Fair in forenoon but very wet at 2. Calm S.W. + N.E. [wind]. Was called up at 7 to see Nelly Johnstone, Clifton Road1 (And. Wright’s sister-in-law2). Then there was a ‘Phone to see Mr Mitchell, Ettrickbridgend.3 Saw Jim Adams4 (better) + motored to see Jane Bartie5 as I was afraid that the V.A.D.s or some of them thought i was paying for yesterday’s run. However she reassured me on that point. Went on to Ettrickbridgend + then out to Whitmuir where I called for Walt. Dunlop + saw his wife6 + Marion.7 Called for Nelly Johnstone + made all preparations for an early start tomorrow morning.
1 Helen ‘Nelly’ Johnstone (1879-), daughter of James Johnstone, tailor, and Jane Johnstone née Roberts, a tailor’s cutter, tenant occupier of a house at 6a Clifton Road, Selkirk, 1920 Valuation Roll.
2 Andrew Wright (1871-1955) had married, 31 December 1897, at Selkirk Manse, Isabella Johnstone. Andrew was the son of George Wright, water bailiff, and Catherine Wright née Henie; a journeyman tailor (at marriage) and a tailor’s cutter, of 6a Clifton Road, Selkirk (1920 VR).
3 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].
4 Jim Adams is so far unidentified.
5 Jane Hay Bartie (1876-), school teacher and sometime member of the Selkirkshire V.A.D. Born Edinburgh and recorded living with her sister Margaret Bartie at Ettrickhaugh House, Selkirk, in the 1921 Census.
6 Walter Dunlop (1871-1941), East India Merchant, son of Charles Walter Dunlop (1846-1922) and Edith Dunlop née Sugden (1846-1926). Walter had married Clementina Alderman in 1905.
7 Marion is so far 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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