WILLIAM STEED


William Steed was a goalkeeper with Ardrossan Celtic Football Club, joining them early in season 1901-02. He also played at full-back against Irvine Thistle on 17 May 1902. In August 1903, he joined Vale of Garnock Strollers. He played in goal for Ardeer Thistle against Vale of Garnock on 5 March 1904.

He was born in Hurlford on 1 May 1879. His parents were Andrew Steed, a labourer and his wife Eleanor McFadzean. William became an apprentice tailor. On 29 November 1901, William, then a coalminer of Carment Drive, Stevenston, married Agnes McIntyre Barr, a domestic servant of Kelburne Farm, Largs. Two years earlier, on 29 December 1899, William's brother Samuel married Agnes's sister, Annie in Stevenston.

William and Agnes had eight children - Andrew born in 1902, Robert 1903, James 1906, Agnes 1908, Eleanor 1910, Annie 1915, Margaret 1913 and Catherine 1919. All were born in Stevenston.

William died on 11 January 1947 at Alexander Place, Stevenston.

In Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald reports, William's surname was repeatedly spelt Stead but his birth, marriage and death certificates have the spelling Steed.