14 January 1904 diary of Dr John Stewart Muir (1845-1938) of Selkirk

Dryding [sic] N.W. wind rising to a gale at night with some rain. Fair all day + roads drying. Did not get out till 11. Called cycling for Mrs Lawson, Knowepark¹ (who injured her shoulder + has been laid up in Glasgow for 8 weeks), Dandswall², Hospital, Forest Road, Firs³, Broadmeadows, Newark Mill + Heatherly. Got home at 4 rather tired having had nothing since breakfast. The girls⁴ all went to a concert given by a Ladies orchestra.⁵ Nancy + Jack⁶, Fairy + Charles⁷ + Ivey [sic] Mitchell⁸ went with them. Wrote a lot of letters both this morning + at night. I had to walk down to [word deleted] Waldie, Ettrickhaugh Road late to see the baby.⁹

¹ Cecil Lawson née Mackinley (about 1827-1922), widow of John Lawson (about 1825-1898). She was Proprietor Occupier of a house and garden ‘Knowe Park’, 25 Scott’s Place, Selkirk, 1903 Valuation Roll, VR007900008-/87, Selkirk Burgh, page 87 of 440.

² Members of the Roberts family were at Dandswall, Scott’s Place, Selkirk around the turn of the 19th Century and were succeeded there by the Thorburn family.

³ A baby, David Anderson Smith, had been born the day before at the Firs, Selkirk.

⁴ Assume Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963) and Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), three of Dr Muir’s four daughters.

⁵ This orchestra is so far unidentified.

⁶ Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) and her husband John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966).

⁷ Euphemia Cranston ‘Fairy’ Roberts née Greenwood (1877-1916) and Charles Henry Roberts (1877-), tweed manufacturer.

⁸ Ivey Mitchell is so far unidentified.

⁹ A baby, Jeannie Gray Waldie, was born 10 January 1904 at Ettrickhaugh Road, Selkirk.

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]