Same dry clear frosty weather. It was extraordinary to see the cars [?] raising clouds of dust. Message to Faldonside as I thought for Jessie B1. but it turned out to be for Kate Duff2. I motored down + then out to Whitmuirhall + Whitmuir to distribute communion cards to Mrs Hunter3 + a girl Dodds4 domestic at Whitmuirhall, the Halls5 + the Harvey’s6 at Whitmuir. Spent a lot of time taking swabs from the Borthwick family7 + sending them away. Kennedy8 is now sending them to Edinburgh. Helen9 cycled to Melrose. I wrote Barbara10.
1 Jessie Milne Brack Boyd (1867-1961), of Faldonside, plantswoman and gardener
2 Kate Duff is not identified
3 Mrs Hunter is not identified
4 Dodds is not identified
5 William Hall, dairyman, was Inhabitant Occupier not rated at Whitmuir [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/333, Selkirk County, page 333 of 611]
6 John Lawson Harvey, ploughman, was Inhabitant Occupier not rated at Whitmuir [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/333, Selkirk County, page 333 of 611]
7 The Borthwick family is not (yet) identified though there is a number of entries of that name in the 1921 Valuation Roll
8 Kennedy is not identified
9 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper
10 Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Twhigg (1902-1996), Dr Muir’s granddaughter
[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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