Glengarnock Castle Near Kilbirnie.

My mothers birthplace.

Glengarnock is a small village in Northern Ayrshire that took its name from the original Barony of Glengarnock, and the medieval Glengarnock Castle whose ruins are still visible some 3 miles upstream and north of Kilbirnie. The community consisted of a number of migrant workers from Ireland and Lithuania who were brought in to man the works and housed in the "raws", i.e., rows of terraced cottages. A significant community existed with a number of local shops and facilities but these slowly dwindled when the community moved to better housing in Kilbirnie itself and by the 1970s had declined to only a small number of local shops.

My mother was an only child that was born in the small town of Kilbirnie, Scotland, in 1922. Her family was poor and lived in a tiny one-bedroom row house. When her father lost his job at the local steel mill in 1924, he moved the family to Flint, Michigan and found a good-paying job, working on the assembly line at General Motors. I’m currently writing about the many adventures they had, before, during and after the move. You can check back on the website for updates or leave contact information and I will notify you of this and other story's progress.