Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1888

DEATH

WILSON: At 21 Simpson Street, Glasgow, on the 1st instant, Catherine Christie, relict of John Wilson, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1883

REGISTRATION COURTS

Sheriff Comrie Thomson held courts in Kilmarnock on Friday and at Irvine on Saturday for revising the register of voters for the Northern Division of Ayrshire.

Mr. Emslie, solicitor, Ardrossan, represented the Liberals, and Mr. McCosh, solicitor, Dalry, the conservatives.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1888

TRAVELLING ON THE RAILWAY WITHOUT A TICKET

At Ardrossan J.P. Court on Tuesday – D. J. Mack and A. Guthrie presiding – WILLIAM McVEIGH, a seaman, Harbour Lane, Ardrossan, was charged with travelling from Kilmarnock to Ardrossan on the Glasgow & South-Western Railway without a ticket.

He was found guilty, and fined 5s, or 3 days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 OCTOBER 1888

AUTUMN HOLIDAY

Yesterday was observed as the Autumn Holiday in Ardrossan. All places of business in the town were closed, and many persons left by morning trains for Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr.

The weather was fine.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 OCTOBER 1888

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD

The usual meeting of the Board was held in the Board-room on Tuesday – Rev. J. D. McCall, chairman, presiding.

A number of incorrigibles were summoned before the Board and admonished.

The total attendance at Saltcoats district was 756; the attendance at the Public School, 473.

The total attendance at Ardrossan schools was 828; at Ardrossan Public School, 415, or 84 per cent.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 OCTOBER 1895

STORMY VOYAGE TO ARDROSSAN

Yesterday morning the barque ASSYRIA, Christiania, arrived at Ardrossan in a dangerously waterlogged condition.

The ASSYRIA left Saguenay, Canada, for Ardrossan on 2nd September, with a cargo of spoolwood. She met with very bad weather on the voyage.

On the morning of Monday, 9th September, the vessel sprang a leak, and at times she made from 12 to 14 inches of water per hour.

On the morning of Sunday, 15th September, PETER HANSEN, an able seaman, fell from the jib-boom into the sea, and was drowned.

Both officers and crew have shown considerable pluck in bringing the ASSYRIA into port. She lies in the Eglinton Dock with a heavy list to the port side.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 OCTOBER 1891

DEATH

FULLERTON: At 19 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 3rd instant, Janet Guthrie, widow of William Fullerton, Merchant, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 OCTOBER 1897

MARRIAGE

WOTHERSPOON – MacINTYRE: At the Windsor Hotel, Glasgow, on the 4th of October, by the Rev. Henry Wright, Queen’s Park Baptist Church, Glasgow, assisted by the Rev. J. S. Carroll, M.A. Free St. John’s, Glasgow, and the Rev. J. Brand Scott, M.A., West U.P. Church, Saltcoats, William Wotherspoon to Marie Louise Cochrane (Kate), eldest daughter of Robert MacIntyre, of Crosshill, Glasgow, and Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 OCTOBER 1888

ARDROSSAN CASTLE CURLING CLUB

At the annual meeting of this club, held in the Railway Hotel – Mr. John Boyd, builder, vice-president, presiding – the treasurer’s books and accounts were examined, and showed a balance of £8 17s 4d to the credit of the club.

The office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: -

Patron, The Right Honourable Lord Eglinton; Honorary President, Mr. A. D. Bruce-Douglas; Acting President, Mr. John Boyd; Vice-President, Mr. James Clark; Representative Members, Mr. James Clark and Mr. John Crawford; Chaplain, Rev. J. D. McCall; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. John Crawford.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 OCTOBER 1896

CALEDONIAN AMBULANCE CLASS

At a meeting at the Caledonian Station, Ardrossan, on Sunday, the following office-bearers in connection with the above class were elected for the ensuing session: -

Dr. MacDonald, honorary president; Thomas Chalmers, captain; Thomas Tervet, Lieutenant; and David Sharp, vice-lieutenant.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 OCTOBER 1896

RAID ON ALLEGED SHEBEEN

Early on Sabbath morning, Sergeant David Allan and two constables made a raid upon a house in Princes Lane, Ardrossan, evidently suspected of being a shebeen.

An important seizure of a large quantity of spirituous liquor is understood to have been made.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 OCTOBER 1872

BIRTH

THOMSON: At Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, the wife of James J. Thomson, of Galt, Ontario, Canada; a son.