still need to find out which of the staff were working at the house in colinton known to my family as Clermiston house and correlate this list with any lists held in any work/poorhouses around Edinburghs, districts; please help, I think that at the very least my grt grandfathers' mother deserves a place on my families tree, if nothing else but to be noted as his birth mother,and to unravel the story about him being taken in by those that became his family. e.g. margaret anne laing and William laidlaw a cab driver in colinton.
