Dull morning: slates + pavements wet but it turned out a very fine day. Message to Mrs Henry1, Middlestead which Dav. [Graham] did on his way to Thirlestane. I saw 3 town cases + then motored with Tom Alexander2 to Faldonside, Bogle House, Caddonfoot (Mrs Stenhouse3) + on to Manor Water Sanatorium4 where I saw Rob. Scott5 + Peggy Lockie6. The Matron showed me round the place. We lunched by the side of the Manor Water + came home via Cademuir + the right side of [the River] Tweed. Had a confinement at night: Mrs James Turnbull, Ettrick Terrace7.
1 Peter Henry, ploughman, was Inhabitant Occupier of a house at Middlestead, Selkirk, 1920 Valuation Roll; his (second) wife was Agnes D Craik (1892-1972), a domestic servant at Costerton, Crichton, Midlothian when they married on 30 April 1919 at the Lawson Memorial Free Church Manse
2 Tom Alexander has appeared in the diaries before but is otherwise unidentified
3 Thomas Stenhouse (c.1865-1929) and his first wife Christina Boa Stenhouse née Brown (1871-1926) lived at Allanlea, Caddonfoot, Selkirkshire, 1920 Valuation Roll
4 Manor Valley Sanatorium, Caverhill, Manor, Peeblesshire
5 Not identified
6 Margaret ‘Peggy’ Lockie (1903-1921), daughter of Walter Lockie and Margaret Lockie née Scott, a power loom weaver, of Forest Road, Selkirk, she died of pulmonary tuberculosis, aged 17, death certified by J S Muir M.B.
7 Philip Reilly Turnbull (1920-1981), son of James Turnbull and Maggie Reilly, born 8 September 1920 at Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk; his parents had married 1906 at Hawick
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/23, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1920]
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