Unmarried mother home or Convent in Bishopton

[Pat Herrity]

Hi

Does anyone remember a Hannah McGlynn she was in the mother and baby home in 1956?

[Arodgers76]

Hello, I'm looking for a woman who was there in the mid 1970's. Anne McKinnon, she was engaged to my late brother Dickie Rodgers in the late 70's.

[jmccabe]

Hello, I'm looking for a woman who was there in the mid 1970's. Anne McKinnon, she was engaged to my late brother Dickie Rodgers in the late 70's.

Sorry, can't help with Anne, but are you Alan Rodgers?

[Arodgers76]

Alan is my brother...I'm the youngest sibling, Anne

[jmccabe]

Alan is my brother...I'm the youngest sibling, Anne

Ah, I see. I hope you don't mind, but I've sent you a private message.

[prq]

I was adopted in 1955. According to a letter from the adoption agency, my adoptive parents collected me from St Gerard’s, 231 Nithsdale Road, Pollockshileds, Glasgow. However, I came across two letters to my parents following my adoption. The first from St Gerard’s, Bishopton from the Good Shepherd Convent, Bishopton. I am guessing that St Gerard’s and the Good Shepherd Convent in Bishopton are one and the same place. But can anyone shed any light on the link between Bishopton and St Gerard’s Pollockshields. Although I was born in Lennox Castle I wonder if my birth mother spent any time pre or post giving birth to me in either of these two places. Are there records somewhere which can be consulted? Grateful for any information.

[geninhexham]

Hi,
I’ve been reading through all of these comments with great interest and remembering back to this time. I didn’t go to St Euphrasias or St Gerard’s home but I was a wee girl who grew up there. My granda ( Willie McDaid) was the caretaker. Father Diamond was a very close family friend. We spent our whole childhood there. I was born in 1970 and my siblings and I used to be allowed to visit the wee babies. Sister Gertrude and Sister Catherine would let us in and let us buy sweets from the sweet cupboard. We loved seeing the wee babies, and didn’t ever understand how desperately sad it must have been for the mums there.
My granda used to fix shoes for the girls in St Euphrasias. We loved trying on the amazing funky high heeled shoes and sandals ( that we weren’t allowed to have). My mum ( Geraldine Giedraitis) worked at St Gerard’s mother & baby home in the 1970’s & 80’s teaching the girls sewing and making things and was then a teacher at St Euphrasias for a long time.
It makes me so sad to think of the awful times and difficult situations the girls dealt with and I feel so strange to be so unaware of it and all I thought was that it was a happy place with stylish teenagers and little cute babies!
I saw someone called their baby Genevieve, born in 1972. My name is Genevieve. I believe I was named after a wee Good Shepherd nun who came to the convent.
Such vivid memories of my childhood.