HENDRIE, Robert (1839?-1873) — Edinburgh
Map engraver, who worked for John Bartholomew 2 (see BME 2011) in Brown Square.
Born in Midlothian about 1839, the son of John Hendrie (1790-1852), a dealer in china and glass, and his wife Margaret Nisbet (1806-1862), who had married in in 1832. Recorded as a journeyman map engraver on the 1861 census, living in Greenside with his widowed mother. He was mentioned as working for Bartholomew in an 1873 Poor Law Application made in Glasgow by his older brother Michael, but he had been admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Asylum 20 Apr 1872, died there aged thirty-four, and was buried in Canongate Cemetery 27 May 1873.
Greenside Row, Greenside, Edinburgh — 1861
3 Heriot Mount, Carnegie Street, Edinburgh — 1866-1867
8 Vittoria Place, Edinburgh — 1869
Census 1851-1861.