Gale continues very strong + more N.W. Murdoch1 the stud groom Sunderland Hall had a cyst on his cheek incised. Drove round town + mills + up to Broadmeadows. Eddie Hamilton2 is threatened with Rötheln. Willie Lang3 is also ailing. Miss Lang4 consulted me again about Cicely5 who has seen Sir T Barton6 in London re [?]. Right before lunch had to go out to South Common to see Willie Grieve, Sinton Mill7 who had got pitched out of his trap by colliding with a cart. He had been in to Selkirk Fair + was half tight. His left collar bone was fractured. Had to go over to Yair at 7 to see Mrs Hamilton.
1 Thomas Murdoch, groom, lived at the stables at Sunderland Hall, Selkirk.
2 Edward William Hamilton (1893-), son of Charles Gipps Hamilton
(1857–1955) and Anna Gertrude Montgomerie Hamilton née Lang (1864-1937). Edward was therefore the grandson of Hugh Morris Lang and Margaret Lang née Graham.
3 Assume William Graham ‘Willie’ Lang (1856-1943), tea planter. Son of Hugh Morris Lang and Margaret Lang née Graham. Born 1856, Largs, Ayrshire, died 1943 at Harewoodglen, Selkirk, aged 87 (his death was certified by David Charteris Graham). He never married.
4 Assume Margaret Graham ‘May’ Lang (1861-1958), daughter of Hugh Morris Lang and Margaret Lang née Graham.
5 Ciceley Jane Lang (1883-1951), daughter of Robert James Lang (1855–1914) and Jane Eliza Scott Plummer (1858–1901).
6 This medical practitioner is so far unidentified.
7 William Brodie ‘Willie’ Grieve (1868-), farmer, of Synton Mill, Ashkirk. He had married Margaret Maggie Inglis Common Grieve in 1901.
[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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