Glasgow Surname Project

Glasgow surname research

Research catalogue

Search 4,449 historical people connected with the Glasgow surname.

Project overview

Catalogue statistics

Patterns across public historical people only; likely-living profiles remain withheld.

Updated 30 August 2026

4,449Historical people
4,616Mapped records
1,241Mapped places
151Exported family roots
2,534People linked to a root
260Cross-region life courses
2Unlinked WikiTree entries
618People with original evidence
Names, places, family branches and migration patterns

People by region

A person is counted once in every mapped region where a record places them.

  1. United States2,003
  2. Scotland1,095
  3. Ireland791
  4. Unspecified171
  5. New Zealand136
  6. Australia92
  7. England75
  8. Canada68
  9. Caribbean12
  10. India8
  11. France4
  12. Portugal2

Most frequent given names

First recorded given name across the public historical catalogue.

  1. John281
  2. Mary257
  3. James226
  4. William224
  5. Margaret210
  6. Robert164
  7. Elizabeth123
  8. Sarah98
  9. Thomas86
  10. Samuel80
  11. Jane70
  12. George61

Largest exported family branches

Primary earliest-ancestor groups from exported WikiTree parent links.

  1. John GlasgowGlasgow-10951,130
  2. Robert GlasgowGlasgow-3970156
  3. Alexander GlasgowGlasgow-390485
  4. David GlasgowGlasgow-165476
  5. William GlasgowGlasgow-59173
  6. Robert GlasgowGlasgow-136752
  7. James Glasgow junGlasgow-170147
  8. John GlasgowGlasgow-82238
  9. John GlasgowGlasgow-253934
  10. John GlasgowGlasgow-165734
  11. Thomas M GlasgowGlasgow-376623
  12. Robert GlasgowGlasgow-153821

Most frequent mapped places

Unique catalogued people associated with each townland or locality.

  1. Glasgow160
  2. Location not supplied — profile holding point154
  3. Killycurragh townland — Oritor/Derryloran133
  4. Lanarkshire — exact locality unproved129
  5. County Antrim — exact locality unproved88
  6. Edinburgh86
  7. Kirknewton — West Lothian80
  8. Pennsylvania, United States80
  9. Kildress civil parish76
  10. Adams, Ohio, United States73
  11. New Zealand73
  12. Kilwinning — Ayrshire61

Birth centuries

People with a usable birth year; estimates remain estimates.

  1. 15th century1
  2. 16th century65
  3. 17th century305
  4. 18th century683
  5. 19th century2,595
  6. 20th century673
  7. 21st century4

Most common recorded migrations

Different broad birth and death regions on the same profile.

  1. Ireland → United States98
  2. Scotland → United States22
  3. Ireland → New Zealand15
  4. Ireland → Australia15
  5. Ireland → Canada15
  6. Scotland → Ireland14
  7. England → New Zealand9
  8. Ireland → Scotland7
  9. Scotland → England6
  10. Ireland → England6
  11. Scotland → New Zealand5
  12. England → Australia5

Family branches follow exported WikiTree parent links and organise research; they do not independently prove descent. Location totals count mapped associations, so one person may appear in several places or regions.

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Explore the research

Search records4,616 mapped documentary associations Explore places1,241 townlands, parishes and localities Compare two peopleShared family, place and evidence context Irish Glasgows791 people with mapped Irish associations Before 1700371 early people and documentary occurrences WikiTree profile workbench2 unlinked documentary entries; collective and insufficiently named records are flagged rather than treated as people to create Needs updated on WikiTree0 profiles ranked by significance, with paste-ready or exact manual corrections Missing fathers1,357 people without a recorded father Original-record evidence618 people linked to original evidence Early de Glasgu bearers26 medieval documentary entries Y-DNA timeline15 migration and ancestry stages

How to read the evidence

DocumentedSupported by a cited record.

ProbableSupported, but not conclusively proved.

Profile leadReported on a tree profile; inspect its sources.

EstimatedA date or place inferred from other evidence.

Research clusters organise related records and hypotheses; cluster membership does not prove kinship.

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Browse by name24 alphabetical groups
A388 individualsB103 individualsC176 individualsD123 individualsE327 individualsF63 individualsG124 individualsH149 individualsI91 individualsJ829 individualsK30 individualsL138 individualsM712 individualsN92 individualsO24 individualsP68 individualsR301 individualsS268 individualsT106 individualsU26 individualsV30 individualsW274 individualsY1 individualsZ6 individuals
Browse by country or region16 regions
At Sea1 individuals · 1 locationsAustralia92 individuals · 41 locationsCanada68 individuals · 42 locationsCaribbean12 individuals · 7 locationsEngland75 individuals · 56 locationsFrance4 individuals · 1 locationsIndia8 individuals · 6 locationsIreland791 individuals · 134 locationsNew Zealand136 individuals · 39 locationsPortugal2 individuals · 2 locationsScotland1,095 individuals · 112 locationsSouth Africa1 individuals · 1 locationsUnited Kingdom1 individuals · 1 locationsUnited States2,003 individuals · 808 locationsUnspecified171 individuals · 10 locationsWales1 individuals · 1 locations
Browse by research cluster37 research groupings
Belfast maritime record1 individualsCavankilgreen locality cluster1 individualsCounty Antrim Glasgow network1 individualsCounty Leitrim deed actors — kinship unproved2 individualsCross/Derry reconstruction — unproved13 individualsDerryloran-Cookstown and Moneymore family network3 individualsDerryloran–Cookstown profile clusters — kinship unproved31 individualsDerrynoose–Drumgreenagh probate cluster10 individualsDescendants of Alexander Glasgow (c.1811)1 individualsDescendants of Hugh Glasgow (c.1706)13 individualsDescendants of James Glasgow (1731)1 individualsDescendants of James Glasgow (c.1700)30 individualsDescendants of James J Glasgow (c.1809)1 individualsDescendants of John Glasgow (c.1751)1 individualsDescendants of John Glasgow (c.1766)10 individualsDescendants of Unknown Glasgow (before 1740)43 individualsDublin Glasco watchmakers3 individualsDublin St John occurrence1 individualsDunaghy and Ballyboggy-Glenleslie cluster9 individualsEarly Donegal records — kinship unproved4 individualsEast Antrim/Kilwaughter cluster63 individualsEngland One-Tree profile leads75 individualsIreland One-Tree profile leads462 individualsKells Armstrong family1 individualsKilclone County Meath family1 individualsPrescott Robert and Samuel Glasgow cluster6 individualsRathdowney County Laois profile family5 individualsRecent WikiTree profile additions (August 2026)23 individualsScotland One-Tree profile leads1,094 individualsUnassigned occurrence27 individualsUnited Kingdom One-Tree profile leads1 individualsUnplaced Irish profile leads through 185074 individualsUnplaced Irish records1 individualsUnplaced South African Glasgow records1 individualsWales One-Tree profile leads1 individualsWestern County Antrim ruling-elder cluster2 individualsWorldwide One-Tree profile leads2,481 individuals
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This crawlable catalogue contains historical or deceased individuals, family links, mapped places, evidence labels, provenance and research notes. 99 profiles assessed as likely living are omitted from the catalogue, public exports and sitemap.

Source export: ONT_Glasco_2026-08-18T16_05.json · generated 2026-08-30

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