Stevenston - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
21 NOVEMBER 1881

DEATH

WHYTE: At Station Cottages, Stevenston, on the 16th instant, aged 78, James Whyte, late of Bridge of Weir.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 NOVEMBER 1904

A STEVENSTON SHOP

On Sunday an outbreak of fire occurred in a drapery establishment tenanted by Mr. Robert Irvine in New Street, Stevenston. It spread rapidly and soon the building was in flames.

There is no extinguishing apparatus in the town but a number of neighbours prevented the fire from spreading to adjoining properties.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 NOVEMBER 1886

FOOTBALL
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. HURLFORD
Played at Stevenston.

Hurlford, 5 goals; Thistle, 2 goals.

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GLASGOW HERALD
24 NOVEMBER 1888

THEFT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday JESSIE BURGESS or McEWAN, wife of a labourer residing in Ardrossan, was convicted of the theft of a pair of boots from a house in Schoolwell, Street, Stevenston, on the 18th instant, and was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
25 NOVEMBER 1887

THEFT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday, JOHN REID, a labourer, having no fixed place of residence, was charged with the theft of a gravat at Stevenston on the 23rd instant, aggravated by two previous convictions this year.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 NOVEMBER 1886

DEATH

BEATTIE: Lost, with the ship ”CHARLES CONNELL,” of Glasgow, on homeward voyage from Rangoon, William Allan Beattie, second officer, and second son of George Beattie, Edinburgh, late of Ardeer Iron-works, Ayrshire.

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GLASGOW HERALD
29 NOVEMBER 1887

DEATH

PURVIS: At Broomfield Cottage, Stevenston, on the 25th instant, William Robson Purvis, late spirt merchant Kilwinning.

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GLASGOW HERALD
30 NOVEMBER 1921

AYRSHIRE EDUCATION AUTHORITY

At a meeting of the Ayrshire Education Authority at Ayr yesterday, Mr. James Patrick, Stevenston, was appointed a member in place of Mr. James Morrison, Stevenston, resigned.

Mr. David B. McLean, assistant. Stevenston Higher Grade School, was elected headmaster of Lethanhill Public School.

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WIKIPEDIA SHIPWRECKS
1 DECEMBER 1836

THE SWIFT

The crew of the sloop SWIFT, on a voyage from Glenarm, County Antrim, to Glasgow, were rescued by Ardrossan lifeboat off the coast of Stevenston, the vessel then being abandoned, driven ashore, and wrecked.

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GLASGOW HERALD
2 DECEMBER 1889

FOOTBALL
STEVENSTON THISTLE v. DALRY

Played at Stevenston, and resulted in a draw 1 goal each.

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GLASGOW HERALD
4 DECEMBER 1889

DEATH

GIBSON: At Schoolwell Street, Stevenston, on the 1st instant, John Gibson, ironmonger, formerly with William McGeoch & Company, Morrison Court, Glasgow.

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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.