Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 APRIL 1918

MARRIAGE – GOODWIN and LAMBERT

At St. Andrew’s Church, Kowloon, on 7th February, by the Rev. W. Y. Featherstone, M.A., David Alexander Goodwin, younger son of Mrs Goodwin and the late D. B. Goodwin of Ardrossan and Motherwell, Scotland, to Minnie Daisy, daughter of John Lambert, Lloyd’s surveyor, Hong Kong.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 APRIL 1919

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND – ASSEMBLY COMMISSIONERS

United Free Church Ministers: –

Robert Whiteford, Ardrossan.

United Free Church Elders: –

Messrs James Hepburn, Ardrossan.

Ardrossan - Nominations for United Free Church College Chairs

Professor Carnegie Simpson for the Chair of Church History at the New College, Edinburgh;

The Rev. Professor Robert Law of Toronto, and The Rev. William Manson, M.A., Pollokshields, for the Chair of New Testament Literature at Glasgow College; and

The Rev. A. H. Macaulay, Stirling, for the Chair of Systematic Theology, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 APRIL 1919

STRANGE CASE OF LOSS OF MEMORY

Moses Pinkerton, belonging to Dromore, County Down, Ireland, who was found in Ardrossan about a month ago suffering from loss of memory, and has since been in hospital, has now recovered sufficiently to relate his experience.

He left Dromore for Motherwell, where he was formerly employed on the cars. While coming from Belfast to Ardrossan he got into company with a man, who gave him a drink out of a bottle. Thereafter his mind was a blank, and he is unable to recollect anything that happened between then and now. When he left Belfast he had over £30 on his person, but when found in Ardrossan the only thing in his possession was a pipe. It is thought that he was drugged and robbed on his passage.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 APRIL 1916

EARLY VICTORY A CALAMITY

At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan United Free Presbytery – the Rev. G. Buchanan presiding – the Rev. W. D. M. Sutherland moved that the Presbytery overture the General Assembly on the question of appointing a day of national prayer and humiliation.

He thought the Church should give the nation a lead. He was of the opinion that the war had not made the impression on the people that it should. Some of them had hoped for a revival of religion and morality. He sometimes heard talk of peace and victory, but he questioned if the country were ready for peace or prepared for victory.

It would be a calamity if they got victory at this juncture before a real impression had been made on the great mass of the people.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 APRIL 1918

UNITED FREE COLLEGES

Ardrossan United Free Presbytery, while of the opinion that it is inopportune to have any appointment made, has sent the following nominations for the New Testament Chair in Glasgow College: -

Professor Moffat and the Rev. Dr. W. M. MacGregor.

The same nominations were made for the Principalship, while the Rev. Dr. A. B. MacAulay was nominated for the Chair of Dogmatics, and Professor P. Carnegie Simpson for the Chair of Church History in the event of Professor Moffat being transferred.

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GLASGOW HERALD
7 APRIL 1953

MARRIAGE – MACCRAE and STURROCK

At Bellgrove and Young Street Church, Glasgow, on 4th April, 1953, by the Rev. Donald Currie, James, youngest son of the late George MacCrae and of Mrs MacCrae, Coulshill, Auchterarder, to Elizabeth Munro, only daughter of Mr and Mrs R. Sturrock, 20 Eglinton Road, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 APRIL 1915

ARDROSSAN UNITED FREE PRESBYTERY

At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan United Free Presbytery – the Rev. R. M. Adamson presiding – an application by the Rev. John McMillan, E.U. Church, Ardrossan, for admission as a minister of the United Free Church was reported upon.

The Presbytery, after hearing a record of his work at Blantyre and Ardrossan, cordially recommended to the General Assembly to authorise Mr McMillan’s admission.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 APRIL 1919

DEATH - YEAMAN

At 185 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on 3rd April, of pneumonia, Sarah Hamilton, grand-daughter of William McKinnon.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 APRIL 1972

DRIVER KILLED AS CAR HITS WALL

A man was killed and two persons injured last night when their car struck a wall on the Ardrossan Road, Seamill.

The dead man was the driver. The injured man and woman were taken to Kilmarnock Infirmary.


EVENING TIMES
10 APRIL 1972

DEAD POLICEMAN NAMED

An off-duty policeman who died last night when his car hit a wall in Ardrossan Road, Seamill, was named today as Constable William Tait, (31), who lived with his wife at 3 Woodcroft Road, Largs.

P.C. Tait, whose parents live in Ardrossan, died instantly. A young couple to whom he was giving a lift were reported today not so seriously hurt as at first feared. Both are in Kilmarnock Infirmary.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 APRIL 1919

MARRIAGE – CLARKE and CRAWFORD

At Redholme, Ardrossan, on the 9th instant, by the Rev. J. R. Spottiswood, James Clarke to Nessie, only daughter of A. M. Crawford.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1911

ARDROSSAN TOWN COUNCIL MEETING

At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan Town Council – Provost Chrystie presiding – there was submitted a letter from the secretary of the Improvements Committee stating that that body had been in communication with the Harbour Company with reference to the field adjoining Princes Street and the ground seawards of the field, and that the Harbour Company had agreed to grant the use of these spaces for the purpose of improving the amenities of the town.

The Council agreed to leave the whole matter to the discretion of the burgh surveyor.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 APRIL 1913

DEATH - LEITCH

At 90 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on 10th April, Mary Waterson Barr, beloved wife of David Leitch, marine engineer.