The girls1 gave me a tie + I had a card from Guy + a letter from Mary2 My 59th birthday : “Eheu fugaces labuntur anni”!3
A nice day. [word deleted] The first ray of sun since last Sunday. Drove over first thing to Abbotsford Road. Mrs B.4 worse. Came back to Dunsdale, Firs. + went on to Firs, Philiphaugh+ Bowhill. Was stopped at W. D. Connochie’s on my way home. Mrs C. was confined by her 4 daughter.5 She was rather bad after with haemorrhage + pain. Did not get to church at all. 3 new elders were ordained today. Mr + Mrs Scott from Langholm6 who were staying at Wellwood came to supper with Jack + Nancy.7
1 Dr Muir’s four daughters (the girls) were Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir, Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir and Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir.
2 The Reverend Gavin Struthers ‘Guy’ Muir (1846-1927) and Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-1933), favourite brother and sister of Dr Muir.
3 “The fleeting years slip by.” Horace.
4 Isabella Brydon née Howie (about 1841-1904), the wife of Adam Brydon, farmer, lived at 21 Abbotsford Road, Galashiels, Selkirkshire.
5 Muriel Stewart Connochie was born 7 February 1904 at 14 West Port, Selkirk. She was the daughter of William Dixon Connochie, veterinary surgeon, and Janet Johnston Connochie née Crosbie. The parents had married 24 June 1897 at Edinburgh. [Births 1904 778 / 22 Selkirk].
6 The Editor has no chance of identifying someone called Scott in the Scottish Borders with this amount of information.
7 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966) and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) lived at Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk.
[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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