Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 APRIL 1879

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION CANDIDATES

The time for withdrawals expired yesterday afternoon, when two out of the 11 candidates nominated retired – the Rev. J. D. McCall, New Parish, Ardrossan, and Dr. Brown, Saltcoats.

Nine names for seven seats still remain, so that a contest is inevitable.

Those who go to the poll are: -

From Ardrossan:
Revs. John Stewart, F.C., and Alexander Cross, Independent; Provost Barr, Messrs John Moffat, C.E., and J. L. Bailey, banker.

From Saltcoats:
Rev. D. E. McNab, Parish Church; Messrs James Fullerton, ironmonger; Alexander Hamilton, merchant; and Charles Marshall, late parochial teacher.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
17 APRIL 1915

Died on service, Private JAMES C. NICHOL, Service No. 17015, Royal Scots Fusiliers – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – enlisted at Ardrossan; son of Mr William Nichol, 14 High Street, Dumfries.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1870

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Kinsale, April 13 – Put in last night, the schooner FRANCES, of Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1874

ARDROSSAN FREE CHURCH

On Wednesday evening the annual meeting was held in the church. The Rev. John Stewart, pastor, occupied the chair.

The financial statement was submitted by the treasurer, Mr Fullerton, and showed a very satisfactory state of matters.

During the year the total sum raised was £270 12s (35s 7d per church member) viz.: - General Sustentation Fund, £103 16s 11d, various mission and other schemes of the Church, £34 4s 3d; and for the congregational funds, £132 10s 10d.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 APRIL 1877

DEATH

At Stirling, on the 14th instant, aged 15 years, William, youngest son of Hugh Crawford, stationer, 44 Princes Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1872

THE PAVILION, ARDROSSAN – TO LET

Lord Eglinton intends to let the Pavilion during the coming summer to September.

The house consists of four public rooms and eight bedrooms with ample accommodation for servants, etc., and it is newly and comfortably furnished. There is a large garden and considerable pleasure ground.

Apply to James Stewart, Heathfield, Irvine.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 APRIL 1876

ARDROSSAN SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION CANDIDATES

Yesterday was the last day for the withdrawal of parties nominated for seats, and as none indicated a desire to retire, the eleven nominated for seven seats, will go to the poll.

The following is the list: -

Old Members:
Provost Barr; Revs. J. D. McCall, E.C., D. E. McNab, E.C., Alexander Cross, E.U., and William Hallinan, R.C.; and Mr James Fullerton, ironmonger, Saltcoats.

New Candidates:
Rev. John Stewart, F.C.; Hon. G. R. Vernon; Mr J. L. Bailey, banker, Ardrossan; Dr. Brown, Saltcoats; and Edward Miller, builder, Saltcoats.

The polling takes place on Tuesday first, and a keen contest is anticipated.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
19 APRIL 1917

Died on service, Lance Sergeant FRANCIS DOUGLAS ANDREW, (25), Service No. 23060, 12th Battalion Highland Light Infantry – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – born at Ardrossan; son of John and Janet Andrew, Nether Kirkton, Neilston, Renfrewshire.

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CASUALTY OF WAR
19 APRIL 1917

Died on service, Private WILLIAM BRECKENRIDGE, (19), 1/4TH Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers – Theatre of war, Palestine – son of William and Mary Breckenridge, 18 Princes Place, Ardrossan.

The Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald subsequently reported: -

“Private William Breckenridge, Royal Scots Fusiliers, reported missing since 19th April, is 19 years of age and the eldest son of Mr and Mrs William Breckenridge, 18 Princes Place, Ardrossan.

He joined the Army in November, 1914, and has been over two years engaged in the fighting lines. He went through the Gallipoli campaign unwounded, but he was invalided from the Peninsula with blood poisoning and rheumatic fever.

Private Breckenridge is a native of Ardrossan, was educated at Eglinton School and before enlisting was a fireman in the service of the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company.

Any information regarding him will be thankfully received by his parents.”

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 APRIL 1878

SMACK SUNK

Yesterday morning, while the smack MARJORY, of Ardrossan, with a cargo of sand, from Arran for Glasgow, was abreast of the Greenock Gasworks she was struck on the port bow by the Clyde Navigation barge No. 8.

The smack sank in two minutes, and the crew of two men got into their boat and were towed by the barge to Greenock where they landed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 APRIL 1972

ORDER STAYS BANNING DIVER FROM APPROACHING WRECK

Despite strenuous argument by his counsel that he was being prohibited from investigating “a wreck that is not there,” an Ardrossan diver failed to obtain Court Authority to continue diving for the lagan from an eighteenth-century Dutch ship in competition with a rival diving concern.

Mr R. E. Henderson, for Mr William Elliot, 15 South Crescent, South Beach, Ardrossan, carrying on business as Elliot & Company (Divers), told Lord Johnston, Court of Session vacation Judge, that an interim interdict granted against him last week grossly prejudiced his rights.

PARTNERSHIP

The Order prohibits Mr Elliot, or anyone acting for him, from approaching the wreck of the ADELAAR,, which belonged to the Dutch East India Company, and is said to have sunk on a reef off Barra known locally as the “cursed rock.”

It was granted by Lord Milligan on an unopposed application by a partnership comprising Mr Christopher Oldfield, managing director of Submarine Salvage Systems Limited, 68 Argyle Street, Birkenhead, and Mr Colin John Mackenzie Martin, a marine archaeologist, of Roxburgh Manse, Kelso.

The partnership claim exclusive right to explore the wreck or the objects found in the area where it is alleged to have foundered, and maintain they found it.

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Rebecca, or Ruby Leask was my father's cousin, ex-provost Beggs my grandmother's brother.I wonder if there are still members of the family in or around Adrossan. My family was useless at keeping in touch!!