GLASGOW HERALD 3 MAY 1890 MASONIC – CONSECRATION OF NEW R.A. CHAPTER, SALTCOATS AND ARDROSSAN, No. 223 A new chapter and installation of office-bearers took place in the lodge-room, Princes Lane, Ardrossan . The ceremony was performed by a deputation from the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scot...

GLASGOW HERALD
3 MAY 1913

DEATH - BARR

At Annfield, Mitchell Place, Saltcoats, on 2nd May, Ann Fulton Macreadie, beloved wife of the late Hugh L. Barr, aged 82 years.

GLASGOW HERALD 3 MAY 1912 IRVINE AND SALTCOATS LICENSING APPEAL COURT The Licensing Appeal Court for the burghs of Irvine and Saltcoats took place in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, yesterday. Provost Borland, Irvine, was elected chairman. An appeal by James Frew, Grange Road, Falkirk, against the decisio...

GLASGOW HERALD
3 MAY 1912

DEATH - CUTHBERTSON

At Drumalis, Saltcoats, on 1st May, Thomas Cuthbertson, in his 77th year.

GLASGOW HERALD 3 MAY 1880 FATAL ACCIDENT On Saturday evening, about a quarter past 6 o'clock, as Mrs Lamont, wife of Mr Archibald Lamont, farmer, Dubbs, was walking home from Kilwinning she went upon the Ardrossan branch, near Dubbs Junction with a view to shorten the road. The passenger train, whic...

EVENING TIMES 2 MAY 1968 WIDOW FLYING HOME Mrs Jessie Wallace will fly from Melbourne, Australia, to Glasgow, to join her widower son, Mr Charles Carson, at Ardrossan, Ayrshire. Mr Carson’s wife, Helen was recently murdered, and he made a telephone plea to his mother – a widow who remarried – to ret...

GLASGOW HERALD 2 MAY 1914 THE STEAMER INISHOWEN HEAD DELAYED AT ARDROSSAN HARBOUR The Head Line steamer INISHOWEN HEAD, which was held up at Ardrossan Harbour on Thursday through the refusal of members of the union to sign on along with men procured by the Shipping Federation Limited, sailed for Mon...

GLASGOW HERALD
2 MAY 1806

MARRIAGE - YOUNG and JACK

At Springvale, on Monday, 28th April, Mr Thomas Young, merchant, Irvine, to Miss Jack, daughter of John Jack, of Springvale.

GLASGOW HERALD 2 MAY 1914 DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN SALTCOATS MAN The death occurred on Thursday evening at his residence in Winton Circus, Saltcoats, of Mr R. C. Orr, a well-known figure in ecclesiastical circles in North Ayrshire. He was specifically prominent in connection with the movement for opposin...

GLASGOW HERALD 2 MAY 1913 NORTH AYRSHIRE LICENSING COURT Applications for new grocers’ certificates at Stevenston – the one at 5 Main Street and the other at 7 Main Street – were made respectively by Thomas Campbell, grocer, Stevenston, and Jean Wylie, grocer, Crosshill, Glasgow. The application of ...

EVENING TIMES 1 MAY 1968 AUSSIE PAYS SCOTS WIDOW’S FARE HOME A Melbourne business man has offered to pay the air fare for a Scottish widow who wants to return to Scotland to care for the children of her murdered daughter-in-law. And Australia has waived the repayment of her assisted passage. The bus...

THE AGE – MELBOURNE 1 MAY 1968 SCOTS MOTHER WANTS TO GO TO GRIEVING SON In a Glasgow suburb a sorrowing man is waiting to hear whether his mother, Mrs Jessie Wallace, will be able to join him from Melbourne to look after his motherless children. Mr Charles Carson, of Ardrossan, told “ The Age ” last...