OS1/11/135/8

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SHEPHERD HOUSE Shepherd House
Shepherd House
Mr Proudfoot
Dr [Doctor] Thomson
[situation] In the village of Inveresk.
A neat dwelling house with offices and garden attached, the property and residence of Dr [Doctor] Thomson.
WHITE HOUSE (Private Lunatic Asylum) Whitehouse
Whitehouse
White House
White House
White House
Mrs Thomson
Dr [Doctor] Thomson
Mr Bourhill
Mr Sandilands
Mr McCauseland
[situation] Adjacent to Shepherd House.
A large and Commodious dwelling house with offices and gardens attached. It is the property of Mrs Thomson and is fitted up as a private Lunatic Asylum, which is Conducted under her Superintendence The patients are chiefly of the upper classes, and average about 20 in number.

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Parish of Inveresk

25 - Shepherd House
26 - Whitehouse

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This Name Book refers to Musselburgh 1853 - Sheet 12
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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