Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1864

VESSEL SPOKEN WITH

QUEBEC, from Ardrossan for Quebec, 17 September, off Grosse Island (St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada).

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1864

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Ardrossan, 26 September – The MAID OF IRVINE, Parry, from Bunessan, Mull, arrived here, reported having been in collision yesterday, about four miles of Rathlin Island, with a foreign barque, name unknown, and lost mainboom, and sustained damage, to stern and mainsail.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1866

BIRTH - BECKETT

At Ardrossan, on the 29th ultimo, Mrs Hugh Beckett, 11 Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow; a daughter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 SEPTEMBER 1872

A SAVAGE WIFE BEATER

At the Police Court yesterday, before Provost Barr and Bailie Hogarth, Robert Craig, fireman, residing in Glasgow Street, whose respectable appearance betokened better conduct, pleaded guilty to committing serious assault on Mary McGhee or Craig, his wife, on the previous Saturday night.

It appeared from the evidence of Dr Wallace that the poor woman was in a sad condition, her face having been disfigured, while various parts of her body revealed some dangerous wounds, the result of different blows with clenched fists and kicks from the feet.

According to the evidence of the medical man the woman was not quite out of danger; and in the circumstances the Magistrates remitted the prisoner to the Sheriff. He was therefore conveyed to Kilmarnock yesterday afternoon.

The Provost remarked it was a pity the lash could not be applied in this case.

GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1872

WIFE ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, Robert Craig, a fireman residing in Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, was charged with having on the 14th of September, twice assaulted his wife, kicking her in a very brutal manner, and inflicting injuries of a dangerous nature.

The accused pleaded guilty, and the sheriff, who commented upon the serious character of the offences, remarking that it might have resulted in a charge of murder, sentenced him to two months imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1912

BIRTH - GUTHRIE

At 185 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 29th ultimo, the wife of Mr T. S. Guthrie; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 OCTOBER 1914

DEATH - BAILLIE

At 17 Winton Street, Ardrossan, on 30th ultimo, Ann Nairne, aged 72 years, widow of Robert Baillie. Interment on 3rd at Sandymount Cemetery, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1869

SHIPPING CASUALTY

Ardrossan, September 29 – the CHALCIOPE, Gregory, for Genoa, has put back, with loss of mainboom and mainsail split.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1913

VIP TRAVELS FROM ARDROSSAN

Lady Powerscourt crossed from Ardrossan to Belfast last night by the R.M.S. PARTRIDGE.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1914

BIRTH - EARNSHAW

At 20 Montgomerie Street, Ardrossan, on the 30th September, to Mr and Mrs Daniel Earnshaw, Johnstone; a daughter.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1914

VIP TRAVELS FROM ARDROSSAN

The Marquis of Headfort travelled from Ardrossan to Belfast last night per the R.M.S. WOODCOCK.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 OCTOBER 1933

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT

A Saltcoats woman was killed and five persons injured in a railway accident on the L.M.S. main line, near Glengarnock Station, on Saturday night, when a projection from a passing goods train struck one of the coaches and tore its way through the woodwork.

The dead woman was Mrs Hannah, 35 Springvale Street, Saltcoats.

The injured passengers were: -

Mr and Mrs Denby and Miss Denby, 10 Seton Street, Ardrossan;
Mrs Fisher, Ardrossan; and
Mrs Moffat, Saltcoats.

The train was brought to a standstill. Mrs Hannah was killed outright. Her head had been struck by the projection from the goods train. The injuries to the others were caused by pieces of debris and were not serious.

One of the other passengers in the compartment, Mr D. McAuslan, junior, Stevenston, gave an account of the accident. He said there was a loud crash like an explosion, and he stated that he thought there had been a collision. The window burst into splinters and the woodwork was smashed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 OCTOBER 1868

FOUND DROWNED AT ARDROSSAN

The body of an old gentleman, of from 65 to 70 years of age, with short grey hair, round face, and no whiskers, was found in Ardrossan Harbour on Thursday. It is thought he may have belonged to Glasgow.

He has been identified as having resided alone at the Railway Hotel, Ardrossan, for the last two days.

On Wednesday, about one o’clock, he paid the hotel bill, and left purposing to go by the 2.15 p.m. train. Later in the afternoon he was seen on the breakwater opposite Montgomerie Street, and again in the evening coming down to the harbour.

He was dressed in blacks, had a black dress hat (maker, Kirsop, Glasgow). On his person was found a very old-fashioned watch (maker, Molyneaux, London), No. 507, with a massive gold seal, a case containing a pair of spectacles, a Glasgow time table, and an empty purse, but no papers, whereby he can be identified.

By parties who had seen him alive he is thought to have been in his dotage, and probably wandered over the breast of the quay unconsciously and unseen.

The body was removed to the harbour store, where it awaits identification, and till an examination is made by the Fiscal.