A hurricane last night + gale very strong today + with occasional blasts of rain. Rivers in mid flood. After seeing one or two town cases drove to Sinton Mill + put up Willie Grieve’s fractured clavicle.1 Then to Sinton to see Mrs Warwick + her daughter Rose a pupil of St Leonard’s, St Andrews.2 Came round by Loan + Kirkwynd + right up to Broadmeadows where I had lunch at 2. Eddie Hamilton3 has measles + Willie Lang4 is threatened. Came back by Bridgelands to see Aunt Rodger.5 There was a shower of snow this morning.
1 William Brodie ‘Willie’ Grieve (1868-), farmer, of Synton Mill, Ashkirk, had been in a collision while returning drunk from Selkirk Fair, see diary entry for 5 April 1904.
2 Neither Mrs Warwick or her daughter have so far been identified.
3 Edward William ‘Eddie Willie’ 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.
4 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
5 It is difficult to be sure of the identity here because none of Dr Muir’s aunts was called Rodger. This must refer therefore either to an aunt of Andrina Barbara Henderson Rodger (1847–1902), Dr Muir’s wife, or to an aunt of their children. This may become clearer in due course (it is certainly a member of that family).
[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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