I have this death certificate for Maggie McTaggart who died at Dennyholm, Kilbirnie on April 27th 1920. She was the sister of my Great Grandfather.
It is interesting to see the other people listed here, definitely Kilbirnie names and sad deaths from 1920. Thomas Kane and Patrick Bannon both died in 1920.
Another excerpt from the Steel work magazine, 1925 about Glengarnock, the main feature covering the death of Robert Taylor of Stevenson, also there’s a poem from Hugh Higgins and mentions of garden awards for the Garden City. Apologies for the poor quality scan.
All of these magazines are held at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Continue reading “Colville’s Staff Magazine 1925”Here is an old and a new picture of Townhead Street. The long white building which is demolished where the trees are in the new picture was Martin’s Shed, a local meeting place. Gospel Hall meetings took place there before the Gospel Hall was built in 1897.
I don’t know much about him except that he lived in Muirend Street. Kilbirnie. He became quite well known.
Let me know if you have any further information.
The photo came from The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald.
This picture is of my Great Great Grandmother Margaret Loughran (maiden name Kane or Cain) from Dunnamore, nr. Cookstown Northern Ireland. Her son John Loughran and his wife Catherine Greenan (my Great Grandparents) and three of their daughters, Maggie, Katie and Rose.
Margaret ended up in Kilwinning living with the family – old people used to say “something happened” which is code for marital problems which would account for her leaving Ireland and going to Kilwinning. She died in Kilwinning in 1908. The family had a tradition of returning people to Ireland when they died so I don’t know if she is buried in Kilwinning or Ireland.
Here is another picture of Catherine Greenan Loughran as a young woman.
She lived in Kilwinning and had a really huge family with my Great Grandfather John Loughran. They were intertwined with the Gartland family, another local family around North Ayrshire. Her daughter Mary married my Grandfather Andrew McTaggart.
She was well known locally as a ballroom dancer, the Barrfield Pavilion, Largs, was one of her places. They used to chalk the heels of her shoes.
She died in Ireland in the late 1920s/1930s, where she spent a lot of her time with John’s family and is buried in St Mary’s Churchyard, Dunnamore, nr Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, in an unmarked grave along with older members of John’s family. John was also taken back from Dalry and interred there when he died.
In this picture she is wearing the infamous sealskin coat which everyone fought over when she died. I believe it went to Anna Mariah Campbell, from Kilmarnock.
Catherine again in this one: Here she is feeding the chickens in Dunnamore, Tyrone Ireland
In this next picture she is wearing the infamous sealskin coat which everyone fought over when she died. I believe it went to Anna Mariah Campbell, from Kilmarnock.
This is Glengarnock Grey’s School before it was demolished in the 1990s. Despite the colour of it, it was actually named after the Headmaster, Mr Grey or Gray.
