There was a return of the Sou’ West gale today but with less rain than Friday. The young leaves were badly littered [?] + scattered. At night the wind was W. but less. It was too threatening to cycle but I did the Hospital + then motored to Ettrickbridgend + Dunsdale. Lizzie McLean1 informed she was better having been to Edinburgh to a bonesetter who had reduced the disloc. of her knee! David2 asked me to go to Newarkburn to see old Mrs Wallace3 + I motored there in afternoon. Went to evening service + supped at Wellwood.4 Charlie Herdman5 was there + old Harry Murray6 but he didn’t stay for supper.
1 Elizabeth Parkman ‘Lizzie’ McLean (1882-1933), a wheel winder at Edward Gardiner & Son, woollen manufacturer, living at 2 Dunsdale Cottages, Selkirk with her father William (about 1851-1924), aged 70, a Gaelic speaking stone-breaker [1921 Census].
2 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
3 Assume Agnes Wallace née Gray (about 1836-1930).
4 Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of Dr Muir’s daughter Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Muir later Roberts (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter, her husband John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner, and their children
5 Charles William ‘Charlie’ Herdman (1880-1956), Proprietor Occupier, Friarshaugh and Friarshall, Melrose [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011600033-/590, Roxburgh County, page 590 of 993].
6 Probably Lieutenant Colonel Henry Smith ‘Harry’ Murray (1858-1924), army officer, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, later a mining company director, of Glenmayne, Galashiels (but died at Hotel Gassion, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France).
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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