Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 JANUARY 1866

FREE CHURCH MISSION SOIREE AT SALTCOATS

The annual soiree in connection with this mission took place in the Free Church Academy on New Year’s night.

About six o’clock nearly 300 sat down to tea in this spacious hall, which was tastefully decorated with evergreens.

The chair was occupied by the Rev. Joseph Davidson, the able and beloved pastor of the congregation, who delivered an appropriate address; and Mr R. C. Orr, painter, discharged the duties of croupier.

The croupier, Mr Williamson (the missionary), Mr Cook (teacher, Beith), and several other gentlemen gave suitable addresses.

The meeting was altogether a very profitable and pleasant one.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JANUARY 1865

NEW YEAR’S SOIREE AT SALTCOATS

The annual entertainment to the people who attend the various district prayer meetings connected with the Free Church took place in the spacious schoolroom on Monday evening.

The Rev. Mr Davidson, the able and zealous pastor of the congregation, occupied the chair, and Mr Fullerton, ironmonger, acted as croupier.

After the company had partaken of an excellent and substantial tea the chairman expressed his great pleasure in seeing so many present, and sketched the character and origin of the New Year’s meeting, by referring to the various district prayer meetings which had sprung from the revival five years ago, and which are still carried on by various laymen of the congregation with unabated interest.

He remarked that one good feature of the district meetings was the gathering in of individuals to hear the Word, who, from various causes, never attend church.

He then spoke, in very appropriate terms, from the first few verses of the 10th Chapter of Luke, in connection with which he informed the audience that the service of a regularly appointed missionary had been secured to labour in the various districts.

The meeting was afterwards shortly addressed by Messrs Colvin, Hunter, Wilson, Fleming, Cairns, Thomson, Cook, Orr, McKenzie, etc.

Thereafter the chairman made a few closing remarks, and the meeting was dismissed by pronouncing the benediction.

Upwards of 250 were present, and the meeting was altogether a very happy one.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JANUARY 1889

SALTCOATS – FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GLASGOW & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY

Early yesterday morning the body of Mr ROBERT JAMIESON was found lying at the side of the railway near Springburn Cottage, about midway between South Beach and Saltcoats stations.

It appears that on Wednesday evening Mr Jamieson had gone to the Holm Gardens at South Beach for flowers. He was, it is supposed, walking along the railway to return to Saltcoats, when in the darkness and fog he was run down by a train going in the direction of South Beach. He was struck on the forehead, and fell dead beside the railway wall. The flowers which he carried in his hand were scattered about.

It was quite dark when the accident occurred, and the body was not discovered till daylight next morning.

Mr Jamieson resided in Uddingston, and was employed in a wholesale drapery warehouse in Glasgow. He was 32 years of age, and unmarried. He had been visiting his father, Mr John Jamieson, who resides in Saltcoats, and for whom much sympathy is felt.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 JANUARY 1919

DEATH ON SERVICE

Suddenly at 24 Glasgow Road, Rutherglen, Lance Corporal DAVID WHITE, Royal Army Service Corps (M.T.), of pneumonia, beloved husband of Mary McNairn.

[Mrs Mary McNairn White’s home address was 93 Raise, Street, Saltcoats.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 JANUARY 1904

FATAL BRAWL – SALTCOATS

A quarrel which took place on New Year’s Night between two young men has resulted in the death of one of them.

MICHAEL McCUE, (26), a miner, and JOHN ANDERSON MARTIN, (23), a labourer, met on the bridge over the Glasgow & South-Western Railway at Kyleshill between seven and eight o’clock on New Year’s Night. Both men had been drinking. McCue asked Martin if he had a bottle, as he wanted a drink. The latter replied that he had no bottle. The two quarrelled, and it is alleged that Martin struck McCue on the jaw, knocking him down on the frost-bound road, with the result that the base of his skull was fractured.

McCue was removed first to the house of Martin’s mother in Canal Street, Saltcoats, and afterwards to his own lodgings in Townhead, Stevenston. Martin remained beside the injured man, and assisted in his removal.

McCue was a native of Donegal, Ireland. His friends were informed by telephone of the occurrence.

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday Martin was committed to prison pending inquiry, bail being refused meantime.

A post-mortem examination of the body was ordered.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JANUARY 1815

DEATH

At Saltcoats, on the 30th ultimo, Mr Alexander Kinnier.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JANUARY 1832

DEATH

At Saltcoats, on the 29th ultimo, Mr Robert Campbell, much and justly regretted.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JANUARY 1845

SHIPPING NEWS

Wrecked in fog, near the point of Corsewall, on Monday, 30th ultimo, the brigantine FRIENDS, of Saltcoats, Captain James Miller. The crew were saved with their clothes.

The LIVELY, of Saltcoats, and a schooner, nearly met with the same fate, but got safely clear.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 JANUARY 1870

POTATO MERCHANTS’ SOIREE

We have been requested to intimate that the Potato Merchants’ Soiree Committee have this day handed over to the following institution the undernoted sum, being surplus of the soiree held in the Queen’s Room, Glasgow, on 22 December last: -

Saltcoats Seaside Home - £3.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
7 JANUARY 1918

Died of dysentery in a Dar es Salaam hospital, Sapper GILBERT GORDON CAMPBELL, (29), Corps of Royal Engineers – Theatre of war, East Africa – son of Boyd Campbell, and husband of Jean Douglas Tennant or Campbell, 11 Eglinton Place, Saltcoats.

The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald subsequently reported: -

"Sapper Gilbert Gordon Campbell, Royal Engineers Telegraphs, who died of dysentery on 7th instant at General Hospital, Dar es Salaam, aged 29 years, was the youngest son of Mr Boyd Campbell, 11 Eglinton Place, Saltcoats. He was married, and his widow resides at the same address.

He was a telegraphist in Ardrossan Post Office, and joined the Army in November, 1915. He sailed for East Africa on February 7th, 1916, and he was one of the first telegraphists to set foot on German soil in East Africa. He saw a good part of the country, having been stationed at the following places: - Nairobi, British East Africa, where he was in hospital for three months in 1916; Moshi, near the great mountain; Kilimanjaro; Arusha; Kondoa; Ivangi; Lolkisale, Dodoma, Duthumi, and Morogoro, where he was for the last nine months."

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 JANUARY 1896

PLUCKY CONDUCT OF TWO LADS

On Monday night, JAMES McCOLL, fish dealer, residing in Quay Street, Saltcoats, was arrested on a charge of breaking into the public house of Mr McCutcheon, Dockhead Street.

Mrs Towers lives above the public house, and between ten and eleven o’clock her two sons, William and John, heard a noise in the premises below. Going downstairs, they saw a man coming through a room window. He made off towards the harbour, followed by the lads. John overtook him, and jumping on his back, tumbled him. The fellow got to his feet, and dealing each of the youths a severe blow, got clear off.

In the scuffle he dropped a bottle of brandy, one of his whisky, and his cap, which was secured.

It was found that the entrance to the public house had been got by a back window. The till had been rummaged, but there was only a few shillings in coppers, the remainder of the cash having been secured in the safe.

From information given McColl was arrested. Yesterday he was taken to Kilmarnock, and emitted a declaration before the Sheriff.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JANUARY 1854

BIRTH

At Sandilands, Saltcoats, on the 4th instant, Mrs Hugh McDonnell, Junior; a son.