Rained heavily most of the day. Rob Wallace1 too [sic] Amy2 + Helen3 to Farnham where they met a family from Portsmouth and were shown over the Castle. They came back to lunch. I wrote Dora.4 Did my packing : said goodbye to Logie5 next door. Had lunch with Mary6 then tea. Frank Muir7 arrived + drove Helen, Bob + me to the station where I [we8] got the 5.59 to Waterloo + the 9.15 from St Pancras to Galashiels.
1 There was a reference to Wallace as a medic in Dr Muir’s diary entry for 25 July 1923 which points to his being Robert William Lessel (or Leslie) Wallace (1881-1930), M.C., M.B., Ch.B., M.D., medical practitioner, born Turriff, Aberdeenshire, studied George Watson’s College and Edinburgh University, in medical practice at Woking, Surrey in 1923 [sources include: UK Medical Register, 1923].
2 Amy Kathleen Waldie (1889-1960), James Wallace’s niece who lived at Scotstoun, Haslemere, Surrey [see for example the 1911 England Census for Scotstoun].
3 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and housekeeper.
4 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, was living and working in Egypt.
5 Logie Elizabeth Whiteway (about 1877-1956), wife of William Edward ‘Willie’ Muir (1872-1948), Dr Muir’s brother nephew. They lived at Rowallan, Haslemere, next door to Scotstoun where Dr Muir and Helen were staying.
6 Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-1933), Dr Muir’s sister, widow of James Wallace (d.1922), and living at Scotstoune, Haslemere, Surrey.
7 Francis ‘Frank’ Muir (1877-1972), electrical engineer and managing director, the son of Gavin Struthers Muir (1846-1927), presbyterian minister, and Helen Drysdale Muir née Wilson, thus Dr Muir’s nephew.
8 It seems that Helen stayed on at Haslemere, see Dr Muir’s diary for 31 July 2023.
[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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