Dull, windy : cold : glass falling steadily + a little rain. Cycled to Wellwood1 (Miss Wallace2 who has her sister with her3), Bridgeheugh Mill +c. + up to Tinnis (Robt Brockie4). Message after lunch to Walt. Mein, Curling.5 Motored to Whitmuirhall. Walter had an attack of shingles. Got some mushrooms. Operation for append. on Jas. Cochrane6 at 5.30. David7 tells me the [name left blank] Bridgepark8 have asked him to attend again.
1 Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk, home of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and their children Andrina Barbara Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), 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)..
2 Miss Wallace was Jane Wallace (1874-), sometime nurse to the Roberts children, Dr Muir’s grandchildren [see diary entries for 6 April 1915, 22 October 1916 and 7 April 1918 and 1911 Census]. She was born at Langbarns, Tongland, Kirkcudbrightshire. Neither Jane Wallace nor the Roberts family appear on the 1921 Census. The Editor’s suspicion is that a section of Ettrick Terrace has been missed off that Census transcript by ScotlandsPeople, because the Roberts family, in Selkirk at this time for the Common Riding (see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 17 June 1921, two days before Census night), has not been documented. However, the 1921 Census was delayed and by Sunday 19 June when it was finally taken, a good many people were on the move and as a result finding specific individuals in that year’s Census has proved challenging for researchers.
3 Assume Mary Wallace (1872-), Jame Wallace’s only sister, born 21 May 1872 at Langbarns, Tongland, Kirkcudbright, daughter of Robert Wallace and Jane Wallace née Sproat married 4 July 1871 at Borgue, Kirkcudbright.
4 Robert Brockie (1865-1930), ploughman, lived with his brother Thomas Brockie (1860-1929), woodman, at Tinnis Cottage, Yarrow, both born Fastheugh, Selkirk, the sons of John Brockie, shepherd, and Mary Brockie née Boa, married 1860 at Stow.
5 Walter Mein (1905-), born Billerwell, Hobkirk, the son of James Mein and Margaret ‘Maggie’ Mein nee Barrie, married 1898 at Denholm. James Mein was Tenant / Occupier of the Farm and House at Curling, Bowden, Roxburghshire in the 1922 Valuation Roll.
6 James Cochrane is so far unidentified.
7 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
8 There are two names, Mann and Russell, recorded at properties at Bridge Park, Old Bridge Road, Selkirk at around this time but without a name it is impossible to know which Dr David Graham is referring to.
[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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