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by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:06 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8205
Views: 1479577

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD 22 APRIL 1862 MYSTERIOUS CASE On Tuesday last, Thomas Morris, grocer, Dalry, left that town, taking the train for Ardrossan. On Thursday, a letter from him, and dated Ardrossan , was received by Mr Stirrat, writer, Dalry. In this letter, Morris stated that he had determined to destroy...
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:06 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8205
Views: 1479577

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD 22 APRIL 1850 SHIPPING CASUALTIES The brig LAUREL, Captain Gilchrist, lately ashore in Glenluce Bay, has been got off, and towed to Ardrossan for repairs. Belfast, April 16 – The PROSPERITY, from Ardrossan, got on shore on the Long Rock of Ballywalter, 14th March, but is expected off.
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:05 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8205
Views: 1479577

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD
22 APRIL 1836

SHIPPING NEWS

Freswick, April 14 – The NORTHUMBRIAN, Tait, from Ardrossan to Hambro, came on shore yesterday, and it is feared will be a wreck.
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:05 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
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Views: 955048

Re: Saltcoats - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD
22 APRIL 1914

DEATH - LECKIE

At Argyle Road, Saltcoats, on 21st April, Anne, daughter of the late William Leckie, baker, Dockhead Street.
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:04 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Saltcoats - On This Day In History
Replies: 4449
Views: 955048

Re: Saltcoats - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD
22 APRIL 1863

THEFT BY HOUSEBREAKING

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court pleading diet on Monday, Elizabeth McDonald or Hamilton, Saltcoats, was charged with theft by housebreaking, in Saltcoats, on 27th March, and having pled not guilty the case was continued for the enrolment of a jury.
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:03 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
Replies: 3074
Views: 707216

Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD 22 APRIL 1975 WOMAN’S DEATH – MAN CHARGED A man will appear in court at Kilmarnock today in connection with the death of a woman with four children whose body was found in her home yesterday. Police called to the house at 51 Donaldson Avenue, Stevenston, found Mrs Agnes Campbell, aged...
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:03 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
Replies: 3074
Views: 707216

Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD
22 APRIL 1912

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

Spring meeting – F. A. F. Crawford, 80; John Galt, 80; William Cambridge, 81; William M. Alpine, 81; J. D. Ballantyne, 81; J. Greenlees, 82; T. Harvey, 82; Dr. John Allan, 82, and H. L. Allan, 82.
by Penny Tray
Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:03 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Stevenston - On This Day In History
Replies: 3074
Views: 707216

Re: Stevenston - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD 22 APRIL 1910 KILWINNING AND STEVENSTON CATTLE SHOW The annual show of cattle and horses under the auspices of Kilwinning and Stevenston Farmers’ Society took place in fine weather yesterday at Woodwynd Park, Kilwinning. The show was one of the best held in recent years, the horse cla...
by Penny Tray
Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Photo Album
Topic: World War I Gallery
Replies: 239
Views: 77864

Re: World War I Gallery

Glenshena, Firstly, this sort of information is freely available on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. If you have the right information, which you provided, it takes but a moment. Secondly, I know the square root of nothing about genealogy but off the top of my head I would think your ...
by Penny Tray
Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:45 pm
Forum: Threetowners' Photo Album
Topic: World War I Gallery
Replies: 239
Views: 77864

Re: World War I Gallery

Both men, serving with the 5th Batallion Cameron HIghlanders, Second Lieutenant Hector McLean Lee, and Second Lieutenant Thomas Wright Cameron (son of Robert and Mary Hart Cameron, 36 Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh), are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 15B, France.
by Penny Tray
Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8205
Views: 1479577

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1869

DEATH - PUNTON

At 25 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 19th instant, Miss Ann Punton, sometime at Saltcoats, and daughter of the late Rev. Mr Punton, Hamilton.
by Penny Tray
Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:15 am
Forum: Three towns - this day in history
Topic: Ardrossan - On This Day In History
Replies: 8205
Views: 1479577

Re: Ardrossan - On This Day In History

GLASGOW HERALD
21 APRIL 1866

BANKRUPTCY – SEQUESTRATION

John Jameson, grocer and wine merchant in Ardrossan.

Creditors to meet in the Corn Exchange Sale Rooms, Kilmarnock, 27th April at half-past twelve o’clock.