A dull day with wind first N.W. + then N.E.E. [sic]. Made four calls + went to morning service. Meeting of Session to decide where we are to worship while the church is being painted for 5 to 7 weeks. We fixed on Victoria Hall. I wasn’t out again except at night to post some papers. I luxuriated in Salmon steaks for breakfast + dinner + some of the finest grapes I have ever tasted, all from the M.C.1 Barbara2 called. She is going to New Zealand in Oct.
1 M.C. is ‘Magic Cave’ as Dr Muir had previously – though not recently as far as the Editor can recall – named Elm Park, Selkirk, the home of Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946).
2 Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), daughter of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir. Listed as Miss A B Roberts of Wellwood, Selkirk, N.B., she travelled 1st Class en route for New Zealand departing 13 October 1923 on the Orient Line’s Clyde-built R.M.S. Ormonde from London to Sydney (the Editor has not identified her onward journey Sydney to New Zealand) via Colombo, Fremantle, Melbourne and finally Brisbane [source: UK and Ireland, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for A B Roberts, London, 1923, Oct]. Barbara later married in New Zealand but in case readers worry that Dr Muir would never see his eldest granddaughter again she came home at least once afterwards, in 1929, when she returned to New Zealand, sailing 8 November 1929 from Southampton to Wellington on Shaw Savill & Albion Line’s R.M.S. Mataroa.
[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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