Hi All Cannot agree more with Jim Polson. Only wish the Edinburgh Poor Records were as available as those in Glasgow. My great grandmother threw herself in the Clyde. My great grand father tried to save her but both drowned orphaning my grandfather and his brother. There are two articles in the Evening Times of the day. I knew about this from early childhood. Before scotlandspeople came on line I had to trawl through rolls of microfilm on the LDS records to find their death certificates. One helpful clue was my grandfather's middle name, Brown. Poor Law Relief was applied for these poor boys. The amount of information I got from these records is amazing and gave clues for further searches. Although poor law relief was granted they did eventually obtain a small inheritance from their father's wee business, as my mother put it. My grandfather lived to 84. I knew him well. He was a lovely man and had a long and happy marriage to my grandmother. Ella Ross Sydney