Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 APRIL 1819

SHIPPING NEWS

The TONACK of Greenock, Alexander Campbell, master, loaded with freestone, for Ayr, went down about mid-channel between Saltcoats and Arran, on Tuesday, the 13th instant, about 5 o’clock a.m. during a gale from the east.

The master’s wife, daughter, and brother-in-law drowned. The master and another man saved themselves by getting into the boat.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1916

DEATH - CRAWFORD

At Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on the 21st April, John Crawford, shipwright, in his 67th year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 APRIL 1919

MARRIAGE – DUNCAN and BARR

At Ailsa House, Ardrossan, on 22nd April, by the Rev. R. P. Fairlie, M.A., New Ardrossan Parish Church, assisted by the Rev. Colin Munro, M.A., Mure U.F. Church, Irvine, George L. Duncan, Irvine, to Jean McKinnon, youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Barr, 90 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan.

[meekan]

Penny any idea what the connection is with the wedding being at Ailsa house?

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Meekan,

A simple word search for "Ailsa House" will reveal that the venue was often used for weddings. Why, other that a good view of the Firth of Clyde, I'm not sure. I've never come across anything to suggest it was anything other than a private dwellinghouse.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1872

SHIPPING CASUALTY

The PAOLA, Ardrossan to New York, is at Queenstown with cargo shifted.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1874

SHIPPING CASUALTY

THE BROTHERS, schooner, Captain Donnelly, of Drogheda, from Ardrossan with coals, after discharging at Waterford Quay, took fire. Cabin and part of deck, etc., are burned.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 APRIL 1910

DEATH - HUGHES

At the Harbour, Ardrossan, on the 23rd April, William Hughes, beloved husband of Anne Nicol.

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Kilmarnock Herald
April 26, 1946

Obituary - Mr R. Allison
Though it was known that he had been ill for quite a time previously, the passing, in his 86th year, of Mr R. Allison, who resided with his daughter, Mrs Watson, Barrie Terrace, Ardrossan, was a shock to most who knew him.
A native of the town and a member of one of its most respected families, Mr Allison was an engineer who served the first part of his time in the local railway workshops and finished it in the works at Kilmarnock. We have heard him say how, in those days. that it was commonplace for he and others to walk back from Ardrossan to Kilmarnock on the Sunday evening for there was no other way of getting there.

After completing his apprenticeship. Mr Allison was employed for a time in the dynamite boat, the SS "Maggle." Following that he was for many years an engineer in Murray's trawlers. Thereafter he worked with the Harbour Company and in the Dockyard and came to be known to the engineering fraternity all over North Ayrshire.

Mr Allison, who was predeceased by his wife, is survived by his son and daughter. To them and all his other relations, we tender our deep sympathy on their sad bereavement.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 APRIL 1860

LAUNCH AT PAISLEY

Yesterday, the EARL OF ARRAN paddle steamer, was launched from the building yard of Messrs Blackwood & Gordon, Paisley.

The vessel was christened by Miss Jackson, daughter of John Jackson, Esquire, Ardrossan.

The EARL OF ARRAN is intended to ply between Ardrossan and Arran.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 APRIL 1862

BIRTH - McCALL

At the Manse, Ardrossan, on the 25th instant, the wife of the Rev. John D. McCall; a daughter.

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EVENING TIMES
26 APRIL 1961

INFERIORITY COMPLEX

In Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, Ian Breckenridge, (19), labourer, 5 Clyde Terrace, Ardrossan, was fined £10 for breach of the peace in an Ardrossan dance hall.

An agent attributed his conduct to “an inferiority complex.”