A third consecutive dry day. Very pleasant with medium temp. Saw a few town cases cycling + Sund. Hall Lodge. Made out mileage to Velore1 for Durnford2 via Peebles + Colinton + via Carnwath. = 60 + 63. Took it + a map down to Elmpark3. Went to evening service with Dora4. Nancy, Barbara5 + Joan Robertson6 came to supper. David7 from home at Humbie + Edinburgh.
1 Velore, Muiravonside [Maddiston], Stirlingshire; presumably the Durnfords were travelling there to visit Agnes’ aunt (Mrs Mack’s sister) Henrietta Brown née Watson (1862-1944), daughter of Sir John Watson, baronet, and Agnes Watson née Simpson, who had married William Brown, banker in 1896 at Hamilton
2 Major Norman Stanley M Durnford (1889-1965), Army Service Corps, later a businessman of Stoke Bishop, Bristol, had married Agnes Watson Harper in July 1918 and was thus son-in-law to Mrs Mackintosh, formerly Harper née Watson (Mrs Mack)
3 Elm Park was the home of Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946)
4 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter
5 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter and Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Twhigg (1902-1996), his eldest granddaughter
6 Joan Robertson is not identified
7 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]
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