It drizzled the whole day from S.W. I had dream again of riding to see Haddon1 but it was out of the question. I had almost nothing to do. Walked down to Ashybank + after lunch to Cannon Street to vaccinate a child Hume.2 Helen3 went with Nancy4 to the meet at Kelso Quarry. Wrote Haddon + Jean5 sending her Dora’s6 letter of yesterday.
1 John Haddon (1845-1924), M.D., medical practitioner and dietician, an exact contemporary of Dr Muir, recorded at Denholm, Cavers, Roxburghshire in the 1921 Census and at Denholm in the Medical Register from at least 1902 onwards.
2 James Yule Hume, labourer, was recorded at Cannon Street in the 1923, 24 and 25 Valuation Rolls but his name has almost certainly been mis-recorded because the only match is David Yule Hume, who married Margaret ‘Maggie’ Brown at the Roman Catholic Church, Selkirk, in 1923 and they had a daughter Mary Yule Hume the same year. The couple divorced in 1942 when he was serving with H.M. Forces.
3 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper.
4 Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
5 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s widowed eldest daughter. She had married, 15 June 1920 at Mayfield U.F. Church, Newington, Edinburgh, Frederick Charles Pike (d.1921), theatrical agent.
6 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter, who was living and working in Egypt at this time.
[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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