It was fair today but blowing strongly from S. It began to rain about 2 + continued all evening. I cycled round town + out to Buxton. At 5 had to go to Beechwood to see one of the nurses + it was raining heavily. I cycled. There at 8.15 I got a message for Mrs Archibald Johnston1 + walked down. Agnes Durnford + her baby2 arrived at Elmpark. Jack3 motored to Easter Lilliesleaf for eggs + they went on to Hawick + met Barbara4 who came home for Easter.
1 Assume the widow of Archibald Johnstone (about 1842-1914), bookseller, of 24 Market Place, Selkirk
2 Agnes Watson Durnford née Harper (1888-1976) and her baby son Stanley J H Durnford, born 9 March 1920 at 20 Melville Street, Edinburgh, son of Norman Stanley M Durnford, of Stoke Bishop, Bristol, managing director of a limited company, and Agnes Durnford
3 John Roberts junior ‘Jack’ (1876-1966), mill owner and Provost of Selkirk, later knighted “for political and public services in Selkirk”
4 Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Twhigg (1902-1996)
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/23, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1920]
