OS1/11/135/25
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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WHITE HOUSE (Private Lunatic Asylum) | Whitehouse | Mrs Thomson, Whitehouse Inveresk Dr [Doctor] Thomson, Shepherd House Inveresk |
A large and commodious dwelling house with offices and a large ornamental garden attached and at present used as a private Lunatic Asylum. It is the property of Mrs Thomson and is under her Superintendence The average number of patients is about twenty and are chiefly people of property. |
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[Page] 25List of Names collected by John McDiarmid
13. 5.
[Parish] Inveresk
[Signed] J McDiarmid 21st May 185[2]
Transcriber's notes
This Name Book refers to Musselburgh 1853 - Sheet 12OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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Bizzy- Moderator, JCB
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