Raining still + the rivers bigger than yesterday. Barometer down to 28.38. It faired however about midday and the sun shone out but at night there was rain again. Dav.1 was at a confinement at Crosslee2 + asked me to see some town cases which I did in the car. Then I left at 1.20 + motored to Black Andro Cottage to see Jemima Storie’s kid3 at her sister Mrs Reid.4 Then I had a lovely walk to Fastheugh5 + saw Miss Hutchison.6 Met May Lang7 going there on my way back. Clark8 fitted my new lower denture which does not trouble my under lip quite so much as the old one.
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., Ch.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner.
2 Bertie Graham Gowans was born 27 October 1923 at Crosslee Cottages, Ettrick, the son of William Gowans, ploughman, and Alison Gowans née Dalgleish. The parents had married 8 December 1911 at Selkirk.
3 Joan Scott Storie, born 21 August 1923 at 30 Curror Street, Selkirk, the daughter of Jemima Storie, woollen darner.
4 Janet Reid née Storie, married 1904 at Selkirk to Walter Reid, woodman, and living at Black Andro, Selkirk.
5 Assume Elizabeth Hutchison (about 1832-), sister of Thomas Hutchison (about 1848-), estate manager, both recorded at Hangingshaw Cottage, 1921 Census, which must mean the inconsistency sits with the Census, because Dr Muir and the 1920s Valuation Rolls are consistent in linking Thomas Hutchison with Fastheugh. The property is at the west end of Black Andrew woods on the south side of the Yarrow Water, see Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet XI.NW, published 1900.
6 Margaret Graham ‘May’ Lang (1861-1958), daughter of Hugh Morris Lang and Margaret Lang née Graham; born Largs, Ayrshire, died Selkirk; a cyclist [see diary entry 13 May 1916], Miss Lang was Tenant Occupier of the mansion house, stable and grounds at Harewoodglen, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/326, Selkirk County, page 326 of 611].
7 Thomas Raeburn ‘T Raeburn’ Clark (1879-1943), dental surgeon, at 8 The Green, Selkirk, and of Ettrickbridge, 1920 Valuation Roll; married to Isabella Watson, he died, 9 July 1943, aged 63, at 153 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh, usual residence Elburn, Ettrickbridge.
[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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