Thaw more decided + there was one heavy shower of rain. The river was very full + discoloured. The glass [barometer] however was rising + at the the sky was clear. I motored to Ettrickbridgend (Mrs Mitchell1), Hyndhope (John Anderson2) + Oakwoodmill (Agnes Barton3). Saw a few town cases before + after. Did not get to Church but did a good deal of clerical work. Barometer : 28.52 28.73 Wind : S. + S. W.
1 Jane Ross Mitchell née Little (1865-), wife of Thomas Mitchell, joiner, married 1894 at Pettinain, South Lanarkshire but recorded at Glebe View, Ettrick Bridge, Kirkhope in the 1921 Census.
2 John Anderson (about 1862-), born Roberton, Roxburghshire, farm manager at Shepherd’s Cottage, Hyndhope, Kirkhope, had been widowed in June 1923 with the death of Christina Anderson née Nichol (1877-1923).
3 Agnes Turnbull Barton (1896-1965), daughter of Andrew Barton, farmer, and Rebecca or Rebekah Monti Garden Barton née Grant (1867-1932) who had married June 1892 at the Burgh of Stirling. Agnes was born at Logiealmond, Perthshire but in the 1921 Census the family was at Oakwoodmill, Selkirk [1921 Census and Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/323, Selkirk County, page 323 of 611].
[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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