Very pleasant day S.W. instead of S.E. + not sultry. A few drops of rain about 3. Saw 4 cases walking + went to morning service. Mr Davidson1 preaching : didn’t hear him well. Wrote Mary2 + the Secretary at Portsmouth3 re dinner tickets. Called at Thornfield4 for Jim Roberts + Emma + saw their son (aet 18) + daughter aet 14).5 Mrs Mack6 + Barbara7 came to supper.
1 Mr Davidson is so far unidentified.
2 Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-?1933), widowed in 1922, who Dr Muir was going to see during his and Helen’s forthcoming holiday..
3 It seems that Dr Muir had a plan to attend some sort of dinner of the British Medical Association (BMA) when he was at Portsmouth as part of his holiday.
4 Thornfield, 25 Scott’s Place, Selkirk was the home of Charles Henry ‘Charlie’ Roberts (1877-1954), tweed manufacturer and brother of both John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Dr Muir’s son-in-law, and James Alexander ‘Jim’ Roberts (above).
5 James Alexander ‘Jim’ Roberts (1879-1948), his wife Catherine Emily ‘Emma’ Downes (1884-1949) and their children John Edward Downes Roberts (1906–1985) and Dorothy Violet Roberts, later MacMillan (1909–),
A California Passenger List of 1929 gives a detailed description of Dorothy: Scottish, aged 20, single, birth 1909 at Dunedin, complexion dark, eye colour blue, hair dark brown, height 5 feet 3 inches [California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957].
6 Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk.
7 Andrina Barbara Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), Dr Muir’s eldest grandchild.
[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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