Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 MAY 1918

BIRTH – KERR

At 20 Sidney Street, Saltcoats, on the 8th May, to Mr and Mrs Alan R. Kerr, of 15 Garrioch Quadrant, Glasgow; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 MAY 1919

DEATH – EDGAR

At Netherby, Caledonia Road, Saltcoats, on 7th instant, William Edgar, aged 80, late ham curer, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 MAY 1915

VICTIMS OF LUSITANIA TORPEDO ATTACK ON 7 MAY

There were four passengers belonging to Saltcoats on the LUSITANIA, and none of their names appear on the list of those saved.

They were Mrs Mary Lambie and her two young daughters, and Mrs Catherine Gill.

Mrs Lambie was coming home on a visit to her friends. No information has been received concerning her or the girls.

Mrs Gill and her husband left Saltcoats a year ago to take up residence at Gillespie, Illinois. They had only been there a few days when Mr Gill was killed in a mining accident.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 MAY 1918

BIRTH – ROBERTSON

At Easdale, Argyle Road, Saltcoats, on 9th May, 1918, the wife of John A. Robertson; a daughter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 MAY 1918

DEATH – SHEARER

At 2 Stanley Road, Saltcoats, on the 7th instant, Margaret, daughter of the late John Shearer, Dubbs, Barrhead.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 MAY 1916

DEATH – HAMILTON

Died suddenly, on the 11th May, at Parkfield, Argyle Road, Saltcoats, in his 80th year, William Hamilton, late manager with Wylie and Lochhead, Whiteinch.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 MAY 1915

VICTIMS OF LUSITANIA TORPEDO ATTACK ON 7 MAY

There were four passengers belonging to Saltcoats on the LUSITANIA, and none of their names appear on the list of those saved.

They were Mrs Mary Lambie and her two young daughters, and Mrs Catherine Gill.

Mrs Lambie was coming home on a visit to her friends. No information has been received concerning her or the girls.

Mrs Gill and her husband left Saltcoats a year ago to take up residence at Gillespie, Illinois. They had only been there a few days when Mr Gill was killed in a mining accident.

GLASGOW HERALD
13 MAY 1915

VICTIMS OF RMS LUSITANIA TORPEDO ATTACK ON 7 MAY

Mrs McKechan and her son, Campbell McKechan, arrived in Stevenston yesterday. Another son, six years of age, was lost. When the torpedo struck he was playing on the deck, and his mother never saw him again.

Before leaving Queenstown Mrs McKechan identified the body of Mrs Mary Gill, a Saltcoats lady, who was among the drowned.

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Catherine Gill, a widow without issue, 38 years of age, was lost with the LUSITANIA. She left surviving her six brothers and three sisters, all of whom were born subjects of Great Britain, several of whom, through naturalisation, became American citizens. It appears from the record that Catherine emigrated to the United States when she was about ten years of age. She had been married twice. It is alleged, but not proven, that her first husband, Robert Pennel, had through naturalisation, become a citizen of the United States. The record is silent with respect to the nationality of her second husband, James Gill, who died prior to her death.

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ARDROSSAN & SALTCOATS HERALD
14 MAY 1915

DEATH - LAMBIE

As a result of the sinking of the RMS LUSITANIA on 7 May 1915, Mary Docherty or Lambie, (27), wife of Daniel Lambie.

DEATH - LAMBIE

As a result of the sinking of the RMS LUSITANIA on 7 May 1915, Elizabeth Lambie, (8), daughter of Daniel Lambie.

DEATH - LAMBIE

As a result of the sinking of the RMS LUSITANIA on 7 May 1915, Mary Lambie, (2), daughter of Daniel Lambie.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1918

SALTCOATS WITHOUT MILK

Saltcoats was without milk yesterday, the dairymen having refused to send supplies at the fixed price by the Food Control Committee, viz., 1s 8d per gallon. The committee have meantime opened two dairies for the supply of milk for children, mothers, and invalids, and have asked the Food Controller for powers to requisition the milk which the dairymen are now sending to a creamery.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1919

DEATH – STARK

At 11 Stanley Place, Saltcoats, on 10th May, George Stark, tobacconist, husband of Mary McNicoll.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1915

DEATH – WALLACE

At Taybank, 83 Argyle Road, Saltcoats, on the 13th instant, Jeanie Thomson, only daughter of the late Captain R. Wallace.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1919

DIED ON SERVICE - CLARK

Previously reported missing, 22 March, 1918, now officially presumed killed, Private Arthur Paul Clark, Royal Scots, third son of Mr and Mrs John MacNeill Clark, 9 Kirk Road, Saltcoats.