Mrs Wm Waldie, Ettrickhaugh Road had a d.1 at 12.15 a.m. + I got back to bed at 1.30 having been working since 6 yesterday morning. It was a heavy S.W. gale + rain during the night + today the river was in full flood. I lay in bed till 9.30. Opened an abscess in Walter Linton’s arm2 + drove to Heatherly, Curror Street + Whitmuirhall whence I walked to Curling.3 Very cold wind + a few flakes of snow. Drove down to see Mrs Waldie after dinner. Went to evening service.
1 Jeannie Gray Waldie, born 10 January 1904 at Ettrickhaugh Road, Selkirk, daughter of William Waldie, cashier in a woollen factory, and Maggie Gray Waldie née Gibson. The parents had married 30 December 1902 at Selkirk.
2 Five individuals named Walter Linton are recorded in the 1901 Census for Selkirkshire and four in Selkirk alone.
3 Dr Muir must almost certainly have walked part of the way from Whitmuirhall, Selkirk to Curling, Bowden, on “the road to Jerusalem” as referred to in oral testimony from Walter Elliot and Mrs Wilma Gunn. Jerusalem Height (not labelled on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger Series) is above the 270m Contour Line at the covert known (and shown on 1:50,000 Landranger) as Sprot’s Bonnet. The whole area concerned may the seen on Ordnance Survey six inch Roxburghshire Sheet XIII.NE, published 1899, where Curling sits on the southern edge of the sheet.
[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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