We have found that our Mitchell gggg grandparents, Robert Mitchell and Elizabeth Weir Mitchell owned a Pub in Gilmerton.  Their home included the both the pub and a grocery store, and was on what, at the time, was "Gilmerton" Highway?  We got this information from a newspaper article in the Edinburgh Advertiser referencing a court case(1821) in which Elizabeth Mitchell was asked to give a deposition to the court related to an attempted murder on the road near the pub.  The deposition mentions that Mrs. Mitchell's husband, was a cattle broker and a publican, and that Mrs Mitchell served a neighbor, William Tait, who came into the pub along with 2 men unknown to her.  She described the men as best she could, and said they both had rifles with them. One of the two men was subsequently charged with attempted murder. This story was the first we had heard that Robert Mitchell was a publican, and now have interest in knowing if the site still stands.  By the time of the 1841 census, Elizabeth Weir Mitchell is widowed and living in Edinburgh, so the pub was no longer in the family's possession (we suspect).  We posed the question to a Gilmerton site on the internet, and someone said that the pub now called "the Mechanic's Arms". was known in the 1950's as "Mitchell's Pub".   I don't know if the pub owned by Mitchell's in the 1820s would/could retain the name for about 125 years without Mitchell ownership, so I don't know if this is the pub they owned. Is there a way to find records of land ownership in Gilmerton in 1820, without having an actual address to research?  A complication of this is that we have been unable to find either the birth record or the death record of our Robert Mitchell.  We would think that if there were land owned, that there would be either a will, or some records of land transactions after his death.  We have been unsuccessful at finding anything like that.  We had always thought that he was a cattle broker, and never considered that there might be a death record that referred to him as a publican, so we will go through the potential death records again, looking for a Robert Mitchell with that occupation. Any and all suggestions welcomed! Mary Mitchell Guler and Tammy Mitchell Cape Coral, FL and Chilliwack, BC