Ardeer Square, Stevenston

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 NOVEMBER 1873

POISONING

On Thursday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock, a girl about 11 years of age, daughter of ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, furnace-keeper, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, who partook of the contents of a bottle which had unfortunately been left in her reach, took ill, and expired in about half an hour, medical aid being of no avail.

The bottle contained a mixture prepared by the girl's mother, from an ingredient discharged from the furnaces about the tuyeres, for washing purposes. It has very powerful cleansing properties, but is known to be deadly poison.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 AUGUST 1874

THEFT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JAMES McGRAW or McGRATH, a vagrant navvy, pleaded guilty to the theft of a silver watch and tin case from the person of John McCash, pig iron lifter, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, on the 16th instant.

He was sent 30 days to prison.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 JANUARY 1875

FATAL ACCIDENT

A sad accident occurred in the Lucknow Pit, Stevenston, yesterday.

A miner named JOHN ROSS, residing in Ardeer Square, was engaged propping up the roof, when one of the old blocks gave way, and large masses of stones fell upon him, causing instantaneous death.

Ross was a quiet steady man, Past Worthy Chief Templar of the Hope Lodge of Good Templars, Stevenston, and much respected by the members of the lodge.

He has left a wife and three young children to mourn his loss.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 DECEMBER 1876

FATAL ACCIDENT

A fatal accident occurred in the Lucknow Pit of Ardeer Colliery on Monday evening, by the fall of a portion of roof of the main road while the men were engaged repairing and cutting it, by which one man, JOHN HISLOP, miner, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, aged 36 years, lost his life.

Robert McDonald had his arm so severely injured that it had to be cut off close by the shoulder, and JOHN BELL received two cuts on the top of his head, but is not dangerously hurt.

Hislop has left a wife and three children, and McDonald has also a wife and young family.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JANUARY 1877

STEVENSTON - STATE OF ROADS

An influential public meeting, called by requisition of the leading residents in Stevenston and neighbourhood, was held in the Good Templars' Hall on Tuesday evening - Mr John Crum, Manager, Ardeer Iron Works, in the chair.

Resolutions were submitted and carried unanimously, affirming the almost impassable state of the station road, stating that there was no person doing anything for the upkeep of it, that it was really a public road, being the only means of communication between Stevenston and the railway station, and between the station and Ardeer Square (containing a population of 1000 inhabitants) and Stevenston; that as more than a fourth of the whole assessment for statute labour roads in the parish was raised in the district supplied by this road, as a matter of justice it should be upheld from the statute labour assessment.

Another resolution affirmed the unsatisfactory state of the roadway and footpaths in New Street for years past.

A memorial to the road trustees was submitted and agreed to, praying them to adopt Station Road, Stevenston, as a statute labour road, and to put and maintain it in a proper state of repair, and to improve the state of New Street.

An influential committee was appointed to bring the matter before the trustees, and to take such further action as they may consider advisable.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 DECEMBER 1883

THE STORM – STEVENSTON

A considerable amount of damage was done to houses in Stevenston.

At Kerelaw some trees were blown down, but the greatest damage was done at Nobel’s Explosives Works, situated near Stevenston. The refuse acid shed, a brick building about 120 feet long and 30 feet broad, was blown down between twelve and one o’clock in the morning.

A workman, named WILLIAM LYNN, was injured by a quantity of bricks falling on him. He managed to get clear of the material and received medical attention, afterwards being taken to his home in Saltcoats.

The building is a complete wreck, the walls having been blown down and the roof crushed in.

Portions of the fence about the works have been levelled.

The chimney of a cottage near the works was also blown down, and many of the houses in Ardeer Square show traces of the severity of the gale.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 JANUARY 1888

THEFT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday HENRY FORDE, navvy, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, was charged with the theft, on the 21st instant, of 2s 6d from a public house in Main Street there.

He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 AUGUST 1889

WIFE BEATING

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JOHN CAMPBELL, labourer, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, who was convicted of assaulting his wife, was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment, without the option of a fine.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 AUGUST 1889

WIFE BEATING

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JOHN CAMPBELL, labourer, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, who was convicted of assaulting his wife, was sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment, without the option of a fine.

The 19th century began with judges still applying from time to time the "Rule of Thumb", i.e., a man could beat his wife with a stick no thicker, but moved pretty quickly to the 1853 Aggravated Assault on Women Act. It's said Queen Victoria had a deal to do with more enlightened legislation.
From the wife's point of view, and if Robin Hood-type films ever made you wonder if there was such a thing as Low Treason, there was, i.e., if she killed her husband.

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GLASGOW HERALD
5 DECEMBER 1889

ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, before Sheriff Hall, JOHN QUEEN, labourer, Ardeer Square, Stevenston, pleaded guilty to having there, on the 7th September last, assaulted HUGH MATHESON and CATHERINE DUFFY or MATHESON, by striking the former on the face and kicking the latter savagely on the back; and also committing a breach of the peace.

He was fined £3, with the alternative of 30 days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 FEBRUARY 1890

FATAL ACCIDENT

On Saturday forenoon, while Mrs Rafferty, the wife of a labourer, residing in Ardeer Square, was crossing the railway at Stevenston Station she was knocked down by a mineral train and instantly killed.

She was accompanied by a grandchild, who fortunately escaped. Mrs Rafferty was aged over 60 years. She was about to go to Paisley, and was hurrying to catch the train, which was at the station, and did not notice the approaching mineral train.

A footbridge has lately been erected at the station.

[Meg]

Ok, as an Ardrossanite, I need to ask - where is Ardeer Square in Stevenston and why did you pick it as a separate topic PT? Sorry for my ignorance of Stevenston geography