I think you mean Chalmer's Buildings, which is still there, despite the frantic office development round it in recent years. It is basically a tenement block but of a slightly unusual layout. It sits at right angles to the main street and the doors are reached by a path. The main door flats have front gardens. I dont think there is any space to speak of at the rear (unlike your normal 'back green' and the back of the building faces onto the Scottish Widow office complex. It is more or less opposite Tollcross Primary School. I wonder if there is a connection to the Rev Thomas Chalmers - the history of the local chapels is a tangled one but I think the congregation that ended up at the Barclay Church had a mission or chapel in the immediate area. Its not far from Grove St anyway. Judy On 28 Aug 2008, at 13:13, Janice Doughty wrote: > Hello David, > > Was the address at 86 Grove Street a private residence, or was it a > hospital? > > 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 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. > > Thank you for your reply, I very much appreciate it. > > Regards, > Janice > Belrose - Sydney > Australia > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Millan" <dmmon.messageboards@ntlworld.com> > To: <sct-edinburgh@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:21 PM > Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] BROWN & MILNE FAMILIES OF EDINBURGH > > >> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:56:15 +1000, you wrote: >> >>> Good afternoon Listers, >>> >> >> [snip] >>> this time was living at 86 Grove Street, Edinburgh and at a guess >>> this may >> [snip] >> >> This is of absolutely no help to you but I know the address. In >> fact 2 >> people in my tree by the name of Moncur were born there in 1920 & >> 1922 >> & another one died there in 1982. >> >> One idea might be to check the passenger lists for Canada then Census >> records, then postings on Canadian genealogy messageboards >> -- >> >> David >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SCT-EDINBURGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

The top pic on this page shows Chalmers Buildings. Tollcross School is in the foreground on the right. On the left is the Napier Students Residence and Scottish Widows is the behemoth in the background. http://www.henniker.org.uk/html/fountainbridge.htm Here is a pic of the whole building http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-127-806- C&PHPSESSID=cfe928f64 Judy On 28 Aug 2008, at 13:24, judy olsen wrote: > I think you mean Chalmer's Buildings, which is still there, despite > the frantic office development round it in recent years. > > It is basically a tenement block but of a slightly unusual layout. It > sits at right angles to the main street and the doors are reached by > a path. The main door flats have front gardens. I dont think there is > any space to speak of at the rear (unlike your normal 'back green' > and the back of the building faces onto the Scottish Widow office > complex. It is more or less opposite Tollcross Primary School. > > I wonder if there is a connection to the Rev Thomas Chalmers - the > history of the local chapels is a tangled one but I think the > congregation that ended up at the Barclay Church had a mission or > chapel in the immediate area. > > Its not far from Grove St anyway. > > > > Judy > > > > > > > On 28 Aug 2008, at 13:13, Janice Doughty wrote: > >> Hello David, >> >> Was the address at 86 Grove Street a private residence, or was it a >> hospital? >> >> 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 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. >> >> Thank you for your reply, I very much appreciate it. >> >> Regards, >> Janice >> Belrose - Sydney >> Australia >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Millan" <dmmon.messageboards@ntlworld.com> >> To: <sct-edinburgh@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:21 PM >> Subject: Re: [SCT-EDINBURGH] BROWN & MILNE FAMILIES OF EDINBURGH >> >> >>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:56:15 +1000, you wrote: >>> >>>> Good afternoon Listers, >>>> >>> >>> [snip] >>>> this time was living at 86 Grove Street, Edinburgh and at a guess >>>> this may >>> [snip] >>> >>> This is of absolutely no help to you but I know the address. In >>> fact 2 >>> people in my tree by the name of Moncur were born there in 1920 & >>> 1922 >>> & another one died there in 1982. >>> >>> One idea might be to check the passenger lists for Canada then >>> Census >>> records, then postings on Canadian genealogy messageboards >>> -- >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> SCT-EDINBURGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-EDINBURGH- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message