GLASGOW HERALD 24 APRIL 1914 EPISCOPAL HOME MISSIONS On Wednesday afternoon a sale of work was held in the hall of St. Andrews’s Episcopal Church, Ardrossan, in aid of the Home Mission work of the church. The Countess of Glasgow, in declaring the sale open, referred to the growth in the demand of th...

GLASGOW HERALD 24 APRIL 1902 FIRE AT ARDROSSAN OILSKIN WORKS A serious fire occurred in Ardrossan yesterday forenoon, completely destroying the premises of the Ardrossan Oilskin Manufacturing Company, and involving a loss of over £1000. The building contained a large number of waterproofs and oilski...

GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1840

MARRIAGE - CRAIG and BANKS

At Saltcoats, on the 14th current, by the Rev. James Giffen, Mr James Craig, shipmaster, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Mr John Banks, saddler.

GLASGOW HERALD 24 APRIL 1883 STEVENSTON – MAN DROWNED On Sunday, about 5 p.m., a collier named James McLellan, from Iron Works Square, Kilwinning, was accidentally drowned in the mill dam a short distance from the village. It appears that McLellan and a companion who came to Stevenston during the da...

GLASGOW HERALD 23 APRIL 1819 AYR CIRCUIT COURT – DEATH SENTENCE This morning, Thursday, April 22, the Court was opened by Lord Pitmilly. The first libel taken up was that against John McNeil alias Boag, and Joseph McNeil alias Boag, accused of breaking into the house occupied by Archibald Scott at K...

GLASGOW HERALD 23 APRIL 1975 WIFE MURDER CHARGE George McCaig Campbell, (38), of 51 Donaldson Avenue, Stevenston, appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday charged with strangling his 34-year-old wife, Agnes, in their home on April 20 or 21. Mrs Campbell, mother of three daughters and a son, wa...

GLASGOW HERALD 23 APRIL 1913 DYNAMITE WORKERS’ DEMANDS A meeting of the newly formed branch of the Scottish Federation in connection with Messrs Nobel’s Explosives Works was held last night in the Town Hall, Saltcoats. Mr Gilbert Lewis presided and there was an attendance of about 1000. Mr Lewis int...

GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1910

BANKRUPTCY – CESSIO

James Young, schoolmaster, 27 Gladstone Road, Saltcoats – to be examined in the Court-House, Kilmarnock, May 4, at ten o’clock.

GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1858

DEATH - CAMPBELL

At Albert Square, London, on the 9th instant, aged 54 years, Captain John Campbell, of Saltcoats.

GLASGOW HERALD 23 APRIL 1913 REV. DUGALD McARTHUR, B.D. At a meeting of Irvine Presbytery in the New Ardrossan Parish Church Hall yesterday the call by the New Ardrossan congregation to the Rev. Dugald McArthur, B.D., assistant Barony Parish, Glasgow, was accepted, and Tuesday, May 13, was provision...

GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1912

THE STEAMER GUNBAR

The new twin-screw steamer GUNBAR, built by the Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Sydney, New South Wales, arrived in Sydney on 22 April.

GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1910

DEATH - GOODWIN

At 25 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on 21st April, Jessie McCall, relict of Captain James Goodwin.