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image copyright Rachel Windsor
A carter was the equivalent of a delivery man. Edinburgh had a complicated licensing system for carters, with several demands, one of which being that carters were never allowed to refuse business. This stone remembers John Paterson, a carter of Leith, who is buried in South Leith Parish graveyard.
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