Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 FEBRUARY 1889

SEVERE STORM AND SHIPWRECK
STRANDING OF GLASGOW VESSEL – SIX LIVES LOST

On Saturday morning, during the hurricane, the Glasgow-owned barque ROSENEATH was wrecked near Portpatrick.

The news of the loss of the ROSENEATH created a deep feeling of sympathy in Saltcoats, especially when it became known that the mate, Mr. DUNCAN TAYLOR, his wife, and son, were drowned.

Mr. Taylor was a native of Saltcoats, and his family lived there. Mrs. Taylor left home a fortnight ago to meet her husband on his return from a voyage taking with her a son, aged four. She appears to have been returning in the vessel when the disaster occurred.

Mr. Taylor was aged about 50, and leaves a family of four. The greatest sympathy is felt for them in the district.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 FEBRUARY 1894

FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. NEWMILNS

The result was in favour of Victoria by 7 goals to 2.

In the second half Newmilns played with ten men, one of their team having sprained his knee.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 FEBRUARY 1894

DEATH

YOUNG: At 64 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 2nd instant, in his 84th year, Captain William Young.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 FEBRUARY 1889

SEVERE STORM AND SHIPWRECK
STRANDING OF GLASGOW VESSEL – SIX LIVES LOST

On Saturday morning, during the hurricane, the Glasgow-owned barque ROSENEATH was wrecked near Portpatrick.

The news of the loss of the ROSENEATH created a deep feeling of sympathy in Saltcoats, especially when it became known that the mate, Mr. DUNCAN TAYLOR, his wife, and son, were drowned.

Mr. Taylor was a native of Saltcoats, and his family lived there. Mrs. Taylor left home a fortnight ago to meet her husband on his return from a voyage taking with her a son, aged four. She appears to have been returning in the vessel when the disaster occurred.

Mr. Taylor was aged about 50, and leaves a family of four. The greatest sympathy is felt for them in the district.

GLASGOW HERALD
5 FEBRUARY 1889

THE WRECK OF THE ROSENEATH

A further telegram from the captain of the ROSENEATH steamer, Dublin for the Clyde, states the ROSENEATH is a total wreck and breaking up.

A telegram was yesterday received in Saltcoats intimating that the body of the child of Mr. Duncan Taylor, the mate, had been washed ashore. The boy drowned with his parents when the ship struck.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 FEBRUARY 1899

FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA JUNIORS v. NEILSTON VICTORIA
At Saltcoats

Result – Saltcoats, 2; Neilston, 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 FEBRUARY 1893

FOOTBALL
KILMARNOCK ATHLETIC v. SALTCOATS VICTORIA

On Holm Quarry, and ended in favour of the Victoria by 2 goals to 1.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 FEBRUARY 1956

FATAL ACCIDENT

Christine Young, aged 18 months, of 20 Middlepart Crescent, Saltcoats, was yesterday struck by a van and killed while waiting for her father near her home.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 FEBRUARY 1889

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF AND ASSAULT

At Saltcoats Burgh Court yesterday, a well-known vagrant named JOHN WILSON was charged with breaking a lamp in a railway carriage between South Beach and Saltcoats stations, and assaulting a clerk at the latter station.

Wilson admitted the assault, but pleaded not guilty to the charge of malicious mischief. He was convicted and sent to prison for 60 days.

Previous convictions have been recorded against him at Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Irvine.

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ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
8 FEBRUARY 1918

DEATH

McALLISTER: Drowned by the sinking of the S.S. CALIFORNIA, on the 7th of February 1917, Archibald McAllister, husband of Lizzie Kennedy, 25 Gladstone Road, Saltcoats.

[Further details of the S.S. CALIFORNIA are included in the following link: -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_California_(1907)

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 FEBRUARY 1896

DEATH

LOCKHART: At 56 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 6th instant, Margaret, eldest daughter of the late William Lockhart, farmer, Knockrivoch.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 FEBRUARY 1891

BIRTH

TAYLOR: At Raise Street, Saltcoats, on the 7th instant, Mrs. Tom Taylor; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 FEBRUARY 1893

MARRIAGE

TAIT – POLIN: At St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Great Clyde Street, Glasgow, on the 9th of February, by the Rev. James Mackintosh, administrator, Patrick Tait, to Agnes Polin, Saltcoats.