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Matthew Glasgow

before 1542 – after 1558

Glasgow-3908 · 1 mapped association

Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland→Death place unknown
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Identity & family

Tree links organise the family; documentary status still varies.

1Mapped records
0Close relations
2Evidence items
9Candidate leads
Birth
before 1542 · Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland
Death
after 1558 · Place not recorded
Parents
Not recorded
Spouses
Not recorded
Children
Not recorded
Gender
Male
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Glasgow-3908
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.

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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.

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Conclusion

Glasgow-3908

The 1559-60 Cunninghame teind list separately names Matthew Glasgow at Ardeer Nether. He is not a transcription duplicate of Michael-3911, who is separately named at Brakpleuch on the same source page. Keep both profiles.

The before 1542 birth is an adult-status estimate; the source supplies no parents, spouse, children, exact birth or death.

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Life and record timelineChronological mapped occurrences and their underlying sources.1 record
b. 1542

Profile-stated birthplace: Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland

Stevenston — Ayrshire

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WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-3908

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Precision: Settlement centrepoint

Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.1 claim
1Tree Only
1Unknown

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.0 open

No formal open question is recorded for this person.

Sources and provenanceStructured citations and source-quality classifications.2 sources

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

  1. unknown 331 (), Ardeer Nether entry
  2. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-3908
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WikiTree profile information

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

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WikiTree biography, citations and relationship snapshot

Glasgow-3908 was captured 2026-08-07T09:54:35+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2026-07-17.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birth—Stevenston, Ayrshire, ScotlandWikiTree profile field

Record-bearing passages

  • Biography Matthew Glasgow was born before 1542, probably in Scotland. The year is an estimate based on his being at least 18 years old when he appeared as a tenant in a record dated 1559–60.

  • In the Cunninghame teind lists of 1559–60, Matthew Glasgow and John Mathie were listed under Ardeer Nether in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire. Margaret H. B. Sanderson, The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire, Ayrshire Collections, vol. 14, no. 8 (Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 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), Ardeer Nether entry. Sanderson identifies the underlying record as Scottish Record Office, Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. 22, fols. 102v–167v. Sanderson explains that those named were tenants responsible for crop teinds and that the list does not necessarily identify the holding on which a family lived. Research Notes

    • Birth: before 1542, Scotland, uncertain.
    • Death: after 1558, place unknown, uncertain.
  • No reviewed source identifies Matthew's parents, spouse, children, precise birthplace, residence, or death. Ardeer Nether should therefore not be entered as his birth or death place.
  • This Matthew is not Matthew Glasgow, who was named at Pyperheugh in the same parish in 1665. No evidence currently establishes a relationship between the two men. Sources

Profile source citations

  1. Margaret H. B. Sanderson, The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire, Ayrshire Collections, vol. 14, no. 8 (Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 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), Ardeer Nether entry. Sanderson identifies the underlying record as Scottish Record Office, Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. 22, fols. 102v–167v. source link 1
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Biography
Matthew Glasgow was born before 1542, probably in Scotland. The year is an estimate based on his being at least 18 years old when he appeared as a tenant in a record dated 1559–60.

In the Cunninghame teind lists of 1559–60, Matthew Glasgow and John Mathie were listed under Ardeer Nether in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire. Margaret H. B. Sanderson, The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire, Ayrshire Collections, vol. 14, no. 8 (Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 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), Ardeer Nether entry. Sanderson identifies the underlying record as Scottish Record Office, Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. 22, fols. 102v–167v. Sanderson explains that those named were tenants responsible for crop teinds and that the list does not necessarily identify the holding on which a family lived.
Research Notes
* Birth: before 1542, Scotland, uncertain.
* Death: after 1558, place unknown, uncertain.

No reviewed source identifies Matthew's parents, spouse, children, precise birthplace, residence, or death. Ardeer Nether should therefore not be entered as his birth or death place.

This Matthew is not Matthew Glasgow, who was named at Pyperheugh in the same parish in 1665. No evidence currently establishes a relationship between the two men.
Sources
Raw WikiTree biography markup
== Biography ==

Matthew Glasgow was born before 1542, probably in Scotland. The year is an estimate based on his being at least 18 years old when he appeared as a tenant in a record dated 1559–60.

In the Cunninghame teind lists of 1559–60, Matthew Glasgow and John Mathie were listed under Ardeer Nether in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire.<ref>Margaret H. B. Sanderson, ''The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire'', ''Ayrshire Collections'', vol. 14, no. 8 (Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1987), appendix "The Cunninghame Teind Lists of 1559–60," [https://aanhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/people-of-ayrshire.pdf#page=36 p. 331], Ardeer Nether entry. Sanderson identifies the underlying record as Scottish Record Office, Register of Acts and Decreets, vol. 22, fols. 102v–167v.</ref> Sanderson explains that those named were tenants responsible for crop teinds and that the list does not necessarily identify the holding on which a family lived.

=== Research Notes ===

* Birth: before 1542, Scotland, uncertain.
* Death: after 1558, place unknown, uncertain.

No reviewed source identifies Matthew's parents, spouse, children, precise birthplace, residence, or death. Ardeer Nether should therefore not be entered as his birth or death place.

This Matthew is not [[Glasgow-3538|Matthew Glasgow]], who was named at Pyperheugh in the same parish in 1665. No evidence currently establishes a relationship between the two men.

== Sources ==
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