A dull but pleasant day. Roads very dusty. W. [wind] David came back this morning looking very well. He has had a splendid time. Motored to South Port + Ettrick Shaws returning to Muthag Street + Hospital. Dav.1 came up at 6.30 + we talked over the work. Supped at Wellwood.2 Jack3 is going to Mrs Steel’s funeral at Inverness on Tuesday4 + has offered to motor me there. I might stay with the Hayes.5
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Wellwooders, sometimes Wellwoods, see also Muir “John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and their children Andrina Barbara Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), John Stewart ‘Jock’ Roberts (1904-1950), Louisa Jane Roberts, later Rutherford (1906-1982), Stewart Muir ‘Little Stewart’ Roberts (1908-2003) and George Edward ‘Tim’ Roberts (1911-2005).
3 John Roberts junior ‘Jack’ (1876-1966), mill owner and Dr Muir’s son-in-law.
4 Mrs Steel is unidentified but does not appear to refer to a member of the Strang Steel family.
5 James Hayes (1865-1939), retired medical practitioner and Jessie Geddes Thomson Hayes née Muir (1860-1930), daughter of Alexander Muir and thus Dr Muir’s niece. In the 1921 Census the couple were recorded at Craig Gowan, Duthil [Carr Bridge], Inverness-shire and the Valuation Rolls corroborate this [1921 Census 096/B1 4/ 1, page 1 of 6 and 1922 Valuation Roll, VR010300042-/1041, Inverness County, page 1041 of 1327].
[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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