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File 1

Documents found at the Scottish Records Office

1.1

1911

Document 685 / 2 237 Birth

Bertha Eliza Cunnison

b. 25 March 1911 05.30 a.m.

32 Pitt Street, Edinburgh

Father: John Cunnison (cabman)

Mother: Isabella Cunnison m.s. Clark

m. 16 July 1897, Edinburgh

1.2

1897

Document 685 / 5 327 Marriage

17 July 1897

4 Parkside Terrace, Edinburgh

John Cunnison (slater) bachelor

Age 26

? Close, Canongate

b. 08 September 1869, Edinburgh

Father: John Cunnison (shoemaker)

Mother: Mary Cunnison m.s. Hume

Isabella Clark (domestic servant) spinster

Age 23

? Close, Canongate

b. 17 July 1897, Edinburgh

Father: George Clark (engineer)

Mother: Isabella Clark m.s. Dunn (deceased)

Witnesses: Wm. Ramsay / Lizzie McDonald

Holy Sutherland BD.

Old Kirk Parish

1.3

1869

Document 685 / 3 1042 Birth

John Cunnison

b. 08 September 1869, 10.25 a.m.

38 New Street, Edinburgh

Father: John Cunnison (shoemaker)

(b. 1829, Muirton; d. 25 December, 1901, Edinburgh)

Mother: Mary Cunnison m.s. Hume (b. 1829, Spitalfields)

1.4

1871

Document 685(3) 75 Census

38 New Street, Canongate

Number of children at school: 3

Rooms with 1 or more windows: 2

John Cunnison (Head of family) (married) 42 years (shoemaker) b. Muirton

Mary (Hume) wife 42 years b. Spitalfields

Mary daughter single 19 (envelope maker) b. Blairgowrie

James son 13 (message boy) b. Edinburgh

Jean daughter 10 (scholar) b. Edinburgh

Margaret daughter 8 (scholar) b. Blairgowrie

Thomas son 6 (scholar) b. Blairgowrie

Ann daughter 3 b. Edinburgh

John son 1 b. Edinburgh