Quite fair all day + although the roads were were filthy I managed to cycle to Broadmeadows + Newarkburn. Mrs Lang1 on the whole better. After lunch Baptie2 drove me with Macaulay3 to Newhouse. Mrs Elliot4 suffering a good deal of pain. Had to come round by Sinton Mill to see Jemima Grieve.5 Jean + Dora6 walked to Middlestead about a servant.
1 Margaret Pattison Lang née Graham (1821-1914), widow of Hugh Morris Lang (1817-1900), banker and landed proprietor, of Largs, Ayrshire and later Broadmeadows, Selkirk. She was a a close friend of Dr Muir.
2 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
3 Macaulay was one of Dr Muir’s horses, see also diary entries for 9th, 12th, 29th January and 2nd February.
4 Ann Patison ‘Annie’ Elliot, daughter of John Elliot and Jane Elliot née Dickson. She was wife of William Govenlock and they appear to have lived at Kingsknowes, Galashiels by 1904 but at this time Ann was staying at Newarkburn.
5 Jemima Grieve (1869-) was housekeeper at Synton Mill Farm House, Ashkirk [1901 Census]. She was the daughter of William Grieve and Jessie Scott Grieve née Brodie. Her mother was dead by 1901 and her father presided over a rather random group of people.
6 Two of Dr Muir’s daughters Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir and Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir.
[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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