The Leith branch of the Levy family

In 1849 Andrew and Elisabeth Levy's elder son David (a tailor like his father) married Agnes Wight, daughter of the innkeeper of Moreham. After having 3 children, Andrew (1849), Mary (1852) and Elizabeth (1856) in East Linton, they moved to Leith, where Jemima (1860) and Margaret (1862) were born.

The family moved home quite often, starting in a tenement on The Shore in 1860, soon moving to Broad Wynd, then Primrose Street, before settling down in a home of their own in Bonnington Road. Elizabeth and Margaret became shop assistants, Jemima became a dressmaker.

Andrew became a stationer, and married Elizabeth Russell in 1874. They moved to 8 Noble Place, and had 5 children: David (1878), Lillias (1880), Oliver (1882), Andrew (1885) and William (1887).
The eldest son David followed his father, becoming a manufacturing stationer. He married Elizabeth Ramsay in 1901. He and his parents and siblings disappeared from the Scottish records at this point, presumably having emigrated.

Mary married Albert Manson, a grocer who had moved to Leith from Caithness. They had 2 daughters, Agnes (1877) and Mary (1886). Mary died of lymphadenoma soon after the birth of Mary junior. Albert's sister Mary came from Caithness to live with the family at 7 Noble Place - next door to Andrew's family. His youngest brother Charles came too.

Meanwhile, another family had moved to Leith - Robert & Elizabeth Hutchison from Papa Westray, Orkney brought their family to live in Portland Terrace.

Two Hutchison brothers married two Levy sisters:

Elizabeth married John Hutchison, draper, in 1883. They lived in Gibson Street, and had Agnes (1886), Robert (1888), David (1890), Eliza (1891) and Andrew (1895). Later they moved to Elliot Street. After John's death, Eliza supported her family as a vest maker.

Margaret married Robert Hutchison, cooper, in 1886. They lived in Henderson Street and had Mary (1890), Jemima (1892), Agnes (1895), Alice (1897) and Robert (1900). Later they moved to Kirkliston.

In 1894, the last sister Jemima married Albert's brother Charles, a factory manager. Jemima was by then a sucessful dressmaker, running her own business and employing assistants. They lived in Cambridge Gardens and had Joseph (1895), Edith (1897) and David (1899).

David died in 1895 at the age of 70, but Agnes lived on until 1909, at the age of 81. She and her older sister Margaret lived with Charles and Jemima.

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