Victoria Lodging House, West Port, Edinburgh

The Victoria Lodging House (later known as the Victoria Hostel)
West Port
Edinburgh

The Victoria Lodging House was run by the Rodger family at 85 West Port from the late 1860s until at least 1912.

The lodging house was owned by a charity and provided low cost accomodation for working men, and was run by William and Margaret Rodger with Margaret's mother Isabella Grosset, and later with assistance from their children from the Rodger and Anderson families.

Their son James Richardson Rodger was my great grandfather. His first wife was Margaret Wright, the daughter of Matthew Wright and Mary Bruce Wright of Greenock, and the sister of William Bruce Wright (chemist), Matthew Wright and John Wright.

James Richardson had several children: the two children from his first marriage were William Rodger and Mary Bruce Rodger (my grandmother, who married Frank John Carnell); and the children from his second marriage were James Richardson Rodger (who I believe was an officer or captain in the Ben Line merchant navy, possibly on the Benlawers or Benvannoch, and may have later lived in Kirkcaldy), David Crichton Rodger (died as a child), June Sheila Rodger (married James Lind of Glasgow) and Nancy Mercer Crichton Rodger (married James Alexander Swan of Kirkcaldy). I would love to hear any news of my Scottish relatives.

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