A dry, cold day : good harvest [?] day. Some sun in forenoon but dull after. N.W. [wind]. There was This was the October holiday + there was to have been a cycle club run to Crosslee + Tibbies1 but at 10.30 when I went to the post there was no one at Mungo Park.2 I didn’t intend going but cycled to Faldonside to see Ailie’s vaccination3 + then went on via Darnick + Bowden Moor to Eastfield to ask for Robert Ballantyne.4 Saw Jack5 golfing. Was not out after lunch. Wrote Barbara.6
1 Crosslee, Ettrick, grid reference NGR NT306,185, and Tibbie Shiels, Yarrow, NT241,205.
2 At the Mungo Park Memorial at the junction of High Street and Back Row, Selkirk.
3 Dr Muir had vaccinated Ailie Brack Boyd Wilson or Boyd-Wilson, later Milne (1890-1955), at Faldonside on 1 October 1923.
4 Robert Ballantyne (1905-), born Ashkirk, son of Arthur Ballantyne and Violet Ballantyne née Wilson. The family lived at Eastfield, Bowden, just south of the Selkirk – St Boswells road [1921 Census] and on 13 August 1923 Mrs Ballantyne and Robert had presented themselves at evening consultation in some sort of difficulty.
5 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner and Provost of Selkirk, and Dr Muir’s son-in-law. There may be a hint of disapproval here because Jack’s wife Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter, had only very recently been diagnosed with Graves Disease.
6 Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Thwigg (1902-1996), daughter of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir. Aged 21 she had left on 4 October 1923 for what turned out to be a new life in New Zealand.
[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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