Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
31 JANUARY 1876

DEATH

At Dockhead Street, Saltcoats, on the 29th instant, Mary Reid, wife of Geoffrey McTaggart, baker.
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GLASGOW HERALD
1 FEBRUARY 1894

ACCIDENTALLY TAKING CARBOLIC ACID

A little child, daughter of Mr Murray, Raise Street, Saltcoats, yesterday drank some carbolic acid out of a tin without being observed. She was in a critical state, but after receiving medical attention from Doctor McClymont, she is in a fair way to recovery.
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GLASGOW HERALD
2 FEBRUARY 1863

THEFT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Friday, ALEXANDER MILLER, weaver, Saltcoats, was sentenced to 40 days’ imprisonment for stealing, on 21st and 23rd October, 1862, from a house in Saltcoats, a plaid, the property of J. Rowat, manufacturer, Saltcoats.
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GLASGOW HERALD
2 FEBRUARY 1901

QUEEN VICTORIA’S DEATH

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The Town Council and other local bodies and societies meet in in the Town Hall before proceeding to the Parish Church to attend the memorial service.

The shops will be closed all day.

At an emergency meeting of the Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston Wine, Spirt, and Beer Defence Association, held yesterday at Saltcoats, it was unanimously agreed that all licensed premises be closed all day today.

It was also agreed that the various hotel proprietors in the district strictly observe the Sunday rules on that day.
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GLASGOW HERALD
3 FEBRUARY 1873

DEATH

At Saltcoats, on the 1st instant, the Rev. David Ronald, in the 82nd year of his age and 57th of his ministry.
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GLASGOW HERALD
3 FEBRUARY 1879

DEATH

MAXTON: At Saltcoats, Ayrshire, on the 31st ultimo, Janet Isabella Graham, third daughter of the late Robert Maxton, M.E.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 FEBRUARY 1873

THE LATE REV. DAVID RONALD

The Rev. David Ronald, one of the oldest ministers in the United Presbyterian Church, died on Saturday last in Saltcoats, having reached the advanced age of 82. The deceased was very highly respected, not only in Saltcoats, but throughout the bounds of the entire Presbytery of Kilmarnock, where he was well known.

He was born at Brechin on the 1st of April, 1791, and was ordained to the pastorate of the Anti-Burgher Church, Saltcoats, in 1815.

On the death of the Rev. Mr Elles in 1852, that gentleman’s congregation joined that of Mr Ronald, who then became pastor of the united charge. He continued engaged in active ministerial duty till 1862, when he found it necessary to assume the Rev. George Fairgrieve as assistant and successor. He continued to take his share of the work with his colleague till 1867, but has been able to preach but little since.

In 1854, on the occasion of his jubilee, he was presented with 500 sovereigns from a numerous circle of friends.

For many years Mr Ronald acted as Clerk to the U.P. Synod and the Presbytery of Kilmarnock, and, in conjunction with the late Mr Elles, he acted as a member of the Committee for the Distribution of Preachers, in connection with the supply of pulpits for the U.P. Church.

In point of years, we believe he had only three seniors in the entire U.P. body.

He was generally respected by all who knew him.

Mr Ronald had a family of nine sons, only one of whom survives him.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 FEBRUARY 1901

QUEEN VICTORIA’S FUNERAL

Saltcoats:

A joint memorial service was held in the Parish Church.

The Provost, Magistrates, Town Councillors, Freemasons, and Shepherds formed in procession from the Town Buildings to the church.

All the shops and public houses were closed.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 FEBRUARY 1919

DEATH

DAVIDSON: Suddenly of pneumonia, at 13 Glebe Street, Saltcoats, on the 2nd instant, John Robert Davidson, Ayrshire Constabulary, beloved husband of Annie Anderson.

The AYRSHIRE POLICE WAR MEMORIAL by ALASDAIR J. MALCOLM (ISBN: 9789403614502) records: -

“John Robert Davidson was born in February 1888 in Keith, Banffshire and was educated at Keith Grammar School before entering employment as a carpenter.

On the 20th June 1911 he was appointed as a police constable by the Ayrshire Constabulary and served in Irvine, Muirkirk, Kilmarnock, and Dalry before leaving the force on the 17th September 1914 to volunteer for war service with the Scots Guards.

He served in the army for almost two years, being discharged on the 19th July 1916, with a pension of 19/3 per week, after being wounded and having his leg amputated.

Despite his injury he re-joined the Ayrshire Constabulary as a ‘temporary constable’ in August 1916, serving in Largs then Saltcoats. He married Annie Anderson in February 1918 and was finally reinstated to the force on the 11th of May 1918, as noted in his police service record, “For all forms of office or station duties or any duty which does not involve physical exertion or violence.”

Sadly, his determination to return to serve the community as a police officer was not rewarded with a long career, as he passed away at his home at 13 Glebe Street, Saltcoats, on the 2nd of February 1919 from pneumonia, two days before his thirty first birthday. He was most likely a victim of the second deadly wave of Spanish flu during the pandemic which killed many millions of people between 1918 and 1920.”
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GLASGOW HERALD
5 FEBRUARY 1889

BREACH OF HOTEL LICENCE

At the monthly J.P. Court, held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, on Friday last, WILLIAM H. DUNCAN, of the Saracen’s Head Hotel, was charged with having sold 12 pints of ale and porter on the 9th December last to parties in the locality not being bona-fide travellers.

The Magistrates found the charge proven and fined Mr Duncan in the mitigated sum of £1 5s, with £1 10s expenses.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 FEBRUARY 1863

BIRTH

At Ardrossan Manse, Saltcoats, on the 5th instant, the wife of the Rev. D. E. McNab; a daughter.
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GLASGOW HERALD
6 FEBRUARY 1877

A DANGEROUS ROADWAY

A Saltcoats Correspondent writes: -

The roadway at Sandilands shore leading from Saltcoats to Stevenston has hitherto been formed by the line of the old railway, and the insidious inroads of the sea have been gradually clearing away the old pathway.

The Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company have been doing their utmost, by the aid of old sleepers, to stem the inroads of the ocean, and although this may be effectual for a time, it is too much like the efforts of Mrs Partington to keep back the Atlantic by the use of a hearth brush.

The sea continues to make steady progress, and the latest encroachment it has made extends to some 50 feet in length, 23 feet in width, and 8 or 10 feet in depth. It is dangerously close to the Glasgow & South-Western Railway. To unfortunate pedestrians the roadway forms a man-trap unequalled in the West of Scotland, and it would take a professional pedestrian to cross it without broken shins.
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