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Glasgow archive/The Glasgow fishers
Catalogue · 08 Sep 2026
Evidence-led research group

The Glasgow fishers

Robert, Ninian and their family emerge from burgess admissions, property deeds and testaments. John who married Jonet Mathie remains an identity question within this network.

Glasgow burgh and the Clyde-side property network · 1551-1619

The open question

Was John who married Jonet Mathie the living brother named by Ninian in 1613?

Ninian's 1596 admission calls him Robert the fisher's second son. His testament names son Robert, sister Marion and a living brother John. Robert the fisher is probably a son of William from the repeated craft and property evidence, but that parentage is not expressed in a record. John of Hirmenschelis, dead by 1577, cannot be the living brother.

People to investigate

Named anchors and candidates, not an automatic descendant list.

What connects this group?

A documented family core and an explicitly unresolved John identity; inclusion of John-1030 is as a candidate, not an established sibling.

What would move it forward?

Find an occupation, inherited property or parent statement carrying Ninian's brother into the 1618 marriage and 1619 baptism household.

Read the evidence

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