Lovely morning + forenoon : very clear. Clouded in afternoon + a little rain. Message to Flora Hogg, Deuchar Mill.1 Cycled up. She has got measles from Sandy Ingles’ Kid at Kershope.2 After lunch message to Mrs Miller, Fairnilea.3 Cycled over + came back by Hospital +c. Mauldsheugh ‘Phoned that a Dr Brown4 was coming out to see Jim Buckham.5 I gave him a hurried bite of dinner at 7. David6 had nothing to do with it so my anger was appeased. All the Wellwood kids7(but Babs who is away in the Highlands8) came up to tell me about the picnic to Etal on Saturday. It was pouring when they went home between 8 + 9.
1 Flora is so far unidentified. The 1921 Census recorded the occupants of Deuchar Mill, Yarrow as Henry Hogg, farmer, aged 75, his wife Christina, 62, and the children Adam, 40, Neil, 30, Elizabeth, 32, daughter-in-law Ada, 35, and granddaughter Jean, 4.
2 Sandy Ingles’ child is so far unidentified.
3 Peter Miller was Inhabitant Occupier at Robin’s Nest Cottage, Fairnilee, Caddonfoot parish, but he does not appear to have been recorded there in the 1921 Census.
4 Dr Brown is unidentified.
5 This presumably refers to James Buckham (1859-1924), recorded in the 1921 Census at 8 Ettrick Road, aged 60, born Kelso, a warehouseman for George Roberts & Co. Married to Margaret Moffat, who was suffering from pernicious anaemia.
6 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
7 The rest of Dr Muir’s grandchildren, the ‘Wellwooders’, were 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), children of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966) and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948).
8 Andrina Barbara Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), Dr Muir’s eldest grandchild, had an adventurous spirit and evidently enjoyed travelling. Dr Muir has previously recorded he in Paris, New Zealand and Australia.
[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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