GOGAR PARK

Gogar Park House ©

All photographs from collection of Mrs. M. Day.

Two storey Villa early/mid 19th century (pre 1853) built to a gabled rambling plan.

Plaque on front wall reads Consulado Leith Edinburgo Portugal.

1841 Census

C. Muirhead (50)Printer,

Mary (35),

Margaret (11),

James (10),

Anne (9),

George (7),

Claud (5),

Ebeneezer? (4),

William (2).

1851 Census

House uninhabited.

1861 Census

House uninhabited.

1860 owned by Claude Muirhead.

1867 James McLaren, (map (dated 1867) in hallway of house shows a plan of the estate of the late Ian McLaren.

1871 Census

James McLaren (48) retired Merchant/Landowner,

Jane (45),

Jane (16),

Ellen (15),

Emily (12),

James (7).

1893 James Tait Black.

1898 James McKelvie of Gogar Park buys Hatton House.

1901 Thomas Carlile is in residence.

The family Tombstone is in Gogar Church Yard.

Sacred to the memory of Jane McNair Stephenson wife of Thomas Carlisle Gogar Park. Died thirty first May 1901, aged fifty-seven years. Also the said Thomas Carlile died thirteenth September 1916. Aged eighty-five years.

1905 A. Drybrough, Esq., (Brewer), donated the pulpit during the restoration of Corstorphine Church. It is designed after the Wycliffe pulpit at Lutterworth Church, and is richly carved in Riga Oak; it rests on a stone base, bearing the inscription, “Preach the Word”.

1930 Cross family.

A curling rink, which opened in 1979, is now built on the site of the house gardens.

The premises are currently subdivided into various offices.

2002 Property now owned by Royal Bank of Scotland.