Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 APRIL 1910

SHIPPING CONTRACT

The Ardrossan Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company have received an order for a steamer for service on the Australian coast.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 APRIL 1866

SHIPPING NEWS

Queenstown, April 25 – The Italian barque DRAGO, from Ardrossan for Port Said, with coals, passed here today, and landed her pilot.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 APRIL 1872

CALL TO BECOME MINISTER

The United Presbyterian congregation of Brunswick Street, Manchester, have given a unanimous call to the Rev. W. R. Murray, Ardrossan, to become their minister.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 APRIL 1879

TRADE REPORT

The following are the shipments of pig iron from Ardrossan Harbour for the week ending April 25: -

Coastwise, 1000 tons.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1910

BIRTH -BAIRD

At Nanoya, Anderson Terrace, Ardrossan, on Thursday, 28th April, to Mr and Mrs Baird; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1911

AYRSHIRE ESTATES

The inventories of personal estates recently lodged with the Sheriff Clerk of Ayrshire included those of the following persons: -

Hugh Brown, retired shipmaster, Craigard, Ardrossan, (including heritage) - £1955 19s 4d.

Mrs Mary Allison or Hogarth, widow, The Linn, Ardrossan - £2337 18s 9d.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1913

MARRIAGE – ARNOTT and SMITH

At the Douglas Hotel, Bath Street, Glasgow, on the 28th instant, by the Rev. R. M. Adamson, M.A., St. John’s United Free Church, Ardrossan, William Arnott, son of ex-Bailie Arnott, Whifflet, Coatbridge, to Jessie, daughter of ex-Bailie Smith, late builder, Ardrossan and Dumbarton.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1914

LAUNCH AT ARDROSSAN

The Ardrossan Shipbuilding Company launched yesterday the twin-screw passenger steamer ROBINA, which they have built to the order of the New Coastal Morecambe Pier Company for passenger traffic between Morecambe, Blackpool, and the Isle of Man.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1933

WIFE MURDER CHARGE

James Fergus McMurray, (46), Bank Clerk, Grosvenor Road, Muswell Hill, appeared on remand at Wood Green Police Court, London, yesterday, charged with the murder of his wife Mary Brown McMurray, by shooting her with a revolver, and with attempting to commit suicide by coal-gas poisoning.

On April 5 McMurray was found lying by the side of the gas oven with the gas jets on. Mrs McMurray was dead in bed, shot through the brain.

McMurray is a native of Ardrossan, and was formerly agent of the National Bank of Scotland at Montrose. He went to London about 10 years ago, and has for several years been employed by the Crédito Italiano Bank, London.

He pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. He was committed for trial.

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EVENING TIMES
29 APRIL 1968

AUSSIES TRY TO HELP HEARTBREAK HUSBAND

A cable went off from Australia House, London, today to immigration authorities in Canberra, the Australian federal capital, backing the plea of heartbreak husband Charles Carson, (26), of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, that his 70-year-old mother should be helped to return to Scotland.

Charles, a construction worker of Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, wants his mother Mrs Jessie Wallace, who is staying with another son in Melbourne, to return home to help him cope with his three sons, aged four, two, and one.

Last week his 22-year-old wife, Helen, was found dead on the hills near West Kilbride, Ayrshire.

Police found her body after a telephone tip-off. Later a man appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court charged with murder.

Today an Australia House official in London said, “We have every sympathy with Mr Carson’s predicament and will pull out all stops to help. However, it may be a week before we hear the attitude our Government is adopting in this case.”

At the week-end Mr Carson contacted his mother to asked her to return to Scotland. But as she went to Australia only a year-ago she might have to repay her outward-bound fare of £250 to the Australian Government as well as paying the same again for her passage home.

Mr Carson hopes the Australian authorities will heed his plea that his mother should be excused from having to refund her fare to the Australian Government because of the special circumstances of the case.

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EVENING TIMES
29 APRIL 1971

SCOTS GUNMAN GOES FREE AT OLD BAILEY

Charles James Ross, a 22-year-old engineer’s fitter, of Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, walked from the Old Bailey today having been granted a conditional discharge for 12 months after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing a loaded .22 revolver in soho, London.

The jury found him not guilty of wounding William Moore, described by the prosecution as a Soho tout, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.

Mr Justice Browne directed they should return a verdict of not guilty on a charge of attempting to murder Moore. He also discharged them from giving a verdict on a charge of possessing the revolver with intent to endanger life, which Ross also denied.

Ross, now working in Kilmarnock, was ordered to pay £75 towards defence costs.

Mr Justice Browne told him – “I am sure you realise how incredibly foolish it was to bring the gun to London.”

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COURT OF SESSION
30 APRIL 1913

FATAL ACCIDENT

A court of session report in the 16 October 1913 edition of the Glasgow Herald indicates that William McCrindle, 7 years of age, son of Thomas McCrindle, labourer, 17 Kilmahew Street, Ardrossan, was killed at Parkhouse Farm, Ardrossan, on 30 April, 1913, when he was struck by a large stone which fell from a wall owned by Earl of Eglinton and Winton.