Robert Glasgow

Current conclusion

The Findmypast/Tepper entry `US/GPC/00345374` is a high-confidence match to
this profile. The image reads “Glasgow, Robt., Ballykeel, Co. Ant. Lease. Hill
Docts. 1738. (O.D.).” It is a lease index, not evidence of United States
migration. Ballykeel is in Kilwaughter parish, and the date and property
context coincide with Robert's already documented 1738 Agnew lease.

Robert married Rachel Wilson in November 1729 according to a derivative
congregation-register chronology. The same chronology directly records him and
Rachel as parents of James (24 May 1731), Ann (15 November 1733) and Rachel
(8 November 1738). Deed memorial 74015 and the 1817 equity case independently
corroborate the wife and the two surviving older children.

The equity evidence is unusually valuable because it comes from Robert's
grandson Robert Glasgow-1983. In sworn answers he calls Rachel his **paternal
grandmother**, Ann Glasgow his **father's sister**, and himself Rachel's eldest
male heir through her son James. It therefore supplies the collateral language
normally missing from the congregation register.

The same litigation reconstructs Rachel's Wilson family. Rachel was one of six
sisters of Archibald Wilson: Jane, Margaret, Rachel, Anne, Elizabeth and
Susanna. Ann Glasgow married Hugh Shannon. James Glasgow married Mary, daughter
of another Wilson sister, making James and Mary first cousins if the pleaded
relationships are accurate. Neither the pleadings nor James's will calls Mary a
Crozier or Crosier.

Original-image review of memorial 159661 (20 December 1764) now independently
confirms `Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt` in Robert's Ballykeel lease to Hugh
Shannon. See the dated proof section below.

No inspected record identifies Robert's father. His current placement under
Glasgow-1502 is therefore unproved.

McCracken alliance in Robert's descendant line

Robert's proved son James `Glasgow-1144` carried the family to Newberry, South
Carolina. James's will and the later equity case identify two of his children
in McCracken marriages: Rachel Glasgow married Robert McCrackin, and her
brother Wilson Crossier `Glasgow-1982` married Mary McCracken. Wilson and Mary's
daughter Mariah then married William McCracken. This is therefore a compact
pattern within Robert's own descendant line: two siblings and then a child of
one sibling married McCrackens across two generations.

No inspected source states how Robert, Mary and William McCracken were related.
The key comparison with the nineteenth-century Carnfinton–Lisnagaver cluster is
not merely the surname repetition but whether both sets represent repeated
marriage with one extended McCracken family. The Newberry marriages do not yet
prove a pre-migration Antrim association.

Private family details withheld.

Source findings

Private family details withheld.

Conflict warning

The register chronology directly makes Rachel Wilson mother of Rachel-1501. The
equity case says the mother left only James and Ann in 1742, implying the younger
Rachel died before then unless the legal pleading omitted her for another reason.
It directly challenges claims that Rachel Wilson mothered John-1022 or
Glasgow-3905. Neither can remain her child without evidence of an omission in the
pleading; attaching either as Robert's child would additionally require evidence
for a later wife or another explanation.

Relationship actions

- **James-1144:** directly Rachel's son and strongly supported as Robert's son
  by the reported 1731 baptism and the 1738 three-life lease.
- **Ann-1500:** directly Rachel's daughter and Hugh Shannon's wife; strongly
  supported as Robert's daughter by the reported 1733 baptism.
- **Rachel-1501:** possible child from the reported 1738 register entry; likely
  died before 1742 or without relevant issue if both sources are accurate.
- **John-1022:** no record names Robert as father. The 1747 discipline case
  cannot support the link, and the 1772 petition separates John under Larne
  from the Kilwaughter Robert-James-Shannon group.
- **Unknown-3905:** erroneous attachment. It is an unidentified Inishrush
  parent-generation placeholder, not Robert's documented child; detach it.
- **Robert-1502 and proposed siblings Hugh-1503, James-1504 and William-1505:**
  no located record establishes these relationships.

Priority originals

1. PRONI `MIC/1B/6`: 1729 marriage, 1731/1733/1738 baptisms, session appointments
   and the complete 1747 discipline entry.
2. Registry memorial 74015 is now checked: James junior is not expressly called
   a son. The later baptism/equity evidence, not the lease wording alone,
   supports that relationship.
3. South Carolina equity originals in Washington District series `L 61004-8`:
   identify Mary's mother and resolve the Wilson estate chronology.
4. PRONI `T808/15082` and the *Belfast News-Letter* of 7 April 1772: verify the
   petition's original parish groupings and name order.
5. Newberry McCrackin estate packets, especially William (1805), the Robert
   estates (1817 and 1821), and any packet for William husband of Mariah:
   establish whether Rachel's husband Robert, Wilson's wife Mary and Mariah's
   husband William belonged to one immediate family.

Newberry McCrackin update — 13 August 2026

The King’s Creek cemetery compilation and probate index together identify
Rachel's husband as Robert McCrackin (about 1771–10 August 1817), whose estate
was administered by Cyrus. Ruth and Pulauski are explicitly named on their
stones as children of R. and R.; Cyrus is only a probable son from the estate
administration and same cemetery plot. The Robert estate filed in 1821 is a
different identity.

The highest-value available book is now precisely identified as Bundrick and
Suber's *Newberry County, South Carolina Probate Estate Abstracts*, volume 2,
boxes 11–25 (1989). It covers Thomas 1804, William 1805 and both Arthur estates.
A free linked copy was not found. Volume I nevertheless shows Thomas as a 1798
appraiser and Robert as surety on an 1808 administration bond, confirming that
both were established in the same probate network before their target estates.

Current conclusion — Findmypast Glasgow surname evidence fmp-glasgow-16f49c884ed2

The transcript-validated residence/migration record for **Robt Glasgow**, 1738, Ballykeel, County Antrim, is assigned to this profile by the completed person-level WikiTree audit. This assignment does not merge any other same-name event.

Source findings

- [US/GPC/00345374 Findmypast transcript](https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=US%2FGPC%2F00345374&tab=this): Author: Tepper; Category: Travel & migration; Collection: United States, Transatlantic Migration; Collections from: Americas, United States; Country: United States; Event place: Ballykeel, Co Ant; Event type: Residence; Event year: 1738; First name(s): Robt; Last name: Glasgow; Principal's first name(s): Robt; Principal's last name: Glasgow; Record set: United States, Transatlantic Migration Indexes; Relationship: Principal; Residence year: 1738; Sex: Male; State: -; Subcategory: Migration; Title: New World Immigrants: A Consolidation Of Ship Passenger Lists & Associated Data From Periodical Literature, Vol 2 (captured 2026-09-03T20:37:09.342Z).
- Findmypast record IDs: `US/GPC/00345374`.
- Stable research/source ID: `fmp-glasgow-16f49c884ed2`.

Recommended action — fmp-glasgow-16f49c884ed2

Add the record as supporting evidence while preserving all existing sources and uncertain relationships. Do not infer an unstated birth place, parent, spouse, or child.

Original-image proof: Robert's son James — 21 September 2026

Registry of Deeds memorial **159661**, pp. **415–416**, records Robert Glasgow
of Ballykeel, parish of Kilwaughter, granting Hugh Shannon of the same parish
a lease dated **20 December 1764**. The opening reads `Twentyth day of Decr`,
not a twenty-seventh date. The premises comprise one half of Lower Ballykeel,
estimated at thirty-one acres and a half, with half the office houses and
associated appurtenances, held under William Agnew of Kilwaughter.

The continuation expressly includes `Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt` among the
lease lives, alongside Robert Glasgow the grantor and Elinor [surname not
legible on the saved screenshot; the FamilySearch machine text reads Jones] otherwise
Agnew, daughter of William Agnew. **This is direct contemporary father–son
wording**, rather than an inference from the `James Glasgow junior` life in
memorial 74015 (13 February 1738/9). Read in the same Ballykeel tenure and independently
documented household, it corroborates Robert-1143 as father of James-1144.
The memorial itself gives James no age, birthplace, mother or later American
residence: those identity details still depend on the register and other records.

Hugh Shannon's participation is proved, but this lease does **not** call him
Robert's son-in-law. His marriage to Ann Glasgow belongs to the independent
family evidence. Nor does this document identify Robert's own father or supply
a bridge to Robert-1502 or James-1081.

The deed and memorial were witnessed by James Shutter and Hugh Kennedy; the
continuation records James Shutter's affidavit at Carrickfergus on **29 March
1766**. The registration was probably on **18 April 1766**: the memorial's own
margin note lies outside the saved screenshot of image 542, the neighbouring memorials
159660 and 159663 were registered on 18 April 1766, and the FamilySearch machine text
reads "13th". The reviewed screenshots independently expose the lease-day and kinship
wording; the memorial number is from the accompanying main-task header reading, since the
opening screenshot is cropped at its left edge. Re-check the margin of image 542 at full
resolution before quoting the day as certain.

Sources: Registry of Deeds memorial 159661, pp.415–416, FamilySearch images
[542, 3Q9M-CSH3-33Q6-L](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH3-33Q6-L)
and [543, 3Q9M-CSH3-33QZ-Y](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSH3-33QZ-Y).
Locally reviewed original-register image captures:
[opening](../larne-proof-2026-09-21/sources/fs-33Q6-original.png),
[continuation](../larne-proof-2026-09-21/sources/fs-33QZ-original.png).
These are images of the registered memorial, not the separately executed lease.

Current conclusion — additional newspaper originals, 5 October 2026

Robert Glasgow, Cecil County plantation notice, 1786: Estimated birth c. 1710 in County Antrim and estimated death c. 1772; the stated death estimate predates the 1786 notice and is a material conflict if accurate. Since it is estimated and no underlying source was checked here, retain as an unlikely lead rather than treating it as a certain exclusion. Glasgow-395 is the strongest bounded regional/chronological lead, with no plantation, Hartshorn or personal identity bridge. Glasgow-2425 remains a weak possible namesake. Glasgow-1143’s estimated c. 1772 death is a material chronology tension, not a certain exclusion without its underlying source. No joining to the Scottish Roberts is warranted. No family or life-date change follows.

Source findings

A notice dated North Susquehanna hundred, Cecil county, Maryland, 10 February 1786 offers a 260-acre plantation for public vendue on 10 March, with immediate possession given by Robert Glasgow and Joshua Hartshorn. Two issues repeat one proposed sale. Robert’s precise role is unstated: owner, agent or another participant is not resolved. No completed sale or relationship to Hartshorn is proved. Glasgow-395 is the strongest bounded regional/chronological lead, with no plantation, Hartshorn or personal identity bridge. Glasgow-2425 remains a weak possible namesake. Glasgow-1143’s estimated c. 1772 death is a material chronology tension, not a certain exclusion without its underlying source. No joining to the Scottish Roberts is warranted. [The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1786-02-15, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/41024006/), [The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1786-03-01, p.4](https://www.newspapers.com/image/41024088/)

Next questions

Inspect Maryland land, tax, probate, and newspaper records for Robert Glasgow and Joshua Hartshorn in Cecil/Harford Counties around 1786; establish the named Robert's role and life chronology.

Identity assessment — newspaper candidates withdrawn, 6 October 2026

- [The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1786-02-15, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/41024006/): no longer a candidate for this profile. Robert Glasgow and Joshua Hartshorn were to give possession of a 260-acre plantation in North Susquehanna Hundred, Cecil County, Maryland, offered at vendue in March 1786. Neither man can be identified on WikiTree. The joint Glasgow–Hartshorn role is a research lead pointing to the Cecil County family of James Glasgow (Glasgow-2868) and Ann Hartshorne (Hartshorne-320), but it is not a relationship.

Source findings

### The session-list Robert and the minute of 17 May 1747 — re-read on the page images, 6 October 2026

[Porter, vol. 3 p. 197](https://archive.org/details/christianunitari0003unse/page/197/mode/1up): the list of the Larne session from 1721 to 1769 has one Robert Glasgow, "Robert Glasgow (erased), turned out", 21st of the thirty elders and after Capt. Patrick Agnew, who was constituted on 20 June 1721. Porter's footnote ties the note to "a minute of May 17, 1747". [Vol. 3 p. 231](https://archive.org/details/christianunitari0003unse/page/231/mode/1up): "1747, May 17 ... the resolution of Robert Glasgow, who formerly was a member of the Session, and is now guilty of fornication, and refuseth to give public satisfaction, but offereth to do it only before the Session."

Identity assessment — the Robert of the session list and of 1747, 6 October 2026

The list Robert and the 1747 Robert are one man: the list covers every session member from 1721 to 1769, names one Robert, and Porter links its note to the 1747 minute. From his place on the list he was probably made an elder between mid-1721 and 1747 (inference from list order).

He is **probably Robert Glasgow-1143** (inference; no record states it). Robert Glasgow-1502, an adult bondsman in May 1700, would have been in his late sixties or older in 1747, while Robert-1143, married in 1729, was about forty and is documented at Kilwaughter in 1738/9, 1741 and 1764. A charge of fornication implies that the offender was unmarried when the offence was committed, or that it preceded a marriage. For Robert-1143 that fits only if his wife Rachel had died, which is known only from a derivative transcription of an 1817 pleading ("died in 1742"); it is consistent with the identification, not evidence for it. A third, otherwise unrecorded Robert cannot be excluded, because the session minutes for 1701-1721 are lost.

No record securely attributable to Robert-1502 is known after 27 February 1700/01.

Identity assessment — "James Glasgow junior" in the 1738/9 lease, 6 October 2026

"Jas Glasgow Junr" is one of the three lives in William Agnew's lease of Ballykeel to Robert Glasgow, dated 13 February 1738 (1738/9 by modern reckoning; Registry of Deeds memorial 74015, re-read on the saved register images). "Junior" most naturally distinguishes him from another James Glasgow known to the parties, usually a living one, but it does not prove one and it states no relationship. The memorial names no other James.

The officer James Glasgow of Kilwaughter was dead by then ("deceased 1726"; will indexed 1727). The attested candidates for an older James alive in 1738-44 are James Glasgow-1504 (married 1727, children 1728-1740 in the derivative register chronology, residence unrecorded) and James Glasgow of Larne, who took a townparks lease on 30 August 1744 (PRONI D2977/3A/4/81/116, known from a catalogue line only); they may be one man. The word is not evidence of kinship between James-1504 and Robert Glasgow-1143.

Source findings

### Memorial 74015 re-read in full — 6 October 2026

Registry of Deeds memorial 74015 ([opening, p. 301](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJW-B9MS); [continuation, p. 302](https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJW-B99B)), re-read on the saved register images and checked by a second reader:

- **Date:** "the Thirteenth day of Febry One Thousd seven hundd & thirty eight". Irish deeds before 1752 reckoned the year from 25 March, so this is 13 February 1738/9 (1739 by modern reckoning).
- **Parties:** William Agnew of Kilwaughter, Esq., and "Robt Glasgow", who is given no residence or occupation.
- **Lands:** "the Sixty three Acres of Land comonly called lower Ballykeel & fifteen Acres of Upper Balleykeel part of the Lands of Kilwaughter". No bounds or neighbours are given.
- **Lives:** "Robt Glasgow Jas Glasgow Junr Rachel Glasgow otherwise Wilson Wife to the sd Robt Glasgow & the surv.rs & surv.r of them". Persons to be added later are provided for separately. James is named once, second, with no "son", age or residence. No other Glasgow is a party, witness or signatory.
- **Rent:** £14 17s sterling, with sixpence in the pound receiver's fees.
- **Witnesses:** to the deed, Pat Taylor of Kilwaughter and James Smith of Larne; to the memorial, Pat Taylor and John Campbell of Belfast.
- **Affidavit:** Pat Taylor, sworn 12 April 1742 at Carrickfergus before Thomas Marlay. **Registered** 22 May 1742 at 10 a.m. (margin note).

### Memorial 159661 re-read — 6 October 2026

On the saved screenshots of FamilySearch images 542 and 543 the three lives read "Robt Glasgow Grantor", "Jas Glasgow son of the sd Robt" and "Elinor [surname] otherwise Agnew Daur of the aforesd Wm Agnew". The surname is not legible at the saved resolution (its first letter looks more like N than J); "Jones" is the FamilySearch machine reading. The memorial's registration note is outside the cropped screenshot, so 18 April 1766 is probable, not confirmed. A re-reading of the witnesses gave Wm Blair of Larne and James Shutter to the deed, and James Shutter and a Larne merchant whose surname is uncertain (Hugh Hanford or Kennedy) to the memorial; that also needs the full-resolution image. The father-and-son wording is unaffected.

Recommended correction — vital dates and father status, 6 October 2026

**Birth: about 1708 or earlier** (estimate; no record gives his age). He married Rachel Wilson in November 1729 (groom assumed 21 or over; derivative chronology), was principal lessee of Ballykeel in February 1738/9 and, on the derivative chronology, an elder from the early 1730s. No earlier limit is recorded; he was alive on 20 December 1764 and probably in April 1772, so a birth much before about 1690 is unlikely. The present "about 1710" was the compiler's estimate from the marriage year and makes him a groom of 19.

**Death: after 20 December 1764**, when he granted a lease of half of Ballykeel in which he was a named life (memorial 159661, saved register images); probably after April 1772, if he is the Robert Glasgow printed next to James Glasgow and Hugh Shannon in the Larne, Kilwaughter and Raloo declaration in the *Belfast News-Letter* of 7 April 1772. The 1 April date and the Kilwaughter heading of that declaration are known only second-hand, from a derivative note citing PRONI T808/15082. No record of his death has been found; the present "about 1772" is a last sighting, not a death estimate.

**Father status.** On WikiTree the link to Robert Glasgow-1502 carries no status, while the links of Hugh-1499, James-1504 and William-1505 to the same man are marked uncertain. Proposed: set it to uncertain and keep the attachment, because no evidenced replacement exists, and add to the biography: "No record names Robert's father. Robert Glasgow-1502 is recorded only for the South Side district in 1700-1701, while this Robert is documented at Kilwaughter. The attachment is a working hypothesis."

These are proposals for the WikiTree date fields and are queued for review; nothing has been changed on WikiTree.

Next records — Y-DNA testing recommendation, 6 October 2026

The kit submitted for this Robert's line still has no SNP result, and neither has the kit reported for James 1731-1775. Nothing therefore places the documented Kilwaughter family inside R-FT20271, the branch shared by the lines of Alexander Glasgow-951 and James J Glasgow-2738.

The recommendation of 6 October 2026 is, first and at no cost, to obtain through the project administrator the paper descent behind both kits. Robert's only documented son is James Glasgow-1144, so the question is through which of James's sons each kit runs, and whether either runs through Archibald Glasgow-2304. Then upgrade this line's kit to Big Y-700, and the second kit too if it descends through a different son of James-1144: agreement between two lines guards against a broken pedigree.

A result that is FT25406-positive and FT20271-negative would put this family outside FT20271, assuming the testers' reported pedigrees are correct. A result inside FT20271 is consistent with any route and proves none. No result can name a father. [Full recommendation](/people/glasgow-951.html#next-research).

Source findings

### Findmypast sweep — 7 October 2026
- Searches that found nothing: Findmypast record searches keyed to Kilwaughter, Ballykeel, Raloo, Carncastle and Glenarm returned no Glasgow-surname records of any period (Glenarm returned only Glass entries). Larne returned only four civil entries after 1870. The all-Glasgow County Antrim search for 1700–1840 holds nothing from east Antrim. In the British Newspaper Archive, "glasgow" with Kilwaughter for 1738–1830 (13 hits), "robert glasgow" with Larne (first 200 of 1,442) and "glasgow" with Larne for 1765–1775 found no notice naming Robert, Rachel or the Ballykeel holding. Nothing found bears on the founding household or on Robert's father. A 1773 Larne sailing to Charleston under Robert Shutter is recorded under James Glasgow-1144.

Source findings — Y-STR comparison with the R-FT20271 lines, 12 August 2026

A marker-only comparison of the 111-marker result reported for this Robert's line against reconstructed R-FT20271 anchors ([FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow Project public Y-STR table](https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Glasgow?iframe=yresults), with rows supplied by the project administrator) found it nine allele steps from the nearest anchor, the Robert c.1780 line (`Glasgow-2769`), and ten from both the Alexander `Glasgow-951` line and the reconstructed Robert `Glasgow-12` family. It carries DYS714=26, not the DYS714=27 shared by the Alexander and Robert c.1780 lines, and DYS19=14, DYS456=17 and DYS712=20, not the `Glasgow-12` family values of 15, 16 and 19. Seen as a derivative analysis of project-table values.

The analysis grades the classification unresolved: a one-step margin between anchors decides nothing. The comparison shows no close STR pairing with any tested FT20271 line. It neither places nor excludes this line; only an SNP result can do that (see the testing recommendation of 6 October 2026 above).

Recorded in `ydna/marker_only_classification.md` (12 August 2026); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.