In the Scalan News: Chapter relating to : Leslie converts and religious
In 1859 Charlotte offered herself as a Sacred Heart nun at the Conflans novitiate house in France: Lady Lothian�s daughter Lady Cecil Kerr entered religion at the same time and the two were clothed together on 8 February 1860. The third daughter Mary became an Ursuline Sister at St Margaret�s convent, where she had attended school. Two Clapperton sisters from Fochabers belonged to this community. One of them, Sister Margaret Teresa, had been the first Scottish nun to enter a convent on home soil since the Reformation, when she was clothed on St Andrew�s Day 1840.
At Portobello the Leslies were introduced to the local priest, James Clapperton, who had previously been a professor at the Royal Scots College Valladolid. It was this native of Fochabers who took the Leslies on their first visit to St Margaret�s Convent in Edinburgh. The story of Eleanor Leslie�s conversion need not be described here. It follows much the same pattern as that of many hundreds who were received into the Church in the wake of the Oxford Movement within the Church of England, and who published their testimonies in a stream of books. Mrs Leslie�s influence on wellknown Scottish converts was considerable.
In a book on religion I found this:
The next event of interest was when the Diocesan Authorities bought an Episcopal Church in Brighton Place in Portobello in 1835. For nine years it was attended from Edinburgh on an irregular basis. On Low Sunday 27th April, 1844, this Church was formally opened under the Patronage of St John the Evangelist. Father James Clapperton was the first resident Priest, although he was not the first Priest to celebrate Mass in Portobello.