Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 MAY 1917

SCOTTISH FOOOTBALL ASSOCIATION MEETING

At a meeting of the office-bearers held yesterday afternoon, permission was granted to Ayr United to play Stevenston United at Ayr on May 26, in aid of the local Red Cross Society.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 MAY 1917

DEATH – MAIN

At Ardeer Cottage, Stevenston, on 11th May, Agnes Main, daughter of the late William Main, merchant, Glasgow.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 MAY 1919

FOOTBALL – WESTERN CUP

Result: - Vale of Leven, 1; Stevenston United, 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 MAY 1915

VICTIMS OF RMS LUSITANIA TORPEDO ATTACK ON 7 MAY

Mrs McKechan and her son, Campbell McKechan, arrived in Stevenston yesterday. Another son, six years of age, was lost. When the torpedo struck he was playing on the deck, and his mother never saw him again.

Before leaving Queenstown Mrs McKechan identified the body of Mrs Mary Gill, a Saltcoats lady, who was among the drowned.

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WWW.RMSLUSITANIA.INFO

Mrs Elizabeth Ballantyne or McKechan, (32), was a mother travelling with her two sons, James, (6), and Campbell, (10 months). She was a British subject who was naturalised as an American citizen living in Gillespie, Illinois, United States. Elizabeth survived the LUSITANIA sinking on 7 May 1915, but lost her son James. Her son Campbell survived the sinking but died the following September in the United States of injury from the sinking and a lingering illness, presumably from exposure.

Robert McKechan, (33), and Elizabeth, also had two daughters, Martha and Anna, aged 13 and 10 years respectively. Another daughter, Elizabeth, was born on 9 June 1916.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1918

DEATH – BROWNLIE

At Ardeer Lodge, Stevenston, on the 11th May, 1918, Margaret Frew, widow of James Brownlie, blacksmith, Killearn.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1911

ARDEER GOLF CLUB

Heys Medal – William Reid, (2) 80, and T. Harvey, (6) 80, tie; and A. L. Forsyth, (5) 81.

Robertson Medal – Andrew Allan, (11) 81, and R. Law, (18) 8, tie; and J. Gemmell, junior, (10) 82.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 MAY 1919

COURT OF SESSION – BEFORE LORDS DUNDAS, SALVESEN, AND GUTHRIE – FLOODED FARM LAND

After hearing counsel, the Division considered an appeal from the Sheriff Court at Kilmarnock for Robert Graham Alexander Robertson Cuninghame of Auchenharvie, Stevenston, Ayrshire, the purser, in an action against Hugh Wilson, farmer, Brewery Farm, Saltcoats, and another for payment of £45, being a half-year’s rent due at Martinmas, 1918, of the farm of Brewery, of which the defender is a tenant.

The defender admitted that the sum was outstanding and unpaid, but he counter-claimed for £242. He averred that about 25 to 27 acres of the best arable land of the farm had been flooded and was under water, and he had been unable to cultivate that portion of the farm. The flooding was cause by workings on the pursuer’s estate and under or adjoining the farm, in so far that the water in the mines was allowed to rise and overflow on to the farm.

The pursuer admitted the flooding, and said he was willing to grant a reasonable reduction in the rent, but he could not entertain the defender’s claim.

The Division sustained the appeal, found the defences irrelevant, and granted decree with expenses.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 MAY 1916

LICENSING CERTIFICATE RESTORED

At Ayrshire Licensing Appeal Court at Ayr yesterday – Colonel McAlester of Kennox presiding – an appeal against a decision of the district court which refused to grant renewal of a public-house certificate was sustained in respect of Mrs Helen Thomson or Lawson, for the Caledonian Vaults, New Street, Stevenston.

The decision of the Court was unanimous.

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GLASGOW HERALD
14 MAY 1918

DEATH – BROWNLIE

At Ardeer Lodge, Stevenston, on the 11th May, 1918, Margaret Frew, widow of James Brownlie, blacksmith, Killearn.

GLASGOW HERALD
18 MAY 1918

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT – BROWNLIE

Mr and Mrs Alexander Brownlie return sincere thanks of the many expressions of sympathy and floral tributes received in their recent bereavement – Killearn, High Road, Stevenston.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 MAY 1911

CORONATION FESTIVITIES

At a meeting of Stevenston Parish Council and Coronation Committee the convenor of the Finance Committee reported that £131 had been collected.

Arrangements were made for holding juvenile sports, giving a treat to the poor, and forming a procession and marching through the town.

Of the money collected, Nobel’s Explosives Company and the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Company each contributed £25.

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 MAY 1915

THE EXPLOSION AT ARDEER – 3 APRIL 1915

Major Coningham, Inspector of Explosives, issued last night his report on the explosion on April 3 in a mixing-house of the factory of Nobel’s Explosives Company Limited at Ardeer, Ayrshire.

Three men were killed and two persons slightly injured.

As the three men were killed instantaneously there was no direct evidence, he says, as to what they were actually doing at the moment of the accident, but he had no reason to suppose that the work was proceeding other than normally at the time.

There was no evidence, nor was it even suggested to him, adds Major Coningham, that the explosion was caused by the malicious act of any evilly disposed person.

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Thomas McCubbin, 34 Townhead, Stevenston, married.
Andrew McAllister, 6 Station Square, Stevenston, married.
Samuel Telford, 73 Boglemart Street, Stevenston, married.]

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 MAY 1915

DEATH ON SERVICE

Information has been received in Stevenston that Private William Wallace of the Royal Irish Rifles has been killed in action in France. He was a reservist called upon at the outbreak of the war and went to the front in November last.

He leaves a widow and three young children.

[This refers to Private William Henry Wallace, Service No. 5088, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, who died on 9 May, 1915. He is buried at I.R. 24 Spoilbank Cemetery, Belgium, not France as indicated in the above newspaper article.]