Margaret Anne
Shanks
26 July 1946
Margaret Anne Shanks
neé Byers (1870-1966) was one of
a delegation from Ardrossan and Saltcoats who went to Glasgow to speak
to Archbishop Donald Mackintosh in about 1931. They were frustrated
at not having a Church in Ardrossan on land bought for that purpose.
The meeting was successful because in 1933, by Father Joseph Doherty
(1879-1964), Parish
Priest of the Church
of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Saltcoats was instructed
by the Archbishop to arrange the building of a Church in Ardrossan.