Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 DECEMBER 1893

DEATH

LAWSON: At Myrtle Bank, Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, on the 15th instant, the infant son of James B. Lawson, teacher of music.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 DECEMBER 1893

FOOTBALL – AYRSHIRE CUP – SEMI-FINAL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. KILBIRNIE
At Saltcoats


Result: - Saltcoats Victoria, 3; Kilbirnie, 1.
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GLASGOW HERALD
18 DECEMBER 1895

MARRIAGE - SMITH and ORR

At Darwhillan, Saltcoats, on 17th December, by Rev. David Scott, D.D., and Rev. John Sturrock, Edinburgh, Andrew Scott Smith, M.A., M.B., C.M., medical missionary, Damascus, to Abigail Smith, elder daughter of the late Thomas Orr, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 DECEMBER 1895

SALTCOATS MISSION COAST HOME

The thirteenth annual meeting of the Mission Coast Home, Saltcoats, was held yesterday in the Religious Institution Rooms, Glasgow.

Bailie McCutcheon occupied the chair.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 DECEMBER 1892

FOOTBALL
IRVINE v. SALTCOATS VICTORIA
At Irvine


Result: - Irvine, 2; Saltcoats Victoria, 2 – a draw.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 DECEMBER 1845

MARRIAGE

At Saltcoats, on the 16th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Bryce, Mr. John Craig, merchant, Glasgow, to Jessie, daughter of Captain Hendry, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 DECEMBER 1899

RETIRED PUBLICAN SENT TO PRISON

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday – before Sheriff Hall – WILLIAM GIBSON, retired publican, Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, was charged with having, on the 17th instant, assaulted his wife by striking her several blows on the face with his clenched fists.

He pleaded guilty, and there being four previous convictions against him, he was sentenced to 60 days’ imprisonment.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
19 DECEMBER 1914

Died of wounds at Station Hospital, Bombay, Sergeant ALLAN DUNSMORE, 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment – Theatre of war – Mesopotamia – son of John and Elizabeth Dunsmore, Saltcoats; brother of Mrs. P. Angus, 5 Victoria Road, Saltcoats; and David Dunsmore, Station Square, Stevenston.
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GLASGOW HERALD
19 DECEMBER 1845

SEA DISASTER

We learn from a letter dated at Brixham, Devonshire, that the ELIZABETH, Captain Gilbert of London, which some time ago sailed from the Clyde, when proceeding from the Mediterranean homewards, on the 20th ultimo, in going through the Bay of Biscay, at three o’clock in the morning, encountered a heavy sea, when THOMAS BALLANTYNE, a young man, son of Mr. Archibald Ballantyne, Saltcoats, who was standing at the wheel, was carried away (with the bulwarks and stanchions) and lost, while the mate and another of the crew were severely hurt, although not cast overboard.

At ten o’clock on the same morning she was again struck with a heavy sea, when the captain with two of the crew were swept away; another wave brought back to the deck one of the parties, JOHN WILSON, belonging to Saltcoats, who was saved, - the captain and the other seaman perished.
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GLASGOW HERALD
20 DECEMBER 1847

FAREWELL DINNER

WILLIAM SHARPE, Esquire, M.D., (successor to the late Doctor Simpson, 40 Dundas Street, Glasgow), on leaving Saltcoats for this more extensive sphere of professional usefulness, upwards of forty gentlemen entertained him at supper in Mr. Campbell’s Saracen’s Head Inn, on Friday evening, the 10th instant – the Rev. James Elles in the chair; Matthew Crawford, Esquire, croupier – supported respectively, by the guest; Rev. Doctor Ronald; Doctor Houston, Ardrossan; Hugh Orr, Esquire; James Park, Esquire, &c.

The Rev. Chairman, in highly complimentary terms, proposed the health of Doctor Sharpe, who replied in a neat and feeling speech.

The evening was spent most agreeably, and all present evidenced the strongest interest in the future success of their guest.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 DECEMBER 1849

MARRIAGE

At Saltcoats on the 15th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Bryce, Mr. Mark M. Crawford, farmer, Kingarth, Bute, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Crawford, farmer, Little Busby, Ayrshire.
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GLASGOW HERALD
21 DECEMBER 1892

SALTCOATS MISSION COAST HOME

The report presented at the 27th annual meeting in connection with Saltcoats Mission Coast Home, held in Glasgow yesterday, showed a total income for the year of £1256, while the expenditure amounted to £1117.

The patients treated numbered 1226, making a total since the institution of the home of 26,270.
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