OS1/11/105/177 | ScotlandsPlaces

List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
FEMALE SHELTER (Magdalene Asylum) [Grass Market]	Female Shelter	Miss Gray matron		[Situation] On the south side of the Grass Market This is a large house at the [south] of Gilmour's Close occupied [---] of refuge of females who [---]ating from the paths of virtue [---] a sincere desire of reformation [---] juvenile females who from [---]ent and other circumstances [---] danger to follow an evil [---] society is in existence about [---] for the first 5 years it was [---] The Scottish Ladies society [---] still principally supported by a committee of ladies. The [---] capable of accommodating [---] besides matrons who 4 in number [---] at present 39 inmates who are employed at [work] sewing &c. In the house there are 27 apartments. It is [---] by a chaplain the Revd [Reverend] George Veitch who attend every morning and [evening] to make prayer the inmates all go to church on Sundays.

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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