Rose 6.15 Dull this morning + raining. Was knocked up at 1 a.m. about Maggie Scott, dressmaker1 + it was slightly raining then. It looked like being a wet day + there were some very heavy showers up till 2 after which it was fine + sunny. I drove to Maryland2, Heatherlie Terrace (old Mrs Bathgate3 like failing at last), Haining, Henhouse, Riddell + Sinton Mill. Saw some town cases + waited 2 hours in the Reading room. After dinner walked down to see Mrs Bow, Ashybank4, and Hospital. Jean5 up + partly dressed in afternoon.
1 Maggie Scott is so far unidentified.
2 Kate Smith was Inhabitant Occupier at Maryland, Heatherlie, Selkirk, 1903 Valuation Rolls, but is otherwise unidentified.
3 Margaret Bathgate née Cairns (about 1821-), widow of James Bathgate, tweed manufacturer, lived at 7 Heatherlie Terrace, Selkirk.
4 Agnes Bow née Stenhouse (about 1862-1916), wife of William Bow, innkeeper. They lived at Bowmont Villa, Ashybank, Selkirk and had married in 1878 at Westruther.
5 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, suffering from pneumonia at this time.
[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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