Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 DECEMBER 1825

ERECTION OF A MONUMENT – REV. JOHN WARNER

Last week the inhabitants of Kilbarchan were called from their labours to witness and assist in the erection of a monument to the memory of the Rev. John Warner, (second son of William Warner, Esquire, of Ardeer, Ayrshire,) who was ordained minister of the parish of Kilbarchan in the year 1739, and died on the 8th March, 1786.

The monument, which is chaste and elegant in design and workmanship, was executed at Stevenston in Ayrshire. It is sixteen feet in height, and is partly composed of a stone originally intended for one of the pillars of the new Edinburgh College.
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GLASGOW HERALD
2 DECEMBER 1925

PUBLIC INQUIRY

At a Public Inquiry at Kilmarnock yesterday into the death of REGINALD ARTHUR JOYNER, research chemist, Eglinton Street, Saltcoats, who was fatally injured while engaged in experimental work at Nobel’s Explosives Factory, Ardeer, Stevenston, on October 7 last, the jury returned a formal verdict.
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GLASGOW HERALD
3 DECEMBER 1847

FATAL ACCIDENT

On the evening of Friday last, three men being sent to repair a part of the main or tram road in the Turfdyke Pit of Stevenston Colliery, one of them, named WILLIAM TAYLOR, was in the act of driving out a timber prop, placed there a few days previously, when a large stone, weighing several tons, fell upon him, and severely bruised him.

Doctor Brown was promptly in attendance, and did all his skill could suggest; but it was of no avail. Taylor only survived three hours after the accident, in great agony, when death put an end to his sufferings. He had been about ten years in the same employ, and was considered an experienced and careful reddsman.

He has left a widow and family to lament his loss.

About ten months ago he had a brother, who was acting as banksman at the time in absence of another man, killed in the same pit.

This is the third fatal accident that we have recorded within these fourteen months in Turfdyke Pit, besides a number of individuals who were severely bruised.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 DECEMBER 1884

SINGULAR REGISTRATION CASE

At the pleading diet of Kilmarnock Sheriff and Jury Court yesterday JEANNIE FREW, weaver, residing in Main Street, Stevenston, was charged with breach of the Registration Act, in so far as, on the 8th January, she registered an illegitimate male child as having been borne by her on the 17th December, 1883, when in point of fact she had borne no child at all.

She pleaded guilty.

It appears that she borrowed a child belonging to another woman, and took it with her to the registration office in Ardrossan, her object being by the false registration to induce the reputed father to marry her. In this she did not succeed; but in September last she actually gave birth to an illegitimate child to the same man.

She was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment.
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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
6 DECEMBER 1895

THE STORM

Stevenston:
The town escaped much damage owing to its sheltered position.

At the corner of Shore Road the plate-glass window of Mr Thomas Oswald, draper, was blown in, and all the goods in the window damaged.

A wooden theatre in New Street suffered some injury.

Part of Ardeer Golf Club is under water.

Stevenston Burn is in flood owing to the heavy rains, but no damage has been done.

In the evening the wind continued high, with brilliant flashes of lightning, and rain and hail showers.

At Nobel’s Explosives Works no damage was done except some wire fencing blown down.
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GLASGOW HERALD
7 DECEMBER 1887

STEVENSTON – STREET LIGHTING

At a public meeting on Monday night – Mr C. Gibson presiding – it was agreed to erect a number of street lamps to light the town, the expenses to be defrayed by subscription.

A committee was appointed to ascertain on what terms the Gas Company would supply gas.

A subscription of £5 was intimated from Mr P. Warner of Ardeer.
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GLASGOW HERALD
8 DECEMBER 1876

BODY FOUND

Yesterday there was found on Stevenston beach, about half a mile to the east of the boat-house of the British Dynamite Company, the body of a man, who had been apparently about 5 feet 8 inches in height and about 50 years of age, with dark grey hair and bushy beard. The lower part of the face was much disfigured.

The clothing is of dark grey tweed, much mended. In the pockets were found a watch with a silver chain, pipe, and tobacco. The watch was standing at 10.50.

The body, which appears to have been some time in the water, and is believed to have been washed ashore by the tide, was removed by the police to the parochial lodging-house, where it awaits identification.
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GLASGOW HERALD
9 DECEMBER 1842

COLLIERS’ STRIKE AT STEVENSTON

On Thursday evening last the windows of several of the colliers who are at work here were broken; and it is pretty certain that the depredation was committed at the instigation, if not by, the leaders of the strike.
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GLASGOW HERALD
9 DECEMBER 1896

ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JAMES MUIR, Townhead Street, Stevenston, was charged with having, on the 7th instant, assaulted his wife, Janet McCartney or Muir, by striking her two severe blows on the face, and with having assaulted Constable Peter Gammie, while on duty, by kicking him on the stomach and biting him on the left hand.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 days’ imprisonment.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 DECEMBER 1877

STEVENSTON - FATAL ACCIDENT

On Friday night, when Mrs Lambie, wife of James Lambie, Blacksmith, Townhead Street, Stevenston, was leaving the 8.11 p.m. train on arrival at Stevenston station, she fell between the platform and the carriage, and the train still in motion she was so severely crushed that death was instantaneous.
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CASUALTY OF WAR
10 DECEMBER 1916

Died on service, Private HUGH BRADLEY, (28), 12th Battalion Royal Scots – Theatre of war, France and Flanders – son of John and Mary Bradley, Stevenston; husband of Catherine Bradley, 127 Thistle Street, Glasgow.
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