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Anyone an expert on Cowgate, Edinburgh, late 19th
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Unknown | Report | 17 Feb 2006 15:51 |
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Google google google! Try Cowgate Edinburgh history and you can see if its still there by going to www.streetmap*co.uk replace * with . nell |
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Diane | Report | 17 Feb 2006 15:21 |
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My great-grandfather, Robert Marshall Smith, was born at the Victoria Lodging House, 115 Cowgate, Edinburgh in 1871. His two older brothers were born there too. His mother was Elizabeth Cameron and his father John Smith. John’s occupation was shown on their sons’ birth certificates as Superintendent Victoria Lodging House. I think that the Cowgate area of Edinburgh is now a very respectable area but I want to try to find out what it was like in the late 1800s. Was the job of superintendent a responsible job or would my g-g-grandfather have been a bit of bruiser to cope with all the itinerants and trouble-makers lodging there?! Is 115 Cowgate still standing? If so, maybe it’s a Starbucks these days…… |
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