Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 SEPTEMBER 1912

MARRIAGE – PIRIE and McNAUGHT

At 6 Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, on 27th September, by the Rev. J. Kirkland Cameron, George Pirie to Jenny McNaught, eldest daughter of John McNaught, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 SEPTEMBER 1914

MASTER WRIGHTS’ ASSOCIATION

A master wrights’ association, embracing the towns of Ardrossan, Saltcoats, Stevenston, Kilwinning, Irvine, and the districts of Dreghorn and Springside, has been formed for the purpose of protecting the interests of the trade and regulating prices.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1886

NORTH AYRSHIRE VOTERS ROLL

The new roll, just made up, shows a remarkable decrease in the number of persons entitled to vote in the election of a Member of Parliament in North Ayrshire.

Saltcoats:

1885-86, 922;
1886-87, 781;

Decrease, 141.

The decrease is due to an unusual indifference to political rights, to bad trade, which has increased the number of people who have failed to pay poor-rates, and to a decrease in the population.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1815

BODY FOUND AT SALTCOATS

On Sunday, the body of a boy was found at the seamark on the south side of Saltcoats, with his right ear cut off, the wound being about 2 inches long and 1½ broad.

The body has been examined by medical gentlemen, who have given their opinion that the boy was murdered.

The body was taken to Ardrossan Church, and no person has yet appeared to claim it. He appears to be about eleven or 12.


GLASGOW HERALD
13 OCTOBER 1815

GIRVAN BOY’S BODY FOUND AT SALTCOATS

A precognition was taken by the Justices in the neighbourhood of Saltcoats, by Sheriff Depute and Substitute, on the body of the boy mentioned in a former paper, said to have been found murdered at the east end of the town of Saltcoats; and from the investigation it clearly appears that he belonged to Girvan, and was drowned in the river in the late floods, on the afternoon of Tuesday the 26th ultimo, when attempting to catch a stick that was floating down the river.

The injury on the side of his head must have been received while in the water.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1933

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT

A Saltcoats woman was killed and five persons injured in a railway accident on the L.M.S. main line, near Glengarnock Station, on Saturday night, when a projection from a passing goods train struck one of the coaches and tore its way through the woodwork.

The dead woman was Mrs Hannah, 35 Springvale Street, Saltcoats.

The injured passengers were: -

Mr and Mrs Denby and Miss Denby, 10 Seton Street, Ardrossan;
Mrs Fisher, Ardrossan; and
Mrs Moffat, Saltcoats.

The train was brought to a standstill. Mrs Hannah was killed outright. Her head had been struck by the projection from the goods train. The injuries to the others were caused by pieces of debris and were not serious.

One of the other passengers in the compartment, Mr D. McAuslan, junior, Stevenston, gave an account of the accident. He said there was a loud crash like an explosion, and he stated that he thought there had been a collision. The window burst into splinters and the woodwork was smashed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1853

STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY

Agent – Dr. Charles Marshall, schoolmaster of Ardrossan.

[Dr. Marshall worked for Ardrossan School Board, but lived and taught in Saltcoats.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 SEPTEMBER 1908

DEATH - MacPHERSON

At Polmaily, Gladstone Road, Saltcoats, on the 25th instant, Archibald MacPherson, spirit merchant, Dockhead Street, Saltcoats, aged 60.

GLASGOW HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1908

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - MacPHERSON

Mrs MacPherson and family return sincere thanks for all kind expressions of sympathy received by them in their sad bereavement – Polmaily, Gladstone Road, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 OCTOBER 1940

OBJECTOR’S “PRAYERS” FOR GOVERNMENT

Asked by Lord Elphinstone what he was prepared to do to serve his country in the present emergency William C. Sutherland, a student at the Glasgow Bible Training Institute and living at 8 Anderson Drive, Saltcoats, told the Scottish Conscientious Objectors’ Appellate Tribunal in Edinburgh yesterday that he would pray for the Government.

LORD ELPHINSTONE – Otherwise you are not prepared to lift a finger? – THAT IS SO.

LORD ELPHINSTONE – You are quite prepared for other people to fight on your behalf? – YES.

Sutherland, who was appealing against having to do agricultural work as a condition of being registered as a conscientious objector, was granted exemption on condition he continued his training to enter the ministry.

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GLASGOW HERALD -
5 OCTOBER 1864

BANKRUPTCY – SEQUESTRATION

Thomas Robertson, flesher in Ardrossan and Saltcoats, in the county of Ayr.

Creditors to meet within the Corn Exchange Sale Rooms, Kilmarnock, 12th October, at twelve o’clock.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 OCTOBER 1865

MARRIAGE – McNAB and DONALD

At Rothesay, on the 3rd instant, by the Rev. Mr Ronald, Saltcoats, assisted by the Rev. P. McFarlane, the Rev. Samuel McNab, to Agnes McEwan, relict of Donald M. Donald, Esquire, merchant, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 OCTOBER 1906

MASONIC BAZARR AT SALTCOATS

Yesterday afternoon a grand bazaar in connection with Lodge Neptune Kilwinning (No. 442), held in the Town Hall, Saltcoats, was opened by the Hon. Thomas Cochrane, M.P.

There was a large attendance, and among those on the platform were Lady Gertrude Cochrane and the Countess of Cassillis. Bailie Chrystie, Ardrossan, presided.

There are nine stalls, containing a great variety of goods.

The object of the bazaar is to raise £1500 for the erection of a Masonic temple.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 OCTOBER 1910

BIRTH - McMILLAN

At 47 Argyle Road, Saltcoats, to Mr and Mrs McMillan; a son.