Soft this morning+ roads got very sticky. In the evening there was a heavy shower of rain. Drove to Thornfield1 + then over to Newhouse, Castleside2 + across the hill to Hartwoodmyres.3 Did not get to evening service as I had to walk out to Broomhill to give Mrs Pollok4 a hypo. Flo Alexander5 called to see me. Jack, Nancy6 + Bartleman7 came to supper.
1 Thornfield, Scott’s Place, Selkirk, Proprietor / Occupier Alexander Fowler Roberts, 1904 Valuation Roll.
2 Newhouse, Lilliesleaf, grid reference NGR NT522,235, Ordnance Survey six inch Roxburghshire Sheet XIII.SE, published 1899 and Castleside, Ashkirk, grid reference NT462,209, Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet XVI.SW, published 1900.
3 Hartwoodmyres, Selkirk, grid reference NGR NT432,248.
4 Jane Pollok née MacLaurin (about 1856-1911), wife of John Pollok, law agent.
5 Jane Florence ‘Flo’ Alexander née Turnbull (1877-1962), born 13 November 1877, at St Colme House, Dalgety, Fife, died 22 November 1962 at 28 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, aged 85. She was the wife of David Carnegie Alexander (1856-1928), married 25 April 1899, Edinburgh at which time her address was recorded as “Faldonside Melrose” and one of the witnesses was James William Brack Boyd (1871-1916), army officer and brother of Jessie Brack Boyd, who was killed in action 16 July 1916. Recorded living at Thirladean, Selkirk, 1921 Census. She was the daughter of James Turnbull, Writer to the Signet, and Jane Scott.
6 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner, and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), his wife and Dr Muir’s daughter.
7 Bartleman is so far unidentified.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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