Rose at 5.
Cold day with sleety rain+ fair intervals. Drove over early to Abbotsford Road. Mrs Brydon1 pretty ill. Got a nurse for her. Drove back to Selkirk to see a Mrs Henderson, Tower Street2 + then went down to Bridgelands to have some ferreting with George.3 It was an awful day for the job + awfully cold. We had poor sport + a little after 2 I had to leave to see Geo. Cockburn.4 Went over to Galashiels again at night. Mrs Cruickshank5 telephoned in the evening before I started for Galashiels about Jenny6 the still room maid who had burned her head by a celluloid comb taking fire but I did not need to go up. Isa Brydon7 told me about her brother Adam8, the doctor, having run off with the wife of the man he was assisting, a Dr Jackson at St Helens.9 It must have affected poor Mrs B terribly.
1 Isabella Brydon née Howie (about 1841-1904), the wife of Adam Brydon, farmer, lived at 21 Abbotsford Road, Galashiels, Selkirkshire.
2 Perhaps Mrs Marion Henderson, proprietor of a house and garden at Tower Street, Selkirk, 1903 Valuation Roll.
3 Assume George Rodger (about 1843-1910), proprietor of Bridgelands at this time.
4 George Cockburn is so far unidentified.
5 Mrs Cruikshank is so far unidentified.
6 The only Jenny who is a possible match from the 1901 Census is Janet Weston ‘Jenny’ Pritty (1882-), daughter of the Burgh Surveyor John Pritty.
7 Isabella Thomas ‘Isa’ Brydon (1868-).
8 Adam Gibson Brydon (1877-1953), M.D., was recorded in St Helens, Lancashire in the 1901 Census, aged 23, born Galashiels, an assistant medical practitioner. He left for Australia, married (possibly twice) and died in New South Wales.
9 Dr Jackson was Robert Jackson (1862-1951), M.B., recorded at 69 Church Street, St Helens, Lancashire, 1903 Medical Register. His wife was Cherith Edwards (1865-1939). They had married 16 June 1890 at St George Hanover Square, Middlesex. Robert petitioned for divorce 6 March 1903, with the Co-Respondent named as Adam Brydon [Divorce Court File Number 3717 Item Number 3717]. The Final Decree was dated 9 May 1904. Jackson stayed in St Helens, moved to Cowley Hill at some time, and remarried, 31 January 1907 at Brigstock, Northamptonshire to Gwendoline Doris Adams (1887-1976).
[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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