Change of weather again. A little frost in morning. Heavy rain + sleet after 1.30. Wind first W. then S.E. + at night S.W. + milder.1 Cycled round town + drove to Mrs Brydon’s funeral at Gala at 1.2 I had one of the cords. It began to rain first as Mr Pollok3 was praying at the grave + was very heavy all the way home. After seeing some town cases had to go to Firs + Thirladean. Did not go to bed till 12 + was hardly lain down when the night bell rang + I had to go down to see Mrs Young, Forest Road, who had a sudden attack of vomiting.4
1 The overwriting of the letter W looks deliberate.
2 Isabella Brydon née Howie (about 1841-1904), the wife of Adam Brydon, farmer, lived at 21 Abbotsford Road, Galashiels, Selkirkshire. She had died 9 February 1904, aged 63, of “pneumonia 8 days”. certified by “John S Muir M.B. +c, Selkirk”.
3 Pollok may be John Pollok (1858-1938), solicitor, Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal or, if it had to be a minister officiating, then perhaps the Reverend Robert Pollok, proprietor of a house at 43 James Street, Edinburgh in 1905 is a better fit.
4 Mrs Young was probably Alison Young née Henderson, wife of Robert Young, gas stoker (it was a coal gas plant). They lived at 95 Forest Road, Selkirk, with two children, Robert Young (1880-) and Margaret Bower Young (1882-). Robert Young junior was registered as Henderson but his name was changed and recorded via the Register of Corrected Entries.
[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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