James Glasgow II

+ [[Category:Glasgow Name Study]]
  {{Estimated Date}}
- {{One Name Study|name=Glasgow}}
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  {{Ireland Native}}
  
  == Biography ==
- James Glasgow was likely born in Ireland around 1722. He is believed to have emigrated to North America with his wife, Mary, in 1770, possibly as part of the larger wave of Ulster Scots (Scots-Irish) migration that brought many Presbyterian families from Northern Ireland to the American colonies in the 18th century.
+ '''James Glasgow''' is named in a modern genealogy as "James Glasgow of Moneymore," father of [[Glasgow-12|Robert Glasgow]], who was born in County Londonderry in 1749.<ref name="Faris">David Faris, ''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'' (1990); [https://search.worldcat.org/title/22731567 WorldCat catalogue record] and [https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-Glasgow-family-of-Adams-County-Ohio-%3A-a-genealogy-of-the-descendants-of-Robert-Glasgow-%281749-1839%29-and-his-wife-Rosanna-of-Bush-Creek-Adams-County-Ohio/oclc/22731567 captured catalogue URL]. The book's underlying evidence for Robert's father has not yet been inspected.</ref> No contemporary record yet found establishes this James's birth, parents, wife, migration, or death.
  
- The couple is recorded in immigration lists for that year, suggesting they arrived together and settled in Pennsylvania. In 1804, James appears in naturalization records under the spelling "James Glassgo," confirming his Irish origin and long residence in the United States.
+ James has traditionally been described as born in Ireland about 1722, emigrating to North America with Mary in 1770, settling in Pennsylvania, appearing in the 1804 naturalisation index as “James Glassgo,” and dying about 1831. The located records have not yet been connected to one another or to Robert's father. The age-40 [[Glasgow-4024|James Glasgow buried at Cookstown in 1831]] was a different man.
  
- It is believed that James died around 1831. If correct, this would place his age at approximately 109 years—a remarkable claim that warrants further verification, as such lifespans were rare and often embellished in genealogical lore.
+ The profile records James as the sixth great-grandfather of [[Scholten-278|Diane Scholten]]. That descent depends on the currently unproved identification of this profile as the father of the emigrant sibling group and should be treated as a tree relationship pending source-level proof.
  
- James is the 6th great-grandfather of [[Scholten-278|Diane Scholten]].
+ Robert's 1834 pension declaration states that Robert was born in County Derry in 1749, had no written record of his age, and came to "Nottingham County Virginia" in 1769.<ref name="RobertPension">Robert Glasgow, Revolutionary War pension application R4057, declaration dated 1834, [https://revwarapps.org/r4057.pdf transcription and images].</ref> It does not name Robert's parents or siblings. Faris's later identification of Robert's father as James of Moneymore is therefore useful secondary evidence, but it is not independently proved.
+ 
+ === Provenance of the compiled pedigree ===
+ 
+ The located publication trail does not support a death date for James. Faris's 1990 catalogue summary supplies no vital dates, wife, migration or death for the father.<ref name="Faris" />
+ 
+ The detailed family package can be traced to Brøderbund World Family Tree, volume 2, tree 6075 (1995), later imported into WeRelate. It gives James Glascow born about 1722, Mary Harkness born about 1727, a marriage about 1748, and sons Robert, Arthur and Joseph, but no death for either parent.<ref name="WFT1995">[https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person%3AJames_Glascow_%282%29 WeRelate, "James Glascow (2)"] and [https://www.werelate.org/w/index.php?oldid=14450844&amp;title=Person%3AJames_Glascow_%282%29 revision 14450844], derivative profile attributing the family to Brøderbund World Family Tree, volume 2, tree 6075. This documents pedigree provenance, not the events.</ref>
+ 
+ {| class="wikitable" style="background:#e8f5e9; border:1px solid #2e7d32;"
+ ! Date !! Located pedigree claim
+ |-
+ | 1990 || Faris calls Robert a son of "James Glasgow of Moneymore"; the accessible summary gives no father's vital dates.
+ |-
+ | 1995 || World Family Tree 6075 supplies estimated births, marriage and three sons, but no parental death dates.
+ |-
+ | 2010 || The earliest recovered WeRelate version still contains no death event.
+ |-
+ | Later trees || An unsupported 1803 death appears.
+ |-
+ | Current profile || An unsupported death about 1831 was added later.
+ |}
+ 
+ The 1831 death therefore did not originate in the located pedigree package. It was attached later without an identified source.
+ 
+ === Proposed family ===
+ 
+ {| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#e8f5e9;"
+ ! Profile !! Proposed relationship !! Present evidence
+ |-
+ | [[Harkness-1149|Mary Harkness]] || Wife || No marriage or contemporary record identifies her as this James's wife. A 1770 compiled reference names James and Mary, but its date may indicate arrival, marriage, residence, or merely a first known mention.<ref name="TurkIndex">Ancestry.com, ''U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s–1900s'', record 7486 #2471134, Mary Glasgow, 1770, primary immigrant James Glasgow; derived from Marion G. Turk, ''The Quiet Adventurers in North America'', p. 249. The underlying page has not been inspected.</ref>
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-12|Robert Glasgow]] || Son || Faris calls Robert a son of James of Moneymore; Robert's pension proves Robert's County Derry origin and 1769 migration, but does not name his father.<ref name="Faris"/><ref name="RobertPension"/>
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-649|Arthur Glasgow]] || Son || Later family history says Arthur emigrated as a ward with his mother and elder brothers in 1766; it does not name his father.<ref name="Ellen">Ellen Glasgow, family-history appendix (1954), [https://www.familysearch.org/en/memories/memory/16905684 FamilySearch memory 16905684].</ref>
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-1543|Joseph Glasgow]] || Son || Joseph's 1831 will and an 1806 family letter support the sibling group including Arthur, Robert, and Joseph, but do not identify their father.<ref name="JosephWill">Joseph Glasgow, Pulaski County, Virginia, will of 1831, transcription at [https://swvirginians.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/joseph-glasgow-pulaski-co-va-will-of-1831/ Southwest Virginians]; [https://www.lva.virginia.gov/collections/ccmf/VA/VA305 Library of Virginia catalogue].</ref><ref name="Letter1806">Family letter dated 1806, transcribed in Faris, ''Glasgow Family'', pp. 14–19.</ref>
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-3305|James Glasgow]] || Son || Relationship remains under active investigation; no conclusion should be drawn from this draft.
+ |}
+ 
+ The sibling evidence does not prove that every proposed sibling was a child of this particular James. Y-DNA results from Robert's descendants may support a paternal Glasgow line but cannot identify Robert's father without a documented comparison line.
+ 
+ === Competing traditions ===
+ 
+ Faris states that Robert emigrated in 1769 with three brothers and a sister and first settled in the Nottingham community.<ref name="Faris"/> Ellen Glasgow's 1954 account instead says that Arthur, then about sixteen and described as a ward, emigrated in 1766 with his mother and elder brothers; it associates the family with Counties Down and Antrim.<ref name="Ellen"/> These accounts differ on date, party, and locality. Neither supports the claim that James and Mary themselves immigrated together in 1770.
+ 
+ === Distinct and unproved same-name men ===
+ 
+ {| class="wikitable" style="background-color:#e8f5e9;"
+ ! Record or profile !! Assessment
+ |-
+ | James Glasgow in Augusta County, Virginia, and Cecil County, Maryland, 1747–1753 || A serious American candidate, but linked to the Moneymore father only by a derivative profile.<ref name="WeRelate">[https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person%3AJames_Glascow_%282%29 WeRelate, James Glascow (2)], derivative profile citing Augusta and Cecil County records; original deeds require inspection.</ref>
+ |-
+ | James "Glassgo," Pennsylvania naturalisation, 1804 || The index proves a same-name applicant, not his identity as Robert's father.<ref name="Naturalization">"Pennsylvania, Eastern District Naturalization Indexes, 1795–1951," James Glassgo, 1804, [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXX1-HYS FamilySearch KXX1-HYS].</ref>
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-4024|James Glasgow of Cookstown]], buried 13 March 1831 aged 40 || A distinct man born about 1790–1791, not a father of adults born in the 1740s–1750s.<ref name="CookstownBurial">Derryloran parish, St Luran's burial register transcript, James Glasgow, Cookstown, buried 13 March 1831, age 40, [https://www.cotyroneireland.com/churchrecord/saintluran1830-1849.html CoTyroneIreland.com].</ref>
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-2988|James Glasgow of Derryloran/Cookstown]] || A plausible duplicate or identity candidate. His estimated generation and the short distance between the Derryloran/Cookstown district and Moneymore are compatible with the proposed father. However, the 1740 and 1766 returns record multiple nearby men named James Glasgow, and no record yet links this candidate to Robert, Arthur, Joseph, Mary Harkness, or the description "James Glasgow of Moneymore." The profiles should remain separate pending stronger evidence.
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-3444|James Glasgow of Cookstown, 1776–1866]] || Separate later-generation profile and not the age-40 man buried in 1831.
+ |-
+ | [[Glasgow-3986|James Glasgow of Larne, 1773–1831]] || Separate Larne profile; its age, place, and reported burial differ from the Cookstown entry.
+ |}
+ 
+ The 1831 Cookstown burial is a possible source of the erroneous death year, but that transmission cannot be proved. James's death should remain unknown.
+ 
+ [[Glasgow-2988]] should be retained as the leading local possible duplicate. The most useful evidence would be a lease, estate rental, church record, probate document, or family paper connecting the same James with both Moneymore and the Corvanaghan, Drumearn, Derryloran, or Cookstown records.
+ 
+ === Ulster context ===
+ 
+ The 1740 Protestant-householder return names two James Glasgo householders in Derryloran.<ref name="1740Return">Bill Macafee, [https://www.billmacafee.com/1740returns/1740religiousreturnsulstername.pdf ''1740 Protestant Householders' Returns: Ulster Surname Index''], entries for Glasgo in Derryloran.</ref> The 1766 religious census transcript names two men called Jas Glasgo and one John Glasgo at Drumearn, with other Glasgow and Harkness householders in the wider Derryloran area.<ref name="1766Return">[https://www.cotyroneireland.com/census/1766derryloran.html "Religious Census, Derryloran Parish, 1766," CoTyroneIreland.com].</ref> These returns establish a local surname cluster, but supply no ages or relationships and do not identify Robert's father.
  
  == Immigration and Naturalization ==
  
- '''Arrival''' James and Mary Glasgow arrived in North America in 1770, according to compiled passenger and immigration index records.  
+ === Compiled 1770 reference ===
+ 
+ The earlier profile interpreted the following compiled index entry as showing that James and Mary Glasgow arrived together in North America in 1770:
+ 
  <blockquote>
- "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s," database, ({{Ancestry Record|7486|2471134}} : accessed 2 October 2022), Name: Mary Glasgow; Arrival Year: 1770; Arrival Place: North America; Primary Immigrant: Glasgow, James; Source Publication Code: 9228.50; Annotation: Date and port of arrival, date and place of marriage, or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World. Names were only indexed if birth overseas was specifically stated in source. An A following the page number indicates entry appears in; Source Bibliography: TURK, MARION G. *The Quiet Adventurers in North America.* Parts 1 and 2. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993. 670p.; Household Members Relationship: James Glasgow, Mary Glasgow Wife; citing Place North America, Year 1770, Page Number 249.
+ "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s," database, ({{Ancestry Record|7486|2471134}} : accessed 2 October 2022), Name: Mary Glasgow; Arrival Year: 1770; Arrival Place: North America; Primary Immigrant: Glasgow, James; Source Publication Code: 9228.50; Annotation: Date and port of arrival, date and place of marriage, or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World. Names were only indexed if birth overseas was specifically stated in source. An A following the page number indicates entry appears in; Source Bibliography: TURK, MARION G. ''The Quiet Adventurers in North America.'' Parts 1 and 2. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993. 670p.; Household Members Relationship: James Glasgow, Mary Glasgow Wife; citing Place North America, Year 1770, Page Number 249.
  </blockquote>
  
+ The annotation expressly allows 1770 to mean arrival, marriage, or first known residence or mention in North America. It is not itself a passenger manifest. Until Turk's page 249 and its cited evidence are inspected, the defensible conclusion is only that a compiled work associates James and Mary Glasgow with North America and the year 1770.<ref name="TurkIndex" />
+ 
+ === Pennsylvania naturalization index ===
+ 
- '''Naturalization:''' In 1804, James was listed as “James Glassgo” in Pennsylvania’s Eastern District naturalization indexes, confirming his Irish birth.<ref>"Pennsylvania, Eastern District Naturalization Indexes, 1795-1952," database with images, FamilySearch ([https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXX1-HYS https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXX1-HYS] : 9 March 2018), James Glassgo, 1804; citing Naturalization, Pennsylvania, United States, NARA microfilm publication.</ref>
+ In 1804 a man indexed as “James Glassgo” appeared in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania naturalization indexes.<ref name="Naturalization">"Pennsylvania, Eastern District Naturalization Indexes, 1795-1952," database with images, FamilySearch ([https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXX1-HYS https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXX1-HYS] : 9 March 2018), James Glassgo, 1804; citing Naturalization, Pennsylvania, United States, NARA microfilm publication.</ref>
+ 
+ The index establishes a same-name naturalization record. It does not by itself identify the applicant as Robert's father, Mary Harkness's husband, the person in Turk's 1770 reference, or “James Glasgow of Moneymore.” If born about 1722, the applicant would have been about eighty-two, making the underlying card and petition especially important. The earlier statement that this record confirmed this James's Irish birth and long United States residence therefore remains an interpretation to be tested, not an established conclusion.
  
  == Identity and Relationship Questions ==
- There is some ambiguity surrounding James’s exact identity:
  
- * He may be the same individual as [[Glasgow-2988|James Glasgow (abt. 1720–)]].
- * He may also be the father of [[Glasgow-2989|James Glasgow (1740–)]], or possibly conflated with either.
- * DNA and documentary research (see [[Space:Glasgow Ancient YDNA]]) may help clarify these relationships.
+ There is continuing ambiguity surrounding James's identity:
+ 
+ * He may be the same individual as [[Glasgow-2988|James Glasgow (about 1720–)]], but several local men shared the name and no bridging family record has been found.
+ * He may have been the father of [[Glasgow-2989|James Glasgow (about 1740–)]], or the profiles may preserve conflated same-name traditions.
+ * DNA and documentary research described at [[Space:Glasgow Ancient YDNA]] may help test the paternal network, but cannot replace a documentary generational bridge.
  
  == Research Notes ==
- === Current research ===
+ === Y-DNA pedigree audit ===
  
- The profile's structured 1831 Moneymore death conflicts with its own biography, which says James and Mary emigrated to North America about 1770 and that James was naturalised there in 1804. The local-continuity claim and attached father and children require source-level reconstruction.
+ Big Y kit <code>959947</code>, previously treated as a possible independent line from the James generation, most plausibly returns to [[Glasgow-12|Robert Glasgow]] through Robert's son [[Glasgow-563|William Glasgow]] and the chain [[Glasgow-1829]] → [[Glasgow-556]] → [[Glasgow-1851]] → [[Glasgow-1877]]. The final link to the private tester is not publicly exposed. The kit therefore tests a probable '''descendant of Robert'''; it does not independently prove Robert's father.
  
- David Faris's catalogue summary independently describes Robert Glasgow (1749-1839) as a son of '''James Glasgow of Moneymore''', but supplies no dates, wife or migration for the father. Ellen Glasgow's later account says Arthur was a ward who emigrated with his mother and elder brothers in 1766, implying that Arthur's father was already dead or legally absent. Those statements do not establish that the father was this live profile. They instead increase the risk that Glasgow-1024 combines the father of the emigrant siblings with a different James who emigrated and was naturalised in 1804.
- 
- Newly recovered kinship evidence proves that [[Glasgow-12|Robert Glasgow]], [[Glasgow-649|Arthur Glasgow]] and [[Glasgow-1543|Joseph Glasgow]] were brothers. It does '''not''' prove that this profile was their father. A published transcription of a 6 November 1806 family letter supplies the Robert–Arthur–Joseph kin terms, and Joseph's 1831 will independently calls Arthur his deceased brother. Neither document names their parents.
- 
- ### Y-DNA pedigree audit
- 
- Big Y kit <code>959947</code>, previously treated as a possible independent line from the James generation, most plausibly returns to Robert <code>Glasgow-12</code> through Robert's son William <code>Glasgow-563</code> and the chain <code>Glasgow-1829</code> → <code>Glasgow-556</code> → <code>Glasgow-1851</code> → <code>Glasgow-1877</code>. The final link to the private tester is not publicly exposed. The kit therefore tests a probable '''descendant of Robert'''; it does not independently prove Robert's father.
- 
- Its reported earliest-ancestor label “James Glasgow” is consistent with Faris's later statement that Robert's father was James of Moneymore, but it remains a copied pedigree label. It cannot resolve whether that man is the conflicted WikiTree profile <code>Glasgow-1024</code>.
+ Its reported earliest-ancestor label “James Glasgow” is consistent with Faris's later statement that Robert's father was James of Moneymore, but it remains a copied pedigree label. It cannot resolve whether that man is the conflicted WikiTree profile [[Glasgow-1024]].
  
  This assessment draws on the cited records and public source material.<ref name="ProjectSource1">[https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-Glasgow-family-of-Adams-County-Ohio-%3A-a-genealogy-of-the-descendants-of-Robert-Glasgow-%281749-1839%29-and-his-wife-Rosanna-of-Bush-Creek-Adams-County-Ohio/oclc/22731567 WorldCat summary].</ref><ref name="ProjectSource2">[https://www.familysearch.org/en/memories/memory/16905684 FamilySearch Memories].</ref><ref name="ProjectSource3">[https://www.billmacafee.com/1740returns/1740religiousreturnsulstername.pdf 1740 Ulster religious return].</ref><ref name="ProjectSource4">[https://revwarapps.org/r4057.pdf Robert Glasgow pension declaration, R4057].</ref><ref name="ProjectSource5">[https://search.worldcat.org/title/22731567 WorldCat record].</ref>
  
+ === Moneymore and local surname geography ===
+ 
+ The 1766 religious return explicitly covers Moneymore and Ballygrooby and names heads of families by denomination. It contains neither a Glasgow nor a Harkness household head.<ref name="Moneymore1766">[https://www.cotyroneireland.com/census/moneymore.html Religious Census of Moneymore, Ballygrooby and Artrea, 1766], transcription.</ref> This does not prove that no individual of either surname was present: servants, lodgers and dependants might not be named. It is nevertheless substantial negative evidence against the compiled claim that a married James and Mary maintained an established Moneymore household with several teenage children.
+ 
+ The Derryloran return instead names two "Jas. Glasgo" householders at Drumearn, other Glasgow households nearby, James Harkness in Cookstown and Robert Harkness at Oghless. The tradition may preserve the wider Cookstown–south Derry district rather than a documented Moneymore residence. None of these entries identifies Robert's father.
+ 
+ === Composite records ===
+ 
+ The profile combines at least five unconnected strands:
+ 
+ # Faris's poorly documented "James Glasgow of Moneymore" tradition.
+ # The 1995 compiled James-and-Mary pedigree.
+ # A James Glasgow in Augusta and Cecil County records by 1747–1753.
+ # A James "Glassgo" in Pennsylvania naturalisation material in 1804.
+ # [[Glasgow-4024|James Glasgow of Cookstown]], aged 40, buried in 1831.
+ 
+ No located record bridges all five. The 1831 burial belongs to the younger Cookstown man and must not remain in this profile's structured death fields.
+ 
+ No source presently supports birth at Moneymore about 1721, the suffix "II," marriage to Mary Harkness in 1747, immigration in 1770, identity with the 1804 naturalisation applicant, or death at Moneymore in 1831.
+ 
+ The Ancestry entry derived from Marion Turk is not a passenger manifest. Its annotation permits 1770 to mean arrival, marriage, first residence, or first mention.<ref name="TurkIndex"/> The underlying page 249 should be inspected.
+ 
+ === Next records ===
+ 
+ # Examine Desertlyn Church of Ireland burial register MIC1/10A, 1798–1835.
+ # Search Drapers' Company Moneymore estate records, PRONI D3632, especially rentals and accounts for about 1750–1775.
+ # Examine Lissan Church of Ireland registers and vestry records from 1744 onward.
+ # Ask First Moneymore Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland about unlisted pre-1827 papers.
+ # Obtain Turk, p. 249, and the complete 1804 naturalisation record.
+ # Reconstruct the Augusta/Cecil County James independently from original records.
+ # Inspect First Moneymore Presbyterian administrative material, while recognising that its surviving baptism and marriage registers begin too late for this family.
+ # Examine Artrea MIC1/97 and the 1829 parish census T308.
+ # Search Lissan T679, MIC583/1–2 and MIC1/103 for mid-eighteenth-century Glasgow and Harkness records.
+ # Search Drapers' Company collection D3632, especially D3632/A/356 and the financial, rental and tenant series, for a documented Moneymore tenancy.
+ 
+ === Possible duplicate profiles ===
+ 
+ [[Glasgow-2988|James Glasgow (about 1720)]] is a plausible duplicate candidate. His estimated age and Cookstown-area association fit the tradition concerning James of Moneymore, and no record presently identified in the catalogue places him in Ireland after the period in which Robert's family reportedly emigrated. Nothing presently rules out the two profiles representing the same man.
+ 
+ The evidence does not yet justify a merge. Glasgow-2988 has no record that identifies his wife, children, occupation or migration. The 1766 householder at Corvanaghan, Kildress, is represented separately by [[Glasgow-3137|Glasgow-3137]]; Corvanaghan is about nine miles west of Moneymore. The return names James Glasgow and records him as Protestant but gives no age or family relationships.<ref name="Kildress1766">National Archives of Ireland, Parliamentary Return 667, 1766 religious census for Kildress, IHP/1/667, [https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-IHP-1-667 Virtual Treasury catalogue and original return]; [https://by2022-prod.adaptcentre.ie/loris/RCBL_23_176.JPG/full/full/0/default.jpg RCB Library transcript, p. 176].</ref>
+ 
+ [[Glasgow-1970|Glasgow-1970]] represents a family described in the 1879 ''History of Hillsdale County, Michigan''. That account identifies James's wife as a Mitchell and says the couple emigrated from Scotland to northern Ireland about 1750 and settled in County Tyrone near Cookstown.<ref name="Hillsdale1879">''History of Hillsdale County, Michigan'' (Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1879), [https://archive.org/details/bad0928.0001.001.umich.edu/page/263/mode/1up p. 263].</ref> This makes Glasgow-1970 another plausible local candidate, but the account does not connect the family specifically to Corvanaghan or Moneymore.
+ 
+ The Corvanaghan man is the strongest currently identified local candidate for James of Moneymore because his name, generation, location and last known Irish date are compatible with the migration tradition. A lease, estate account, removal certificate, passenger reference, naturalisation petition or American record naming Corvanaghan, Kildress, Moneymore, Mary, Robert, Arthur or Joseph is still required to establish the identity.
+ 
  == Sources ==
  <references />