Breckenridge from Ardrossan

[Scott Breckenridge]

William is my great grandfather remember visiting him when I was real young he smoked an old pipe and his ears were all damaged from the heat from fires, my parents are William and Emma live in Largs Annie in West Kilbride is my grannies, miss her anyway Reading this has brought back loads of memories

[W S Breckenridge]

Hello there you are talking about my great grandfather whom I met several times as a younster, my parents are William and Emma and my granny is Annie from West Kilbride my dad Brecky has a sister Margaret and I have four children, would be amazing to get to know more and if you need any help just get in touch, I still remember my granddad smoking his pipe and his massive hands he think he was a ploughman before he was a fireman, thanks Scott

[brian f]

Billy,

Ian appears in the School Photo section. He was older than me and I remember him only vaguely. He went to Eglinton and Winton Schools and lived, I think, in Clyde Terrace, Ardrossan. I have no knowledge of his parent or grandparents.

As an adult he, unfortunately, pursued a life of violent crime, details of which are publicly available on the internet, and which resulted in him being one of the original occupants of the Special Unit at Barlinnie Prison. As an inmate there and a breeder within of budgerigars he featured in a BBC television documentary, resulting in him being nicknamed 'The Birdman'. Having heard Ian's exploits discussed many times I've never heard a bad word about any other members of his family.

The births, deaths and marriages of lots of local Breckenridge's are recorded in the following site and may be helpful to you in pursuit of further information:

http://www.ayrshire-roots.co.uk/ash.php

This is a link to the Special Unit mentioned by Penny Tray featuring Ian.

[Penny Tray]

Interesting Brian.

[Hughie]

Thanks for that, Brian. Ian Breckenridge would be 83/84 years old at the time of this post - my late brother Bobby McCallum is on his right.

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