A most perfect day: calm, sunny + mild. Cycled to Faldonside, returning by Hospital, Mill Street, Ettrickhaugh Road, Yarrow Terrace + Kirkwynd. Phyllis D. [Dees1] i.s.q. [but very lethargic]. David went down at night. Hounds at Riddell2. Mrs Mack3 hired a car + took Helen + Ailie4 to the meet with Mitchell5 as a guide. They saw a good deal of the hunt. Timmy6 was in at the death + got the brush. Somers [?] “blooded” him7.
1 Phyllis Mary ‘Fiff’ Dees (1899-1920), daughter of Robert Irwin Dees (1872-1923) and Edith Mary Boileau Dees née Henderson, the new (1920) tenants at Faldonside; she had been involved in a car accident near Berrybush while travelling between the Gordon Arms and Tushielaw
2 Riddell, Lilliesleaf
3 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk
4 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and Ailie Brack Boyd Wilson or Boyd-Wilson, later Ailie Brack Boyd Wilson Milne (1890-1955)
5 Assume Alexander Mitchell (fl.1920), chauffeur, “Inhabitant Occupier, not rated” at Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, John Roberts junior, manufacturer, Proprietor [1920 Valuation Roll]
6 George Edward ‘Tim’ Roberts (1911-2005), Dr Muir’s grandson
7 The Editor speculates that this is Dr Muir’s misspelling of Summers; the Huntsman of the Duke of Buccleuch’s Hunt from 1902 to 1948 being George Summers The History of the Buccleuch Hunt
[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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