This is the record-defined John Glasgow expressly called a son of [[Glasgow-1168|James Glasgow elder]] in the 9 February 1571 Corsinkell record. The relationship is direct and confident. The same wording makes [[Glasgow-3921|James Glasgow younger]] his brother.
Identity with [[Glasgow-3193|the John recorded at Burrowland and Dalgarven in 1559-60]] remains possible, not proved. No reviewed estate deed bridges those holdings to Corsinkell, so the profiles remain separate.
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Stevenston — Ayrshire
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The 1559-60 list places John at one or two Kilwinning holdings while placing the two Jameses at neighbouring Corsankell; in 1571 James elder's son John is a Corsankell co-occupier. Multiple holdings were possible, and no competing regional John is known. The records do not carry a spouse or residence across the gap, so retain separate profiles and an uncertain father edge.
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This is the record-defined John Glasgow expressly called a son of [[Glasgow-1168|James Glasgow elder]] in the 9 February 1571 Corsinkell record. The relationship is direct and confident. The same wording makes [[Glasgow-3921|James Glasgow younger]] his brother.
Identity with [[Glasgow-3193|the John recorded at Burrowland and Dalgarven in 1559-60]] remains possible, not proved. No reviewed estate deed bridges those holdings to Corsinkell, so the profiles remain separate.
One-Tree export profile fields are search leads, not sources; relationships are shown only where the export supplies parent links. This map placement is an estimate from kin and is not a directly recorded location for this person.
WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-4061
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Precision: Kin-inferred relationship locality
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John Glasgow was probable same man as John Glasgow
The 1559-60 list places John at one or two Kilwinning holdings while placing the two Jameses at neighbouring Corsankell; in 1571 James elder's son John is a Corsankell co-occupier. Multiple holdings were possible, and no competing regional John is known. The records do not carry a spouse or residence across the gap, so retain separate profiles and an uncertain father edge.
No current conclusion recorded.
Missing bridge: Not specified
No current conclusion recorded.
Missing bridge: A contemporary record explicitly identifying the parent or parents.
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Missing bridge: Not specified
No current conclusion recorded.
Missing bridge: Not specified
Source or provenance: quality describes the record layer, not every conclusion drawn from it.
National Records of Scotland, Charter Chest of the Earls of Glencairn, GD39/5/59, letters of reversion, 9 February 1571. The official catalogue describes the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell as occupied by “James Glasgow, elder James Glasgow and John Glasgow, his sons, Christian Campbell.” Catalogue entry inspected 30 August 2026; original open but off site, no online image.
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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.
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Same-name candidate
uncertain father attachments differ (no deduction)
Conflicts: uncertain father attachments differ (no deduction)
Same-name candidate
record-derived birth estimates differ by 96; retained without deduction
Conflicts: record-derived birth estimates differ by 96; retained without deduction
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.
John Glasgow
Updated 2026-08-30
Dataset: ONT_Glasco_2026-08-18T16_05.json · generated 2026-09-08
Glasgow-4061 was captured 2026-09-07T21:05:55+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2026-08-30.
| Relationship | Person | WikiTree ID | Dates and places returned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parents | James Glasgow | Glasgow-1168 | 1515-00-00 · Scotland · 1571-02-09 · Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Siblings | James Glasgow | Glasgow-3921 | 1540-00-00 · Scotland · 1571-02-09 · Stevenston, Ayrshire |
| Siblings | John Glasgow | Glasgow-3193 | 1540-00-00 · Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland · 1559-00-00 · Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Siblings | Matthew Glasgow | Glasgow-3908 | 1540-00-00 · Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland · 1558-00-00 |
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Biography John Glasgow was a son of James Glasgow elder of Corsinkell and a brother of James Glasgow younger. On 9 February 1571 letters of reversion concerning an annualrent of 18 bolls of oatmeal from the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell described the land as occupied by "James Glasgow, elder James Glasgow and John Glasgow, his sons, Christian Campbell." National Records of Scotland, Charter Chest of the Earls of Glencairn, GD39/5/59 (https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD39%2F5%2F59), letters of reversion concerning the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell, 9 February 1571. Official catalogue entry inspected 30 August 2026; the original is open but held off site and no manuscript image is available online. The wording directly identifies James and John as sons of James elder. It does not identify their mother. The record proves that John was born before and lived after 9 February 1571. It supplies no exact age, spouse, children, birthplace or death place. Research Notes This is deliberately a record-defined profile. John Glasgow of the Kilwinning district, recorded at Burrowland and Dalgarven in 1559–60, remains a possible identity match because Corsinkell was also in northern Ayrshire. No reviewed deed connects the Kilwinning holdings to Corsinkell, so the profiles remain separate and that proposed identity remains uncertain. John Glasgow of the later Glasgow-burgh network is a different candidate and was rejected as a match when this profile was created. His approximate 1570 birth and later burgh context do not fit an already recorded Corsinkell occupier in 1571. Sources
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== Biography ==
'''John Glasgow''' was a son of [[Glasgow-1168|James Glasgow elder]] of Corsinkell and a brother of [[Glasgow-3921|James Glasgow younger]]. On 9 February 1571 letters of reversion concerning an annualrent of 18 bolls of oatmeal from the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell described the land as occupied by "James Glasgow, elder James Glasgow and John Glasgow, his sons, Christian Campbell."<ref name="NRS1571">National Records of Scotland, Charter Chest of the Earls of Glencairn, [https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD39%2F5%2F59 GD39/5/59], letters of reversion concerning the 40-shilling land of Corsinkell, 9 February 1571. Official catalogue entry inspected 30 August 2026; the original is open but held off site and no manuscript image is available online.</ref> The wording directly identifies James and John as sons of James elder. It does not identify their mother.
The record proves that John was born before and lived after 9 February 1571. It supplies no exact age, spouse, children, birthplace or death place.
== Research Notes ==
This is deliberately a record-defined profile. [[Glasgow-3193|John Glasgow of the Kilwinning district]], recorded at Burrowland and Dalgarven in 1559–60, remains a possible identity match because Corsinkell was also in northern Ayrshire. No reviewed deed connects the Kilwinning holdings to Corsinkell, so the profiles remain separate and that proposed identity remains uncertain.
[[Glasgow-1030|John Glasgow of the later Glasgow-burgh network]] is a different candidate and was rejected as a match when this profile was created. His approximate 1570 birth and later burgh context do not fit an already recorded Corsinkell occupier in 1571.
== Sources ==
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