Another covering of snow this morning + it was falling at daybreak, but there was a decided though calm + slow thaw + a lot of the snow disappeared. At night it was raining. Rose at 4 + did a lot of writing + posting [accounts]. Sat at ledger all forenoon + got Dora1 to help me turning up the names in the index. Went out at 12.30 + saw some cases. Lunched at Wellwood2 + walked to Buccleuch Road + Mavisbank. Geo. Rodger3 called. He is going to see Bramwell.4 Attended meeting of Session at which And. Henderson’s resignation as Session Clerk was accepted5 + Mr Boyd6 was appointed in his place.
1 Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), Dr Muir’s youngest daughter.
2 It is not clear whose home this was at this time. Te Whare was not recorded as that in the Valuation Rolls until George Roberts was recorded there in 1915. It was certainly named Te Whare before this date as Andrina Barbara Henderson Roberts (daughter of John Roberts junior and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts nee Muir) was born there in 1902. It may also be recalled that Dr Muir previously wrote that he had “Called at Wellwood to see Baby”. Furthermore John ‘Jock’ Roberts (1904-1951) was born at Wellwood in November 1904.
3 Assume George Rodger (about 1843-1910), proprietor of Bridgelands at this time.
4 Assume Edwin ‘Ed’ Bramwell (1873-1952), Professor, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.P.E., Scottish neurologist, specialist in brain injuries and shell-shock and President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1933 to 1935.
5 Assume Andrew Henderson (1858-1911), watchmaker, of No. 6 The Glebe, Selkirk.
6 Perhaps John Boyd (1848-1905), woollen warehouseman, of Ivybank, 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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