The Quay of Irvine > The Shore > Harbour Street
"The Story of a Street"
Sources:
Our sources include the 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1920, 1925 and 1930 Valuation Rolls, available online from late 2014 on the website Scotland's People; in the 1905 Roll, the standard abbreviation for the forename John was Jno, but we have used John above.
The Ayrshire Directory 1851 - Harbour St residents listed below.
Post Office General and Trades Directory for Irvine, 1896 (published by 'Irvine Herald') though the Irvine Burns Club President is wrongly named (reason not known).
North Ayrshire Directory 1935-37 (published by the Herald Press) pp.107-158.)
Info from the 1851 Directory, pp.218ff:
Available online, this Directory was the "first attempt at presenting so very full a List of the Inhabitants of a whole County".
While the Halfway was well populated, the directory lists only a few residents and businesses in the Quay area in 1851 (we include the five Boatstabs entries on our Gottries Rd page). The Harbour Branch of the railway was laid in 1845, and the main development of the harbour area was on the point of taking off. [The (b) presumably indicates a business.]
Anderson, William, coal-agent, Quay
Baird, James (b), limeburner, Quay of Irvine - his lime kiln, on the 1819 plan, lies where the water Sports Club is today, though the lime works shown in 1856 are set slightly to the south-west.
Boyd, Jas. (b), fisher, shore
Dickie, William (b), farmer, Quay
Milliken, Mrs, Quay of Irvine
Morton, John (b), coalmaster, Quay
Muir, Mrs Helen, Quay of Irvine
Murchie, P. (b), shipbuilder, building-yard
McCallum, John (b), spirit-dealer, Quay
McDougall, Duncan, anchor smith, Quay - see above at #1
Samson, Charles (b), shipowner and coal-agent, Quay of Irvine - during his short ownership of the shipyard, prior to that of Peter Murchie (above), he had built tea clippers (Strawhorn p.141)
Samson, Mrs., coal proprietor, Quay of Irvine - in 1842 Samson & Co were extracting coal at Shewalton colliery at a depth of 11 to 36 fathoms; the railway from that colliery passed through the current location of the Arts Centre to the 'Upper Wharf', shown on the 1856 OS map.
Wilson, James, Quay of Irvine
Already incorporated in the narrative above:
The 1895 Valuation Roll and 1896 Directory
listing Harbour St residents (using pre-1895 and 1896-c.1918 numbering):
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16 (owned
by A M Samson, Janeville) = (1896)
22
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36-38 (1895: 'Restaurant & dwelling house' owned & occupied by William Nisbet, innkeeper) = (1896) 44-46 Nisbet, Wm., innkeeper
46 (=54) 'shop'
owned & occupied by William Nisbet, grocer. 50-52 (#52 'shop and dwelling-house', owned 1895 by the Trustees of the late James Steven) 1895: #50&52: Samuel McLearie,
clerk At this point the valuation roll records the Lime Works (currently unlet) and the land tenanted by the Royal Burgh, the whole owned by the Trustees of Robert Kenneth per James Kenneth, Coal Master, Kilwinning
60-64 (= 72-76): owned by Mrs Jean McBride per Robert Yule, joiner, Bridgend, Irvine, her 31(!!) tenants being as in the 1896 directory, plus Isaac Hawkshaw (chem. worker), Thomas McDonald (chem. worker), Henry Houston (engine keeper), Mrs Agnes Mitchell or Kerr, Peter Anderson (seaman), William Whiteside (labourer), Robert Nisbet (labourer), John Bicker (fisher), Mrs Alexander Lawrie, James Barrow (plumber), Gavin Wilson (clerk), Alexander Anderson (fisher), James Jaffrey (master of dredger), Isaac Waddell (fisher), Robert Meldrum (chem. worker), William Cousar (chem. worker), Hugh Elliot (chem. worker)
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72
Clelland, William, seaman
66 & 70 (same
ownership) incl. Daniel Paterson snr & jnr
= 82 Paterson, Daniel, fisher
94 Andrew, Jas. |
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