Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 FEBRUARY 1920

DEATH – McCREADIE

Accidentally killed at Glasgow & South-Western Railway Station, Ardrossan, 17th instant, Jessie McCreadie, youngest daughter of William McCreadie, 6 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 FEBRUARY 1916

MARRIAGE – STEEL and GIBSON

At Fairview, Irvine Road, Kilmarnock (the residence of the bride’s uncle), on the 19th February, by the Rev. W. J. Smith, St. Marnock’s Parish Church, James Steel, junior, marine engineer, Ardrossan, to Margaret, daughter of the late Alexander Gibson, Bothwell.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 FEBRUARY 1916

ALEXANDER WOOD MEMORIAL LIBRARY

At the meeting of Ardrossan Town Council – Provost Chrystie presiding – Mr D. A. Boyd reported in connection with the Alexander Wood Memorial Library that the books and other items now registered 3013.

Many of the pamphlets were exceedingly rare, others were valuable either as specimens of early Ayrshire topography or as throwing light on obscure places in Ayrshire history, and in consequence it had been deemed expedient to devote a large amount of time and labour to them.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 FEBRUARY 1919

PROPOSED SWIMMING POND AND BATHS AT ARDROSSAN

Ardrossan Town Council are in negotiations for a feu in Princes Street between the Unionist Club and Bath Villa with a view to erecting a swimming pond and baths.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 FEBRUARY 1919

AYRSHIRE EDUCATION AREAS

The Secretary for Scotland, as a result of representation from public education bodies, has increased the number of members of the education authority of the Ayrshire area under the new Act from 31 to 42 and has created another electoral division making seven in all.

The proposed sixth division, comprising the northern district of the country has been divided into two, the sixth consisting of the parishes of Ardrossan, Kilwinning, Largs, Stevenston, and West Kilbride, and the seventh covering the remainder of the district and including the burgh of Irvine, which has been taken out of the fifth district.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 FEBRUARY 1919

DEATH ON SERVICE

At 9 Neilston Road, Paisley, on the 23rd instant (of pneumonia), Lance Corporal Robert Bell, aged 26 years, 8TH Battalion Tank Corps, only surviving son of Mrs Bell, and the late George Bell.

[Buried at Ardrossan Cemetery – Plot M.C. 498]

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 FEBRUARY 1843

SHIPPING NEWS

Drogheda, February 21 – Yesterday, Monday, the MARGARET, Captain Paton, belonging to Irvine, New Brunswick, bound from Ardrossan for Dublin, foundered about twenty miles east of Drogheda.

Five of her crew were saved by getting into the long boat and cutting her adrift.

There was a tremendous sea running at the time, and the MARGARET in a few minutes disappeared, and with her the captain and two apprentices.

About five hours after the vessel foundered, the boat containing the five survivors, was picked up by the men belonging to the coastguard service stationed at Clogher, and towed in there.

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 FEBRUARY 1852

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Moulmein, December 23 – The MARY HARRINGTON, from Ardrossan, grounded in the river.

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 FEBRUARY 1919

DEATH ON SERVICE - SILLARS

Suddenly, at Le Havre, on 19th February, Lieutenant Hugh Sillars, L.W.T., R.E., beloved husband of Cecelia Sillars, and beloved eldest brother of the Misses Sillars, 13 Herriet Street, Pollokshields – “Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald” please copy.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 FEBRUARY 1917

LOCAL WAR COMMITTEE – ARDROSSAN

At a meeting of the local war committee at Ardrossan – Provost J. B. Chrystie presiding – it was reported that £1175 7s 2d had been collected to date for the Prince of Wales, the County, and Red Cross funds.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 MARCH 1944

SIX NAVAL RATINGS DROWNED IN FIRTH OF CLYDE

Only two of a crew of eight naval ratings managed to swim to safety when a small motor-boat capsized and sank in a sudden squall in the Firth of Clyde late on Wednesday night.

The six men who drowned are: -

A.B. Ronald Goldsworthy;
A.B. John David Foster;
Signalman Cecil John Gallop;
Telegraphist Ronald Sanders;
Steward William McClellan, and
Stoker Edwin Dellington.

Only one body, that of McClellan, who belongs to Ardrossan, has so far been recovered.

Sanders’s wife is a member of the W.R.N.S. and is at present at Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 MARCH 1919

MARRIAGE – FOOT and HOGARTH

At St. John’s U.F. Church, Ardrossan, on 4th March, by the Rev. R. M. Adamson, M.A., Frank J. Foot, son of E. S. Foot, St. John’s Wood, to Mary Allison, daughter of the late John Hogarth, and Mrs Hogarth, the Garth, Ardrossan.