In 1851 an explosion at the Victoria Pit colliery in nearby Nitshill occurred, killing 63 men and boys who worked in the mine, many of whom lived in Barrhead.
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Arthurlie's Johnny Kelly, went on to play for Celtic and Barnsley and won several caps for Scotland.
The 2012 election saw a closely contested race with Progressive Conservative candidate Maureen Kubinec defeating former senator in waiting Link Byfield by a few hundred votes to hold the district.
He was born at 244 Main Street, Barrhead, Scotland, and qualified in 1925 from Glasgow University.
Robert Wilson & Sons were an established manufacturer of pet foods, with canneries in Barrhead near Glasgow and at Malone in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and in the 1930s they registered the names Kennomeat and Kattomeat.
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Abbey or sometimes Abbey Paisley is a civil parish in Renfrewshire, Scotland traditionally centred on the towns of Paisley and Johnstone and including the smaller settlements of Elderslie, Inkerman, Hurlet, Nitshill, the Dovecothall area of Barrhead, and the hamlets of Thorn and Quarrelton, now subsumed into Johnstone.
Peddie was Minister of Kennoway United Free Church and then the High United Free Church in Aberdeen followed by 6 years as Minister of Westbourne Church, Barrhead, Glasgow.
A number of parishes pre-date St Mary's (St Mary's, Greenock, and St Mirin, Paisley; both 1808, St Patrick, Dumbarton, 1830, St Margaret, Airdrie, 1836; St. John, Barrhead, St Mary, Duntocher, and St Fillan, Houston; all 1841), but of all of these only Saint Margaret's, Airdrie, still has the original church (opened 1836).
St Luke's High School, a Roman Catholic secondary school in Barrhead, Glasgow, Scotland