It had evidently rained all night + Ettrick was very big : but it was fair when I left in the car at 10 to 9 for Deuchar Mill : found Flora1 much easier. Made some calls coming back + then cycled to Shawpark2 and Broomhill (Graham + Morrison3) +c. Went to Upland4 to tea to meet Mrs Hilson (Alice Anderson5) and dined at Elmpark6 (Durnford7 + a man Collett8). Lovely sunset. Very pleasant.
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 Dr Muir had been attending Shawpark, Selkirk from time to time to see John Dun Boylan (1850-1924), a civil engineer, who had a heart attack on 11 March 1923.
3 These two are so far unidentified.
4 The 1921 Census recorded the occupants of Upland, Ettrick Road, Selkirk as Charlotte Alexander, aged 69, born Kirkhope, Selkirkshire, and a servant Alice Donaldson. Charlotte Ann Thynne Alexander née Mitchell (about 1853-1926) was the widow of Charles Alexander, solicitor.
5 Alice P Anderson, daughter of Alexander Anderson M.D., and Eliza Anderson née Gillespie, had married Archibald Hilson, surgeon in H.M. Indian Army, in 1869 at St John’s Episcopal Church, Jedburgh.
6 Elm Park, Selkirk, home of Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946).
7 Assume Norman Stanley M Durnford (1889-1965), businessman, of Stoke Bishop, Bristol, Mrs Mackintosh’s son-in-law, married to Agnes Watson Harper (1888-1976).
8 Collett is unidentified.
[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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