It must have rained during the night for everything was wet + the rivers were down1 There was a little rain in the forenoon but it cleared up + was a lovely evening with clear sky. I breakfasted before 8 + got away by 8.45 in the car to Ettrickbridgend (Tom Mitchell2 = tobacco ?3) + Oakwoodmill4 walking town calls on way back. Message to Mrs Nimmo Smith’s child [at the] Haining.5 Was not out after lunch but after dinner went to Goslaw Green (Mrs Dav. Thomson6). Nancy7 called.
1 This is contradictory surely?
2 Assume Thomas Mitchell (1867-1937), master joiner, who was proprietor of the ‘tenants improvements gas engine’, ‘tenants erections’ and a hayshed at Ettrickbridgend, Kirkhope [1923 Valuation Rolls].
3 It is not clear what the second word says nor what the meaning of the phrase might be.
4 It is not obvious whom Dr Muir was visiting here.
5 It is not clear which Nimmo Smith child this might refer to but Austin Nimmo Smith (1886-1951), M.B., Ch.B., and his wife Muriel Alice Smith née Ackerley had three boys, Robert Hermann Nimmo Smith, Austin Ackerley Nimmo Smith and Richard Clement Nimmo Smith.
6 Frances Eliza Thomson née McBain, wife of David Thomson, condenser watcher for S.C.W.S. Woollen Manufacturers [1921 Census]. Both were aged 57 in the 1921 Census living at 9 Goslaw Green with their daughter Jeanie K Thomson, aged 21, who worked for Edward Gardiner. David and Frances were born at Alva (Clackmannanshire) and Selkirk respectively and had married in 1896 at Galashiels. Frances McBain’s father was James McBain, Superintendent of Police.
7 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
[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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