On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:13:41 +1000, you wrote: >Hello David, > >Was the address at 86 Grove Street a private residence, or was it a >hospital? It was certainly not a hospital. I was born & brought up in Fountainbridge, just opposite the junction with Grove Street but I left Edinburgh in 1971 so my memory of the numbering is a bit vague. However looking at: http://www.heraldhousehotel.co.uk/ which is 70 - 72 and now a hotel [In my time it was a working mans hostel - I wonder if the current customers know that] and <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_en-GBGB239GB239&um=1&q=clan+house+edinburgh&fb=1&cid=0,0,7464369642096597344&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image> which is No 92 just on the junction with Fountainbridge. If I looked out of our window to the left that is the building that we saw. Based on the location of these 2 buildings I can say with certainty that 86 was a tenement, typical of the area - ie down the market. On the ground floor was a sub post office run by Freddie Glidden. In his younger days he played for the Heart Of Midlothian - see <http://www.heartsfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/HallofFameDetail/0,,10289~835112,00.html> > >Ann Milne Brown's grandson, Bob was able to obtain a copy of Ann's birth >certificate and she was born at 6 Chalmer's Building in Edinburgh on 28th My >1885. I carried out a Google and found this on the Chalmer's Building:- The >Chalmers Building, Fountainbridge Edinburgh, at a guess I suppose it was >apartments. I knew the buildings well. Now an isolated island in the middle of new buildings towering above it, see, http://www.neilsons.co.uk/property/property.asp?id=3249 and <http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-127-806-C&PHPSESSID=cfe928f64> Funnily enough I know a George Brown currently living in Chalmers Buildings >I have joined The Ship List, and the same suggestions regarding searching >for Ann embarking on a ship for Canada, however if was informed that many >young ladies were leaving for the US and Canada from Glasgow and also >Liverpool as Domestics, the Lister advised me that she could not find an Ann >Brown leaving from around 1910, nor on the 1911 Census. However, and idea >has come to mind that maybe Ann married in Edinburgh and sailed to Canada >with her new husband, she may have been in Canada for the 1911 Census, but >not under the name Brown. Have you looked for your people on the scotlandspeople web site? -- David