GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1866

SHIPPING NEWS

Lamlash, April 22 – The TAXIAN, Small, from Ardrossan for Swinemunde, has put in here to ship a man in lieu of one deserted at Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1864 SCHOONER PUT BACK On Saturday the schooner ALLIES, Christopher, master, from Ardrossan to Barcelona , with pig iron, put back to the Tail of the Bank, with foretopmast carried away, loss of spars, sails, etc., having been struck by a severe squall when a little to the so...

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1845 LAUNCH OF THE FIRE FLY On Tuesday, about one o’clock afternoon, a fine new steamer was launched from the building-yard of those skilful and enterprising engineers, Messrs Tod and McGregor, Glasgow. The FIRE FLY is intended for the Ardrossan and Belfast station, as a cons...

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1862 HERRING SMACK FOR SALE AT SALTCOATS There will be sold by public roup, within the office of Robert King Barbour, writer, in Saltcoats, upon Thursday the 8th day of May next, at two o’clock afternoon, a herring smack, with her appurtenances, and eight barrels of herring n...

GLASGOW HEALD 25 APRIL 1913 WOMEN’S UNION IN THE NOBEL WORKS Last night a largely attended meeting of the female workers in Nobel Explosive Works was held in the Victoria Institute, Stevenston, for the purpose of forming a union in connection with the female workers. Mr Gilbert Lewis, who presided, ...

GLASGOW HERALD 25 APRIL 1868 AYR CIRCUIT COURT - THEFT Elizabeth McDonald or Hamilton was charged with theft in so far as – (1) on the 10th or 11th August, 1866, from a house in Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, then occupied by Robert Aitken, gasfitter, she stole a plaid, a silver watch, a chain, a fourp...

Happy birthday Tom, have a great day.

GLASGOW HERALD 24 APRIL 1914 EPISCOPAL HOME MISSIONS On Wednesday afternoon a sale of work was held in the hall of St. Andrews’s Episcopal Church, Ardrossan, in aid of the Home Mission work of the church. The Countess of Glasgow, in declaring the sale open, referred to the growth in the demand of th...

GLASGOW HERALD 24 APRIL 1902 FIRE AT ARDROSSAN OILSKIN WORKS A serious fire occurred in Ardrossan yesterday forenoon, completely destroying the premises of the Ardrossan Oilskin Manufacturing Company, and involving a loss of over £1000. The building contained a large number of waterproofs and oilski...

GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1840

MARRIAGE - CRAIG and BANKS

At Saltcoats, on the 14th current, by the Rev. James Giffen, Mr James Craig, shipmaster, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Mr John Banks, saddler.

GLASGOW HERALD 24 APRIL 1883 STEVENSTON – MAN DROWNED On Sunday, about 5 p.m., a collier named James McLellan, from Iron Works Square, Kilwinning, was accidentally drowned in the mill dam a short distance from the village. It appears that McLellan and a companion who came to Stevenston during the da...

GLASGOW HERALD 23 APRIL 1819 AYR CIRCUIT COURT – DEATH SENTENCE This morning, Thursday, April 22, the Court was opened by Lord Pitmilly. The first libel taken up was that against John McNeil alias Boag, and Joseph McNeil alias Boag, accused of breaking into the house occupied by Archibald Scott at K...