My great-great-grandmother, Georgina Gregory Paterson
Georgina Gregory Pender, born Paterson, came into the world in 1833 in South Leith, Midlothian. Her parents were Thomas, 27, and Janet, 24. She married William Pender on December 31, 1854, at St Cuthbert’s in Midlothian. Over the course of 19 years, they raised ten children together. Georgina died on November 1, 1905, in Edinburgh at the age of 72.
In 1841, Georgina lived in Merilees Close, Leith, with her parents, her brothers Andrew, Robert, and Thomas, and her baby sister Margaret. Decades later, in 1884, workers discovered a Bronze Age burial site in the same area. They discovered two female skeletons and a food vessel, which are now on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
At the age of 21 she married William Pender on 31 December 1854 in St. Cuthbert’s Church.
Georgina and William crossed the city to 53 High Street, one of Edinburgh’s oldest surviving residential buildings, located on the Royal Mile, adjacent to the more famous John Knox House. The tenement was built in 1477 and has hosted notable residents. Moubray House was originally part of a small group of medieval buildings. The property was subdivided several times and operated as a Temperance Hotel and lodgings for part of the nineteenth century, known as “John Knox’s Temperance Hotel” or “Netherbow Temperance Hotel”. This period coincides with the Penders’ move from Stockbridge.
This photograph, looking down the High Street, was taken around the end of the 19th century. The Netherbow Temperance can be seen on the left behind the Netherbow Wellhead.
After living in Fyffe’s Close and on Queen’s Terrace, as well as Carnegie Street and 6 Salisbury Street, where Georgina died on 1 November 1905.
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