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GLASGOW HERALD
6 JANUARY 1873

WRECK OF AN ARDROSSAN SHIP AND SUPPOSED LOSS OF LIFE

The following telegrams have reached us through Lloyd’s Agency: -

Cowes, January 4 – The brig VALID, of Ardrossan, is ashore on Rocken End, south coast, off the Isle of Wight. The crew are afloat in their boats. It is blowing a hurricane from south-south-west. The brig is supposed to be light. We render what assistance is practicable.

St. Catherine’s Point, January 4 – The brig VALID, of Ardrossan, is ashore near Rocken End, and breaking up fast. The crew took to their boats, and it is feared all have perished. There is a very heavy sea on.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 JANUARY 1914

MAN AMISSING

An old man named Henry Kerr, supposed to belong to Saltcoats, but lately of no fixed residence, has gone amissing. He was last seen early on Saturday morning, when he spoke to some workmen at the Lighthouse Pier, Ardrossan Harbour. It is supposed that he must have fallen into the water.

GLASGOW HERALD
6 JANUARY 1914

DROWNING

The body of an old man named HENRY KERR, who had been missing since Saturday 27 December, was found in the sea at the Inches, Ardrossan, yesterday morning. Kerr was a native of Saltcoats, but had for some time been without fixed abode.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 JANUARY 1914

THEFTS BY HOUSEBREAKING

In connection with a series of housebreaking cases which have occurred lately in Saltcoats and Ardrossan, where five houses in the absence of the tenants were entered and a quantity of petty articles taken away, the police yesterday apprehended a youth in Stevenston. He was conveyed to Ayr and will be brought to trial at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.

A number of missing articles have been recovered.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 JANUARY 1896

COURT OF SESSION – MILLER v. ROBERTS

Lord Stormonth-Darling closed the record in an action at the instance of Helen Robert or Miller, wife of James Ferguson Miller, wine and spirit merchant in Glasgow, against John Roberts, wine and spirit merchant, Bathgate, and Daniel Roberts, Railway Inn, Ardrossan.

Pursuer asked that the defenders should be ordained to produce a full account of their intromissions, with the movable estate and rents of the heritable estate of their father, William Roberts, auctioneer, Bathgate, or to make payment of £250.

Pursuer states that her father died intestate in 1890, and that the defenders under agreement became a trust to administer his estate and to divide it equally. She has called on the defenders to implement the agreement under which she maintains she is entitled at least to the sum sued for.

Defenders state that they have fully accounted to the pursuer for their intromissions to their father’s estate.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 JANUARY 1952

DEATH

FITZPATRICK: Suddenly, at his Presbytery, on 6th January, 1952, (after a short illness, fortified by the rites of Holy Church), the Very Rev. Canon Peter Fitzpatrick, P.P., Ardrossan.

OBITUARY

The death has occurred of the Very Rev. Canon Peter Fitzpatrick, St. Peter in Chains Roman Catholic Church, Ardrossan. Canon Fitzpatrick’s first appointment was a curacy at St. Joseph’s, Tollcross, Glasgow, where he served for 19 years, and before being appointed to Ardrossan less than two years ago he had been a parish priest at Strathaven, Dalry, Kilwinning, and Kilbirnie. He had served on several education committees in Ayrshire.

[George Ardrossan]

175 years ago today, MacFadzean's Monument on the Castle Hill in Ardrossan was unveiled. Alexander MacFadzean was a doctor who cared for the poor free of charge. The Monument, which can be seen by clicking http://www.s173884875.websitehome.co.uk ... ment19.jpg, was funded by donations and the Earl of Eglinton gave permission for it to be erected on his land.

George

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JANUARY 1867

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL

The NEANTHES, 187 tons register, Captain William Williams, left Ardrossan about noon on Saturday last, bound for Leghorn, and having on board a cargo of coals and pig iron.

About midnight while running up the channel under bare poles, and after having been rolling about in an unmanageable manner for some time, a screw steamer is stated to have run into the brig, striking her on the starboard bow, and carrying away her jibboom, bowsprit, cut-water, and fore mast.

When the NEANTHES was picked up by the GARLAND the dead body of a man was found in the cabin. The body was stated to be that of Robert Broune, the cook.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 JANUARY 1873

THE WRECK OF THE SHIP VALID OF ARDROSSAN

On Monday evening, an inquest was held at Chale, on the Isle of Wight, on the bodies of the two men supposed to be part of the crew of the VALID of Ardrossan, laden with cocoa, spice, logwood, and whalebone, which ran ashore near Blackgang Chine, on Saturday afternoon, when all the crew perished.

The vessel was seen drifting towards the shore, and before she struck the crew (apparently about nine men) left in a boat, hoisting a signal of distress. It was blowing hard from the south-west, and as night set in the boat was lost sight of. Nothing more was heard of it.

The jury, in returning a verdict of “Found Drowned,” censured what they regarded as the indifference of those in charge of the neighbouring lifeboat, as the vessel had been seen in distress for about two hours; and had an ordinary effort been made, both it and the crew might have been saved.

The jury requested the coroner to communicate with the Board of Trade.

[The VALID was owned by Provost Barr of Ardrossan.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1867

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL

In a communication from Belfast dated 7th instant, it is stated that the screw steamer COUNTESS OF EGLINTON had arrived at that port from Ardrossan, after having on Saturday night been in a collision with a schooner, name unknown, about mid-channel.

The steamer had her main rigging damaged, her bulwarks being also slightly damaged; and the crew were under the impression that the schooner had escaped with comparatively trifling injuries.

The story seems to explain the affair of the NEANTHES. In the darkness of Saturday night, a brigantine might readily be mistaken for a schooner.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 JANUARY 1911

SCOTTISH JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

The Association met in Glasgow last night – Mr A. Dickson (East of Scotland) presiding.

Kilbirnie Ladeside withdrew a protest against Ardrossan Winton Rovers.

The draw for the fifth round of the Scottish Junior Cup included: - Mugiemoss v. Ardrossan Winton Rovers.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JANUARY 1841

HURRICANE

About two o’clock on Thursday morning, the 31st ultimo, a most dreadful gale of wind from the north-west commenced, and lasted, without any intermission, during the whole day, and until midnight.

The ISLE OF ARRAN royal mail steam-packet started to proceed to Rothesay, and afterwards to Ardrossan, but “after rounding the head,” and making an attempt through Brodick Bay, the violence of the storm, and heavy sea swell, compelled her to return.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 JANUARY 1910

DEATH

BECK: At Applegarth, Ardrossan, on the 8th instant, Hugh Clark Beck, adopted son of the late William Beck, Ardrossan.