Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1864

DEATH – LECKIE

At Dockhead Street, Saltcoats, on the 27th instant, aged 21 years, Jessie, eldest daughter of Mr William Leckie, baker.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 APRIL 1821

BANKRUPTCY

Hugh Currie, salt merchant and dealer in salt, Saltcoats – Creditors to meet in Campbell’s Inn, there, 7th and 22nd May, at two.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MAY 1915

MARRIAGE – ANDERSON and CAMPBELL

At the Manse, Killearn, on the 30th April, by the Rev. A. Gordon Mitchell, D.D., William G. Anderson, third son of Mr and Mrs Anderson, Saltcoats, to Jean Wardrop, daughter of Mr and Mrs Campbell, Killearn.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MAY 1917

DEATH - RICHARDSON

At 1 Springvale Place, Saltcoats, on 30th April (the home of her brother-in-law, Ivie McIlwraith), Barbara Ritchie, widow of John Richardson, and daughter of the late William Ritchie, Hawthorn, Beith, Ayrshire.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 MAY 1916

WAR PENSIONS – LOCAL COMMITTEE FOR AYRSHIRE

Ayr County Council yesterday, on the recommendation of the Law Committee, appointed a local committee for Ayrshire under the Naval and Military War Pensions Act.

Included in its membership is: -

Mr Thomas Miller, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 MAY 1916

GOLDEN WEDDING – GORDON and CURRIE

At James Street, Hamilton, on 4th May, 1866, by the Rev. Mr Inglis, Blackswell Church, John Gordon, sculptor, Paisley, to Crace Currie, 23 Broomlands, Paisley, and New Lands, Argyle Road, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 MAY 1913

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

MacGregor Medal: – J. Galt, (11) 79, winner; and R. W. Shearer, (14) 92.

Owing to the unfavourable weather the Stewart Medal competition was postponed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1916

DEATH - FULLARTON

At Ashgrove, Saltcoats, on the 23rd instant, James Fullarton, retired shipmaster, in his 79th year.

GLASGOW HERALD
5 MAY 1916

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - FULLARTON

Mrs James Fullarton and family return sincere thanks to all friends for many kind expressions of sympathy received by them in their recent bereavement – Ashgrove, Saltcoats.

[Hughie]

Kilmarnock Herald and Ayrshire Gazette
May 7, 1954

"We don't pay for pavements"
Ayr County Council are to take steps to recover cost of the work carried out by the County Surveyor in the laying of pavements outside certain houses in Sharphill Road, Saltcoats.

A petition signed by forty-four of the frontagers in Sharphill Road, Saltcoats, objecting to payment of the cost of the footpaths has been sent sent to the County Council. The Council say that notices were served on these proprietors Some considerable time ago and that on their failure to act on the notices after the lapse of a long period they instructed the County Surveyor to put the work in hand and to charge the cost against the proprietors concerned

No appeals were made to the Sheriff by any of the proprietors under the procedure laid down in the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892.

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WIKIPEDIA
7 MAY 1915

TORPEDO ATTACK ON THE RMS LUSITANIA

On the afternoon of 7 May, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS LUSITANIA eleven miles off the southern coast of Ireland inside the declared war zone. A second explosion caused her to sink in 18 minutes, killing 1,199 passengers and crew.

[Subsequent newspaper reports indicate that eight adults and children with local connections were on board, viz: -

1. Mr James Lockhart, (30), son of Mr John Lockhart, 6 Robertson Crescent, Saltcoats – died.
2. Mrs Mary Docherty Lambie, (27) – died.
3. Miss Elizabeth Lambie, (8) – died.
4. Miss Mary Lambie, (2) – died.
5. Mrs Elizabeth Ballantyne McKechan, (32) – survived.
6. Master James McKechan, (6) – died.
7. Master Campbell McKechan, (10 months) – survived.
8. Mrs Catherine Harris Gill, (38) – died.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 MAY 1919

BIRTH – SHEDDEN

At 17 Sidney Street, Saltcoats, on the 5th instant, to Mr and Mrs James Shedden; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 MAY 1915

ARDROSSAN AND SALTCOATS GOLF CLUB

Competition in connection with opening of extended course: -

G. Sinclair, (scratch) 88;
G. Crawford, (8) 89;
D. Cooper, (9) 90; and
Drummond McGillivray, (4) 91.