Timeline - BarrheadBarrhead Events
BC : Brythonic Celts in Levern Valley
AD : Damnonil at Fereneze; Maeatae on Mearns Moor. (Tacitus)
6th Century : St Conval. St. Fernum. Settlement at Fereneze
6th Century : Arthur Pyndragon in the Levern Valley
10th Century : Gaelic speech still current in Levern Valley.
1163 Walter Fitzalan from Shropshire appointed High Steward of Scotland by David I. He was feudal overlord of Strathgryffe, including Levern Valley.
1170 Sir Robert de Croc granted fief of Levern Valley.
1200 Marion de Croc married to Walter, grandson of the High Steward.
1271 Maccusville granted Farm of Dubbs.
1294 Thomas, the Brewer in Salterland Farm.
1314 Bannockburn. Men of Levern present under the High Steward.
1350 Black Death in the Levern Valley.
1449 Alexander Stewart of Rais. Tower of Rais in existence.
1452 Arthurlie Estate in possession of Walter Stewart of Darnley.
1695-1703 Seven black years of famine in Levern Valley.
1750 Branch parochial school in Lower Levern.
1750 Stewart Wilson builds a cottage on the Lowndes Estate. Name "Barrhead" used for the first time
1765 Bleaching introduced to Lower Levern
1770 Calico Printing introduced at Corsemill
1773 Fereneze Printfield; later "Boyd's Field"
1780 Levern Mills opened
1786 Charles Tenant used bleaching powder at Waulkmill.
1796 Barrhead Associate Secession Church opened. Irish immigration begins after the Battle of the Diamond
1808 Mansion House of Arthurlie built by Gavin Ralston.
1818 Arthurlie House built on instruction of Henry Dunlop, mill master of Levern Mills.
1819 Demonstration at Meikleriggs Moor, Paisley. Barrhead contingent present, headed by Barrhead Instrumental
1825 Levern Mechanics Institution
1830 Barrhead Fair in existence
1831 Masonic Lodge, "Union and Crown" opened
1833 Barrhead Gas Company
1841 Bourock Church opened
1841 South Arthurlie Printfield aquired by Zecariah Heys. Bourock School under "Stumpy" Cochrane. St John's Roman Catholic Church opened. Revd. James Purcell
1842 Bursting of the Glanderston Dam, 30 Dec 1842. Seven people drowned
1843 The Disruption. Barrhead Free Church founded. Barrhead
1845-1849 Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Railway. Opened 1849.
1851 Victoria Pit Disaster, Nitshill.
1851 Bourock Clock and Bell installed. John Shanks was contractor for sheet-metal and plumber work
1853 Morrisonian Church opened in Arthurlie Street
1856 John Shanks, Plumber in business in Main Street
1857 Police Force in Barrhead
1861 Barrhead Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association.
1861 Barrhead Co-op established
1865 Gorbals Water Works. Gravitational water supply to Barrhead
1868 Shanks and Company. Tubal Works, Main Street.
1869 Cardinal Manning visited St John's Roman Catholic School in Water Road
1871 Allan Rodger, Headmaster of Barrhead Public School under the Parish of Neilston School Board. Barrhead Young Man's Christian Association.
1875 Shanks and Company, Sanitary Engineers.
1876 Cross Arthurlie School. Headmaster, Alexander Jamieson.
1880 Arthurlie Football Club formed
1887 Grahamston Public School opened; headmaster, James Maxton Senior.Residential Giffnock began to develop around the Station and Eastwood Toll
1888 James Maxton M.P. moves to Barrhead
1889 Toll Bar at Dovecothall abolished.
1892 Kate Cranston marries John Cochrane, Ironmaster and Barrhead’s third provost
1897 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Celebrations for school children at Fereneze Braes.
1897 Arthurlie defeated Celtic in first round of Scottish Cup.
1897 Last shallow well filled in.
1902 Calico Printers Association acquired Heys Print Works.
1904 Paisley Tramways reached Barrhead
1904 Levern Mechanics Institution acquired by Barrhead Co-operative Society.
1904 Death in office of Provost Zechariah John Heys.
1906 Barrhead Higher grade School opened as an extension of Barrhead Public School. Allan Rodger, first headmaster
1906 1st Barrhead Company, The Boys Brigade formed.
1908 1st Barrhead Troop, Boy Scouts formed.
1908 1st Barrhead Company Girl Scouts formed.
1910 Cowan Park bequested by James Cowan of Rosshall
