1 Powburn, Edinburgh 1851

[sonofthom]

Can anyone tell me where the address 1 Powburn would have been, or does anyone have knowledge of what sort of properties would have been there?. This was a family address in the 1851 census and I would think that it is somewhere in the Newington area as there is a West Powburn there today. Alex.

[GR2]

If you look at the National Library of Scotland website, you will get free access to Edinburgh directories of the period which might help. Their maps website will also give you free access to old maps of the area.

[Hibee]

Powburn is towards the bottom right of this map of the period...

http://maps.nls.uk/townplans/view/?sid=74415536&mid=edinburgh1056_1_se

Hibee

[sonofthom]

Thanks GR2 and Hibee. That puts the address into a bit of context. Alex

[greensteam]

This thread has been really helpful. I am doing a wee bit of research into women who owned and managed quarries and Rebecca Hutchison (nee Pearson 1842-?) was such a woman. Her family lived in the Galloway Lodge, Powburn, handily shown on the map linked above. Without that link I would not have known how to find a map like that for such a specific place.
Her mother was widowed in the late 1860s and seems to have continued her late husband's stone contracting business until the children, Rebecca and David took it over. They ran the quarry at Ratho until at least the 1890s but I am not sure after that, although it finally closed in the 1920s.
If anyone here wants more about them just let me know.