Old photograph of Birkmyre Lawn Bowling Green in Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Henry Birkmyre, born 1762, died 1844, moved from Kilbarchan to Port Glasgow in 1792 where he took up employment in a sailcloth manufacturing. Henry soon rose to the position of foreman in Gourock Ropework Company. and was made a partner in the firm in 1814. Henry sent his younger son, William, to Glasgow to be trained by city merchants. This early training paid off and, following in his father’s footsteps, William was appointed as a manager in the rope works. In 1831 he married Margaret Aitken. William was regarded as a shrewd businessman and laid the foundations of the future success and world wide expansion of Gourock Ropework Company. He retired in 1860 and died in 1862 in Ashgrove, the family home at the bottom of Clune Brae in Port Glasgow.
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