South Lodge Kirknewton

[MonicaL]

Hi Clare 

Still a struggle isn't it 

I have been running through it all again in the last day or so. Cannot get any further clues so far. I have found family units in 1921 with a James, father and daughters Elizabeth and Agnes, but so far the occupation for the Jameses is all wrong. I even found a marriage for a James Anderson to a Maggie Douglas Wilson in Edinburgh in 1900...but he was a solicitor!

The only new piece of info I have found so far is that following the death of Kenneth Wick Anderson not long after his birth in 1929, brother William died too, aged 3 months. Cause of death given as congenital birth desease. He died in Colinton. I can't make out the address. Elizabeth showing here as a domestic servant, normally resident at South Lodge, Kirknewton. A Violet S McKenzie was the informant to baby William's death. She shows as 'occupier', a term used which normally simply means she lived at the address where the death took place.

Monica

[Forfarian]

I can't make out the address.

Can you post it here?

IIRC the Edinburgh Combination Poorhouse was at Craiglockhart, which is in the parish of Colinton.

[MonicaL]

Address from baby William's death registration below:

[Rosinish]

Monica,

It's Comiston Road although the 1st part is beyond me?
It may be 144...

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/creepy-abandoned-edinburgh-lodge-hid-23166406

Annie

[MonicaL]

Thanks, Annie 

As Forfarian also mentioned earlier, does look to have a connection to Edinburgh Combination Poorhouse (hospital facilities?).

Monica

[Forfarian]

See https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=55.91822&lon=-3.22178&layers=168&b=1&marker=NaN,NaN - there aren't many buildings that far out on Comiston Road. It's entirely possible that 144 Comiston Road was the street address of the whole complex, not just the gate lodge.

BTW this is not the City Hospital at Craiglockhart to which I referred the other day.

[Rosinish]

Clare,

Have you tried the LEEDS Method on your DNA matches to narrow down matches on your g/mother's maternal side as her mother may have married/had more children & Elizabeth the same?

It's best you google The Leeds Method as there are so many different things to read through (plus videos) based on different peoples' experiences, who they're trying to find & how best to do it.

Annie