Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 SEPTEMBER 1899

SCOTCH BANKRUPT – EXAMINATION

WILLIAM SKEOCH, farmer, Little Laught, in the parish of Ardrossan – to be examined in the Sheriff Court-House, Kilmarnock, 4th October, at eleven o’clock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1891

LAWN TENNIS
ARDROSSAN BOWLING AND LAWN TENNIS CLUB v. JOHNSTONE

On Saturday afternoon the above clubs met on the South Beach courts to play a return match, which resulted as follows: -

Johnstone, 9 sets 77 games; Ardrossan, 7 sets 64 games.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1895

DEATH

BARRIE: Suddenly, at 42 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 27th instant, in her 87th year, Elizabeth Barrie.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1894

ATTEMPTED HOUSEBREAKINGS

At Ayr Sheriff Court yesterday before Honorary Sheriff Dunlop – MICHAEL MURRAY, labourer, Ardrossan, was charged with attempting to break into a public-house and a draper’s shop in Ardrossan.

He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. He had three previous convictions recorded against him.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1916

FATAL ROAD ACCIDENT

ROBERT AITKEN, (4), son of Robert Aitken, soldier, 12 Kilmahew Street, Ardrossan, has succumbed to injuries received through being run over by a motor car in Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, last Sunday.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1916

FATAL ROAD ACCIDENT

ROBERT AITKEN, (4), son of Robert Aitken, soldier, 12 Kilmahew Street, Ardrossan, has succumbed to injuries received through being run over by a motor car in Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, last Sunday.

Will need to look out Bobby’s family tree. Think this may be a relative . Bobby is called after his Grandfather Robert Aitken.

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Netta,

The family intimation in the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald names the boy as the son of Robert and Lily.

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Netta,

The family intimation in the Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald names the boy as the son of Robert and Lily.

That sounds like it is Bobby’s family.
Will check family tree

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 SEPTEMBER 1891

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The paddle steamer SCOTIA, of Glasgow, struck the pier at Ardrossan, and dented several of her plates on the port bow close to the hawse pipe, and above the water line also started some of her rivets.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 SEPTEMBER 1892

NORTHERN DISTRICT COMMITTEE OF AYRSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

It was suggested by the sub-committee on hospitals, of which Major J. F. Dalrymple Hay is convenor, that a suitable site for a hospital for Stevenston, Ardrossan, and West Kilbride parishes might be found near the junction of the high road from Ardrossan to West Kilbride with the road from Ardrossan to Dalry.

Major Hay explained that this site was about six miles from the farthest limit of West Kilbride parish, three-and-a-half miles from Stevenston village, and one mile from the town of Ardrossan.

Mr. James Mutter, of Meiklelaught, objected to the existence of two hospitals in Ardrossan parish.

Mr. Gemmell, West Kilbride, said the proposed district had not a population of more than 7000, and the other districts formed were three times as populous. There had not been a case of an infectious disease in West Kilbride parish for two years.

A suggestion was made that the building erected as a hospital by the Parish Board of Ardrossan, might be extended and adapted to meet the requirements of a district hospital.

Mr. Stewart, Lord Eglinton’s factor, asked for delay and after some discussion the convenor of committee agreed that consideration of the proposal to erect a district hospital for the proposed parishes should be postponed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 SEPTEMBER 1891

ARDROSSAN SEAMAN’S MISSION

The above mission, which has been closed for over two years owing to the unsafe condition of the roof, was re-opened on Sabbath evening by Mr. John Anderson, of the Ayrshire Christian Union.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 SEPTEMBER 1898

HOUSEBREAKING

Early yesterday morning the cellar attached to the public-house in Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, owned by Captain John Kerr, was broken into and a quantity of beer and porter stolen.

It appears that a fireman on the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway, residing above Kerr’s shop, returned home from work about two o’clock in the morning. He went to bed, but was unable to sleep for the noise the burglars were making. He rapped on the window and shouted, “Police,” and thus scared the burglars away.

After the birds had flown he went for the police, who arrived in time to find the booty in a box.

A man named McLean, a loafer, was apprehended. He was conveyed to Kilmarnock yesterday, and after emitting a declaration before the Sheriff, he was discharged.