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Margaret McGavin

1833-1913
Born: Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Died: West Kilbride, Ayreshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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  • Story: McGavin, Matthew (1807 - 1874).

    <div>http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050178b.htm<br></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px">McGavin, Matthew (1807 - 1874)<div style="width: 180px; display: inline; font-size: 90%"><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; background-image: url('http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/images/site/details-back.jpg'); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; line-height: normal; border-width: 1px; border-color: #b2b295; border-style: solid; padding: 10px">Birth:23 October 1807,&nbsp;Irvine,Ayrshire,&nbsp;ScotlandDeath:16 December 1874,Milson&#39;s Point, Sydney,New South Wales,AustraliaCultural Heritage:<ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px"><li style="padding-bottom: 5px">Scottish</li></ul>Religious Influence:<ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px"><li style="padding-bottom: 5px">Presbyterian</li></ul>Occupation:<ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px"><li style="padding-bottom: 5px">Presbyterian minister</li><li style="padding-bottom: 5px">religious writer</li></ul></div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; background-image: url('http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/images/site/details-back.jpg'); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; line-height: normal; border-width: 1px; border-color: #b2b295; border-style: solid; padding: 10px"><ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px"><li style="background-image: url('http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/images/site/arrow-right.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial">Life Summary</li><li style="background-image: url('http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/images/site/arrow-right.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial">Resources</li><li style="background-image: url('http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/images/site/arrow-right.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial">Abbreviations</li><li style="background-image: url('http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/images/site/arrow-right.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial">Article History</li></ul></div></div><div style="margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 2em; font-size: 90%"><p style="line-height: 130%">McGAVIN, MATTHEW (1807-1874), Presbyterian minister, was born on 23 October 1807 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, son of Robert McGavin, grocer, and his wife Mary, n&eacute;e Reid. Trained at the United Presbyterian Church&#39;s Synod Hall (M.A., 1830), he was ordained on 15 June 1831 at Stonehouse. The parish had apparently been depleted because the call was signed by only 94 members and 66 adherents, small numbers for Scotland. Under his ministry at Stonehouse, however, the church made numerical progress, many members joining from Glassford, Dalserf and Lesmahagow.</p><p style="line-height: 130%">&nbsp;</p><p style="line-height: 130%">McGavin accepted a call to the church, known as Wellwynd, at Airdrie in Lanarkshire and was inducted there on 2 March 1841. A new church was built, opened and dedicated in 1847, and surrounding districts, Chapelhall, Coatdyke, Cadder and Rawyards, were drawn within the bounds of the parish. A gifted musician, he composed a Psalm tune known as &#39;Clydesdale&#39;, still used in some Presbyterian churches, and with Andrew Thomson, organist at Paisley, published&nbsp;<em>The Precentor&#39;s Guide to the Selection of Tunes</em>&nbsp;(1853). After a record period of &#39;unbroken peace&#39; he resigned his parish at Airdrie in February 1863. A deputation of the congregation asked him to delay this step, but he told them that their only course was to acquiesce because his mind was made up.</p><p style="line-height: 130%">&nbsp;</p><p style="line-height: 130%">McGavin arrived in Brisbane in August 1863 and immediately took over the work based on the Creek Street Church, vacant for some time following the ministry of Rev. Thomas Bell. Under McGavin&#39;s vigorous ministry the work grew and prospered. He was moderator of synod in 1868. The building of a more enduring church than the earlier wooden structure had been started but the funds ran out and the new church was never completed. For some years the congregation worshipped in the composite building, part Gothic in style, having a nave without transepts. In aid of the Queensland Presbyterian Sabbath School Union McGavin gave and published two lectures on&nbsp;<em>The Claims of Popery</em>&nbsp;(Brisbane, 1874). Soon afterwards he suffered a serious illness and went to Sydney for treatment. He died at Milson&#39;s Point on 16 December and was buried in the Presbyterian section of Willoughby cemetery. He was married twice in Scotland: first, on 25 March 1832 to Elizabeth, n&eacute;e Chep, who bore him three sons and four daughters; and second, on 12 May 1857 to a widow, Grace Drummond n&eacute;e Ewing, who survived him.</p><p style="line-height: 130%">&nbsp;</p><p style="line-height: 130%">The Creek Street parish later sold its property for a large sum to the neighbouring National Bank of Australasia Ltd, and transferred its work to Leichhardt Street (St Paul&#39;s Terrace), on that hill building the fine Gothic church which remains one of the architectural adornments in Brisbane.</p>Select Bibliography<p style="font-size: 100%; line-height: 130%">A. Hay,&nbsp;<em>Jubilee Memorial of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland</em>&nbsp;(Brisb, 1900); R. Small,&nbsp;<em>History of the Congregations of the United Presbyterian Church from 1733 to 1900</em>&nbsp;(Edinburgh, 1904); R. Bardon,&nbsp;<em>Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland 1849-1949</em>&nbsp;(Brisb, 1949);&nbsp;<em>Votes and Proceedings</em>&nbsp;(Legislative Assembly, Queensland), 1875, 2, 232; Church of Scotland records (Church Offices, 121 George St, Edinburgh, Scotland).&nbsp;More on the resources</p><p style="line-height: 130%"><strong>Author</strong>: Robert Steel Byrnes</p><p style="line-height: 130%"><strong>Print Publication Details</strong>: Robert Steel Byrnes, &#39;McGavin, Matthew (1807 - 1874)&#39;,&nbsp;<em>Australian Dictionary of Biography</em>, Volume 5,&nbsp;Melbourne University Press, 1974, p. 154.</p></div></span></div>

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  • Story: Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland

    <p align="center"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000080">Welcome to the Stonehouse Community Website</font></p><p align="center"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000080">http://stonehouse.community.users.btopenworld.com/history.htm</font></p><p style="text-align: justify" align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000080">Stonehouse is located on the River Avon in the heart of rural Lanarkshire, in an area of natural beauty and historical interest. Situated on the A71 only 30 minutes from Glasgow and 1 hour from Edinburgh, Stonehouse is ideally situated to access both the scenic beauty of the Clyde Valley and the historical and cultural life of Scotland&#39;s two principal cities.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify" align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000080">Stonehouse is located on the River Avon in the heart of rural Lanarkshire, in an area of natural beauty and historical interest. Situated on the A71 only 30 minutes from Glasgow and 1 hour from Edinburgh, Stonehouse is ideally situated to access both the scenic beauty of the Clyde Valley and the historical and cultural life of Scotland&#39;s two principal cities.................................................</font><font color="#000080">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="text-align: justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000080">In prehistoric times the natural place to settle would have been by the River Avon with its fertile holms and abundance of natural resources. Evidence of early man can be found through out the Parish, enabling us to build a picture of how the community of Stonehouse developed over the centuries.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000080">The earliest record of a landowner in Stonehouse appears to be about the year 1220, when Sir William (the Fleming) de Douglas of Stannous, appears as a witness to a charter along with Sir Archibald Douglas. The Douglas&#39;s were the chief landowners of the parish until the reign of James II who endeavoured to destroy the Douglas&#39;s and install the Hamilton&#39;s to the Barony of Stonehouse.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000080">Principally known as a weaving community, Stonehouse has developed and adapted to social and industrial change. Having always retained its strong agricultural identity and beautiful enviroment, Stonehouse&#39;s character and future have been shaped and enriched by its inhabitants through out the years.</font></p><p style="text-align: justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify" align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000000">Parish of Stonehouse, Lanarkshire</font></p><p style="text-align: justify" align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.sorbie.net/stonehouse_1.htm</font></p><p style="margin-right: 25px; margin-: 25px" align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#000000">Stonehouse is one of the smallest of the forty or so Parishes that make up the County Of Lanarkshire. It&#39;s location, only 15 miles south of Glasgow places it on the fringes of the biggest urban conurbation in Scotland. Even so it sits on the bank of Avon Water, in gently rolling countryside and still manages to retain it&#39;s rural character.</font></p><p style="margin-right: 25px; margin-: 25px" align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The heart of the town remains largely unchanged from the 19th century with the low, one-storey weaver&#39;s cottages very much in evidence. These are the houses that the Sorbies lived and worked in, described so eloquently in Tom Sorbie&#39;s &#39;</font><font color="#000000">Short Histories of Stonehouse</font><font color="#000000">&#39; as featured on this website. This has now been classed as a &quot;Heritage Conservation Area&quot;.&nbsp;</font></font></font></p>

 
 
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