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James Glasgow

c. 1515 – after 9 February 1571

Scotland

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About James

James's own parentage remains unproved. William Glasgow (Glasgow-1098), born about 1500 has now replaced John Glasgow-1093 as the attached father. William is chronologically possible, but no record joins his Glasgow-burgh family to Corsankell; mark the relationship uncertain.

Birthc. 1515 · Scotland

Deathafter 9 February 1571 · Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

LocalityScotland

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What the research found

Summary of the research

Overall conclusion

The 1571 record proves two sons: James Glasgow younger, now represented by Glasgow-3921, and John Glasgow, now represented by the surviving Glasgow-3193 after record-defined Glasgow-4061 was merged into it on 27 September 2026. James is a record-proved father of the Corsinkell son; the survivor's further identification with the Kilwinning/Burrowland/Dalgarven John remains a probable but unbridged event attribution. A fresh source/profile-scope review on 27 September separated these conclusions: the merged profile explicitly represents the Corsinkell son, so his structured father link is now confident, saved and read back live. The earlier Kilwinning appearances remain probable. The old Glasgow-991 and Glasgow-1561 identifications remain only as explicit no-restore cautions. The live James profile's stale instruction to merge the two Johns was corrected and verified on 27 September 2026.

The same 1571 deed also names Mr Adam Wallace, burgess of Glasgow, as a witness. A later Glencairn commission names a Mr Adam Wallace as a Glasgow bailie. The matching name and city favour one civic officer, giving a direct Glasgow-burgh contact for the Corsinkell legal transaction, but neither record calls Wallace kin to James or identifies James's father. This witness detail was added to the live profile and verified on 27 September 2026.

What the records show

Source findingsSource Finding Assessment Margaret H.

Source	Finding	Assessment
Margaret H. B. Sanderson, The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire, Ayrshire Collections 14, no. 8 (1987), appendix "The Cunninghame Teind Lists of 1559-60," p. 331	Under Stevenston parish and Corsankell the list names "Katherine Campbell, James Glasgow, yr., James Glasgow, eld." Sanderson explains that the list was reconstructed from Gavin Hamilton's 1561 Court of Session action against heads of household/tenants owing the 1559-60 teinds. Her underlying citation is Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. 22, fols. 102v-167v.	Primary-derived contemporary evidence for two distinct James Glasgows at the same holding by 1559-60. The designations do not alone prove relationship; the 1571 record supplies that proof. Katherine Campbell's relationship is not stated.
National Records of Scotland, Charter Chest of the Earls of Glencairn, GD39/5/59, 9 February 1571	The catalogue describes the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell as occupied by "James Glasgow, elder James Glasgow and John Glasgow, his sons, Christian Campbell."	Direct evidence in the archival catalogue abstract that James elder's sons were James and John. The repeated place and elder/younger distinction make the younger James a high-confidence match to the man in 1559-60. The original is open but off site; its punctuation and Christian Campbell's relationship should be checked before drawing conclusions about her.
Same NRS GD39/5/59, witness clause; later GD39/5/68, 26 April 1588	The 1571 abstract names Mr Adam Wallace, burgess of Glasgow, among the Corsinkell deed's witnesses. The 1588 commission names a Mr Adam Wallace as one of Glasgow's bailies and William Wallace as his son.	Direct city-to-estate legal contact; identity of the two Adam Wallace occurrences is probable from name and civic setting but not explicitly cross-stated. Witnessing does not prove Glasgow-family kinship or parentage.
Official NRS catalogue audit, 30 August 2026	Exact-name searches across 1500-1600 returned no additional James or John Glasgow estate record linking Corsinkell with Burrowland or Dalgarven. GD39/5/59 remains the only exact father-son item.	The original separate-profile recommendation is superseded by the 27 September merge. The negative search still limits confidence in the Kilwinning identity on the survivor.
Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol. 3, no. 596, pp. 133-34	A charter made at Kerelaw on 4 February 1527 and confirmed 25 May 1536 granted David Cunningham of Bertaneholme the five-merk lands of Corssynkell and Myddillpart, with related Stevenston lands.	Establishes the superior-title history before James's first known appearance, but names no Glasgow tenant or predecessor. It gives no parentage bridge to the Glasgow burgh family.
Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum, vol. 3, no. 1698, p. 377	Charter of 11 July 1537, confirmed 4 August 1537, included two-and-a-half merk lands of Corsinkell in a grant to David Cunningham of Robertland.	Again establishes ownership but names no tenant or Glasgow relative.
Francis J. Grant, ed., The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments 1547-1800 (1901), locally archived source	All printed Glasgow-surname index entries were checked. The only potentially nearby James entry points to Margaret Smith, spouse of James Glasgow in Brekpleuch, testament indexed 21 February 1632. No James of Corsankell testament appears under his own name.	Negative result. The 1632 Brekpleuch couple is too late to establish the elder James's parents. An index omission cannot prove that no estate papers ever existed.

Negative searches

The published Great Seal register for 1546-80 was searched for Corsankell variants and James/Glasgow variants. No entry was found identifying James's father, sibling or earlier Glasgow predecessor at Corsankell.
The searchable published Privy Seal registers covering 1488-1574 were checked for James Glasgow, surname variants and Corsankell variants. No relevant personal or place entry was found. City/diocese of Glasgow index hits were excluded. OCR and Google Books search limitations mean this is useful negative coverage, not proof of absence.
The printed Glasgow Commissariot testament index for 1547-1800 contains no testament indexed to James of Corsankell.
The two pre-1559 Great Seal charters for Corsankell name Cunningham superiors, not occupiers, so they do not identify the Glasgow family's arrival or origin.

Identity and family

Identity assessment

The 9 February 1571 date in GD39/5/59 is the date of the letters of reversion, not a death date. The record names James elder and his son James among the Corsankell occupiers on that date, so both were living then. Glasgow-1168's live WikiTree field already correctly says died after 9 February 1571; neither an exact death date nor a death place is established by this item.

Relationship reconstruction

Person	Relationship to James elder	Status
James Glasgow younger (Glasgow-3921), Corsankell	Son	Confirmed by record and already attached.
John Glasgow (Glasgow-3193), Kilwinning/Corsinkell survivor	Son	Corsinkell son documented by GD39/5/59; confident father setting saved and verified 27 September 2026. Former record-only Glasgow-4061 merged into this survivor; its additional Kilwinning occurrences remain probable, without a direct residence bridge. Those event attributions are separate from the documented parentage.
Katherine Campbell, at Corsankell in 1559-60	Unknown	Co-tenant/householder only. The list states no marriage or kinship.
Christian Campbell, at Corsankell in 1571	Unknown	The catalogue states no marriage or kinship. Do not assume she is Katherine under another name without the original deed or corroboration.
Matthew Glasgow (Glasgow-3908), Ardeer Nether and Michael Glasgow (Glasgow-3911), Brakpleuch/Dubbs	Possible local collateral kin	The same 1559-60 Stevenston list places them in the immediate parish cluster, but supplies no relationship.

Collateral household placement - 31 August 2026

Matthew Glasgow of Ardeer Nether (Glasgow-3908) is James's leading possible son or nephew: both occur as tenant/householder figures in the 1559-60 Stevenston list, and the later 1571 writ naming sons James and John does not purport to enumerate every child. An uncertain father edge to James is reasonable if tree navigation requires one. That working edge was applied with explicit uncertain status and verified live on 31 August 2026.

Michael Glasgow of Brakpleuch (Glasgow-3911) was already a legal witness in the Glencairn network in 1549, making him a better probable brother/cousin than son of James. No exact structural edge is yet justified for Michael.

Other research notes

Mathie–Glencairn bridge — 30 August 2026The same teind list contains John, Margaret and William Mathie as well as the four Glasgow men in the Stevenston holdings.

The same teind list contains John, Margaret and William Mathie as well as the four Glasgow men in the Stevenston holdings. That overlap now has an earlier city counterpart: David Mathy and Robert Glasgow were fellow burgesses and co-witnesses in Glasgow in 1554. David's documented son John is a plausible match for a writer who entered the burgess roll with the Earl of Glencairn's group in 1583. A two-generation John Mathie household at Clerkland in 1600 also fits two successive Glencairn servitors of that name in 1606.

This supplies a credible social and estate corridor between Robert's burgh family and the Corsankell Glasgows. It makes some wider family association more plausible, but it does not identify James elder's father. January 1607 tutory retours now directly identify the deceased John Mathie of Ibert's full brother Matthew, a Glasgow burgess, and John's lawful children James, David, Agnes and Margaret. John of Ibert is a strong candidate for the Glencairn servant killed in 1606. His testament remains the best immediate target for his wife, executor and wider household. See the focused analysis.

Record-defined son update - 30 August 2026

Created Glasgow-4061 with birth before and death after 9 February 1571, unknown places, unknown mother, and James elder as a confident father. The profile quotes and cites GD39/5/59. Keep Glasgow-3193 attached only uncertain until a property deed joins Burrowland or Dalgarven to Corsinkell. This 30 August instruction is superseded: Glasgow-4061 merged into Glasgow-3193 on 27 September, retaining the record-proved father and a qualified wider identity claim.

Still open

Questions the records have not yet answered, suggested next searches and suggested corrections.

Chronology correction

The profile's present birth estimate of about 1540 is untenable for James elder. In 1559-60 James younger was separately listed with James elder among the Corsankell teind debtors/tenants, and in 1571 the younger James was directly called the elder James's son. If the younger James was at least about 18-21 in 1559, he was born by about 1538-41. Normal generational spacing places James elder's birth around 1510-20. A practical WikiTree estimate is about 1515, uncertain, or the more conservative before about 1525.

This dating also explains why John-1093 is contradicted as the father while William-1098 remains chronologically possible.

Recommended correction applied

Verified live 19 August 2026: birth is about 1515 and uncertain; death is after 9 February 1571 with no death place. Both early parent links are uncertain. Glasgow-3921 remains the record-proved confident son, while Glasgow-3178 has an uncertain father link. Glasgow-3193's father status was subsequently upgraded to confident on 27 September 2026 for the documented Corsinkell identity; the Kilwinning event attribution remains probable.

The Glasgow-3178 father link was re-audited on 28 August 2026 after WT+ warning 420 exposed its pairing with Margaret Smith, wife of Glasgow-3921. Because neither Agnes's testament entry nor another reviewed source identifies her parents, the father link should be removed rather than retained uncertain.

Recommended correction following location audit

Retain or restore Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland as the uncertain death location. James was last documented at Corsinkell in Stevenston parish, and no reviewed evidence concretely conflicts with that plausible location.

Family and relationships

Unless a link is marked otherwise, the family links below come from the WikiTree family tree and have not yet been checked against original records.

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Parents 2William Glasgowdate not established–before 16 March 1536Isobel (Brade) Glasgow1500–date not established

Person and dates	Relationship	Current assessment	Why this relationship is shown
William Glasgow date not established–before 16 March 1536	father	Possible father	The maintained research assesses this relationship; the linked record and qualification explain what is established.
Isobel (Brade) Glasgow 1500–date not established	mother	Unassessed mother link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.

Children 3✓ John Glasgowbefore 1540–after 1571James Glasgowc. 1540–after 9 February 1571Matthew Glasgowc. 1540–after 1558

Person and dates	Relationship	Current assessment	Why this relationship is shown
John Glasgow before 1540–after 1571	son	Documented son	GD39/5/59 calls John and James the elder James’s sons at Corsinkell. Glasgow-3193 now represents that record-defined John after the Glasgow-4061 merger; his earlier Kilwinning events remain probable attributions. Supporting record
James Glasgow c. 1540–after 9 February 1571	son	Unassessed son link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Matthew Glasgow c. 1540–after 1558	son	Unassessed son link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.

Brothers and sisters 5John Glasgowc. 1510–before 17 June 1575Robert Glasgowc. 1520–after 9 February 1580Archibald Glasgowc. 1525–after 1582Elizabeth Kainec. 1525–after 19 December 1552Isobella Herbisonc. 1530–after 27 January 1563

Person and dates	Relationship	Current assessment	Why this relationship is shown
John Glasgow c. 1510–before 17 June 1575	sibling	Unassessed sibling link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Robert Glasgow c. 1520–after 9 February 1580	sibling	Unassessed sibling link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Archibald Glasgow c. 1525–after 1582	sibling	Unassessed sibling link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Elizabeth Kaine c. 1525–after 19 December 1552	sibling	Unassessed sibling link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.
Isobella Herbison c. 1530–after 27 January 1563	sibling	Unassessed sibling link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.

Life and records

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Historical chronology

b. 1515

Profile-stated birthplace: Scotland

Record association

Records mentioning this person

Scotland — exact locality unproved

Record detail

The profile snapshot records this fact, but it is not an independent historical record; the linked historical evidence is assessed separately.

Source register · Open record

c. 1515

Birth

Subject

Life events

Scotland

9 February 1571

James Glasgow elder and sons James and John at Corsinkell

Father and occupier

Records mentioning this person

Corsinkell, Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

Record detail

NRS GD39/5/59, letters of reversion by Marion Cunninghame concerning the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell. The occupier clause names James Glasgow elder and James and John Glasgow, his sons, alongside Christian Campbell. It does not name the sons’ mother or identify John’s proposed earlier Kilwinning holdings. Official catalogue wording freshly reviewed 27 September 2026.

Source register · Open record

after 9 February 1571

Death boundary (not a recorded death)

Subject

Life events

Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

Sources

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Profile-stated birthplace: Scotland
b. 1515 · Scotland — exact locality unproved · Source association
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James Glasgow elder and sons James and John at Corsinkell
9 February 1571 · Corsinkell, Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland · Official archival catalogue abstract; original open/off site
NRS GD39/5/59, letters of reversion by Marion Cunninghame concerning the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell. The occupier clause names James Glasgow elder and James and John Glasgow, his sons, alongside Christian Campbell. It does not name the sons’ mother or identify John’s proposed earlier Kilwinning holdings. Official catalogue wording freshly reviewed 27 September 2026.
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Each entry is a separately identified record. Shared URLs may represent one transcription or search page containing more than one record; they are not independent confirmations.

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Research notes as originally written

Current conclusion

James's own parentage remains unproved. [William Glasgow (Glasgow-1098), born
about 1500](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-1098) has now replaced John
Glasgow-1093 as the attached father. William is chronologically possible, but no
record joins his Glasgow-burgh family to Corsankell; mark the relationship
uncertain.

The 1571 record proves two sons: **James Glasgow younger**, now represented by
[Glasgow-3921](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3921), and **John Glasgow**,
now represented by the surviving [Glasgow-3193](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3193)
after record-defined Glasgow-4061 was merged into it on 27 September 2026.
James is a record-proved father of the Corsinkell son; the survivor's further
identification with the Kilwinning/Burrowland/Dalgarven John remains a probable
but unbridged event attribution. A fresh source/profile-scope review on 27
September separated these conclusions: the merged profile explicitly
represents the Corsinkell son, so his structured father link is now
**confident**, saved and read back live. The earlier Kilwinning appearances
remain probable. The old Glasgow-991 and Glasgow-1561
identifications remain only as explicit no-restore cautions. The live James
profile's stale instruction to merge the two Johns was corrected and verified
on 27 September 2026.

The same 1571 deed also names **Mr Adam Wallace, burgess of Glasgow**, as a
witness. A later Glencairn commission names a Mr Adam Wallace as a Glasgow
bailie. The matching name and city favour one civic officer, giving a direct
Glasgow-burgh contact for the Corsinkell legal transaction, but neither record
calls Wallace kin to James or identifies James's father. This witness detail was
added to the live profile and verified on 27 September 2026.

Identity assessment

The 9 February 1571 date in GD39/5/59 is the date of the letters of reversion,
not a death date. The record names James elder and his son James among the
Corsankell occupiers on that date, so both were living then. Glasgow-1168's
live WikiTree field already correctly says **died after 9 February 1571**;
neither an exact death date nor a death place is established by this item.

Chronology correction

The profile's present birth estimate of about 1540 is untenable for James
elder. In 1559-60 James younger was separately listed with James elder among
the Corsankell teind debtors/tenants, and in 1571 the younger James was directly
called the elder James's son. If the younger James was at least about 18-21 in
1559, he was born by about 1538-41. Normal generational spacing places James
elder's birth around **1510-20**. A practical WikiTree estimate is **about 1515,
uncertain**, or the more conservative **before about 1525**.

This dating also explains why John-1093 is contradicted as the father while
William-1098 remains chronologically possible.

Source findings

| Source | Finding | Assessment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Margaret H. B. Sanderson, *The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire*, *Ayrshire Collections* 14, no. 8 (1987), appendix "The Cunninghame Teind Lists of 1559-60," [p. 331](https://aanhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/people-of-ayrshire.pdf#page=36) | Under Stevenston parish and Corsankell the list names "Katherine Campbell, James Glasgow, yr., James Glasgow, eld." Sanderson explains that the list was reconstructed from Gavin Hamilton's 1561 Court of Session action against heads of household/tenants owing the 1559-60 teinds. Her underlying citation is Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. 22, fols. 102v-167v. | Primary-derived contemporary evidence for two distinct James Glasgows at the same holding by 1559-60. The designations do not alone prove relationship; the 1571 record supplies that proof. Katherine Campbell's relationship is not stated. |
| National Records of Scotland, Charter Chest of the Earls of Glencairn, [GD39/5/59, 9 February 1571](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD39%2F5%2F59) | The catalogue describes the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell as occupied by "James Glasgow, elder James Glasgow and John Glasgow, his sons, Christian Campbell." | Direct evidence in the archival catalogue abstract that James elder's sons were James and John. The repeated place and elder/younger distinction make the younger James a high-confidence match to the man in 1559-60. The original is open but off site; its punctuation and Christian Campbell's relationship should be checked before drawing conclusions about her. |
| Same NRS [GD39/5/59](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD39%2F5%2F59), witness clause; later [GD39/5/68](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD39%2F5%2F68), 26 April 1588 | The 1571 abstract names Mr Adam Wallace, burgess of Glasgow, among the Corsinkell deed's witnesses. The 1588 commission names a Mr Adam Wallace as one of Glasgow's bailies and William Wallace as his son. | Direct city-to-estate legal contact; identity of the two Adam Wallace occurrences is probable from name and civic setting but not explicitly cross-stated. Witnessing does not prove Glasgow-family kinship or parentage. |
| Official NRS catalogue audit, 30 August 2026 | Exact-name searches across 1500-1600 returned no additional James or John Glasgow estate record linking Corsinkell with Burrowland or Dalgarven. GD39/5/59 remains the only exact father-son item. | The original separate-profile recommendation is superseded by the 27 September merge. The negative search still limits confidence in the Kilwinning identity on the survivor. |
| *Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum*, vol. 3, [no. 596, pp. 133-34](https://archive.org/details/registrummagnisi03scot/page/133/mode/2up) | A charter made at Kerelaw on 4 February 1527 and confirmed 25 May 1536 granted David Cunningham of Bertaneholme the five-merk lands of Corssynkell and Myddillpart, with related Stevenston lands. | Establishes the superior-title history before James's first known appearance, but names no Glasgow tenant or predecessor. It gives no parentage bridge to the Glasgow burgh family. |
| *Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum*, vol. 3, [no. 1698, p. 377](https://archive.org/details/registrummagnisi03scot/page/377/mode/2up) | Charter of 11 July 1537, confirmed 4 August 1537, included two-and-a-half merk lands of Corsinkell in a grant to David Cunningham of Robertland. | Again establishes ownership but names no tenant or Glasgow relative. |
| Francis J. Grant, ed., *The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments 1547-1800* (1901), locally archived source | All printed Glasgow-surname index entries were checked. The only potentially nearby James entry points to Margaret Smith, spouse of James Glasgow in Brekpleuch, testament indexed 21 February 1632. No James of Corsankell testament appears under his own name. | Negative result. The 1632 Brekpleuch couple is too late to establish the elder James's parents. An index omission cannot prove that no estate papers ever existed. |

Relationship reconstruction

| Person | Relationship to James elder | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [James Glasgow younger (Glasgow-3921), Corsankell](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3921) | Son | **Confirmed by record and already attached.** |
| [John Glasgow (Glasgow-3193), Kilwinning/Corsinkell survivor](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3193) | Son | **Corsinkell son documented by GD39/5/59; confident father setting saved and verified 27 September 2026.** Former record-only Glasgow-4061 merged into this survivor; its additional Kilwinning occurrences remain probable, without a direct residence bridge. Those event attributions are separate from the documented parentage. |
| Katherine Campbell, at Corsankell in 1559-60 | Unknown | Co-tenant/householder only. The list states no marriage or kinship. |
| Christian Campbell, at Corsankell in 1571 | Unknown | The catalogue states no marriage or kinship. Do not assume she is Katherine under another name without the original deed or corroboration. |
| [Matthew Glasgow (Glasgow-3908), Ardeer Nether](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3908) and [Michael Glasgow (Glasgow-3911), Brakpleuch/Dubbs](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3911) | Possible local collateral kin | The same 1559-60 Stevenston list places them in the immediate parish cluster, but supplies no relationship. |

Mathie–Glencairn bridge — 30 August 2026

The same teind list contains John, Margaret and William Mathie as well as the
four Glasgow men in the Stevenston holdings. That overlap now has an earlier
city counterpart: David Mathy and Robert Glasgow were fellow burgesses and
co-witnesses in Glasgow in 1554. David's documented son John is a plausible
match for a writer who entered the burgess roll with the Earl of Glencairn's
group in 1583. A two-generation John Mathie household at Clerkland in 1600 also
fits two successive Glencairn servitors of that name in 1606.

This supplies a credible social and estate corridor between Robert's burgh
family and the Corsankell Glasgows. It makes some wider family association more
plausible, but it does not identify James elder's father. January 1607 tutory
retours now directly identify the deceased John Mathie of Ibert's full brother
Matthew, a Glasgow burgess, and John's lawful children James, David, Agnes and
Margaret. John of Ibert is a strong candidate for the Glencairn servant killed
in 1606. His testament remains the best immediate target for his wife,
executor and wider household. See the [focused analysis](../Glasgow-3908/mathie-glencairn-bridge-1554-1618.md).

Negative searches

- The published Great Seal register for 1546-80 was searched for Corsankell
  variants and James/Glasgow variants. No entry was found identifying James's
  father, sibling or earlier Glasgow predecessor at Corsankell.
- The searchable published Privy Seal registers covering 1488-1574 were checked
  for `James Glasgow`, surname variants and Corsankell variants. No relevant
  personal or place entry was found. City/diocese of Glasgow index hits were
  excluded. OCR and Google Books search limitations mean this is useful negative
  coverage, not proof of absence.
- The printed Glasgow Commissariot testament index for 1547-1800 contains no
  testament indexed to James of Corsankell.
- The two pre-1559 Great Seal charters for Corsankell name Cunningham superiors,
  not occupiers, so they do not identify the Glasgow family's arrival or origin.

Recommended correction applied

Verified live **19 August 2026**: birth is about 1515 and uncertain; death is
**after 9 February 1571** with no death place. Both early parent links are
uncertain. Glasgow-3921 remains the record-proved confident son, while
Glasgow-3178 has an uncertain father link. Glasgow-3193's father status was
subsequently upgraded to confident on 27 September 2026 for the documented
Corsinkell identity; the Kilwinning event attribution remains probable.

The Glasgow-3178 father link was re-audited on **28 August 2026** after WT+
warning 420 exposed its pairing with Margaret Smith, wife of Glasgow-3921.
Because neither Agnes's testament entry nor another reviewed source identifies
her parents, the father link should be removed rather than retained uncertain.

Recommended correction following location audit

Retain or restore **Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland** as the uncertain death
location. James was last documented at Corsinkell in Stevenston parish, and no
reviewed evidence concretely conflicts with that plausible location.

Record-defined son update - 30 August 2026

Created [[Glasgow-4061]] with birth before and death after 9 February 1571,
unknown places, unknown mother, and James elder as a confident father. The
profile quotes and cites GD39/5/59. Keep [[Glasgow-3193]] attached only
uncertain until a property deed joins Burrowland or Dalgarven to Corsinkell.
This 30 August instruction is superseded: Glasgow-4061 merged into Glasgow-3193
on 27 September, retaining the record-proved father and a qualified wider
identity claim.

Collateral household placement - 31 August 2026

[Matthew Glasgow of Ardeer Nether (Glasgow-3908)](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3908)
is James's leading possible son or nephew: both occur as tenant/householder
figures in the 1559-60 Stevenston list, and the later 1571 writ naming sons
James and John does not purport to enumerate every child. An uncertain father
edge to James is reasonable if tree navigation requires one. That working edge
was applied with explicit uncertain status and verified live on 31 August 2026.

[Michael Glasgow of Brakpleuch (Glasgow-3911)](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3911)
was already a legal witness in the Glencairn network in 1549, making him a
better probable brother/cousin than son of James. No exact structural edge is
yet justified for Michael.

Automated parent comparison (research aid, not a recommendation)

Stored scores are preserved for audit only. They are not probabilities or genealogical evidence, and a reviewed exclusion remains excluded.

John Glasgow: 0/100 · Stored classification: conflicting tree generation

Research data and downloads

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