There was heavy rain+ sleet last night + the roads were very heavy but as the day promised well I started immediately after breakfast + cycled to St Mary’s Loch for Bowerhope1, calling at The Firs, Thirladean, Yarrowford + Ramsay, Mount Benger.2 It turned out a most lovely day with hardly any wind + the Loch was nearly without a ripple. They sent the boat across for me. It was lovely on the Loch + might have been a June day but for the snow on the hill tops. Got back at 4.40 + had to go down to Bridgelands to see Anderson’s child3 + so did not get to church.
1 Bowerhope is on the south side of St Mary’s Loch and had a boathouse, see Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet XIII.NE, published 1900. Dr Muir had been up there on 29 January 1924 to attend Janet Laidlaw, aged 53, see that diary entry for more detail.
2 Assuming that this was indeed what Dr Muir wrote, then nobody named Ramsay was recorded in the Mountbenger, Yarrow, Valuation Rolls at this time.
3 Thomas Gardner Anderson was coachman at Bridgelands in 1904 [Valuation Rolls] but not in the 1901 Census when Neil Grant was the coachman there. The same Thomas Anderson may be the coachman recorded at Dandswall in the 1911 Census with his wife Janet Thomson Forrest Anderson née Todd (married 1895 at Traquair, Peeblesshire) and children Catherine, 14, Robina, 13, Jeanie, 11, Agnes, 8, Mary, 6, Margaret, 4, and Thomas, 2. Spoiler: The child that was attended may have been Jemima Anderson (1901-1904) who died 1 August 1904 at Bridgelands.
[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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