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From: "bernie" <>
Subject: RE: [EDB] FIGES/ LAKE look up request
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:45:53 +0100
In-Reply-To: <s0d2a538.024@curia.eu.int>


Thanks Alan, for finding this - with both the "l" and the "t" crossed in the
original document, I was fooled into thinking the street was Catton. I need
lessons in reading old documents!

However it seems as if Samuel and Adelaide Lake were no longer there in
1851. Being in the theatre business in those days probably meant that they
didn't live in one place for any sensible length of time, but it does make
searching one's roots very difficult.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with my query

Regards, Bernie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Baillie [mailto:]
> Sent: 18 June 2004 07:18
> To:
> Subject: Re: [EDB] FIGES/ LAKE look up request
>
> Greetings to Bernie, John and all from cool cloudy Luxembourg.
>
> I think "Calton Street" would be more likely. It comprised a row of
> west-facing houses on the east side of the junction between Low Calton
> and Leith Street, to the north of where Calton Hill, or High Calton,
> turned off, though in 1847 it is also given as an alternative name for
> Low Calton, of which it was a continuation. It was also very close to
> the then Theatre Royal, on the site which was later to become the GPO.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
> >>> "JOHN STEVENSON" <> 06/17/04 12:27 >>>
> >
> > I would be very grateful if someone would look up the following
> > people in the 1841 and 1851 censi;
> >
> > Samuel LAKE was living in 6 Catton Street, Edinburgh in 1849 at the
> > time of his marriage to Adelaide Sarah FIGES. Perhaps they were
> still
> > there in 1851? (Adelaide would then be Adelaide LAKE)
>
> Good morning Bernie,
> I have a 1851/2 Edinburgh P.O.Directory on my shelves and can find no
> mention of a CATTON STREET or a Samuel Lake.
> Stuart Harris's "The Place Names of Edinburgh" has no reference to
> this
> street.
>
> Regards.
> John.
>
> ______________________________


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