40 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Braid.
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Lodge, and Canaan Lane. By some, the origin of
these names has been attributed to Puritan times ;
by others to gipsies, when the southern side of the
Muir was open and unenclosed.
In the secluded house of Millbank, westward of
Canaan Lane, there occurred, on the 26th of
September, 1820, a marriage which made some
noise at the time-that of ? Alexander Ivanovitch,
Sultan Katte Ghery Krim Gery, to Anne, fourth
daughter of Tames Neilson, Esq., of Millbank,? as
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for education. There he married, Dr. Lyall visited
him in 1822, and describes him and his sultana as
living in the greatest happiness. According to
Mr. Spencer, he had not succeeded in 1836 in
making a single convert.?
He was dead before 1855, when his mother
was living near the field of Alma. He had a son in
the Russian army, and a daughter who became ladyin-
waiting to the wife of the Grand Duke Constantine.
Mrs. Neilson was alive in 1826, as her
BRAID COTTAGES, 1850. (Fmm 1 Drawiwh Williom C&nnm?&-, in th# #OSEGSJ~UU of D+./. A. Sidey.)
it is announced in the Edinburgh papers for that
year.
According to a writer in ? Notes and Queries,?
in 1855, this personage-the Sultan of the Crimeahad
fled from his own country in consequence of his
religion, and was being educated in Edinburgh, at the
expense of the ?Emperor Alexander of Russia, with
a view to his returning as a Christian missionary,
?? and his wife was hardly ever known by any other
appellation than that of Sultana.?
A portion of this story is further corroborated by
?Clarke?s Travels.? ? It is here (Simpheropol)
that Katti Gheri Krim Gheri resides. Having
become acquainted with the Scotch missionaries at
Carass, in the Caucasus, he was sent to Edinburgh
name occurs in the Directory for that year as resident
at ? Millbank, Canaan,? Morningside,
Sn aged thorn-tree, that overhung the road
leading to Braid, was long a feature in the view
south of Morningside. At this tree, on the 25th
of January, 1815, two Irish criminals, named Kelly
and O?Neil (who had been convicted of different
acts of robbery, under circumstances of great
brutality), were hanged before a great multitude.
They were brought hither from the Tolbooth to
the limits of the City jurisdiction by the high
constable, and handed over to the sheriff clerk
for execution. They are said to have been buried
by the wayside, near the old thorn-tree.
The range of pastoral hills named Braid bound
