Researched biography · Glasgow-3970

Robert Glaskow

before 1625

Larne, County Antrim, Ireland

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Robert Glaskow is directly documented as living at Larne in 1653. No inspected record names his wife or child. The current links to James Glasgow (Glasgow-1081) and John Glasgow (Glasgow-3913), and the subsequent chain through Robert Glasgow-1502 to Robert Glasgow-1143, remain working tree relationships rather than proved descent.

Birthbefore 1625

DeathDate not established · Larne, County Antrim, Ireland

LocalityLarne, County Antrim, Ireland

Last reviewed7 October 2026

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Latest findings about this person 1 finding

6 October 2026The assessment that John and James Glascho of Kilwaughter Demesne (1669) were probably close kin is lowered to possible.

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Original evidence and remaining gaps

NRS Kilwaghter estate targets — 21 September 2026

For the gap between the 1653 Larne occurrence and later Kilwaughter households, the NRS catalogue identifies Open, On site primary files: GD154/514 (tenant goods/livestock, c.1653), GD154/515 (rental, c.1653), GD154/525 (rentals, c.1690; two items), GD154/530 (rent-roll/accounts, November 1692; three items), and GD154/532 (rent-roll/accounts, 1693–1708; eight items).

Their catalogue text names no Glasgow and exposes no images. Search Kilwaghter, Kilwaughter, Kilwaugheter and Glasgow spelling variants in the originals. Even a matching tenant would be an occurrence, not proof that the 1653 Robert was father or ancestor of John, James, the later Robert, or any other Kilwaughter bearer.

The early Larne bridge remains unproved

The manuscript-checked 1738 and 1741 deeds concern the later Robert-1143 household, not Robert Glaskow of Larne in 1653. A 1772 Wm Glasgow witness is also unassigned. The inspected 1736 memorial 63221 and 1757 memorial 159181 confirm a later William–Hugh Larne joint-lessor association, but neither record supplies kinship or a bridge to Robert-3970 or the early Kilwaughter householders. The direct tests remain NRS GD154/514–515, /525, /530 and /532, PRONI T828/15 and MIC1B/6; no catalogue entry supplies descent proof.

What the research found

These research notes were last revised on 7 October 2026.

Summary of the research

Overall conclusion

One relationship within the later group can now be ranked more firmly. Jo/John and James Glascho were consecutive Kilwaughter Demesne householders in 1669 (original record numbers 5347-5348), then recur in the same district's congregational business about thirty years later. John represented Kilwaughter and James served as its overseer. This association makes close kinship between them possible (it was assessed as probable until 6 October 2026, and lowered because it rests on adjacency, spelling and locality alone); it does not prove that they were brothers or that either was Robert's son.

The supposed grandson Hugh Glasgow-1499 does not add another supported branch. The published session-list transcription assigns deceased 1726 to James Glasgow and separately records Hugh Glasgow dead on 8 July 1767. Hugh-1499's 1726 death was copied from James's line; no independent occurrence defines him. He is a probable duplicate of the documented Hugh Glasgow-1503, not evidence for a separate son of James-1081.

A full remote source pass found no documentary bridge from Robert to Jo/John or James Glascho at Kilwaughter, nor to the later Robert who married Rachel Wilson. The 1653 evidence remains four hearsay statements; one attributes the shooting to James Browne rather than Robert. The early Larne Robert, the later Robert/Rachel household and Scottish Robert Glasgow-1078 must remain separate.

The first securely reconstructable later family in the district begins with Robert Glasgow-1143 and Rachel Wilson-78088 at Kilwaughter. It is not yet proved to descend from Robert-3970. Robert-1143's father remains unproved.

Robert Brown's own 1653 examination names the servants present in his house on the massacre night as Robert Orr, John Hunter, Agnes Woodside and Marren Carr. Robert Glasgow is not among them. This excludes the unsupported claim that he was one of Brown's identifiable household servants present at the incident; neighbourhood, militia/company or other association remains possible.

Brown also named sons Hugh and James. Hugh was a lieutenant in Captain McCullogh's company, and Captain McCullogh later helped transmit the accusation against Robert Glasgow. This makes a military or company-network connection a better research lead than household service, but no examination names Glasgow as a soldier.

A newly located 1666 record creates a more direct occupational lead. The Argyll Estates Archives catalogue describes a receipt by Robert Glasgow, master of the John of Portrush, for transporting barrels of coal for the earl of Argyll. It is held in bundle GB 3452 ARG-04-03-67-78 (PFV 67). A shipmaster active in the Scottish west-coast/Ulster trade is chronologically compatible with both the Larne man and the Robert baptised in 1618, but the catalogue supplies no residence, age, parentage or Larne connection for him. The vessel name is evidence of a cross-channel trading context, not proof that its master lived at Portrush or was Robert-3970.

The obvious customs follow-up is limited by record survival. NRS guidance says the pre-1707 customs books can name shipmasters and merchants, but the E72 port-book series starts in 1668 and no Ayr or Irvine book for 1666 was located in the fragmentary E71 series. The published surviving Ulster port books are for 1612–1615, not 1666. The original Argyll receipt is therefore the best immediate source for identifying this shipmaster.

An NRS catalogue search found another later same-name occurrence in the same broad west-coast region. On 6 August 1688 an instrument of resignation and sasine at Ayr was written by Robert Glasgow, servitor to the notary Alexander McDermeit, depute clerk of the burgh. The shipmaster and notarial servitor could be the same literate man, but the records are twenty-two years apart and neither gives age, kin or origin. This is a possible continuation to test against handwriting and signature, not evidence that either was the Larne Robert.

The original North Leith poll-tax page adds another adult namesake. On 3 October 1694 Robert Glasgow was listed among four servants of Alexander Ainslie, clerk to the glass manufactory. A modern thesis calls Robert a glassmaker and dates the entry 1695, but the original record itself says only servant and is dated 1694. A second contemporary record almost certainly concerns the same man: on 16 July 1694 Robert Glasgow gave a receipt in Ainslie's name for bottles supplied to the Earl of Breadalbane (GD112/15/59, item 24). This proves a functional connection to the glassworks business and a trusted representative role, but not the skilled occupation of glassmaker. No age, origin or kin links him to Larne, Ayr or the John of Portrush.

Glasgow-3011, baptised at Glencorse in 1676, is a stronger younger alternative: he was seventeen in 1694, is the sole exact-name Robert baptism returned there from 1640 through 1690, and a same-name man married there in 1704. No Ainslie or glassworks link is proved, but this weakens the 1694 occurrence as continuity evidence for Larne.

Exact Leith OPR searches found no Glasgow/Glasgo/Glascow/Glaskow/Glassgow baptism in 1694–1730 and no exact Robert Glasgow marriage in 1694–1710 or burial in 1694–1730. Register survival and spelling limit the negative result.

What the records show

Source findings: archive and estatePRONI T/808/14889 is the 1666 County Antrim subsidy roll, but no complete public image or reliable full transcription was located.

PRONI T/808/14889 is the 1666 County Antrim subsidy roll, but no complete public image or reliable full transcription was located. Its absence from online name searches is therefore not a negative result. The 1669 hearth-roll control records Jo and James Glascho consecutively at Kilwaughter Demesne and Elizabeth Glascho at Glenarm Town; it states no relationships and separately records people surnamed Glass.

The published Agnew family papers trace superior ownership of Ballykeel through an assignment to Patrick Agnew in 1622, confirmation to the younger Patrick in 1636, active estate management in 1645, a 1673 Kilwaughter lease, transfer of the Lochnaw interest in 1708, and the later 1738/9 lease to Robert Glasgow. The printed 1645 extract names no Glasgow but is explicitly incomplete. This clarifies the superior title; it does not identify the missing Glasgow tenant succession.

The NRS catalogue now identifies the exact open, on-site Kilwaghter record set: GD154/514 (tenant goods/livestock, c.1653), 515 (rental, c.1653), 525 (rentals, c.1690; two items), 530 (rent-roll/accounts, Nov. 1692; three items), and 532 (rent-roll/accounts, 1693-1708; eight items). The catalogue names no Glasgow and supplies no image or transcription. This corrects the earlier blanket “archive-only/off-site” claim: the files are Open, On site, but still uninspected. Search Kilwaghter, Kilwaughter, Kilwaugheter and Glasgow variants in the originals; no kinship inference is presently available.

The Registry of Deeds cluster adds William Glasgow as an adjoining Larne occupier in 1736 (memorial 62131), Robert and wife Rachel at Ballykeel in 1738 (memorial 74015), Robert Glasgow, farmer of Kilwaughter, as a witness in 1741 (memorial 76724), and James Glasgow, ropemaker of Larne, in 1766 (memorial 204122). These form a persistent local surname cluster, not a pedigree. Memorial 74015 calls Rachel Robert's wife but does not call James junior their son.

The inspected original memorial 63221 (10 March 1736, registered 10 April 1738) confirms William and Hugh Glasgow as joint Larne lessees; its named lives are royal lives, not relatives. Memorial 159181, a deed poll dated 4 June 1757, independently refers to a head lease granted by William and Hugh Glasgow of Larne. These records reinforce the later Larne property cluster, but provide no bridge from Robert-3970 or the 1653/1669 householders and no kinship statement.

Source findingsExamination of Con O'Sheale, 21 April 1653 Examination of Robert Brown, 27 May 1653 FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow project Archived Larne/Kilwaughter register chronology 1817 equity complaint transcription…

Examination of Con O'Sheale, 21 April 1653
Examination of Robert Brown, 27 May 1653
FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow project
Archived Larne/Kilwaughter register chronology
1817 equity complaint transcription
Robert Glasgow's sworn answer, 2 June 1817
James Glasgow's 1775 will transcription
NRS catalogue, Agnew family papers GD154
MacAfee 1669 County Antrim Hearth Money Roll transcription
Folger catalogue record for the British Library 1653 broadside
Robert M. Young, Historical Notices of Old Belfast, pp. 80–86
Judith Mary Carroll, study of Henry Jones's papers, p. 82
UCD Archives, Thomas Fitzpatrick papers descriptive catalogue
Argyll Estates Archives catalogue, Campbell family papers, p. 149, ARG-04-03-67-78.
NRS GD86/741, Ayr sasine written by Robert Glasgow, 6 August 1688.
Scotland's People Virtual Volumes, E70/4/10, image 11, North Leith poll tax, 3 October 1694.
NRS GD112/15/59, item 24, receipt by Robert Glasgow in Alexander Ainslie's name, 16 July 1694.

Identity and family

Relationship assessment — the 1669 Kilwaughter pair, 6 October 2026John Glasgow-3913 and James Glasgow-1081 were possibly close kin.

John Glasgow-3913 and James Glasgow-1081 were possibly close kin. The 1669 hearth-money roll (Macafee transcription, records 5347-5348) lists "Jo Glascho" and "James Glascho" consecutively at Kilwaughter Demesne with the same uncommon spelling. That is strong association evidence that the two households were connected, but it states no relationship and supports no particular degree: brother, father and son, uncle and nephew, and cousin are all open. Men named John (called "sen." in 1700) and James act for the Kilwochter district in 1700-01, never in the same minute; their identity with the 1669 householders is itself unproved, so they are not an independent second line of evidence. The assessment was "probable" until 6 October 2026 and was lowered because every element of it is association evidence (adjacency, spelling, place, recurring forenames). The sibling arrangement on WikiTree exists only through the uncertain shared father Glasgow-3970; it stays uncertain and nothing is detached.

Porter's Larne memoir, including the instalments covering the years before 1699 (The Christian Unitarian 2, pp. 270-280, 296-305, 329-336), contains no Glasgow in any spelling on the OCR text (not checked page by page on the images), so it adds nothing for Robert Glaskow of Larne in 1653 or for Elizabeth Glascho of Glenarm in 1669. Elizabeth has no recorded link to the Kilwaughter pair.

Other research notes

1653 transplantation-list resultThe exact printed declaration is now identified as British Library 816.m.17[74] , Wing I341: By the Commissioners for the settling and securing the province of Vlster (Dublin: William Bladen,…

The exact printed declaration is now identified as British Library 816.m.17[74], Wing I341: By the Commissioners for the settling and securing the province of Vlster (Dublin: William Bladen, 1653), dated Carrickfergus, 23 May 1653. The EEBO-TCP diplomatic transcription of that surviving print places Captain James McCullogh in the Islandmagee, Magheramorne and Ballynure quarter, but gives the two disputed places to Hugh Hoomes and James Lawder.

Robert M. Young's 1896 publication of William Pinkerton's manuscript-derived text instead gives those places to James Browne and Ensign William Stephenson. This is a substantive two-name variant, not ordinary spelling variation. Young also printed a contemporary commissioners' letter saying that a local paper had already been circulated before the declaration arrived, and that the print was not published because of “the great mistake of the printing the names.” The letter does not identify the mistaken names. Browne's absence from the surviving print is therefore real, but does not prove that he was absent from every working or intended schedule.

This evidence refines Robert's local network but barely affects the identity hypothesis. Robert appears in neither list state, no record puts him in McCullogh's company, and nothing here connects McCullogh or the Brownes to Jonet Conynghame. Reid, EEBO-TCP and modern scans derive from the same British Library sheet; the Ulster Historical Foundation list derives from Young and is not an independent witness.

The best resolving source is Trinity College Dublin MS 844 (formerly F.3.18), especially fol. 841 and its neighbouring papers. It contains Henry Jones's 14 June 1653 draft material and a 30 June set of proposals. The UCD descriptive catalogue now narrows Thomas Fitzpatrick's independent transcript to IE UCDA LA/12/5, transcript pages 553–558: “Henry Jones – arrangements by him and other Commissioners for transplantation of the Ulster-Scots,” copied from TCD F.3.18. Fitzpatrick's manuscript biography, LA/12/1, chapter XIII, pages 235–237, also treats the transplantation; LA/12/3 is the associated synopsis. LA/12/6 begins with 1654 material and is no longer the priority. None has yet been collated against the disputed names.

One supplied Wikimedia/Internet Archive scan link was checked and resolves to an unrelated 21 October 1653 alehouse declaration, not this 23 May transplantation sheet. It has therefore not been used as evidence.

The provisional FT25406/FT20271 connection between the tested William-attributed and Robert-c.1710 Kilwaughter lines makes older shared paternal ancestry plausible. It does not bridge Robert-3970 to the later family or permit William, born about 1655, to be his father.

New documentary result downstream

Registry memorial 74015 (13 February 1738/9) names Rachel, formerly Wilson, as wife of Robert Glasgow of Kilwaughter.
A derivative transcription of the surviving Larne/Kilwaughter register records Robert and Rachel as parents of James (1731), Ann (1733) and Rachel (1738).
An 1817 South Carolina equity complaint and Robert Glasgow-1983's sworn answer identify Rachel as mother of James Glasgow-1144 and Ann Glasgow-1500.
James's 1775 will and the equity case concordantly identify his widow Mary and six children: Robert, John, Archibald, Wilson, Margaret and Rachel.
Margaret married John Kinard and Rachel married Robert McCrackin. Neither daughter has a matching profile in the current local One-Tree data.

These records prove or strongly support a large downstream family island. They do not supply the missing bridge from Glasgow-1143 to Glasgow-1502, Glasgow-1081 or Glasgow-3970.

1666 shipmaster disposition

The Robert Glasgow who was master of the John of Portrush in 1666 should be created as a distinct, unconnected profile. Larne and the vessel's Portrush name supply relevant cross-channel context, but the vessel name is not a residence and no occupation, family, signature or exact-event bridge connects the 1653 Larne witness to the shipmaster.

Focused FamilySearch full-text result - 20 August 2026

Exact-name searches restricted to Larne or Kilwaughter and the seventeenth century produced no matching full-text record for Robert Glaskow, James Glascho, or John Glascho. The useful results occur only in the later William Glasgow generation: Larne leases in 1736 and 1737, and a 1744 deed whose execution William personally proved in 1775. They do not bridge Robert to the proposed children or grandchildren. The relationships descending from Glasgow-3970 therefore remain uncertain.

Batch limits and next originals — 21 September 2026

The manuscript-checked 1738 wife clause and 1741 farmer occurrence belong to the later Robert-1143 household; neither names a father or supplies a bridge from Robert Glaskow of Larne. A 1772 Wm Glasgow witness occurrence is likewise unassigned between later namesakes. The remaining direct tests are the on-site Kilwaughter rentals NRS GD154/514–515, /525, /530 and /532, PRONI T828/15, and MIC1B/6. Catalogue descriptions and surname association do not establish descent.

Still open

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

Priority proof targetsArgyll Estates Archives GB 3452 ARG-04-03-67-78 : inspect the original 1666 receipt for date, route, residence, associates, signature and endorsements.

Argyll Estates Archives GB 3452 ARG-04-03-67-78: inspect the original 1666 receipt for date, route, residence, associates, signature and endorsements.
NRS GD86/741: compare the 1688 Ayr instrument written by Robert Glasgow with the receipt's hand and signature.
TCD MS 844, fol. 841 and adjacent/enclosed papers; collate the names schedule against the print and Young.
UCD IE UCDA LA/12/5, transcript pp. 553–558; also LA/12/1, chapter XIII, pp. 235–237, and the LA/12/3 synopsis.
NRS GD154/514-515, 525, 530 and 532: the precise Open, On site Kilwaghter tenant-list/rental/rent-roll targets, c.1653-1708. Inspect the originals before treating any tenancy as identity or kinship evidence.
PRONI D/282/2–160, Kilwaughter leases, assignments, rentals and conveyances, prioritising 1647–1742.
PRONI T/808/14889, the undigitised 1666 County Antrim subsidy roll, searched parish by parish under Glasgow/Glascho/Glaskow/Glass variants.
PRONI MIC/1B/6 and MIC1B/6A/1B, checked against derivative Larne/Kilwaughter register material.
Connor probate substitutes for James Glasgow of Kilwater, 1727.

MIC331 is not a Glasgow-family source; PRONI identifies it as William Ewart Gladstone papers. The superficially promising replacement T1762 is mainly later material, including the Oritor William Glasgow will/codicil, and is lower priority than the estate, subsidy, church and probate collections. D2003 [MIC128] is likewise a later Clough/Ballymena Crawford-Glasgow family collection, not a proved Larne/Kilwaughter bridge.

Recommended profile correction

Replace the existing archive-priority paragraph with:

The principal uninspected bridge records are the County Antrim subsidy roll
(PRONI T/808/14889), the Kilwaughter estate papers (PRONI D/282/2–160 and NRS
GD154/505–534), and the Larne and Kilwaughter congregational originals (PRONI
MIC/1B/6, including MIC1B/6A/1B). These records are not publicly digitised and
their contents have not been assumed.

MIC331 is a reference to William Ewart Gladstone papers and is unrelated to
this research. T1762 is the correct Glasgow-family/Presbyterian collection
reference, but its exposed Glasgow material is substantially later and it is a
lower priority than the estate, subsidy, church and probate records. D2003
[MIC128] chiefly concerns a later Clough/Ballymena family and is likewise not a
proved Larne/Kilwaughter bridge.

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Reported as living at Larne in a deposition
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Children 2John Glasgowc. 1650–after 1700James Glasgow R.Ebefore 1651–1726

Person and dates	Relationship	Current assessment	Why this relationship is shown
John Glasgow c. 1650–after 1700	son	Unassessed son link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.
James Glasgow R.E before 1651–1726	son	Unassessed son link	From the family tree; not yet checked against records.

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The record proves the separate Larne identity; it does not connect him to the Scottish Robert-1078 or later Kilwaughter householders.

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Current conclusion

Robert Glaskow is directly documented as living at Larne in 1653. No inspected
record names his wife or child. The current links to James Glasgow (Glasgow-1081)
and John Glasgow (Glasgow-3913), and the subsequent chain through Robert
Glasgow-1502 to Robert Glasgow-1143, remain working tree relationships rather
than proved descent.

One relationship within the later group can now be ranked more firmly. Jo/John
and James `Glascho` were consecutive Kilwaughter Demesne householders in 1669
(original record numbers 5347-5348), then recur in the same district's
congregational business about thirty years later. John represented Kilwaughter
and James served as its overseer. This association makes close kinship between
them possible (it was assessed as probable until 6 October 2026, and lowered because
it rests on adjacency, spelling and locality alone); it does not prove that they
were brothers or that either was Robert's son.

The supposed grandson Hugh Glasgow-1499 does not add another supported branch.
The published session-list transcription assigns `deceased 1726` to James
Glasgow and separately records Hugh Glasgow dead on 8 July 1767. Hugh-1499's
1726 death was copied from James's line; no independent occurrence defines him.
He is a probable duplicate of the documented Hugh Glasgow-1503, not evidence
for a separate son of James-1081.

A full remote source pass found no documentary bridge from Robert to Jo/John or
James `Glascho` at Kilwaughter, nor to the later Robert who married Rachel
Wilson. The 1653 evidence remains four hearsay statements; one attributes the
shooting to James Browne rather than Robert. The early Larne Robert, the later
Robert/Rachel household and Scottish Robert `Glasgow-1078` must remain separate.

The first securely reconstructable later family in the district begins with
Robert Glasgow-1143 and Rachel Wilson-78088 at Kilwaughter. It is not yet proved
to descend from Robert-3970. Robert-1143's father remains unproved.

Robert Brown's own 1653 examination names the servants present in his house on
the massacre night as Robert Orr, John Hunter, Agnes Woodside and Marren Carr.
Robert Glasgow is not among them. This excludes the unsupported claim that he
was one of Brown's identifiable household servants present at the incident;
neighbourhood, militia/company or other association remains possible.

Brown also named sons Hugh and James. Hugh was a lieutenant in Captain
McCullogh's company, and Captain McCullogh later helped transmit the accusation
against Robert Glasgow. This makes a military or company-network connection a
better research lead than household service, but no examination names Glasgow
as a soldier.

A newly located 1666 record creates a more direct occupational lead. The
Argyll Estates Archives catalogue describes a receipt by **Robert Glasgow,
master of the *John of Portrush***, for transporting barrels of coal for the
earl of Argyll. It is held in bundle `GB 3452 ARG-04-03-67-78` (`PFV 67`). A
shipmaster active in the Scottish west-coast/Ulster trade is chronologically
compatible with both the Larne man and the Robert baptised in 1618, but the
catalogue supplies no residence, age, parentage or Larne connection for him.
The vessel name is evidence of a cross-channel trading context, not proof that
its master lived at Portrush or was Robert-3970.

The obvious customs follow-up is limited by record survival. NRS guidance says
the pre-1707 customs books can name shipmasters and merchants, but the `E72`
port-book series starts in 1668 and no Ayr or Irvine book for 1666 was located
in the fragmentary `E71` series. The published surviving Ulster port books are
for 1612–1615, not 1666. The original Argyll receipt is therefore the best
immediate source for identifying this shipmaster.

An NRS catalogue search found another later same-name occurrence in the same
broad west-coast region. On 6 August 1688 an instrument of resignation and
sasine at Ayr was written by **Robert Glasgow, servitor to the notary**
Alexander McDermeit, depute clerk of the burgh. The shipmaster and notarial
servitor could be the same literate man, but the records are twenty-two years
apart and neither gives age, kin or origin. This is a possible continuation to
test against handwriting and signature, not evidence that either was the Larne
Robert.

The original North Leith poll-tax page adds another adult namesake. On 3
October 1694 **Robert Glasgow** was listed among four servants of Alexander
Ainslie, clerk to the glass manufactory. A modern thesis calls Robert a
glassmaker and dates the entry 1695, but the original record itself says only
`servant` and is dated 1694. A second contemporary record almost certainly
concerns the same man: on 16 July 1694 Robert Glasgow gave a receipt in
Ainslie's name for bottles supplied to the Earl of Breadalbane (`GD112/15/59`,
item 24). This proves a functional connection to the glassworks business and a
trusted representative role, but not the skilled occupation of glassmaker. No
age, origin or kin links him to Larne, Ayr or the *John of Portrush*.

[Glasgow-3011](https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3011), baptised at
Glencorse in 1676, is a stronger younger alternative: he was seventeen in 1694,
is the sole exact-name Robert baptism returned there from 1640 through 1690,
and a same-name man married there in 1704. No Ainslie or glassworks link is
proved, but this weakens the 1694 occurrence as continuity evidence for Larne.

Exact Leith OPR searches found no Glasgow/Glasgo/Glascow/Glaskow/Glassgow
baptism in 1694–1730 and no exact Robert Glasgow marriage in 1694–1710 or
burial in 1694–1730. Register survival and spelling limit the negative result.

1653 transplantation-list result

The exact printed declaration is now identified as British Library
`816.m.17[74]`, Wing I341: *By the Commissioners for the settling and securing
the province of Vlster* (Dublin: William Bladen, 1653), dated Carrickfergus,
23 May 1653. The EEBO-TCP diplomatic transcription of that surviving print
places Captain James McCullogh in the Islandmagee, Magheramorne and Ballynure
quarter, but gives the two disputed places to Hugh Hoomes and James Lawder.

Robert M. Young's 1896 publication of William Pinkerton's manuscript-derived
text instead gives those places to James Browne and Ensign William Stephenson.
This is a substantive two-name variant, not ordinary spelling variation.
Young also printed a contemporary commissioners' letter saying that a local
paper had already been circulated before the declaration arrived, and that the
print was not published because of “the great mistake of the printing the
names.” The letter does not identify the mistaken names. Browne's absence from
the surviving print is therefore real, but does not prove that he was absent
from every working or intended schedule.

This evidence refines Robert's local network but barely affects the identity
hypothesis. Robert appears in neither list state, no record puts him in
McCullogh's company, and nothing here connects McCullogh or the Brownes to
Jonet Conynghame. Reid, EEBO-TCP and modern scans derive from the same British
Library sheet; the Ulster Historical Foundation list derives from Young and is
not an independent witness.

The best resolving source is Trinity College Dublin MS 844 (formerly F.3.18),
especially fol. 841 and its neighbouring papers. It contains Henry Jones's
14 June 1653 draft material and a 30 June set of proposals. The UCD descriptive
catalogue now narrows Thomas Fitzpatrick's independent transcript to
`IE UCDA LA/12/5`, transcript pages 553–558: “Henry Jones – arrangements by him
and other Commissioners for transplantation of the Ulster-Scots,” copied from
TCD F.3.18. Fitzpatrick's manuscript biography, `LA/12/1`, chapter XIII,
pages 235–237, also treats the transplantation; `LA/12/3` is the associated
synopsis. `LA/12/6` begins with 1654 material and is no longer the priority.
None has yet been collated against the disputed names.

One supplied Wikimedia/Internet Archive scan link was checked and resolves to
an unrelated 21 October 1653 alehouse declaration, not this 23 May
transplantation sheet. It has therefore not been used as evidence.

The provisional FT25406/FT20271 connection between the tested William-attributed
and Robert-c.1710 Kilwaughter lines makes older shared paternal ancestry
plausible. It does not bridge Robert-3970 to the later family or permit William,
born about 1655, to be his father.

New documentary result downstream

- Registry memorial 74015 (13 February 1738/9) names Rachel, formerly Wilson, as
  wife of Robert Glasgow of Kilwaughter.
- A derivative transcription of the surviving Larne/Kilwaughter register records
  Robert and Rachel as parents of James (1731), Ann (1733) and Rachel (1738).
- An 1817 South Carolina equity complaint and Robert Glasgow-1983's sworn answer
  identify Rachel as mother of James Glasgow-1144 and Ann Glasgow-1500.
- James's 1775 will and the equity case concordantly identify his widow Mary and
  six children: Robert, John, Archibald, Wilson, Margaret and Rachel.
- Margaret married John Kinard and Rachel married Robert McCrackin. Neither
  daughter has a matching profile in the current local One-Tree data.

These records prove or strongly support a large downstream family island. They
do not supply the missing bridge from Glasgow-1143 to Glasgow-1502, Glasgow-1081
or Glasgow-3970.

Source findings: archive and estate

PRONI `T/808/14889` is the 1666 County Antrim subsidy roll, but no complete
public image or reliable full transcription was located. Its absence from
online name searches is therefore not a negative result. The 1669 hearth-roll
control records Jo and James `Glascho` consecutively at Kilwaughter Demesne and
Elizabeth `Glascho` at Glenarm Town; it states no relationships and separately
records people surnamed Glass.

The published [Agnew family papers](https://archive.org/stream/hereditarysheri01agnegoog/hereditarysheri01agnegoog_djvu.txt)
trace superior ownership of Ballykeel through an assignment to Patrick Agnew in
1622, confirmation to the younger Patrick in 1636, active estate management in
1645, a 1673 Kilwaughter lease, transfer of the Lochnaw interest in 1708, and
the later 1738/9 lease to Robert Glasgow. The printed 1645 extract names no
Glasgow but is explicitly incomplete. This clarifies the superior title; it
does not identify the missing Glasgow tenant succession.

The NRS catalogue now identifies the exact open, on-site Kilwaghter record set:
[GD154/514](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD154%2f514&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=&ko=a&r=GD154%2f5&ro=s&df=&dt=&di=y)
(tenant goods/livestock, c.1653), [515](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD154%2f515&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=&ko=a&r=GD154%2f5&ro=s&df=&dt=&di=y)
(rental, c.1653), [525](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD154%2f525&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=&ko=a&r=GD154%2f5&ro=s&df=&dt=&di=y)
(rentals, c.1690; two items), [530](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD154%2f530&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=&ko=a&r=GD154%2f5&ro=s&df=&dt=&di=y)
(rent-roll/accounts, Nov. 1692; three items), and [532](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD154%2f532&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=&ko=a&r=GD154%2f5&ro=s&df=&dt=&di=y)
(rent-roll/accounts, 1693-1708; eight items). The catalogue names no Glasgow and
supplies no image or transcription. This corrects the earlier blanket
“archive-only/off-site” claim: the files are **Open, On site**, but still
uninspected. Search `Kilwaghter`, `Kilwaughter`, `Kilwaugheter` and Glasgow
variants in the originals; no kinship inference is presently available.

The Registry of Deeds cluster adds William Glasgow as an adjoining Larne
occupier in 1736 ([memorial 62131](https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=62131)),
Robert and wife Rachel at Ballykeel in 1738 ([memorial 74015](https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=74015)),
Robert Glasgow, farmer of Kilwaughter, as a witness in 1741
([memorial 76724](https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=76724)), and James
Glasgow, ropemaker of Larne, in 1766
([memorial 204122](https://irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=204122)). These
form a persistent local surname cluster, not a pedigree. Memorial 74015 calls
Rachel Robert's wife but does not call James junior their son.

The inspected original memorial 63221 (10 March 1736, registered 10 April 1738)
confirms William and Hugh Glasgow as joint Larne lessees; its named lives are
royal lives, not relatives. Memorial 159181, a deed poll dated 4 June 1757,
independently refers to a head lease granted by William and Hugh Glasgow of
Larne. These records reinforce the later Larne property cluster, but provide no
bridge from Robert-3970 or the 1653/1669 householders and no kinship statement.

Priority proof targets

1. Argyll Estates Archives `GB 3452 ARG-04-03-67-78`: inspect the original 1666 receipt for date, route, residence, associates, signature and endorsements.
2. NRS `GD86/741`: compare the 1688 Ayr instrument written by Robert Glasgow with the receipt's hand and signature.
3. TCD MS 844, fol. 841 and adjacent/enclosed papers; collate the names schedule against the print and Young.
4. UCD `IE UCDA LA/12/5`, transcript pp. 553–558; also `LA/12/1`, chapter XIII, pp. 235–237, and the `LA/12/3` synopsis.
5. NRS GD154/514-515, 525, 530 and 532: the precise **Open, On site**
Kilwaghter tenant-list/rental/rent-roll targets, c.1653-1708. Inspect the
originals before treating any tenancy as identity or kinship evidence.
6. PRONI `D/282/2–160`, Kilwaughter leases, assignments, rentals and conveyances, prioritising 1647–1742.
7. PRONI `T/808/14889`, the undigitised 1666 County Antrim subsidy roll, searched parish by parish under Glasgow/Glascho/Glaskow/Glass variants.
8. PRONI `MIC/1B/6` and `MIC1B/6A/1B`, checked against derivative Larne/Kilwaughter register material.
9. Connor probate substitutes for James Glasgow of Kilwater, 1727.

`MIC331` is not a Glasgow-family source; PRONI identifies it as William Ewart
Gladstone papers. The superficially promising replacement `T1762` is mainly
later material, including the Oritor William Glasgow will/codicil, and is lower
priority than the estate, subsidy, church and probate collections. `D2003
[MIC128]` is likewise a later Clough/Ballymena Crawford-Glasgow family
collection, not a proved Larne/Kilwaughter bridge.

Recommended profile correction

Replace the existing archive-priority paragraph with:

```text
The principal uninspected bridge records are the County Antrim subsidy roll
(PRONI T/808/14889), the Kilwaughter estate papers (PRONI D/282/2–160 and NRS
GD154/505–534), and the Larne and Kilwaughter congregational originals (PRONI
MIC/1B/6, including MIC1B/6A/1B). These records are not publicly digitised and
their contents have not been assumed.

MIC331 is a reference to William Ewart Gladstone papers and is unrelated to
this research. T1762 is the correct Glasgow-family/Presbyterian collection
reference, but its exposed Glasgow material is substantially later and it is a
lower priority than the estate, subsidy, church and probate records. D2003
[MIC128] chiefly concerns a later Clough/Ballymena family and is likewise not a
proved Larne/Kilwaughter bridge.
```

Source findings

- [Examination of Con O'Sheale, 21 April 1653](https://1641dep.abdn.ac.uk/items/show/42821.html)
- [Examination of Robert Brown, 27 May 1653](https://1641dep.abdn.ac.uk/items/show/42939.html)
- [FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow project](https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Glasgow?iframe=ydna-results-overview)
- [Archived Larne/Kilwaughter register chronology](https://web.archive.org/web/20101124184247id_/http://lifesweaving.com/Glasgow/Kilwaughter/Timeline.html)
- [1817 equity complaint transcription](https://web.archive.org/web/20101124184247id_/http://www.lifesweaving.com/Glasgow/Paper_Complaint.html)
- [Robert Glasgow's sworn answer, 2 June 1817](https://web.archive.org/web/20101124184247id_/http://www.lifesweaving.com/Glasgow/Paper_Reply.html)
- [James Glasgow's 1775 will transcription](https://web.archive.org/web/20101124184247id_/http://www.lifesweaving.com/Glasgow/Paper_JGlasgowWill.html)
- [NRS catalogue, Agnew family papers `GD154`](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?di=y&k=Agnew+Estate&ko=a&reference=GD154&ro=s&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n)
- [MacAfee 1669 County Antrim Hearth Money Roll transcription](https://www.billmacafee.com/1660shearthmoneyrolls/1669hearthmoneyrollsantrim.pdf)
- [Folger catalogue record for the British Library 1653 broadside](https://catalog.folger.edu/record/538557)
- [Robert M. Young, *Historical Notices of Old Belfast*, pp. 80–86](https://archive.org/details/historicalnotice00youn/page/80/mode/2up)
- [Judith Mary Carroll, study of Henry Jones's papers, p. 82](https://pure.aber.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/26062006/Carroll_Judith_Mary_MSc.pdf#page=82)
- [UCD Archives, Thomas Fitzpatrick papers descriptive catalogue](https://www.ucd.ie/archives/t4media/la0012-fitzpatrick-thomas-descriptive-catalogue.pdf)
- [Argyll Estates Archives catalogue, Campbell family papers](https://www.argyll-papers.com/downloads/campbell-family-dukes-of-argyll-papers.pdf), p. 149, `ARG-04-03-67-78`.
- [NRS `GD86/741`, Ayr sasine written by Robert Glasgow](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/browseDetails.aspx?reference=GD86%2F741), 6 August 1688.
- [Scotland's People Virtual Volumes, E70/4/10, image 11](https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/virtual-volumes/volume-images/volume_data-E70-4-10/REX01666?image_number=11), North Leith poll tax, 3 October 1694.
- [NRS `GD112/15/59`](https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD112%2F15%2F59), item 24, receipt by Robert Glasgow in Alexander Ainslie's name, 16 July 1694.

1666 shipmaster disposition

The Robert Glasgow who was master of the *John of Portrush* in 1666 should be
created as a distinct, unconnected profile. Larne and the vessel's Portrush
name supply relevant cross-channel context, but the vessel name is not a
residence and no occupation, family, signature or exact-event bridge connects
the 1653 Larne witness to the shipmaster.

Focused FamilySearch full-text result - 20 August 2026

Exact-name searches restricted to Larne or Kilwaughter and the seventeenth
century produced no matching full-text record for Robert Glaskow, James
Glascho, or John Glascho. The useful results occur only in the later William
Glasgow generation: Larne leases in 1736 and 1737, and a 1744 deed whose
execution William personally proved in 1775. They do not bridge Robert to the
proposed children or grandchildren. The relationships descending from
Glasgow-3970 therefore remain uncertain.

Batch limits and next originals — 21 September 2026

The manuscript-checked 1738 wife clause and 1741 farmer occurrence belong to the later Robert-1143 household; neither names a father or supplies a bridge from Robert Glaskow of Larne. A 1772 Wm Glasgow witness occurrence is likewise unassigned between later namesakes. The remaining direct tests are the on-site Kilwaughter rentals NRS GD154/514–515, /525, /530 and /532, PRONI T828/15, and MIC1B/6. Catalogue descriptions and surname association do not establish descent.

Relationship assessment — the 1669 Kilwaughter pair, 6 October 2026

John Glasgow-3913 and James Glasgow-1081 were possibly close kin. The 1669 hearth-money roll (Macafee transcription, records 5347-5348) lists "Jo Glascho" and "James Glascho" consecutively at Kilwaughter Demesne with the same uncommon spelling. That is strong association evidence that the two households were connected, but it states no relationship and supports no particular degree: brother, father and son, uncle and nephew, and cousin are all open. Men named John (called "sen." in 1700) and James act for the Kilwochter district in 1700-01, never in the same minute; their identity with the 1669 householders is itself unproved, so they are not an independent second line of evidence. The assessment was "probable" until 6 October 2026 and was lowered because every element of it is association evidence (adjacency, spelling, place, recurring forenames). The sibling arrangement on WikiTree exists only through the uncertain shared father Glasgow-3970; it stays uncertain and nothing is detached.

Porter's Larne memoir, including the instalments covering the years before 1699 (*The Christian Unitarian* 2, pp. 270-280, 296-305, 329-336), contains no Glasgow in any spelling on the OCR text (not checked page by page on the images), so it adds nothing for Robert Glaskow of Larne in 1653 or for Elizabeth Glascho of Glenarm in 1669. Elizabeth has no recorded link to the Kilwaughter pair.

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: 24/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Robert Glasgow I: 22/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
John Glasgow: 21/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
John Glasgow: 21/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Jonet (Mathie) Glasgow: 20/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Jonet Kinnie?: 18/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Robert Glasgow: 18/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Agnes Glasgow: 17/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Jonet (Glasgow) Stewart: 17/100 · Stored classification: weak lead
Barbara (Glasgow) Wilson: 17/100 · Stored classification: weak lead

Research data and downloads

Person data (JSON) · Family network

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