Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
8 NOVEMBER 1897

FOOTBALL RESULT
NORTH AYRSHIRE CUP

At Stevenston
Stevenston Thistle, 5; Irvine, 0.

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GLASGOW HERALD
9 NOVEMBER 1955

SCOTS AT PALACE INVESTITURE

At a second Investiture to be held at Buckingham Palace this month the Queen yesterday presented the insignia of their awards to nearly 200 men and women, the majority of whose names were gazetted in the Birthday Honours.

Among those who attended were:-

MBE

Mr Thomas Hamilton, Stevenston, Ayrshire.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1873

STEVENSTON – ADDITIONAL POLICE

A petition to the Police Committee of the county is being sent round, and has been influentially signed by the inhabitants of Stevenston and neighbourhood, praying that committee, on account of the amount of drunkenness and frequent disturbances on the streets, to locate another policeman in the town.

A lock-up, where offenders could be speedily confined, is as much needed, for, on account of the distance that prisoners require to be conveyed – to Saltcoats Police Station – the officer is put to great trouble, and his time is too much taken up.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1905

INTIMATION OF DEATH

CUNINGHAME: At Auchenharvie, Stevenston, Ayrshire, on 9th November, HARRIETTE ROBERTSON CUNINGHAME, in her eight-seventh year, widow of A. W. R. Cuninghame, Esq., of Auchenharvie, and daughter of the late Patrick Agnew, Esq., Younger of Kilwaughter Castle and Larne, County Antrim.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 NOVEMBER 1935

COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION

Nominations of candidates in the landward area were lodged with Mr J. F. Shaw, County Clerk, the Returning Officer, at Ayr.

STEVENSTON AND ARDROSSAN SOUTH

Thomas Lambie, and James Morrison.

STEVENSTON AND ARDROSSAN NORTH

Hugh Conway, John Finnigan, James Patrick, and Henry W. Ramsay.

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GLASGOW HERALD
13 NOVEMBER 1917

DRUNKENNESS IN EXPLOSIVES FACTORY

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday – before Sheriff Robertson – two workers in an explosives factory were convicted of having been found in a state of drunkenness or under the influence of liquor in the works.

Both men were sent to prison for 30 days with hard labour, and the Sheriff remarked that if any more of the men were found in a state of intoxication he would raise the penalty to the full limit.

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GLASGOW HERALD
15 NOVEMBER 1940

SCOTTISH FACTORY EXPLOSION
TWO KILLED: SEVERAL INJURED

An explosion occurred yesterday in the West of Scotland, and it is believed two persons have been killed and several injured.

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GLASGOW HERALD
17 NOVEMBER 1924

STEVENSTON GIRL KILLED

The Townhead district of Stevenston was the scene on Saturday afternoon of a motor accident, as the result of which ANNIE McFADZEAN, (9), who resided in Townhead with her mother, lost her life.

She was playing on the pavement with several other girls and jumped off just as a motor car was approaching. She was knocked down, and, the car passing over her, was almost instantaneously killed.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1905

INTIMATION OF DEATH

CUNINGHAME: At Auchenharvie, Stevenston, Ayrshire, on 9th November, HARRIETTE ROBERTSON CUNINGHAME, in her eight-seventh year, widow of A. W. R. Cuninghame, Esq., of Auchenharvie, and daughter of the late Patrick Agnew, Esq., Younger of Kilwaghter Castle and Larne, County Antrim.

GLASGOW HERALD
18 NOVEMBER 1905

OBITUARY
AYRSHIRE LADY

The death is announced from Auchenharvie, Stevenston, in her 87th year, of Mrs HARRIETTE ROBERTSON CUNINGHAME of Auchenharvie, daughter of the late Patrick Agnew, younger of Kilwaughter Castle and Larne, County Antrim.

This branch of the Ayrshire Cuninghames traces its ancestry to a younger son of Alexander Cuningham, Lord Kilmaurs, who for his powerful assistance against the rebel Powers at Blackness, was created Earl of Glencairn by James III in 1483.

Exactly a fortnight later, however, he was slain with the King of Sauchieburn.

At the beginning of the sixteenth century the lands of Auchenharvie were held by the Cuninghames, the first Earl of Eglinton being implicated in the assassination of the third laird.

A later laird was one of the Ayrshire Barons who signed the famous “Band” in 1562, while nearly half-a-century later David Cuningham of Auchenharvie was Master of Works to James VI, whom he accompanied to England and became cofferer to Charles, Prince of Wales. This laird was created Baronet, first of Scotland and afterwards of England, but at his death without issue the former dignity became dormant and the latter extinct.

Sir David’s successor at Auchenharvie was Robert Cuninghame (described as “a worthy man and very usefull in his tyme”), who fought for Charles II at Worcester, when he was captured and imprisoned for a time in the Tower.

At the restoration he was appointed Physician to the King for Scotland, and was afterwards created a Baronet. He survived the honour only a few months, and the title itself expired (within a year of its creation) with his son, a boy of twelve.

A subsequent laird, Robert Cuninghame, led the way in the science of mining in Ayrshire, it being to his enterprise and skill that the coal trade of the district is chiefly indebted. He greatly improved the estate, and also the harbour at Saltcoats, but with such pecuniary loss that he was obliged to sell the greater part of the Barony of Stevenston. However, this laird’s descendant Robert Reid Cuningham of Auchenharvie, carried on very successfully for many years the coal mines of the district.

The ruined remains of the castle of Auchenharvie are situated a few miles from Irvine.

The late venerable lady leaves issue by her marriage, fifty-five years ago, to Arthur Wellesley Robertson Cuninghame of Auchenharvie, Justice of the Peace, who died in 1888.

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GLASGOW HERALD
20 NOVEMBER 1907

STEVENSTON PARISH COUNCIL ELECTION

For nine seats the following have been nominated – Hugh Thomson, James Patrick, William Kirkwood, C. O. Lundholm, John Montgomery, Alexander Mitchell, Alexander McGregor, Robert Becket, James Morrison, George Sinclair, and Matthew Orr. The last three are new candidates.

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GLASGOW HERALD
23 NOVEMBER 1881

TERRIFIC STORM

A number of houses were stripped of thatch and slates during the storm.

At Ardeer Foundry a large chimney stack was blown down.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 NOVEMBER 1895

AUCHENHARVIE COLLIERY DISASTER FUND

Last night a meeting of subscribers was held in the Conservative Rooms, Stevenston, to consider a scheme of administration of this fund. Mr. Hugh Thomson occupied the chair.

Mr J. O. Sinclair stated that the total sum received was £3737 2s 11d and the amount distributed up to date was £76 3s 8d.

Under the scheme each widow will receive 7s 6d per week, and for one child 3s 6d weekly, two children 1s 10½d, three children 1s 9d, four children 1s 7¼d, five children 1s 6d.

Widows marrying again receive £40, payable in instalments.

Parents of deceased sons receive £130 in two instalments.

Votes of thanks were awarded to those who had interested themselves in getting up the fund.

The following committee was afterwards appointed to manage the fund:- J. O. Sinclair, C. McDonald, Adam Wilson, Alexander McAdam, T. Kirkhope, Arthur Guthrie, Alexander Mitchell, and R. Bicket.

The rate of distribution of funds at present is £130 14s per annum. It is calculated that with a distribution of £191 13s 14d the fund would last for 13 years.