Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 NOVEMBER 1958

DEATH – NAIRN

At Kilmarnock, on 25th November, 1958, James McVicar Nairn, O.B.E., M.C., aged 67 years, beloved husband of Jenny B. Stevenson, Sorbie Road, Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD
27 NOVEMBER 1958

DEATH OF MR JAMES NAIRN

Mr James M Nairn, who has died in hospital, was until June this year Master of Stevenston J. S. School.

Before going to Stevenston in 1950 he had spent all his teaching career in Ardrossan Academy, latterly as head of the science department.

Mr Nairn had a distinguished career in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.

In the Second World War he commanded the 1st Ayrshire Battalion of the Home Guard and was awarded the OBE. He was also the County Cadet Commandant of the Army Cadet Force.

Mr Nairn played several times in the Scottish Amateur Golf Championship. He held the record for the Carnoustie Course between 1932 and 1936, and was Captain of the West Kilbride Club.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1910

DEATH - MACKAY

At 5 Tassie Street, Shawlands, on the 25th instant, John Mackay, joiner, late of Greenock and Ardrossan.

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THE GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1912

THE STRIKE AT ARDROSSAN

There are still fully 100 men on strike at Ardrossan.

The employees of Messrs G. and J. Burns, Messrs William Christie and Company, the Newry and Dundalk Steam Packet Company Limited, Messrs William Baird and Company, and the Glengarnock and Iron and Steel Company Limited have all resumed work under old conditions.

The representatives of the Harbour Company state that they are determined to concede nothing further to the dockers, and they decline to have any dealings whatever with the strike leaders.

Arrangements have now been made by the union officials to pay the men on strike at the rate of 15s weekly, instead of 10s weekly as henceforth.

The harbour is still guarded by the police.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1913

BIRTH - COWIE

At Ardenvohr, Eglinton Road, Ardrossan, on the 26th instant, to Mr and Mrs Thomas Field Cowie; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 NOVEMBER 1913

BIRTH - McPHAIL

At St. James, South Beach, Ardrossan, on the 26th instant, to Mr and Mrs McPhail; a daughter.

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EVENING TIMES
28 NOVEMBER 1953

MURDER CHARGE

An Ardrossan man, William Fitzsimons was charged at Glasgow Sheriff Court today with murdering his wife in a hatchet attack in their home at 17 Parkhouse Gardens, on 6th September this year.

The accused’s agent, Mr S. M. Murray, pled not guilty on his behalf, and lodged a special plea of self-defence.

Fitzsimmons faced A murder charge at a pleading diet before Sheriff Guild for the next sitting of the High Court on December 8.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 NOVEMBER 1910

DEATH - BROOKS

At Rockvale Home, Saltcoats, on 25th instant, Elizabeth McMillan, aged 72 years, beloved wife of John Brooks, 6 Winton Place, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1912

DEATH - MURRAY

At 2 Seton Street, Ardrossan, on the 16th instant, John Crawford, aged seven years, eldest son of John Murray, merchant, Ardrossan.

GLASGOW HERALD
29 NOVEMBER 1912

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - MURRAY

Mr and Mrs John Murray return thanks for kind expressions of sympathy and flowers received during their recent sad bereavement – 2 Seton Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 NOVEMBER 1913

MARRIAGE – FORREST and FLEMING

In Edinburgh, John Forrest, to Elizabeth Thomson, elder daughter of the late William Fleming, Esquire, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 NOVEMBER 1913

BANKRUPTCY – SEQUESTRATION

William Young & Sons, engineers, Ardrossan, and William Young and Robert Lang Young, both engineers, residing at Ravenscraig, Ardrossan, the individual partners of that firm, as such partners and as individuals – Creditors to meet in the Eglinton Arms Hotel, Ardrossan, December 4, at twelve o’clock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 NOVEMBER 1971

YOUTH STABBED IN EYE DIES

Ayrshire police last night appealed for witnesses of an incident in which a 20-year-old man was fatally injured on Saturday night in Ardrossan.

William McGill, a coalman, of 34 Ferguson Street, Ayr, was stabbed through the eye with an umbrella ferrule as he tried to persuade a number of youths to stop attacking an elderly man.

He was taken to hospital in Kilmarnock and later transferred to the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, where he died.

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EVENING TIMES
29 NOVEMBER 1971

BROLLY MURDER – 3 YOUTHS CHARGED

Three Ardrossan youths appeared today at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court charged with murdering a 20-year-old man.

William Mitchell Woods, (19), of 155 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, and two 16-year-old youths were charged with assaulting William McGill, a coalman, of 34 Ferguson Street, Ayr, and striking him repeatedly on the face, head, and body with an umbrella.

McGill was so badly injured he died yesterday in the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.

ANOTHER CHARGE

Woods and one of the 16-year-old youths were also charged with assaulting Wilfred Phillips, (32), Weir Road, Ardrossan, seizing hold of him, and striking him repeatedly on the face and body with an umbrella.

No plea or declaration was made and Sheriff R. N. Levitt remanded all three in custody for further examination.