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| DAISY TERRACE | Fancy, after the flower, e.c.b.c.1d. |
| DALGETY AVENUE ROAD STREET |
On property of the Earl of Moray, priorietor of Dalgcty near Donibristle. The lands of Restalrig, forfeited by Lord Balmerino, for his share in the '45 were bought in by his nephew, the Earl of Moray, 1755, j.r. |
| DALHOUSIE TERRACE | Sheer fancy, g.l.b. |
| DALKEITH ROAD | Leading to Dalkeith. The old, from St. Leonards by Cameron Bank, Petty France, and into the centre of the town. The new, from Minto St. by Liberton, Gilmerton and Eskbank. |
| DALKEITH STREET | The daughter of the first duke of Abercom, married the Earl of Dalkeith, later Duke of Buccleuch. On Abercorn ground. |
| DALMENY ROAD | After the seat of the Earl of Rosebery, statesman and author. |
| DALMENY STREET | As preceding. Former name Colston St., q.v. |
| DALRY ROAD | From Dalry Lane, D. 1827, leading to Dalry Manor House, the residence of the family of Chieslie, who acquired the property in the 16th century, the most famous of them being John Chieslic, who assassinated Sir George Lockhart, Lord President in 1689, and suffered death after torture. See o.& n.e. ii. 216 and i. 116. Dalry, gaelic, the King's Vale or Meadow. Dalry House, D. 1827. Barony of Dalry, Prot. 26/10/1530. Dalry Lane, Littlejohn Map. Wm. de Touris, Lord of Dalry, c.c. 23/2/1470-1. |
| DALRYMPLE CRESCENT | From Lady Anne Dalrymple, second daughter of the 9th Earl of Stair, alive in 1898, was mother of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., also then alive, superior of the Grange estate, St. G. 360. |
| DAMSIDE | Shown as Dean, from its position beside the mill dam or cauld. |
| DARNAWAY STREET | From Darno'way Castle, near Forres, seat of the Earl of Moray on whose ground the street is built, D.1827. |
| DARNELL ROAD | From the Rev. Mr. Darnell, founder of Cargilfield Boys' School-now removed to Barnton. Rev. Daniel Chas., West Darnell House and Schoolhouse in Trinity Road. v.r. 1884. TarnowayCastle, Elginshire, Edr. Almc. 1812, p.69. |
| DAVIE STREET | D.1827. John Davie, brewer in the Pleasance in 1699, o.e.c. i. 34. Chemical works founded by the late Mr. Davie in 1700, for sale, 21/3/1811, eec.js. House for sale, 20/1/1812, eec.js. Feu duties on the estate of the late Mr. Davie in Nicolson, Richmond and Davie Streets, for sale, 20/1/1812, eec.js., from Mr. Davie, chemist, on 'whose ground it was built, St. L. 48. John Davie Esq., Nicolson's St. p.w. 1780/81, 25. John Davie Esq. of Gavie Side, 25 Nicolson's St. Eastside, D.1800, 122. Davie's Ground, West Richmond St., m.t.c. 2/7/1817 Note 2. For John Davie (cousin and heir of Joseph Davie) brewer in Plisance, south croft of land at back of Crackling house, q.v. lying in the Plisance, and Deir enough, having lands of Earl of Roxburgh on the north: common road leading from the Back Row to the Crackling House, on the west. Vennel of St. Leonard's on east, J.H. Canong. Prot. 29/12/1701. John Davie and his wife Katherine Kilpatrick, land of North Croft. Pleasance: Duke of Roxburgh superior, 16/6/1773. Can. Chart. Said John D. indweller in Bristo, Can. Chart. 6/4/1801. John D., brewer, Pleasants, m.t.c. 20/9/1710 as heir to deceased Joseph D., wright in Pleasance, his cussine germane, croft of land at back of Crackling house, m.t.c. 10/12/1701, 27/9/1710. Precept of Clare Constat Johne Davie, brewer in Pleasants, a tenement there. Feuduty 4/- Scots. Entry 24/- Scots, m.t.c. 21/9/1694. Joseph Davie, wright in Pleasance invested as heir to his fr. in a south croft of land at back of Crackton House in the Pleasance or Deiraneuch. Land of Joseph Daves in Pleasants, 1748, w.o.l. vol ii. p.677, No.268. John Davie in Bristo, invest in houses and croft of land in Pleasance, disponed to him by using Mr. Robert Kerr of Brownlandis, m.t.c. 17/1/1649. Wm. Davie indweller in Pleasance and his wife. Isobell Mitchell, invest in thack house and yard, West end of Pleasance, disponed to them by A.W. Malloch, m.t.c. 28/4/1665. Wm. Davi Pleasance and wife Issobel Mitchell, invest in half of barn and yard, m.t.c. 21/7/1667. |
| DEAN LANE PATH STREET TERRACE DEAN BANK LANE TERRACE DEANHAUGH STREET DEAN PARK MEWS STREET DEAN VILLAGE |
From the Den, deans, or narrow valley of the Water of Leith. The haugh is the low lying flat ground by the river side. Common Mills of Dene, 1478. St. Giles 322, No. 91. Laing's Charters. Appx. lxix. |
| DELHAIG | From old house of the name and estate. See also further note-Part II |
| DENHAM GREEN AVENUE PLACE TERRACE |
Denholm, D.1827. House mentioned in Cal. Merc. 31/3/1831 Kirkwood, 1817. |
| DEWAR PLACE | James Dewar, grocer and mason. Tobago St., D. 1860, "near Edinburgh", m.t.c. 2/1/1828. |
| DICK PLACE | On the estate of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, of the Grange of St. Giles. |
| DICKSON STREET | Dickson's Nursery Garden, Kirkwood. D.1827/48. Dickson and their nursery, Leith Walk. m.t.c. 3/2/1790. See. D.1810. |
| DISTILLERY LANE | Evident. |
| DOCKGATES DOCK PLACE STREET |
From the Docks. |
| DOUGLAS TERRACE | After Bailie Robert Douglas, formerly head of James Gray and so ironmongers, George St. |
| DOUNE TERRACE | On the grounds of the Earl of Moray, whose heir enjoys the title Lord Doune, from Doune Castle. See Waverley,Chap. 38-39. Also the Ballad of the "Bonny Earl a' Moray". Downe Terrace, D. 1800, 3. |
| DOWNFIELD PLACE | Patrick Rigg of Downfield is mentioned, m.t.c. 24/11/1790, 27/11/1822. Jas. Home Rigg of Downfield, owner of property in Dalry, c.h.1. 466. |
| DRUM TERRACE | From the old mansion of Drum, o.& n.e.128. Ord. Surv. 185 Littlejohn map |
| DRUMDRYAN STREET | The "Yeards of Drumdryan" occurs in feu charter of 1687,o.e.c. Also in Charter of Sept. 1458. "Lands of Dyndryan", K.50. Dundryan in charter by Charles 11, r.c.g.9. House owned by late Home Rigg, for sale, 10/2/1794, eec.j.s. Drumdryan Lane, D.1827. Offered for sale, as newly built, 6/4/1774, eec.js. Apply to Dr. Spens, proprietor, Niddry's Wynd. Lands thereof owned by Chas. Mcdowall, m.t.c. 10/11/1790, 11/5/1808. "Brcwaric at Drumdryan" for sale 2A 4/2/1766. Lands of Drumdryan, m.t.c. 27/10/1835. Dr. Nathaniel Spence, original vasscl for Drumdryan Brewery, (site of King's Theatre), r.o.s. 2/9/1801. Arthur Straiton, piriwig maker invested in lands of Drumdryan, m.t.c. 9/2/1709. Robt. Gray, maltman, entered in aikers of Drumdryan and house thereof, purchased from Nix. John Watson: also house and yard, purchased from Thos. Gray, lying in Portsburgh, m.t.c. 23/5/1655. John Hamilton infest in half of the houses of Drumdryan apprysit from Wm. Miller as son & heir to umq. Wm. M. or as lawfully charged to enter heir to his umq. mother, Issobel Thomson, or umq. gude sire Robert Thomsone,m.t.c. 20/2/1650. Charter of confirmation to Thos. Caiderwood of annual rent of 220 mks. granted by Mr. John Watson and his wife Sara Logan, from eleven acres of Drumdryan, redeemable for 3600 mks., m.t.c. 21/12/1653. John Scott to cause mena the calseyis betwix the end of the West Port and Drumdryan Or Wrights house, the gentlemen adjacent thereto furnishing stone & sand, m.t.c. 10/6/1664. Jas. Gray s. & h. to Jas. Gray, mt. infest in lands of Drumdryan, High Riggs & Litelflatt, & tent. in Portsburgh,m.t.c. 20/10/1671. Clare Constat to Margaret, Elizabeth and Marion Grayes, daughters to umq. Walter Gray, mt. B., for rent upliftable from umq. Robt. Gray, mt. B.in Edinburgh, his lands in Hie rigs and Drumdryan, m.t.c. 30/12/1696. |
| DRUMMOND PLACE | From Provost George Drummond, whose house stood near the centre, where stood later Bellevue House, afterwards Excise Office. He was six times Provost, first in 1740. Born 1687, died 1766, m.t.c. 20/6/1804. The place was projected 4/2/1808, eec.js. Given in D. 1827. Ainslie 1804. |
| DRUMMOND STREET | From above Provost George Drummond, (behind the Royal Infirmary, his enterprise). Projected 27.11.1790. D.1827. Drummond St. and East Drummond St. Old name Back Wall. Ainslie 1780. Ainslie 1804. Drummond Street Court entered from Drummond St. Ord. Surv. 1852. Ainslie 1808. Unnamed. Lothian Map 1825. Do. |
| DRUMSHEUGH GARDENS PLACE |
From Drumsheugh House (from Meldrumsheugh estate. So named from owner). Fast of Queensferry Road. The house, occupied by the Earl of Murray, D. 1800, stood in the middle of Randolph Cres- cent, beside the rookery; it was demolished 1822, Stewart Chambers, Ainslie 1804. The road it marked Drumsheugh-(the house, Lord Moray).- As also in Lothians Map 1825. In 1827 Sir Patrick Walker, advocate, is residing in Drumsheugh, as also Mrs. Walker of Coates. In Lothian map an unnamed house, (Lord Colvilles, now W. Walker, Esq.) Ainslie 1804, appears, which in Ord. Surv. 1852 is named Drumsheuch House. After the death of Miss Walker in 1877 the ground was feued. House demolished 1877, o.& n.e. 1237. It had been bought and occupied at one time by Charles Erskine, or Areskine, Lord justice Clerk Tinwald, otherwise Alva, Trad. 1.231. The Hon. Andrew Erskine Dru msheugh, p.w. 1780/81, 31. The lands of Meldrumsheugh, or Drumsheugh, owned by the Earl of Moray 1814, t,.r.46. In Brown's "Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions in Greyfriars Churchyard 1867", p.80, the first of the Wall of Coates, and Drumsheuch sic semper was Rev. Geo. Walker, Episcopal minister of Old Meldrum, who died Dec. 1784. John Scott of Drumsheugh, m.t.c. 8/10/1680. Arable land on the south side of Water of Leith, opposite Dean Bank, at present posest by, Adam Forsyth, tenant in Drumsheugh, m.t.c. 21/2/1711. Piece of land on east side of calsay leading to the common milns, 161/2cl wide from the dyke x 251/2 clns long, and other ground up to the north side of the lang gaitt, feued by town to John Scott of Drumsheugh,, m.t.c. 28/5/1630. He disponed to Mr. John Achesone, m.t.c. 30/5/1682. Robert Vaus, his corn miln and wauk miln and lying in Drumsh, Barony of Bruchton, vol 1, p.603, 13/8/1506. Michael Allan Drumsheugh, late Dean of Gild 1691-2, m.t.c. 17/5/1700. Lanc Drumsheugh, feu form granted to the College by Charles 1, vol.3, p.375, 30/9/1641. |
| DRYDEN STREET | Intended to be called Reynold St., but Mr. John Balfour of Pilr, suggested Dryden, from the adjacent Rosslyn Crest. "Dryden's groves of oak". Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi, xxiii, ir. See also Dryden Gardens, Terrace-Part II |
| DUBLIN STREET LANE NEWS |
Compliment to Ireland, Arnot 1816 map. Kirkwood 1817. - Hibernia St. Ainslie 1804. m.t.c. 9/11/1803, 10/8/1803. Compare London and Scotland St. The original name that of the country; that fixed later, of the metropolis. Dublin St, m.t.c. 7/9/1803. Or Hibernia St. m.t.c. 24/11/1819. |
| DUDDINGSTON CRESCENT PARK ROAD |
From the neighbouring village of Duddingston, which derives its name not from the gaelic "sunny side of a hill", but from the family of Dodin, settled there in 11th century, Baird 5. See also Duddingston Avenue etc.-Part II. |
| DUKE STREET | D.1827. Probably from Duke of Buccleuch, and the Golf House, there being much interested, jr. He had a house here, j.r. |
| DUMBIEDYKES ROAD | "Dumbiedykes, selected as descriptive of the taciturn character imaginary owner is really the name of a house bordering on the Park, so called because the late Mr. Braidwood, an instructor of the deaf and dumb, resided there with his pupils. The situation of house is different from that assigned to the ideal mansion". N, Chap. VII of 'The Heart of Midlothian' Published 1818. Shown by Kirkwood, also Lothian map 1825, who marks the road Dumbie Dykes. "The dumbie dykes", m.t.c. 29/5/1822. "Small field known by name of Dumbie Dykes", owned by Fletcher of Saltoun,m.t.c. 28/3/1832. "T. Braidwood, teacher of dumb Leonard's hill",p.w.1880. Houses he won plan of (south) regality of Canongait of l8l3, Register House Hist. Dept, "Potts". Du Houses shown in Knox's map l824. Also in Kirkwood l8l7. A Hamilton 1827 |
| DUNBAR'S CLOSE | Ainslie. Kirkwood. Kerr. From the tenements lying on both sides of Dunbar's Close, belong to David Dunbar, writer in Edinburgh, and his wife Aznes Hui having the lands of the Earl of Panmuir on the east, Can. Char 8/12 /1773. |
| DUNCAN STREET | After Admiral Duncan, 1731-1804, Victor of Camperdown, 1797. Occupied No. 5 George Sq., D. 1800, 130, was a patient of Dr. Benjamin Bell, on whose ground the street is built. His sailors, who believed that he owed his life to Dr. Bell, shewed their gratitude when he arrived at Harwich, 1798, on tour, taking out the horses and dragging the carriage, B. Bell. He was publicly entertained in Edinburgh, m.t.c 17/1/1797. Street given in D. 1827. |
| DUNDAS STREET | Ainslie 1804. From Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, 1742-1811. M.P. for Midlothian 1774. Lord Advocate 1775. 1791 Home Secretary. As treasurer for the Navy he was accused in 1805 of malversation - acquitted, to the great and uproarious satisfaction of his friends, in particular Sir Walter Scott. Commemorated by Melville St. and Monument, m.t.c. 3/9/1806. 25/3/1807. |
| DUNDEE PLACE STREET TERRACE |
Compliment to the city of Dundee. |
| DUNDONALD STREET | Formerly Duncan St. after Admiral Duncan, victor at Camperdown, 1797. Ainslie 1804. Name changed towards the end of the 19th century to prevent confusion with Duncan St., Newington, and the name given of Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald, 1775-1860. Rear-admiral, "equal of the old Elizabethan adventurers". There are not far distant, Nelson St., Howe St., Rodney St., St. Vincent St. |
| DUNEDIN STREET | Compliment to the City of Edinburgh, the gaelic form of the name being Dun-Edin, the fort of Edwin. |
| DUNLOP'S COURT | Grassmarket. No. 46. D.1827. From Wm. Dunlop & Co., wine & spirit merchants, 44 Grassmarket, D. 1827. |
| DUNROBIN PLACE | Fancy. From the castle of the Duke of Sutherland, e.c.b.c.1d. |