GLASGOW HERALD
13 APRIL 1916

FATAL ACCIDENT

A fatal accident occurred at the West Pit, Ardeer Colliery, near Saltcoats, yesterday forenoon.

David Kilpatrick, an unmanned miner, was caught by a hutch and sustain such injuries to his head that he died shortly afterwards.

GLASGOW HERALD 12 APRIL 1866 SHIPPING CASUALTY Stranraer, April 7 – At 4 a.m., on the 5th instant, the brig EGERIA, Charnley, from Belfast for Ardrossan, in ballast, came ashore at Downan Head, close to Ballantrae, but was got off next tide little damaged, and towed into Ballantrae Fishing Harbour, ...

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1859

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Island of Sanda, April 10 – The steam tug GLOWWORM, Brown, master, which left Ardrossan yesterday to assist the wrecks of the STAFFA and CALIFORNIA, went ashore on the rocks off the lighthouse here, and it is feared will become a complete wreck.

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1858

SHIPPING NEWS

Lamlash, April 8 – The HUMA, from Ardrossan for Genoa, put in here on the 5th instant, leaky, and with cargo shifted.

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1858

DEATH - McJANNET

At Kilmahew House, Ardrossan, on the 6th instant, Isabella, youngest daughter of the late Mr Robert McJannet, farmer, in Myre Mill, Maybole.

GLASGOW HERALD 12 APRIL 1898 DEATH OF A PROMINENT FARMER Mr William Allan, Muirlaught, near Saltcoats, has died at his residence after a short illness. He was born at Muirlaught 68 years ago, his father having tenanted the farm in 1818, but the Allans have been farmers in Ardrossan parish for centur...

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1869

MARRIAGE – CRAIG and BAILLIE

At Hill Street, Saltcoats, on the 6th instant, by the Rev. David Scott, minister of the Free Church, Captain John Dunlop Craig, shipmaster, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Hugh Baillie, Esquire, harbour-master, Saltcoats.

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1859

BIRTH - McDONNELL

At Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 8th instant, Mrs Hugh McDonnell, junior; a son.

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1833

DEATH - ORR

At Saltcoats, on the 6th instant, Mrs Jane McFarlane, wife of W. B. Orr, writer.

GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1816

MARRIAGE – BROWN and HENDRIE

On the 8th instant, at Saltcoats, Hugh Brown, Esquire, younger of Lawhill, to Marion, only child of William Hendrie, Esquire, of Borrowston.

GLASGOW HERALD 12 APRIL 1909 ALARMING FIRE AT STEVENSTON On Friday night about ten o’clock an alarming outbreak of fire occurred at Stevenston, a two-storey block of houses and shops at the corner of Warner Place and Carment Drive being totally destroyed. The fire was first observed in the premises ...

GLASGOW HERALD 11 APRIL 1933 SCOTSMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER OF WIFE Arrested after leaving hospital yesterday, James Fergus McMurray, (46), described as a bank clerk, Grosvenor Road, Muswell Hill, London, was later charged with murdering his wife, Mary Brown McMurray, by shooting her with a revolver b...