Ardrossan - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 APRIL 1915

VIP TRAVELS FROM ARDROSSAN

The Marchioness of Bute crossed from Ardrossan to Belfast per R.M.S. REDBREAST last night.

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GLASGOW HERALD
28 APRIL 1919

DEATH - BEATTIE

At 169 Glasgow Street, Ardrossan, on 25th April, 1919, David Beattie, husband of Helen Whyte, aged 94 years.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 APRIL 1918

MARRIAGE – WILSON and OGDEN

At Marlborough House, Glasgow, on 25th April, by the Rev. Robert P. Fairlie, M.A., New Ardrossan Parish Church, assisted by the Rev. James Adams, M.A., Trinity Church, Saltcoats, Richard McKay Wilson, C.S.M. Canadian Battalion, to Mary Louise, only daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles H. Ogden, Newton, Eglinton Road, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 APRIL 1841

DEATH – WALKER

At Ardrossan, on 28th instant, Agnes Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late James Walker, Esquire, Collector of Customs, Bahamas.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 APRIL 1875

ARDROSSAN CORN MARKET

A small attendance at market on Thursday. Of 130 bolls wheat offered, 60 sold at 21s and 22 at 20s. There were 12 qrs. Oats offered, which sold at 20s.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 APRIL 1918

DIED ON SERVICE - McDOWALL

Killed in Action on 11th April in France, John McDowall, South African Infantry, son of the late David McDowall, potato merchant, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
1 MAY 1917

DEATH - KERR

At Bankend Farm, Ardrossan, on the 29th April, Finlay Kerr, aged 88 years, formerly Hayocks, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 MAY 1916

WAR PENSIONS – LOCAL COMMITTEE FOR AYRSHIRE

Ayr County Council yesterday, on the recommendation of the Law Committee, appointed a local committee for Ayrshire under the Naval and Military War Pensions Act.

Included in its membership is: -

Mr Thomas Harvey, Ardrossan.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 MAY 1842

BOARD AND EDUCATION IN ARDROSSAN

Mr Park, Parochial Schoolmaster of Ardrossan, begs respectfully to intimate that he can at present admit into his family an additional number of young gentlemen of boarders, to whose health, education, and morals, the strictest attention will be given.

In addition to the branches usually required in parish schools, French, drawing, and ornamental writing may be had.

Ardrossan is universally admitted to be one of the finest watering places on the west coast, and the facility of access to it so many times a day by railway, affords a peculiar advantage for a boarding establishment.

Terms very moderate.

Applications may be made to James Lumsden, Esquire, bookseller, Glasgow – from whom information may be had, and whom testimonials of character and qualifications are lodged.

Ardrossan, May, 1842.

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GLASGOW HERALD
6 MAY 1915

NO WAR BONUS FOR MINISTERS

At the monthly meeting of Ardrossan United Free Church Presbytery – the Rev. R. M. Adamson presiding – Mr J. Blyth, on behalf of the Central Fund Committee, reported that the collections for the congregations within the Presbytery to April 30 amounted to £1096 18s 3d as against £1133 5s 5d for the corresponding period of 1914, a decrease of £36 7s 2d.

The committee considered the position of the fund as very disappointing. They heard a great deal about war bonuses just now, but unless they could stem the decrease in the fund there would be no war bonus and no surplus for the ministers at the end of the year.

Mr James Cant, Ardrossan, said he would be sorry if the surplus to the poorly paid section of ministers should require to be discontinued this year. He did not think that would be necessary if the individual congregations maintained their contributions up to the figures of last year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 MAY 1916

BIRTH – YOUNG

At 21 Barrie Terrace, Ardrossan, 7th May, to Mr and Mrs A. R. Young; a son.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 MAY 1913

ARRAN STEAMER ASHORE

For many years the passenger steamer traffic on the Clyde has been free from serious accident, a tribute alike to the capabilities of the officers and the fine qualities of the vessels built for river services.

Yesterday afternoon, however, the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company’s steamer ATALANTA, which has been sailing between Ardrossan and Arran ports, went ashore south of Whiting Bay pier, where she still lies in a seriously damaged condition. The passengers were all safely landed.

The JUPITER took up the run from Ardrossan last night, but the afternoon mails from Arran could not be despatched until this morning.

The passengers, of course, were unable to leave the island, and were accommodated for the night at the hotel. Some 50 passengers were waiting the return of the steamer to Ardrossan.

The ATALANTA lies on sand and boulders. The bottom is badly holed, the bilge keels twisted, and the steamer is leaking badly.

Since she was built the ATALANTA has been commanded by Captain McGregor, who has been in the service of the company since the fleet was inaugurated.