Letter from Pat 28th dated 10/1/04
Self denial week
Was all night at Millburn Place. Mrs Campbell had a S. [son] normally at 5.10.1 Did not go to bed but got some writing done. Hard frost this morning which held in the shade all day though the sun softened the roads when it struck them. Cycled to Broadmeadows + Bowhill. Then by low road to Mavisbank where Mrs And. Scott1 has Scarlet F. Got her removed to Hospital. Andrew himself has suspicious symptoms. after lunch Then came back to Glebe where Annie Cunningham3 is no better. After lunch saw some cases + walked to Bridgelands4 to tea. Pollok5 was there. Walked back to Burnbrae (where little And. Scott the draper lives), Glebe + Millburn Place. Jack, Nancy6 + Emmy Downes7 came to supper.
1 Neil Thomas Campbell was born 28 February 1904 at 11 Millburn Place, Selkirk, the son of George Donald Campbell, gardener (domestic servant), and Jane Campbell née Hislop. The parents had married 20 February 1903 in Edinburgh.
2 The Scotts cannot be readily identified.
3 Annie Cunningham (1877-), draper’s assistant, daughter of George Cunningham, draper, and Isa Cunningham née Graham.
4 Bridgelands, Selkirk, home of the Rodger family.
5 John Pollok (1858-1938), solicitor, Town Clerk and Procurator Fiscal.
6 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966) and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter.
7 Emmy Downs was Catherine Emily ‘Emma’ Downes (1884-1949), married later in 1904 to James Alexander ‘Jim’ Roberts (1879-1948). They left not long afterwards for New Zealand where they had two children, John Edward Downes Roberts (1906-1985) and Dorothy Violet Roberts, later MacMillan (1909-).
[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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