Christian Learmonth
Scottish milliner and shopkeeper
Christian Learmonth (1718 – 1762) was a Scottish milliner and shopkeeper in Edinburgh. Her life is known because of a court case over her will. She left her estate to her lodger and her sisters disputed this.
Life
Learmonth was baptised in 1718. Her mother was Christian Livingston from Parkhall near Falkirk and she died whilst she was a child. Her father was John Learmonth. She was the only girl in a family of five until her father remarried and she gained three half-sisters and a stepmother; Anne Crawford.
Her millinery business was in Lyons Court and she lived nearby in Carrubber's Close off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. One of her lodgers in Lyons Court was Lady Charlotte Gordon whose father was the second Duke of Gordon. Learmonth's business was assisted by £200 supplied by Lady Gordon and when Learmonth died on 12 August 1762 she left her movable goods to Gordon.
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