Glasgow Surname Project

Individual research record

Catherine (Glasgow) Weir

c. 1580 – before 1605-05-09

Glasgow-1495 · 1 mapped association

Scotland→Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland
View on mapOpen WikiTreeCompareReport a correction

At a glance

Identity & family

Tree links organise the family; documentary status still varies.

1Mapped records
2Close relations
3Evidence items
10Candidate leads
Birth
c. 1580 · Scotland
Death
before 1605-05-09 · Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland
Parents
James Glasgowuncertain
Spouses
Thomas Weir
Children
Not recorded
Gender
Female
WikiTree
Glasgow-1495
Research clusters
Scotland One-Tree profile leads
Mapped descendants
0

Comparison context

These child positions and checks are the subject details used to rank possible parents below.

Naming sequence used by the parentage model

Paternal grandfather positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Maternal grandfather positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Maternal grandmother positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Paternal grandmother positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles

Known-position checks: 0 support · 0 conflict. Ordinals retain unnamed children and recognise reused names.

Relationship comparison

Potential parents or duplicates

Compare scored leads with the subject details above—not proof.

Higher-signal leadReview carefullyWeak lead

No named children are recoverable, so child-naming analysis cannot be run.

How parent leads are calculated

Automated leads use birth surnames—not married surnames—as parental eligibility, role-specific biological age limits, bounded and approximate-date uncertainty, household chronology, specific time-aware localities, mapped distance, tenancy succession, migration destinations and sex-aware Scottish naming positions across generations. People already attached as the subject's parents stay in the identity summary and are excluded from this alternative-candidate list, regardless of relationship confidence. The main calibration uses clues available on disconnected profiles; existing parent and sibling links are retained as comparison context rather than treated as transferable evidence. Common ordered names and grandparent-to-child echoes receive a small non-zero weight, so a John or James match can support several independent criteria without producing a lead alone. Rare names, repeated bearers and bundles across otherwise distinct branches receive substantially more weight according to catalogue frequency. An exact migration place is weighted by its rarity and repetition across both branches; a shared destination country is worth only one point. Extra weight is added only when at least three independent clue types converge: naming, locality, specific migration, household chronology or collateral networks. Sparse profiles retain a clearly labelled chronology-only fallback instead of disappearing. Countries, states, counties and research clusters do not count as a shared locality, and fallback, broad representative or kin-inferred coordinates are excluded from distance scoring. Shared descendant profiles are removed before branch-name comparison. A candidate already recorded as a parent-in-law is excluded. A confident or independently supported parent is treated as settled; uncertain and unassessed attachments remain open to alternative comparison. A different linked parent, an uncle/aunt or grandparent path, and a matching existing child profile prevent an alternative from being classified as a strong direct-parent lead until the underlying tree conflict or duplicate is resolved. Familiar forms such as Bessie are normalised. Surname remains an eligibility filter worth zero points.

Naming customs, shared farms and occupations are circumstantial. Children, spouses and collateral relatives may be missing, and tree-derived family networks are not independent evidence. Scores rank research leads; they do not prove parentage.

No sufficiently similar same-name person is currently indexed.

How duplicate leads are calculated

Dates are eligibility gates, not merely deductions: chronologically impossible people are excluded. Dates, places, spouses, parent certainty and children's profiles and names are then compared. A high score is a prompt to inspect records, not a merge recommendation.

Open only what you need

Research & records

Latest case researchThe current conclusion from the durable research case file.Updated

Current conclusion

Glasgow-1495

The Glasgow Commissary testament calendar directly identifies Katherine as the spouse of Thomas Weir of the parish of Stevenston and dates her testament to 9 May 1605. She therefore died before that date. The existing Thomas Weir profile (Weir-4172) has now been repurposed for this record-defined Stevenston husband: its former 1590 Aberdeen birth was removed and the live page now gives birth before 1580. Retain that profile as Katherine's spouse and do not restore the unrelated Aberdeen identity. Its live family header currently misreads 9 May 1605 as the marriage date and Stevenson, Lanarkshire as the place; the source instead records Katherine's testament at Stevenston parish, Ayrshire.

The attached uncertain father, James Glasgow younger (Glasgow-3921), born before 1542, Corsankell, is chronologically and geographically plausible but remains unproved. The testament calendar names no parent.

Life and record timelineChronological mapped occurrences and their underlying sources.1 record
b. 1580

Profile-stated birthplace: Scotland

Scotland — exact locality unproved

One-Tree export profile fields are search leads, not sources; relationships are shown only where the export supplies parent links.

One-Tree profile leadunknown
Source and mapping detail

WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-1495

No sufficiently specific citation match found.

Precision: Country-level representative point

Case-file source findingsSource extracts and analysis regenerated from findings.md.1 section(s)

Source findings

Glasgow-1495

SourceFindingAssessment
Francis J. Grant, ed., *The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800* (Edinburgh, 1901), p. 196, citing Glasgow Commissary Court CC9/7/4Glasgow, Katherine, spouse to Thomas Weir, par. of Steinstone 9 May 1605.Direct evidence of spouse, residence and death before confirmation.
Current Thomas Weir profile, checked 22 July 2026Weir-4172 now represents Thomas Weir born before 1580; the former 1590 Aberdeen identity has been removed.Compatible existing-profile mapping for Katherine's record-defined husband.
Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.5 claims
2Unknown
1Tree Only

Documented or strongly supported

No claims in this category have been formally assessed.

Working hypotheses and conflicts

No claims in this category have been formally assessed.

Research questionsOpen problems, missing bridges and the next records to inspect.4 open

Which records prove the subject's identity across events?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: Not specified

Which original or indexed records identify the parents?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: A contemporary record explicitly identifying the parent or parents.

Which spouses and children are directly supported by records?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: Not specified

What conflicts or same-name conflations must be resolved?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: Not specified

Case-file priorities and cautions

Recommended correction applied

Glasgow-1495

Applied live on 19 August 2026. Birth about 1580 and the Glasgow-3921 father link are explicitly uncertain. Death is before 9 May 1605 at uncertain Stevenston. The false marriage date and Lanarkshire place were cleared, the record-proved marriage retained confident, and the speculative manuscript narrative was replaced while preserving the underlying CC9/7/4 source.

The biography now explains why WikiTree's 1571/1580 validation warning is not a chronological contradiction: James was alive on 9 February 1571 and died after that date; the system displays the lower boundary as though it were his death date.

Sources and provenanceStructured citations and source-quality classifications.3 sources

Source or provenance: quality describes the record layer, not every conclusion drawn from it.

  1. unknown Francis J. Grant, ed., The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800 (Edinburgh, 1901), p. 196 (https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up), entry for Katherine Glasgow; underlying register NRS CC9/7/4.
  2. unknown National Records of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, Wills and Testaments, reference CC9/7/4, records indexed under Katherine Glasgow.
  3. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-1495
Technical profile and raw captureDataset metadata, machine dossier and captured WikiTree biography.Advanced

WikiTree profile information

Dataset: ONT_Glasco_2026-08-18T16_05.json · generated 2026-08-20

Machine-readable dossier

WikiTree biography, citations and relationship snapshot

Glasgow-1495 was captured 2026-08-19T14:01:18+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2026-08-19.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birth—ScotlandWikiTree profile field
death—Stevenston, Ayrshire, ScotlandWikiTree profile field

Immediate relationship snapshot

RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ParentsJames GlasgowGlasgow-39211542-00-00 · Scotland · 1571-02-09 · Stevenston, Ayrshire
SiblingsGeillis WilsonGlasgow-31791565-00-00 · Scotland · 1603-11-05 · Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland
SiblingsEdward GlasgowGlasgow-15571570-00-00 · Scotland · 0000-00-00 · Inveresk and Musselburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland
SpousesThomas WeirWeir-41721580-00-00 · 0000-00-00

Profile categories

Estimated_Birth_Date Glasgow Name Study Glasgow_Name_Study Stevenston, Ayrshire Stevenston,_Ayrshire

Record-bearing passages

  • Biography Katherine Glasgow lived in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, and was married to Thomas Weir. The Glasgow Commissary Court calendar identifies her as Thomas's spouse and records her testament on 9 May 1605, so she died before that date. Francis J. Grant, ed., The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800 (Edinburgh, 1901), p. 196 (https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up), entry for Katherine Glasgow; underlying register NRS CC9/7/4. Research Notes Katherine's birth about 1580 is an unsourced estimate and remains uncertain. The testament calendar does not name her parents or children.
  • James Glasgow younger of Corsankell is retained only as an uncertain father because the generation and Stevenston locality are compatible; no reviewed record states the relationship. WikiTree may flag Katherine's estimated 1580 birth as occurring after James's death. This is not a chronological conflict: 9 February 1571 is the last date on which James is documented alive, and his death field is marked “after,” not as an exact death date.
  • The indexed record establishes Katherine's spouse, parish and death boundary. It does not support the former speculative narrative about an insolvent inventory, unidentified administrators, “Sir Dafnes,” Stafford or guardianship. The underlying Glasgow Commissary Court reference CC9/7/4 is retained, but those interpretations should not be restored without verified images and a reliable transcription.

  • The date 9 May 1605 is the testament date, not a marriage date. Stevenston is in Ayrshire, not Lanarkshire. Sources

    • National Records of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, Wills and Testaments, reference CC9/7/4, records indexed under Katherine Glasgow.

Profile source citations

  1. Francis J. Grant, ed., The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800 (Edinburgh, 1901), p. 196 (https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up), entry for Katherine Glasgow; underlying register NRS CC9/7/4. source link 1
  2. National Records of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, Wills and Testaments, reference CC9/7/4, records indexed under Katherine Glasgow.
Full captured biography text
Biography
Katherine Glasgow lived in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, and was married to Thomas Weir. The Glasgow Commissary Court calendar identifies her as Thomas's spouse and records her testament on 9 May 1605, so she died before that date. Francis J. Grant, ed., The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800 (Edinburgh, 1901), p. 196 (https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up), entry for Katherine Glasgow; underlying register NRS CC9/7/4. 
Research Notes
Katherine's birth about 1580 is an unsourced estimate and remains uncertain. The testament calendar does not name her parents or children.

James Glasgow younger of Corsankell is retained only as an uncertain father because the generation and Stevenston locality are compatible; no reviewed record states the relationship. WikiTree may flag Katherine's estimated 1580 birth as occurring after James's death. This is not a chronological conflict: 9 February 1571 is the last date on which James is documented alive, and his death field is marked “after,” not as an exact death date.

The indexed record establishes Katherine's spouse, parish and death boundary. It does not support the former speculative narrative about an insolvent inventory, unidentified administrators, “Sir Dafnes,” Stafford or guardianship. The underlying Glasgow Commissary Court reference CC9/7/4 is retained, but those interpretations should not be restored without verified images and a reliable transcription.

The date 9 May 1605 is the testament date, not a marriage date. Stevenston is in Ayrshire, not Lanarkshire.
Sources
* National Records of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, Wills and Testaments, reference CC9/7/4, records indexed under Katherine Glasgow.
Raw WikiTree biography markup
{{Estimated Date}}
[[Category:Glasgow Name Study]]
[[Category:Stevenston, Ayrshire]]

== Biography ==

'''Katherine Glasgow''' lived in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire, and was married to [[Weir-4172|Thomas Weir]]. The Glasgow Commissary Court calendar identifies her as Thomas's spouse and records her testament on 9 May 1605, so she died before that date.<ref name="Testament">Francis J. Grant, ed., ''The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800'' (Edinburgh, 1901), [https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up p. 196], entry for Katherine Glasgow; underlying register NRS CC9/7/4.</ref>

== Research Notes ==

Katherine's birth about 1580 is an unsourced estimate and remains uncertain. The testament calendar does not name her parents or children.

[[Glasgow-3921|James Glasgow younger of Corsankell]] is retained only as an uncertain father because the generation and Stevenston locality are compatible; no reviewed record states the relationship. WikiTree may flag Katherine's estimated 1580 birth as occurring after James's death. This is not a chronological conflict: 9 February 1571 is the last date on which James is documented alive, and his death field is marked “after,” not as an exact death date.

The indexed record establishes Katherine's spouse, parish and death boundary. It does not support the former speculative narrative about an insolvent inventory, unidentified administrators, “Sir Dafnes,” Stafford or guardianship. The underlying Glasgow Commissary Court reference CC9/7/4 is retained, but those interpretations should not be restored without verified images and a reliable transcription.

The date 9 May 1605 is the testament date, not a marriage date. Stevenston is in Ayrshire, not Lanarkshire.

== Sources ==
<references />

* National Records of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, Wills and Testaments, reference CC9/7/4, records indexed under Katherine Glasgow.