Dull day with a fine rain in the morning+ some sunshine after. Very pleasant temperature. Two operations at Viewfield = Mrs Kennaway1 Colostomy and Mrs Malkin2 Curetting. Saw some town cases. The D’Arcys from Haslemere3 who are staying at Clovenfords called. Very nice couple : sent them in the car to Yarrowford to walk over Minchmoor.4 Cycled to Lauriston, Bridge Street, Buccleuch Road, Pinegrove + Wellwood. Helen5 was over at Gala.
1 Assume Sarah Paterson Kennaway née Murray (1878-1927), widow, living with her daughter Jane Graham Kennaway (1913-) and mother Jane Murray née Graham (about 1847-).
Sarah’s husband Alexander Kennaway (1879-1914), Private, Service No. 7514, 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, died 21 October 1914 and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium.
2 Jeannie Clark Malkin née Christie, who had a baby in 1921, had been ‘under the doctor’ for a while. She was recorded at Viewfield nursing home in the 1921 Census while her husband Joseph, a motor engineer, and their children Jeannie May (1917-), Cyril J Leslie (1920-) and Frank (1921-) were at Linglie View, Selkirk.
3 The D’Arcys are so far unidentified (and may in fact be from Easebourne, Midhurst, West Sussex, see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 17 July 1923) but the connection is presumably that some of Dr Muir’s family did live at Haslemere, Surrey, where he and Helen were going on their forthcoming holiday.
4 The high point of the Minch Moor (at grid reference NGR NT358,330) is in a direct line between Yarrowford and Traquair.
5 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
[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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