of Scotland [4] provided the Sasine records, and also Valuation Rolls for the city. The field books for the Inland Revenue survey of 1912 are also held in the National Archive. 5. The Scotsman Archive [5] provided information from advertisements, announcements, articles and letters. 6. English births, marriages and deaths have come from FreeBMD,[6] a project which is transcribing the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales. 7. Unless otherwise stated, more general information has come from Wikipedia [7]. A few words must be said about one particular source: the Inland Revenue survey of 1912. This provided the most contemporary description of the houses in Dalrymple Crescent, but the material is not easy to work with. The National Archive of Scotland holds the field books of the surveyors who carried out the work. Luckily, for Dalrymple Crescent, only two surveyors were used, and their handwriting was quite neat. Nevertheless they used shorthand notation, and Scottish architectural terms, which were not easy to interpret. To help the reader, I have provided a short glossary of architectural terms, with references to more authoritative websites and books. I have also included a list of the names of the principal people associated with Dalrymple Crescent. A book like this cannot be written without the help of very many people. First I would like to thank Anja Ansel and Andrew McPherson for encouraging my first faltering attempts to write up what I had discovered. Later, I received invaluable professional advice from Malcolm Cant, and support in my search for a sponsor from Hil Williamson of Edinburgh City Library, and David Hicks of the Edinburgh World Heritage. I cannot thank these people enough for helping me to see this project through. Special thanks of course go to the Grange Association who have so generously supported the book, and to Tony Reeves who pointed me in the right direction. My friends and neighbours in Dalrymple Crescent have all been enthusiastic about the project, and I thank them for supplying such useful information. I would particularly like to thank Douglas Cullen, Adam Forsyth, Karine MacIver and Bert Robertson. In collecting the data, I have had help from all over the world. Here I must mention Professor John Sheets in America, Anne Stewart and her relatives in Canada, and Andrew Carnon and his relatives in Australia. Closer to home I must thank William Mearns and Robert Bartholomew. The official bodies have also been very supportive. I must particularly acknowledge Edinburgh City Library, the Dictionary of Scottish Architects, the British Geological Survey, the National Archive of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland, the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, The Scotsman Publications and Scotland’s People. Publishing a book has been a new venture for me, so I must give special thanks to those who helped me through the process: to Gillian Cloke, Mark Blackadder and Derek Auld. Last but not least, my husband Terry, my greatest supporter and my greatest critic. Without his help, this book would never have been published. DALRYMPLE CRESCENT EDINBURGH OCTOBER 2010 INTRODUCTION When we moved into Dalrymple Crescent in 2006, I was intrigued by the information on the seller’s schedule which stated that the house had been built circa 1862 by a builder named Samuel Hunter ‘along with numbers 7 and 8’ and that ‘Hunter’s daughter was in fact the first occupant’. I started to investigate the history, and was spurred on by receiving the original title deeds from our solicitors, since the deeds were no longer required for legal purposes. What I found was so intriguing that I decided to investigate the whole of Dalrymple Crescent, from its creation in 1862 up to 1901. I drew mainly on the abstract of the Register of Sasines,[1] which recorded the buying and selling of property, and also the census records for the four decades: 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901. This information gave such a fascinating glimpse of the people living here in Victorian times that I decided to follow up some of the stories; and this book is the result.
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