Henrietta Hope Porter
A Memory of Guffogland.
Growing up I had a good friend and neighbour, who I knew as 'Miss Porter'. She inherited her house from her Uncle who (according to her comments to a young boy) used to be a footman to Queen Victoria and was the first owner of the newly built semi-detached cottage in Edinburgh near the Musselburgh border. The three semi-detached cottages built on the edge of the former Newhailes Estate all had house names -- Guffogland, Rose Cottage, Craigweir, etc to name a few.
The Guffogland name was Miss Henrietta Hope Porter's home named after her family farm/ area in Dumfries. Her final resting place is in the churchyard near to The Old Schoolhouse.
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