This part of the site is about the family from Kilbarchan who were to have strong links to Port Glasgow and Kilmacolm. A connection that was to last nearly 200 years.

The Birkmyre family were generous to the whole community through their gifts and services to the town and their work with local children, charities and through the church.

As well as becoming the owners of the Gourock Ropeworks they had large homes and made considerable contributions to the town of Port Glasgow these include a public park and a hospital.

Special thanks in help with information for theses pages to the headmistress of St Columba's School Kilmacolm and Mr R Birkmyre for sharing his family tree re-search.  

Also thanks to L C Sykes for information and pictures used in this section of the website

This section of PG4U was given a revamp in December 2006 with improvements to both details and photographs as well as information on other members of the Birkmyre family prior to the new site layout.
The family tree has now been removed as it was inaccurate and at present I have no plans to re-make it.

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Please do not submitt them to any other site for display

This page last modified on Tuesday, January 23, 2007