Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
16 NOVEMBER 1892

BIRTH

HOGARTH: At Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, Mrs. John Hogarth; a daughter.
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GLASGOW HERALD
17 NOVEMBER 1893

ARDROSSAN INDEPENDENT CHURCH

The annual business meeting of this congregation was held in the church on Wednesday evening. Rev. J. M. Cowan, pastor of the church, presided.

The various reports submitted showed the church to be in a prosperous condition.

The question as to providing a manse for the minister was discussed at considerable length, and it was finally agreed that a manse should be provided.

A committee representative of managers, members, and adherents was appointed to consider the question of ways and means.
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GLASGOW HERALD
17 NOVEMBER 1897

DEATH

HENDRY: At Rangoon, Burma, on the 24th October, Ritchie Hendry, aged 29, second son of D. Hendry, late of Ardrossan.
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GLASGOW HERALD
17 NOVEMBER 1899

DEATH

HUNTER: At Montfod, Ardrossan, on the 16th instant, Hugh Hunter, in the 75th year of his age.
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CLYDESHIPS
18 NOVEMBER 1891

CATHERINE STEVENSON

The CATHERINE STEVENSON foundered in Ardrossan Dock and was abandoned as a total wreck.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1891

BIRTH

KERR: At 15 Winton Street, Ardrossan, on the 15th instant, the wife of Captain Donald Kerr, ship “LADY RUTHVEN”; a daughter.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1893

ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY - ARDROSSAN

On Thursday evening, while a train of carriages was being run into the depot of the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Station by means of a rope attached to an engine on a different set of rails, a porter named ANDREW NICHOLSON got entangled with the rope, and was thrown on the metals, sustaining a fracture of the thigh.

He was removed to Kilmarnock Infirmary.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1896

DEATH

DRUMMOND: At 21 Winton Street, Ardrossan, on the 17th instant, George Drummond, aged 80 years, late of Bowling.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1896

CRIME IN AYRSHIRE

At the Ayrshire Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at Ayr yesterday – Mr. W. H. Dunlop of Doonside presiding – it was reported that the total number of crimes and offences committed during the last quarter was 1126, a decrease of 61 compared with the corresponding quarter of last year.

It was satisfactory to note a decrease last quarter in the number of juveniles charged with crime.

The decrease was particularly marked in the burgh of Ardrossan, a district in which, together with Saltcoats, the number of juvenile offenders had hitherto been conspicuously high.

The number of such offenders charged in Ardrossan last quarter was 20, against 41 in the corresponding quarter last year.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1896

SHARP PENALTY FOR ASSAULT

At Ardrossan Burgh Court yesterday, DAVID TRODDEN, labourer, Montgomerie Lane, was charged with assaulting David Glen, labourer, Harbour Lane, on Monday morning.

The Fiscal stated that Trodden had been twice before the Court for assault – eleven times in all during the past year.

Provost Young, in passing sentence of 30 days’ imprisonment, said Trodden was a pest to society, a problem to the Magistrates, and a heartbreak to his mother.
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THE GLASGOW HERALD
19 NOVEMBER 1892

SALTCOATS AND ARDROSSAN ST. JOHN’S R.A. No. 320

The installation of the following as officer bearers took place on Thursday evening –

J. Macdonald, R.W.M.;
George Barrie, J.P.M.;
E. Aird, D.M.;
H. Gemmell, S.M.;
J. Bowes, S.W.;
John Hunter, J.W.;
Rev. F. Halden, Chaplain;
A. Hastings, Treasurer; A. Taylor,
Secretary; A. Murchie, S.D.;
James Bell, J.D.;
Thomas Hamilton, B.B.;
H. Wallace, Architect;
John Jamieson, Jeweller;
S. Goodwin, Director of Music;
George Major, S.S.;
John Duncan, J.S.;
James Hunter, I.G.;
Alexander Fulton, Tyler; and,
George Kinnear and John Allison, Auditors.

Brother Robert McDonald, Glasgow, performed the ceremony.
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Penny Tray wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:08 am GLASGOW HERALD
9 NOVEMBER 1892

CHARGE OF SWINDLING AGAINST A WOMAN

A young woman, who is supposed to have carried on an extensive series of swindling transactions with shopkeepers in various points of the country, was apprehended yesterday afternoon at Kilmarnock Railway Station by Captain Willison, of the burgh police.

A description of her had been circulated, and shopkeepers had been warned some time ago, so that her efforts in Kilmarnock were ineffectual, and notice given to the police by merchants from whom she endeavoured to obtain goods led to her apprehension.

She is wanted, it is said, in Rutherglen, Hamilton, Falkirk, Gourock, Port Glasgow, Paisley, Ardrossan, and Ayr, for offences alleged to have been committed over a period of about six weeks.

In Falkirk it is understood she obtained a violin, and in other places gold watches and chains, on several pretences, which were found to be false.

In Ardrossan she is alleged to have attempted to get possession of a sealskin jacket valued at £35, but to have failed.

She is charged with the theft of an opera-glass from a house where she had taken lodgings.

After her apprehension she was seized with a fit.

She gives the name CLARA McGREGOR, and states that she is the daughter of an engine-fitter at Govan. She is of a prepossessing appearance, well dressed, and apparently about 38 years of age.

She was removed to Ayr.
GLASGOW HERALD
19 NOVEMBER 1892

THE FEMALE SWINDLER

The Young woman CLARA McGREGOR, who was apprehended at Ayr on a charge of defrauding shopkeepers, was yesterday removed to Greenock, and committed to prison pending further inquiries.
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