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...

GLASGOW HERALD
1 MAY 1912

GLASGOW HIGH COURT – A SALTCOATS CASE

William Craig, was convicted of an assault upon a girl on March 2, 1912, and was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment.

GLASGOW HERALD 1 MAY 1916 MARRIAGE – McGREGOR and MCLEAN At the Palace Hotel, Edinburgh, on the 29th April, by the Rev. A. Morris Moodie, Ardeer, Stevenston , Alexander William McGregor, L.R.C.P. and S., Lieutenant, R.A.M.C., to Helen, eldest daughter of the late Peter McLean, Marlefield, Perth, and...

EVENING TIMES 30 APRIL 1968 MUM OF HEARTBREAK MAN WOULD LIKE HIM TO GO TO AUSTRALIA Mrs Jessie Wallace, who cannot afford the fare home from Australia to Ardrossan, wants to persuade her son Charles to go to Australia to start a new life. Last week Charles’s 22-yer-old wife Helen was found murdered ...

GLASGOW HERALD
30 APRIL 1958

DEATH – McATEER

At 25 Churchill Drive, Ardrossan, on 25 April, 1958, Bridget McAteer.

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,...