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Glasgow Research: Complete Free-Space Directory
This is the navigation directory for the Glasgow Name Study. Each substantive page covers a distinct person, place, record group, branch or hypothesis. Alternative titles route readers to the relevant central page.
| Page type | Meaning | Reader action |
|---|---|---|
| Project hub | current synthesis or primary route through the study | begin here |
| Evidence hub | sourced register or branch study with an explicit current conclusion | use for established findings and evidence limits |
| Specialist study | focused person, place, family, source set or research question | check its evidence statement before reusing a claim |
| Record notebook | transcription, extract or working collection awaiting full resolution | cite the underlying record, not the notebook alone |
| Hypothesis / notebook | research leads preserved for testing; not a documented project conclusion | follow its link to the relevant evidence hub |
Recommended route: read the project conclusion, choose the relevant evidence hub below, then use the specialist pages for the underlying detail. The Research Catalogue, Record Search, Place Search and Family Map provide faster discovery across the corpus. They are finding aids; facts still require the cited historical record.
Current research programme
| Workstream | Status | Completion test | Primary page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-1500 bearer separation and access | Current; backlinks finishing | every distinct bearer has an individual free-space page, source citation and chronological-hub link | bearer register |
| Medieval-to-burgh bridge, 1447–1534 | Open | a relationship, succession or property record joins the late-medieval bearer network to William Glasgow and Esbell Brade | early Scotland |
| Sixteenth-century Scottish clusters | In progress | Corsinkell, burgh, fisher, Hirmanscheillis, Lothian and Borders relationships are either proved or explicitly separated | early Scotland |
| Protocol and testament extraction | In progress | every relationship-bearing Glasgow entry has a stable citation, indexed people and a linked profile or research subject | protocol books · wills |
| Ireland locality reconstruction | In progress | every record is assigned to county, parish, townland and household cluster without treating proximity as kinship | early Ireland |
| Scotland-to-Ulster bridge | Open | an original migration, relationship, property, church or probate record joins a Scottish person to a specific Irish household | early Ireland |
| Profile evidence integration | Complete — 30 August 2026 | all 78 referenced profiles were checked against the live biography and manager list; evidence was transferred only where the original source supported a missing fact, while weak or unresolved claims remain on hold | research catalogue |
| Y-DNA pedigree matrix | Open | every published branch conclusion is supported by separately documented tester pedigrees and current platform topology | DNA project |
| Research-notebook assessment | In progress | each useful source or lead is cited, assessed and linked to the relevant evidence hub | this directory |
Research notebook guide
| Research page | Evidence-bearing material | Hypotheses requiring support | Next action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow History | useful medieval occurrences and research leads route to the chronology and Scottish hub | unsupported identities, pedigrees and broad migration claims | replace surviving derivative claims with citations to the underlying record |
| Origins Research, 1170–1600 | bearer list and source leads route to the chronological register | a single nested medieval-to-modern pedigree | check each unabsorbed reference independently |
| Kinship Circle | repeated marriage and witness-network questions route to the specialist marriage study | network proximity as proof of parentage or identity | test each proposed edge with a relationship-bearing record |
| Protocol Books | relationship-bearing entries now have a structured index | raw OCR or notebook wording as a final citation | complete the missing volume, page and protocol-number citations |
| Wills and Testaments | household groups now have a structured index and explicit evidence status | same-name identifications without the testament text | obtain stable catalogue links or images and transcribe relationship clauses |
| Ancient Y-DNA | current topology, platform resources and evidential limits | named medieval SNP assignments unsupported by a pedigree or ancient sample | update only from current platform results and supported comparisons |
| Personal genetic exploration | retained as a transparent personal notebook | private match observations as project conclusions | transfer only anonymised, reproducible conclusions with consent |
| Other medieval candidates | useful controls and possible exclusions | candidates treated as Glasgow bearers merely because of proximity | correct the title by controlled move and continue source-by-source exclusions |
Contribute and report corrections
Anyone may improve WikiTree's Glasgow profiles and free-space pages. Add a citation to the underlying record, distinguish transcription from interpretation, and label a proposed identity or relationship as a hypothesis. Project-wide data corrections may also be reported through the workbench feedback page.
New specialist pages should be linked here and from the nearest evidence hub. New pre-1500 people must be represented by an individual free-space page and added in chronological order to the pre-1500 register; do not create a pre-1500 WikiTree person profile for this study.
Working notebook
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> The material below is retained for provenance and as a source of unresolved leads. It predates the evidence-graded hubs above and may contain obsolete links, old counts or unproved connections. Use the directory and current conclusions above before relying on it.
Original participation notes
Please be as descriptive as possible and cite your source - even if it's not a fit, the information can prove invaluable for other branches.
Research should be stored on free-space pages and kept out individual profiles where possible, you can create a new Freespace Page here.
- Person
- Location
- Misc
🧬DNA
Research Findings
- Jonet Young and Jean Gardiner are the same person? Jonet (Young) Glasgow (abt.1670-)
- Jhone Glasgow M.A (abt.1588-) switches names in birth-record with John Glassford
- Connection from the original bearers of the surname to 'house of walter' and the tironesian order.
Research Questions
Identify father of John Glasgow (1767-1851)
Identify how these link up. Births listed on Ancestry (based on family bible) are off. [1]
📚 Resources
🌳 Branches
These are several other records of branches which predate this project.
- History of the Glasgow Family by Melanchthon Glasgow
- Origins of colonial immigrant Robert Glasgow (1612-1650) who arrived with his brothers Daniel and Thomas.
- "The Glasgow Family of Adams County, Ohio: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Glasgow (1749-1839) and His Wife Rosanna of Bush Creek, Adams County, Ohio" by DavidFaris.
- Several public trees ongeneanet
Nodes
- Mr. Glasgow, Scotland -> North Carolina (1582)
- Robert Glasgow 1669, son of James Glasgow in Ireland[2]
- James Glasgow 1700, son of William Glasgow in [3]
- Margaret Glasgow 1700, daughter of John Glasgow in [4]
- Robert Glasgow 1674, son of James Glasgow & Janet Orr in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland[5][6]
- David Glasgow 1744, son of either Thomas Glasgow or Abraham Glasgow in Scotland[7]
Abotts
Kilwinning Abbey
- HEW 24-05-1676 HEW GLASGOW/MARGARET LACHLAND FR34 (FR34) Kilwinning 599/ M
- ROBERT 01-12-1678 HEW GLASGOW/ Kilwinning 599/ M
- JON 06-07-1679 JON GLASGOW/BARBARA ALASON FR44 (FR44) Kilwinning 599/ M
- AGNES 21-09-1679 GORGE GLASGOW/JEAN GARDINER FR45 (FR45) Kilwinning 599/ F
- JOHN 16-09-1683 GORG GLASGOW/JEAN GARDINER FR57 (FR57) Kilwinning 599/ M
- JON 16-09-1683 GORGE GLASGOW/JONET YOUNG FR57 (FR57) Kilwinning 599/ M
- GEORGE 20-11-1687 JOHN GLASGOW/AGNES SPARK FR66 (FR66) Kilwinning 599/ M
- MARGARET 03-06-1688 JOHN GLASGOW/BESSIE SMITH FR70 (FR70) Kilwinning 599/ F
- MARIE 29-07-1688 GEORGE GLASGOW/JANNET WILLIE FR71 (FR71) Kilwinning 599/ F
- MARGARET 23-09-1688 GEORGE GLASGOW/FANNE SMITH FR72 (FR72) Kilwinning 599/ F
- JANNET 01-02-1689 JOHN GLASGOW/ ALLASON FR75 (FR75) Kilwinning 599/ F
- JAMES 14-07-1689 JAMES GLASGOW/MARGATE PARK FR78 (FR78) Kilwinning 599/ M
- George Glasgow (1622-)
Kilbirnie
- JOHN 09-12-1690 JOHN GLASGOW/JEANE CUNYINGHAME FR18 (FR18) Kilbirnie 596/ M
- ELIZABETH 17-04-1692 JOHN GLASGOW/JEANE CUNYNGHAME FR20 (FR20) Kilbirnie 596/ F
- MARGARET 17-04-1692 JOHN GLASGOW/JEANE CUNYNGHAME FR20 (FR20) Kilbirnie 596/ F
- ROBERT 17-10-1693 JOHN GLASGOW/JEANE CUNYNGHAME FR22 (FR22) Kilbirnie 596/ M
- ALEXANDER 15-07-1695 JOHN GLASGOW/JEANE CUNYNGHAME FR23 (FR23) Kilbirnie 596/ M
- JEANE 16-04-1697 JOHN GLASGOW/JEANE CUNYNGHAME FR24 (FR24) Kilbirnie 596/ F
- JAMES 17-03-1700 JOHN GLASGOW/MARGARET SCOT FR27 (FR27) Kilbirnie 596/ M
Kelso
Kilwaughter
Houses
The surnames "Clerk", "Grahame", "Spruell", and "Anderson" are mentioned frequently alongside the first apperance of the Glasgows in the Protocol books (16C)
2916. Angus— Darroch, spouses. 1 September, 1586, 9 a.m. George Glasgw, son and heir of William Glasgow, with consent of Margaret Herbesoun, his mother, for her liferent, and of Sir William Herbesoun and Stephen Glasgw, his curators, sold to John Angus, merchant in Glasgow, and Helen Darrocht, spouses, a back waste ruinous tenement^ with the pertinents, lying on the west side of the street leading from the metropolitan church to the market cross, between the lands sometime of Robert Pirrhie, then of John Clerk, tailor, on the east, the lands of q. David Lyndsay on the west, the lands of Sir Bartholomew Sympsoun on the north, and the lands of q. George Herbesoun on the south. Sasine given by John Grahame, bailie. Witnesses: John Clerk, tailor, citizen, and John Pirrhie, writer.
Clerk(son)
- Andrew Glasgow (abt.1720-) marries Janet Clerk (abt.1720-)
- Andrew Glasgow (abt.1720-) marries Isobel Clerk (abt.1720-)
- Alexander Glasgow (abt.1600-) marries Jannet Clerk (abt.1610-)
- Thomas Glasgow (bef.1700-) marries Catherine Clarkson (bef.1700-)
Cunningham
- Robert Glasgow (abt.1583-) marries Jonet Conynghame (abt.1580-)
- John Glasgow (abt.1653-abt.1721) marries Jean (Cunynghame) Glasgow (abt.1660-)
- Abraham Glasgow (1719-) marries Janet Cunnyngham (abt.1719-)
- Alexander Glasgow (bef.1747-) married Agnes Cunninghame (abt.1755-)
- James Glasgow (abt.1790-) married Jean Cunninghame (abt.1798-)
🔖 Bookmarks
- ancestry.co.uk surname origin
- WikiTree Glasgow Surname Index
- Glasgow (surname) - Wikipedia
- surnamedb.com
- Glasgow History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Timeline of Glasgow (city) History
- Literature
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Source references
- https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/26875475/person/152122287083/facts
- James Glasgow 1669 Ireland, son Robert.
- William Glasgow (1670) Scotland, Son James
- John Glasgow (before 1700), Scotland Daughter: Margaret
- https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYZ5-SYB?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=M1YD-8RT
- James Glasgow (before 1660), Scotland. Son Robert, wife Janet Orr
- https://www.geni.com/people/David-Glasgow/6000000036891183011#/tab/overview
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