Adam Dickie Glasgow

Source findings

### Belfast ministerial notices, 1840

Marriage notice: on 25 July 1840 (reported as “25th ult.”), Mr James Small, of Lottery Cottage, county Armagh, married Miss Margaret Small of this town; the officiant was Rev. Adam Glasgow. Minister/officiant occurrence, not kinship. Keep adjacent London/St George’s wedding separate. Strongly compatible with Glasgow-1781, without unique identification. [Belfast News-Letter, 7 August 1840, p. 3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390560450/).

Separate soirée passage: at a Tuesday-evening meeting on 27 October at the New School-house connected with the Presbyterian Church, Townsend-street, Rev. Adam Glasgow opened the proceedings; Rev. Josias Wilson closed with prayer. Do not replace/remove the existing Cookstown Academy/Robert Glasgow reading on this same page. Keep both distinct passages in one page row and one clip asset, with Adam as an additional excerpt. Strongly compatible with Glasgow-1781; no kinship. [Belfast News-Letter, 30 October 1840, p. 2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390563103/).

Belfast Town Mission annual meeting in the new school-room, Fisherwick-place, was held “on Wednesday evening last”; Rev. Adam Glasgow is among listed speakers. Preserve relative date wording; do not infer 28 October. Separate anti-slavery meeting on page is unrelated. Strongly compatible with Glasgow-1781; no kinship. [Belfast News-Letter, 6 November 1840, p. 2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390563260/).

General Synod report separately says ordained Ministers Messrs Adam Glasgow and James Carr offered themselves for foreign mission in India and were accepted; initial field Kathiawar/Guzerat, planned departure 4 August overland to Bombay. This is James Carr, not James Glasgow in adjacent set-apart report. Parent is coordinating separate passage with James packet; append distinct Adam target/excerpt if needed. Planned departure is not proof journey occurred. [Belfast News-Letter, 14 July 1840, p. 1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390559244/).


| Source | Finding | Assessment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [James McClure Glasgow missionary journal](https://revjamesmcclureglasgow.blogspot.com/) | James repeatedly calls Adam his brother, initially locating him in Belfast and later reporting Adam's arrival in New Zealand and congregation in Dunedin. | First-person direct evidence for the sibling relationship and migration sequence. The place details distinguish Adam Dickey Glasgow from Adam of Inishrush. The journal is archived under `research/Glasgow-1780/sources/`. |
| [*History of Knox Church, Dunedin*](https://archive.org/details/historyofgreatam02myer) | The institutional history describes Adam Dickey Glasgow as born at Ballymena, Ulster, in 1815, and says he joined his brother Dr Glasgow in India. | Published corroboration of Adam's identity and missionary sibling relationship. Saved [PDF](sources/history_of_knox_church_dunedin.pdf). |

### Newspaper education and Belfast ministry, 4 October 2026

Adam D. Glasgow of Broughshane appears in the Royal Belfast Academical Institution school prizes in June 1830 and Belfast College examinations reported in May 1831. The 1831 report also names James Glasgow, Institution, in voluntary advanced mathematical examinations. Sources: [Belfast News-Letter, 29 June 1830, p.3, Royal Belfast Academical Institution School Department](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390569859/), [Belfast News-Letter, 6 May 1831, p.3, Belfast College report dated 30 April](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390545285/).

Adam D. Glasgow resigned as an assistant in the Royal Belfast Institution’s Mathematical and Mercantile School in December 1836. Rev. Adam D. Glasgow received a unanimous call to Berry Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast, in January 1840 and was its newly ordained minister at a congregational presentation on 5 March. Sources: [Belfast News-Letter, 10 January 1837, p.2, resignation presentation on 22 December 1836](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390542489/), [Belfast News-Letter, 17 January 1840, p.2, Berry Street ministerial call](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390553900/), [Belfast News-Letter, 10 March 1840, p.2, Berry Street soiree on 5 March](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390555182/).

Current conclusion

Adam Dickey Glasgow is a member of the nineteenth-century Ballymena family. He
cannot be conflated with Adam Glasgow of Inishrush, born about 1758, or used to
connect that earlier family to Victorian Robert Glasgow.



The 1830–1840 newspaper sequence makes this profile a strong candidate for Adam D. Glasgow of Broughshane, later Institution assistant and Berry Street Presbyterian minister. The middle name is not given in full in the inspected notices, so the attribution remains qualified. No parent or sibling certainty changes. See the [newspaper account and original citations](/research/subjects/newspapers-irish-1800-1850/#adam-belfast-education-ministry).

Recommended correction applied

Verified live **19 August 2026**: the structured birthplace is now **Ballymena,
County Antrim, Ireland**, marked uncertain.

Identity and relationship assessment: October newspaper review

Adam Dickie Glasgow-1781 (1815–1863), Presbyterian minister with a documented Belfast period, is the strongest compatible profile. Repeated Adam D. and the Institution setting support a consolidated education/teaching account; continuity into the Berry Street ministry is a supported inference. The inspected notices do not give Dickie in full, age, parents or later migration. The older Inishrush Adams remain separate namesake comparisons; no family link is upgraded.

No existing parent or sibling certainty changes from these notices. See the [complete qualified newspaper account](/research/subjects/newspapers-irish-1800-1850/#adam-belfast-education-ministry) and maintained review `research/newspapers-1800-1850-continuation-2026-10-04.md`.

Unresolved and priority actions: newspaper review

Check the original Institution admissions/staff and examination records, and the Berry Street call/ordination minutes, before upgrading the profile assignment.

Current conclusion — Rev. A. J. Glasgow Belfast speech, 1841 (possible candidate; initial conflict), 5 October 2026

The newspaper establishes an adult clergyman called “Rev. A. J. Glasgow” speaking in Belfast on 8 April 1841. It supplies no forename expansion, age, congregation, family, birthplace or residence. Glasgow-1781 is possible but materially conflicted by J here versus Adam D. in other checked records. Glasgow-1780 is unlikely because his family is documented in Bombay, with a daughter born there 23 days before the speech. No candidate is identified; no family link is proposed.

At an entertainment for Robert L. Rogers on retiring as teacher of elocution, his class met at the Royal Temperance Hotel, Waring Street, Belfast, and during the session in Rev. Dr. Cooke’s Church. On Thursday 8 April 1841, the Rev. A. J. Glasgow spoke on elocution’s importance for candidates for the sacred ministry. Identity unresolved. The printed name is Rev. A. J. Glasgow, with no expanded forename, age, congregation, kin or birthplace. Glasgow-1781 is possible despite the material printed-J / other-notice D conflict; Glasgow-1780 is unlikely given the documented Bombay chronology. [Belfast News-Letter, 20 April 1841, p.2; report of event on 8 April](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390557883/)

Source finding — missionary designation, 1842

The 14 January 1842 *Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser* reports that the Presbytery of Belfast set apart four ministers as fellow-labourers in Hindostan with Rev. James Glasgow, including the separately named Rev. Adam Glasgow. The paragraph is headed “Designation of Four Missionaries of the General Assembly” and describes the service at Dr Cooke’s church, May Street, Belfast. Adam Dickie Glasgow-1781 is a possible match for Rev. Adam: his checked profile documents a Belfast ministry, but this notice supplies no middle name or other identifying bridge. The co-occurrence of Adam and James Glasgow establishes no kinship. [Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 14 January 1842, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/1050136610/).

Identity and relationship assessment — Belfast and India notices, 1840–1843 (5 October 2026)

Five visually checked Belfast News-Letter pages add a marriage notice for Rev. Adam Glasgow and Miss Jane Thompson (4 January 1842, reporting 30 December 1841), Berry-street ministerial activity at the Townsend-street soiree (21 August 1840), a platform-list mention at a Rosemary-street meeting (12 March 1841), an India missionary designation (14 January 1842), and an India Mission notice reading letters from Rev. Adam Glasgow (28 March 1843). The recurring Rev. Adam Glasgow name and the Belfast/India sequence are strongly compatible with Glasgow-1781, but none of these notices supplies “Dickie” or a unique profile identifier. The designation report says Adam was “brother of the Rev. Jas. Glasgow”; the journal and Knox Church history already document the missionary siblings, so the newspaper is corroborative and does not create a new relationship certainty.

The marriage notice says Jane Thompson married Rev. Adam Glasgow at the house of her uncle, Thomas Corbett, Esq., on May-street. The name is compatible with the existing tree-linked spouse Jane Fulton (Thompson), but the notice does not give Fulton or establish that profile match; the relationship remains unknown. Thomas is named as Jane’s uncle only; no family branch or parentage is stated. May-street is the uncle’s house, not a proved residence for Adam. No profile relationship status changes.

Sources: [Belfast News-Letter, 21 August 1840, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390560975/); [12 March 1841, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390556571/); [4 January 1842, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390552100/); [14 January 1842, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390552341/); [28 March 1843, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390560193/).

Current conclusion — newspaper identity review, 6 October 2026

- [Belfast News-Letter, 1830-06-29, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390569859/): Adam D. Glasgow / A. D. Glasgow (Broughshane) (school prize-winner, Royal Belfast Academical Institution) — **strong** match. 'Adam D.' + RBAI + Broughshane + age: Fasti no. 1122 (Adam Dickey Glasgow, b. near Clough 1814, ed. O.C.B., G.C. 1837, brother of Rev. James Glasgow) - a 15-16-year-old pupil in 1830 fits; family memorial at Racavan burying-ground, Broughshane. No other Adam D. Glasgow in Ireland. Sources: [J. McConnell, Fasti of the Irish Presbyterian Church 1613-1840, no. 1122](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_james-mcconnell-b_1613-1840_ia40330205-24); [WikiTree Glasgow-1781 live profile (API, read 6 Oct 2026)](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-1781)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1831-05-06, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390545285/): Adam D. Glasgow (Broughshane) (college prize-winner, mathematics) — **strong** match. Unique name form 'Adam D.' + RBAI + Broughshane: Fasti no. 1122 'GLASGOW, ADAM DICKEY: b. near Clough, Co. Antrim, 1814: brother of Rev. Prof. Jas. Glasgow ... ed. O.C.B.: G.C. 1837'. The family memorial stands in Racavan burying-ground, Broughshane (father John d.1836, mother Jane d.1858). No other Adam D. Glasgow; Adam of Inishrush (b. c.1758) is a different generation. Sources: [Fasti of the Irish Presbyterian Church 1613-1840, no. 1122](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_james-mcconnell-b_1613-1840_ia40330205-24); [WikiTree Glasgow-1781 live profile](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-1781)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1837-01-10, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390542489/): Adam D. Glasgow (assistant, Mathematical and Mercantile School, Royal Belfast Institution (resigning)) — **strong** match. 'Adam D.' + RBAI + chronology: Fasti no. 1122 Adam Dickey Glasgow, ed. Old College Belfast, General Certificate 1837, licensed Magherafelt Presbytery 1839, ordained Berry Street, Belfast 1840 - a student-teacher at the Institution in 1836 fits; the same 'Adam D. Glasgow' appears in the RBAI prize lists of 1830-31 as of Broughshane. No other Adam D. Glasgow. Sources: [Fasti of the Irish Presbyterian Church 1613-1840, no. 1122](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_james-mcconnell-b_1613-1840_ia40330205-24); [WikiTree Glasgow-1781 live profile](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-1781)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-01-17, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390553900/): Rev. Adam D. Glasgow (minister called to Berry Street, Belfast) — **strong** match. NZ Presbyterian register entry for Adam Dickie Glasgow (b. 1815 Clough, Co. Antrim): minister of Berry Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast; 15 years at Rajkot, India; wife Jane Thompson of Co. Down (b. 1822); brother Dr James Glasgow, missionary and professor. The notice prints the initial D and the congregation Berry Street. Name, initial, unique congregation and period all agree. No other Rev. Adam Glasgow in the catalogue fits: the other Adams (3902, 1622, 3373, 2959, 2605, 3151, 1395, 1405, 2419 etc.) are farmers, children or emigrants. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of New Zealand Archives, Register of ministers: Adam Dickie Glasgow (transcribed entry)](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-03-10, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390555182/): Rev. Adam D. Glasgow (newly ordained minister of Berry Street) — **strong** match. Same Berry Street congregation and initial D as the January call notice. The NZ register names Adam Dickie Glasgow as minister of Berry Street. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register: Adam Dickie Glasgow](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-07-14, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390559244/): Messrs. Adam Glasgow (ordained Synod minister offering for India) (volunteer for the Synod's India mission) — **probable** match. An ordained Synod minister named Adam Glasgow volunteers for India in 1840. The NZ register confirms the Berry Street minister later served at Rajkot. No middle name is given, and the planned Aug 1840 departure did not happen (he was designated in Jan 1842). Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-08-07, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390560450/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (officiant) — **probable** match. A Belfast officiant in 1840, when Glasgow-1781 was minister of Berry Street (NZ register). No other Rev. Adam Glasgow is known in Belfast then. No congregation is printed, so probable rather than strong. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-08-21, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390560975/): Rev. Adam Glasgow, of Berry-street (led devotional exercises) — **strong** match. 'Of Berry-street' is a unique congregational designation, and the NZ register names Adam Dickie Glasgow as Berry Street minister. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-10-30, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390563103/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (opened Townsend Street soiree) — **probable** match. A Belfast Presbyterian clergyman in Oct 1840 (NZ register: Berry Street minister). No congregation is printed. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1840-11-06, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390563260/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (speaker) — **probable** match. A Belfast clergyman in Nov 1840 (NZ register: Berry Street minister). No congregation is printed.
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1841-03-12, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390556571/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (clergyman at meeting) — **probable** match. Listed among Belfast Presbyterian clergy in March 1841; no congregation printed. The NZ register puts the Berry Street minister in Belfast at this time.
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1841-04-20, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390557883/): Rev. A. J. Glasgow (speaker at elocution class entertainment) — **possible** match. A Belfast clergyman in April 1841 fits Glasgow-1781, but the printed J conflicts with the D of the other notices and may be a misprint. Glasgow-1780 is unlikely: the Dictionary of Ulster Biography places him at Bombay from 26 Feb 1841 and Rajkot by June 1841, and his daughter was born in India on c.16 Mar 1841.
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1842-01-04, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390552100/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (groom) — **strong** match. The NZ register gives Adam Dickie Glasgow's wife as Jane Thompson of Co. Down, b. 1822, matching the bride. He was the Berry Street minister in Belfast at the time. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1842-01-14, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/1050136610/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (missionary designated for India) — **strong** match. His designation to India alongside James matches the NZ register's Berry Street minister who served 15 years at Rajkot and had a brother, Dr James Glasgow, also a missionary. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1842-01-14, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390552341/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (designated missionary) — **strong** match. NZ register: Adam Dickie Glasgow, Berry Street minister, Rajkot missionary, 'brother Dr James Glasgow was a missionary and professor'. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1842-07-29, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390558014/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (letter writer, Rajkote, 16 May 1842) — **strong** match. A letter from Rajkot fits the NZ register's 15-year Rajkot ministry of Adam Dickie Glasgow. Sources: [Presbyterian Church of NZ register](https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm)
- [Belfast News-Letter, 1843-03-28, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390560193/): Rev. Adam Glasgow (India mission letter writer) — **strong** match. The General Assembly's India missionary Adam Glasgow in 1843 is the Rajkot missionary of the NZ register; there was no other Rev. Adam Glasgow in that mission.

Source findings

### Newspaper identity review — 6 October 2026

- Pupil at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution school, of Broughshane, June 1830: prizes in trigonometry/astronomy and geometry/algebra. — Belfast News-Letter, 29 June 1830 (newspapers.com image 390569859) ([Belfast News-Letter, 1830-06-29, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390569859/))
- Of Broughshane in 1830-31 while a student at the Belfast Academical Institution (prizes in mathematics); Fasti gives birth 'near Clough, Co. Antrim, 1814' (profile has Ballymena 1815). — Belfast News-Letter, 6 May 1831 (image 390545285); Fasti no. 1122 ([Belfast News-Letter, 1831-05-06, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390545285/))
- Assistant in the Mathematical and Mercantile School of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until December 1836; his class presented him with a Greek Lexicon on 22 December 1836. — Belfast News-Letter, 10 January 1837 (newspapers.com image 390542489) ([Belfast News-Letter, 1837-01-10, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390542489/))
- General Certificate (Old College Belfast) 1837; licensed by Magherafelt Presbytery 1839; ordained to Berry Street (College Square), Belfast, 28 April 1840; married 1841 a sister of Dr Thompson of Lisburn; resigned 1842 and designated missionary to India 12 January 1842; returned 1855. — McConnell, Fasti of the Irish Presbyterian Church 1613-1840, no. 1122 (archive.org) ([Belfast News-Letter, 1837-01-10, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390542489/))
- Called unanimously to Berry Street Presbyterian congregation, Belfast (General Synod of Ulster); reported 17 Jan 1840. — Belfast News-Letter 17 Jan 1840, image 390553900 ([Belfast News-Letter, 1840-01-17, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390553900/))
- The NZ register gives his birth as 1815 at Clough, Ballymena, Co. Antrim. The profile has Lisburn, so the birthplace needs checking. — https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/archives/Page165.htm ([Belfast News-Letter, 1840-01-17, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390553900/))
- Called the 'newly ordained' minister of Berry Street at a soiree on 5 Mar 1840. That is the presentation date, not the ordination date. — Belfast News-Letter 10 Mar 1840, image 390555182 ([Belfast News-Letter, 1840-03-10, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390555182/))
- Married Jane Thompson on 30 Dec 1841 at Thomas Corbett's house, May Street, Belfast; officiant Rev. Dr. Cooke. — Belfast News-Letter 4 Jan 1842, image 390552100 ([Belfast News-Letter, 1842-01-04, p.3](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390552100/))
- Designated a General Assembly missionary to India by the Presbytery of Belfast, Jan 1842. — Freeman's Journal 14 Jan 1842, image 1050136610 ([Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1842-01-14, p.1](https://www.newspapers.com/image/1050136610/))
- At Rajkot by 16 May 1842. — Belfast News-Letter 29 Jul 1842, image 390558014 ([Belfast News-Letter, 1842-07-29, p.2](https://www.newspapers.com/image/390558014/))