Less wind today but very windy. More or less snow all day but little or no frost. At night the streets were all white. Saw Annie McRobie1 4 times. Was not out of town + went twice to church which I have not done for many weeks. The services were appropriate to the Centenary of the British + Foreign Bible Society2 which occurs tomorrow. Archie Russell, Forest Road, died this morning.3
1 Annie Dickson née McRobie (1859-), wife of Walter Dickson. They had married 29 December 1893 and in 1895 had a daughter Jessie McRobie Dickson.
2 The Society was formed on 7 March 1804 to encourage the “wider circulation and use” of the Scriptures, initially setting out to provide access to affordable bibles in Welsh (Beibl i Bawb – A Bible for All).
3 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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