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From: Andrew Forman <>
Subject: RE: [EDB] Questions about Edinburgh
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:23:53 +0100


Why don't you try http://www.streetmap.co.uk/.
If you enter the postal address under "Street" (Though it may not recognise
the no.{73}), you will get a streetmap AND probably (in a City Centre
situation) an aerial photo. As Judy Olsen says York Place exists and there
will probably be an aerial photo.
Andrew Forman
Royal Oak Yard, Skipton, BD23 1NP
+44 1756 701501



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From:Sandra Ellis [SMTP:]
Sent:08 August 2002 17:30
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Subject:[EDB] Questions about Edinburgh

Could someone please give me some information about Edinburgh?

The people I believe to be my ggg-grandparents lived at No. 73 East
Crosscauseway and No. 2 Bread Street when they married in 1832. I believe
my gggg-grandparents lived on York Place in 1802. Have these places been
destroyed and rebuilt over the years or possibly renovated and retain their
history of the period?

The records of the 1833 marriage say it was preformed by "the Reverend
James
Scott, Minister of the Relief Congregation, Bread Street". Is this
different than the St. Cuthbert's Parish Church were the record was
recorded? If so, does this place still exist?

I would love to know something about these areas of Edinburgh and the
people
that lived there. I know that when my gg-grandfather came to the United
States, he was living in a seaman's boarding house according to the 1860
NYC
census. This boarding house and the Church he married in (1861) were both
located in an area of NYC that was know to be where Irish immigrants lived
and there were a lot of tenement houses in that area. (My mind's eye
envisions poor, substandard, crowded housing!) Somehow when I think of
Scotland and with a name like Shepherd, I think of stone walls, thatched
roofs, green fields, and sheep grazing in the countryside---a much more
tranquil setting than I'm sure it was!

Thanks for any help!

Sandy Sheppard Ellis

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