Was knocked up at 5 by Walt. Dickson1 + Lizzie McRobie2 who said Annie3 was much worse + wanting to get Wilson4 in Consultation. She has not slept any so gave her some Sulphonal.5 Met Wilson there at 10. The pneumonia had shifted to the [?]. Annie Cunningham6 not so well. Walked there + along to Mavisbank. And. Scott7 + Willie Christie8 improved. After lunch drove to Broadmeadows, Bowhill, Hartwoodmyres + Oakwoodmill. Very cold day E.N.E. wind + occasional showers of small snow + hail. Most wintry spell of weather we have had. After dinnner saw Christy, Cunningham, Dickson + Archie Russell9 (the latter sinking).
1 Walter Dickson, woollen dyer, living at Forest Terrace, Selkirk, 1901 Census.
2 Assume Elizabeth McRobie (1855-), living at Forest Terrace, Selkirk in 1901. She was Annie Dickson’s sister and their parents were John McRobie, woollen weaver, and Jessie McRobie née Lambert.
3 Annie Dickson née McRobie (1859-), wife of Walter Dickson. They had married 29 December 1893 and in 1895 had a daughter Jessie McRobie Dickson.
4 Assume Dr John Wilson (about 1873-1916), medical practitioner.
5 Sulphonmethane also sulphonal, a late 19th Century sedative.
6 Annie Cunningham (1877-), draper’s assistant, daughter of George Cunningham, draper, and Isa Cunningham née Graham.
7 Andrew Scott is so far unidentified.
8 William C Christie (1886-), licensed grocer’s assistant, son of John Christie, licensed grocer, and Jane also Jeannie Christie née Cowan. The parents married in 1892 and it is not clear if John was William’s father.
9 Archibald Russell (1878-1904), watchmaker, died 6 March 1904 at 58 Forest Road, Selkirk, aged 25, of tuberculous phthisis certified by John S Muir. He was the son of John Russell, saddler, deceased, and Janet Scott, formerly Russell née Ruthven.
[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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