James Glascho

Current conclusion

This profile represents the Irish James `Glascho`, a Kilwaughter householder in
1669. His identification with the same-name congregational officer from 1701,
apparently deceased by 1726, is a working continuity hypothesis, not an explicit
recorded identity. A same-name successor remains possible. The 1727 Connor wills
index entry for James Glasgow of Kilwater is a strong match to the later officer.

The Scottish James recorded in 1645 is now correctly represented separately as
[Glasgow-3971](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3971). Their identity is an
open, low-to-moderate hypothesis, not a proved merge. No source names the Irish
James's parents or children.

The repeated association with [John Glasgow (Glasgow-3913)](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3913)
is stronger than a one-record coincidence. Their entries are consecutive in the
1669 roll (record numbers 5347-5348), place both men at Kilwaughter Demesne and
use the same uncommon `Glascho` spelling. About thirty years later men named John and James
represented Kilwaughter and served as its overseer respectively. This supports
a persistent local family cluster, but neither man is explicitly identified as
the earlier householder. **Close kinship is possible, not established** (lowered
from probable on 6 October 2026; see the assessment below); neither source names a
relationship or establishes brothers, father and son, cousins or another degree.

The 1669 transcription distinguishes the Kilwaughter `Glascho` entries,
standardised as Glasgow, from numerous `Glass` entries including an established
Drummaul family. Do not use western County Antrim Glass households as children
or descendants of this James without a bridging record.

Source findings

| Source | Finding | Assessment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PRONI `T/307/A`; W. Macafee, [1669 Antrim Hearth Money Roll](https://www.billmacafee.com/1660shearthmoneyrolls/1669hearthmoneyrollsantrim.pdf), records 5347-5348, PDF p. 36 | James `Glascho` was a Kilwaughter Demesne householder immediately after Jo `Glascho`. | Direct Irish occurrence; no age, origin or relationship. |
| Classon Porter, [*Congregational Memoirs: Larne and Kilwaughter*](https://archive.org/details/christianunitari0002unse), continued in [volume 3](https://archive.org/details/christianunitari0003unse) | James was appointed overseer for Kilwochter at the minute printed `May 29, 1700.—Thursday` (probably Thursday 29 May 1701), stands sixth on the session list that opens the 1721 book, was one of six commissioners when the Presbytery met at Larne on 3 June 1722, and is marked `deceased 1726`. | Locality/name continuity hypothesis; published transcription does not expressly identify the 1669 householder. |
| [PRONI Name Search](https://apps.proni.gov.uk/ProniNames_IE/SearchPage.aspx), Connor wills index | James Glasgow of Kilwater, 1727. | Strong death/probate match; the original will is lost and no kin are supplied. |

Relationship assessment

- John Glasgow-3913 was possibly a close relative (lowered from probable on
  6 October 2026). The evidence is the adjacent 1669 entries with the same uncommon
  spelling; the men of 1700-01 are tied to the 1669 householders only by unproved
  continuity and never appear in the same minute, so they are not an independent
  second record group. The exact relationship is open.
- Robert Glasgow-3970 at Larne in 1653 is a possible father or older relative only.
- Robert-1502, Hugh-1503, James-1504, William-1505 and Robert-1143 belong to the
  later district cluster; none is proved as James's child.
- [Hugh Glasgow (Glasgow-1499)](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-1499)
  is not supported as a separate son. Porter's session-list transcription assigns
  `deceased 1726` to James himself and gives 8 July 1767 for the documented Hugh
  Glasgow. Hugh-1499's only defining date is therefore a misattribution, and the
  profile is a probable duplicate of Hugh-1503 rather than evidence for another
  child of James.

Decisive next records

- NRS GD154/505-534 and PRONI D282 tenant succession.
- PRONI T/808/14889, 1666 subsidy roll.
- Probate substitutes for the destroyed 1727 will.
- Complete County Antrim townland indexes rather than surname-only deed
  searches; the volunteer townland transcription is complete for 1708–1820,
  while the ordinary person index is incomplete.

Identity audit — 21 September 2026

The earlier summary treated 1669–1726 as one continuous biography. The sources
remain valid occurrences, but their linkage is now explicitly qualified: if the
1669 householder was at least 21, survival to 1726 would make him at least about
78. That is possible and does not disprove continuity, but a son or other
same-name successor must also be tested. Porter's `deceased 1726` belongs to the
later James, not to Hugh; this correction leaves that reading intact.

The Belfast shipmaster [James Glasgow-3172](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3172)
has an unexamined 1686 will extract, PRONI T/828/15, indexed through
[NLI MS_UR_012684](https://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_012684). A will date alone
cannot exclude his survival into the later Kilwaughter period. Confirmed probate
or death in 1686 would exclude identity with the later officer; it would not by
itself distinguish him from the 1669 householder. No merge or new kinship is
supported. See the [bounded audit](../larne-proof-2026-09-21/early-james.md) for
search scope and access limits.

Source findings

### Porter's extracts re-read on the page images — 6 October 2026

Re-read on the page images of [volume 3, pp. 16-19](https://archive.org/details/christianunitari0003unse/page/18/mode/1up) and [pp. 197-198](https://archive.org/details/christianunitari0003unse/page/197/mode/1up):

- **Overseer:** "James Glasgow is appointed for Kilwochter, James Callwell for the south side of the water, James Kerr for the landward of Lairn, James Getty and Charles Adam for the towns" (vol. 3 p. 18), under the minute printed "May 29, 1700.—Thursday".
- **Not an elder in November 1700:** "The Session of Enver, alias Lairn, from the tyme of the ordination of Rev. Mr. Ogilvie" (vol. 3 pp. 18-19) names twenty elders and no Glasgow.
- **Session list opening the 1721 book:** "James Glasgow (erased), deceased 1726", sixth of thirty elders, directly after five men who were on the 1700 list (vol. 3 p. 197).
- **3 June 1722:** "The Presbytery met at Larne ... The Commissioners were Captain Agnew, James Glasgow, John Torbet, James Boyd, John M'Brown, and John Finlay" (vol. 3 p. 198). James Boyd is not on the session list, so a commissioner was not necessarily an elder.

The years are corrected from the 1699 and 1700 given in earlier notes. Porter himself adds "(1700)" to the heading of the stipend run ("May 12, 1699 (1700)"), and the weekdays written into the minutes fit 1700 and not 1699: 12 May 1700 was a Sunday ("two Sabbaths together, of which this is the first") and the Presbytery of "the 7th of this inst." fell on Tuesday 7 May 1700. The minute printed "Feb. 27, 1700" is 27 February 1700/01 by ordinary Old Style reckoning. The minute printed "May 29, 1700.—Thursday" belongs to the same continuous run: 29 May fell on a Wednesday in 1700 and a Thursday in 1701, and the run's other weekday clues after 25 March (13 April, a Sunday; 17 April, a Thursday) also fit 1701, so it is **probably Thursday 29 May 1701**. That is an inference from the weekdays; a wrong weekday in the copy cannot be excluded without the original or the 1826 printing.

These extracts are a printed transcription (*The Christian Unitarian* 2, 1863, and 3, 1864) of a manuscript copy of the 1699-1701 Larne session record, which Porter believed was "made or procured" by Rev. Samuel Eccles for Rev. D. Davison, who printed extracts from it in the *Christian Moderator* (1826), pp. 207-245. Porter had not found the original and arranged the extracts "not chronologically, but according to subject", so they stand two removes from the minute book. The entries from 1721 onward are Porter's printed transcription of the session book then in his hands; whether that book is now within PRONI MIC/1B/6 is unverified.

Identity assessment — one James or two, 6 October 2026

Keep one profile; do not split. The records cannot decide whether the 1669 householder and the later officer were one man (unresolved).

- The elder "James Glasgow (erased), deceased 1726", the James Glasgow who was a commissioner at Larne on 3 June 1722 and the 1727 Connor wills index entry "James Glasgow, Kilwater" are **probably one man** (inference): one James in the congregational record, a Kilwaughter place in the index, and a death year that fits the index year.
- The overseer for Kilwochter of (probably) 29 May 1701 is probably the same man, but this is the weakest step: the session minutes for 1701-1721 are lost, and the identification rests on the same name and district and the absence of any recorded rival.
- He is never marked senior or junior. That proves little: the clerks used such markers inconsistently, and this congregation shows same-name succession (a James Ramsay on the 1700 list and a James Ramsay constituted elder on 30 April 1721; two unmarked Robert Whites on the 1721 list).
- If he was the 1669 householder he was about 53 or more in 1701, 74 or more in 1722 and about 78 at death. That is possible: the 1722 Presbytery met at Larne, so a commissioner did not have to travel. An unrecorded successor is also possible.

Death: 1726, from the annotation "deceased 1726" against James Glasgow in the Larne session list (Porter's printed transcription); a will of James Glasgow of Kilwater is indexed in 1727 (Connor; original lost). This applies to the session elder. "Before 1651" for the birth is only a boundary from the 1669 roll.

Relationship assessment — John Glasgow-3913, 6 October 2026

John Glasgow-3913 and James Glasgow-1081 were possibly close kin. The 1669 hearth-money roll (Macafee transcription, records 5347-5348) lists "Jo Glascho" and "James Glascho" consecutively at Kilwaughter Demesne with the same uncommon spelling. That is strong association evidence that the two households were connected, but it states no relationship and supports no particular degree: brother, father and son, uncle and nephew, and cousin are all open. Men named John (called "sen." in 1700) and James act for the Kilwochter district in 1700-01, never in the same minute; their identity with the 1669 householders is itself unproved, so they are not an independent second line of evidence. The assessment was "probable" until 6 October 2026 and was lowered because every element of it is association evidence (adjacency, spelling, place, recurring forenames). The sibling arrangement on WikiTree exists only through the uncertain shared father Glasgow-3970; it stays uncertain and nothing is detached.

Next records

- PRONI MIC/1B/6: the first page of the session book begun in February 1721, for the exact wording and order of the list and any note of when James became an elder.
- The *Christian Moderator* (1826), pp. 207-245, the earlier printing of the 1699-1701 extracts, to test the year of the overseer minute.
- NRS GD154/525, /530 and /532 (Kilwaughter rentals c.1690-1708): a James and a John Glasgow as tenants, with any "elder", "younger" or successor wording, would test one James against two.

Source findings

### No Glasgow represented Larne at the General Synod — 6 October 2026

In the printed General Synod rolls the ruling elder on the Larne minister's row is: 1694 "from Larne, Rob: Neilson" ([p. 12](https://archive.org/details/recordsofgeneral01pres/page/12/mode/1up)); 1703 James Caldwell (beside Ogilvie, [p. 64](https://archive.org/details/recordsofgeneral01pres/page/64/mode/1up)); 1704 Sam: Smily (p. 75); 1706 John Gordon (p. 106); 1707 Robert Neilson (p. 124); 1708 Robt Ker (p. 141); 1709 none printed (p. 168); 1710 Robt Kerr (p. 188); 1711 William Murray (p. 218); 1712 Ja: Lyle (p. 248); 1715 Ja: Lyle (beside Hud, p. 346); 1716 Rob: Ker (p. 385); 1718 James Lyle (beside Clugston, p. 449); 1719 Rob: Ker (p. 482); 1720 John Tarbett (p. 513). There is no Larne row in 1697 and 1698 (the congregation was vacant; the 1698 row "Wm Leeck - Wm Adair" is probably Ballymena's, Leech being "of Belly-manogh" in 1712), in 1705 (Ogilvie is not on the roll) or in 1713, 1714 and 1717 (vacant). Getty's "Enver" rows, 1715-1720, print Ja: Whyte, Ja: Boyd, James Jackson, John McCullogh, Ja: Jackson and Samuel Smely. The 1691 and 1692 lists name no Larne elder, and the Synods of 1699 to 1702 print no names.

**No Glasgow of any forename is printed as Larne's elder in any of these years**, or anywhere in the Antrim presbytery lists from 1691 to 1720 (every year checked on the page images) or the Belfast presbytery lists (checked on the images except 1703, part of 1706, 1710, 1719 and 1720, which are OCR only). From 1721 the rolls print ministers and elders in separate columns, so no elder can be tied to Larne; no Glasgow appears in the Antrim lists of 1721-1732 (1721 on the image, later years OCR only). Each congregation sent one elder, so this shows only that no Glasgow represented Larne at Synod in the years printed. It does not show that no Glasgow sat on the Larne session: Porter's session list has James Glasgow an elder by 1721.

The ruling elder James Glasgow printed in the Antrim lists in 1698, 1703 and 1705 sat beside the ministers of Drumaul and Duneane, not Larne, and is represented separately as Glasgow-3967; he is probably not this James.