Glasgow Surname Project

Individual research record

John Forsyth Glasgow

1844-01-21 – 1913-07-08

Glasgow-423 · 1 mapped association

New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United KingdomMinmi, New South Wales, Australia

At a glance

Identity & family

Tree links organise the family; documentary status still varies.

1Mapped records
3Close relations
8Evidence items
2Candidate leads
Birth
1844-01-21 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Death
1913-07-08 · Minmi, New South Wales, Australia
Parents
John GlasgowconfidentChristina (Forsyth) Glasgowconfident
Spouses
Isabella (Hamilton) Glasgow
Children
Not recorded
Gender
Male
WikiTree
Glasgow-423
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.

Estimate and relationship notes
  • WikiTree marks this person as having children, but no named child profile is recoverable from this export.

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.

Same-name candidate

John GlasgowGlasgow-2622

Automated fit65/100
Similar Person
Dates1839–?PlacesNew Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United KingdomParent comparisonSame Father Profile; Relationship Evidence Is Unassessed
Why it may fit
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 5 (+18)
  • shared recorded place (+20)

No indexed conflict

Full comparison detail
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 5 (+18)
  • shared recorded place (+20)
  • same father profile; relationship evidence is unassessed: John Glasgow (+9)

Conflicts: No indexed conflict

Same-name candidate

John GlasgowGlasgow-3859

Automated fit63/100
Similar Person
Dates1842–?PlacesNew Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United KingdomParent comparisonNo shared parent is indexed
Why it may fit
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 2 (+25)
  • shared recorded place (+20)

No indexed conflict

Full comparison detail
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 2 (+25)
  • shared recorded place (+20)

Conflicts: No indexed conflict

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

Life and record timelineChronological mapped occurrences and their underlying sources.1 record
b. 1844

Profile-stated birthplace: New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lanarkshire — 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-423

No sufficiently specific citation match found.

Precision: County-level representative point

Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.15 claims
5Unknown
2Tree Only
1Derivative

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.

Next records to inspect

  1. birth — (Birth no 374: In an order relating to the paternity of a child named Margaret Calder Little, born 27 June 1859 at the insistence of Ann Little, residing at 24 Bell Street, Airdrie against John Glasgow a miner, Aitchison Street, Airdrie.
Sources and provenanceStructured citations and source-quality classifications.8 sources

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

  1. derivative "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTG9-LS6 : 16 September 2021), John Forsyth Glasgow, 1845.
  2. unknown (Scotland Census 1851; Parish: New Monkland; ED:8; Page:16; Line:14; Roll: cssct1851_170)
  3. unknown (Scotland Statutory Births 651/01 0374 Airdrie)
  4. tree_only (Birth no 374: In an order relating to the paternity of a child named Margaret Calder Little, born 27 June 1859 at the insistence of Ann Little, residing at 24 Bell Street, Airdrie against John Glasgow a miner, Aitchison Street, Airdrie. The Sheriff Substitute of Lanark has Judice upon 1st August 1859 pronounced that the said child was the illegitimate child of the parties forsaid.(August 3rd 1859)
  5. unknown (Scotland Census 1861; Parish: New Monkland; ED:7; Page:11; Line:8; Roll:cssct1861_117)
  6. unknown (Scotland Census 1871; Parish: Shotts: ED:5 ; Page: 13; Line: 10; Roll: cssct1871_119)
  7. unknown (Scotland Statutory Marriages 626/0B 0010)
  8. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-423
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-423 was captured 2026-08-07T09:54:35+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2021-12-28.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birthNew Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United KingdomWikiTree profile field
deathMinmi, New South Wales, AustraliaWikiTree profile field
marriage1872-03-15Torbothie Cambusnethen ScotlandWikiTree relationship field

Immediate relationship snapshot

RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ParentsJohn GlasgowGlasgow-4241816-02-13 · Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1867-04-25
ParentsChristina GlasgowForsyth-8781815-07-21 · Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1858-06-02
ChildrenMargaretLittle-46401859-06-27 · Airdrie, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1884-07-19 · Armandale, Scotland
SiblingsHelen GlasgowGlasgow-4341837-00-00 · Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00
SiblingsJane Allan GlasgowGlasgow-20821837-02-00 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1841-00-00 · Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
SiblingsJohn GlasgowGlasgow-26221839-01-14 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00
SiblingsMarion GlasgowGlasgow-4361840-09-04 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00
SiblingsMatthew GlasgowGlasgow-4371842-10-14 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland · 1914-11-03
SiblingsAnna GlasgowGlasgow-20831847-00-00 · Plains, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00
SiblingsElizabeth GlasgowGlasgow-4391850-00-00 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00
SiblingsIsabella WellsGlasgow-4401850-04-08 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1930-04-04 · Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia
SiblingsThomas GlasgowGlasgow-4411853-06-05 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland · 1928-07-28
SiblingsRobert Forsyth GlasgowGlasgow-4421856-01-18 · New Monkland Lanarkshire Scotland · 1920-06-21
SiblingsMarion GlasgowGlasgow-26231858-01-31 · New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1858-00-00
SpousesIsabella GlasgowHamilton-99311852-00-00 · Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00 · 1872-03-15 · Torbothie Cambusnethen Scotland

Record-bearing passages

  • Biography John was born 21 Jan 1844, christened 2 Jan 1845 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His parents were John Glasgow and Christina Forsyth. "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTG9-LS6 : 16 September 2021), John Forsyth Glasgow, 1845.
  • In 1851 John was a scholar living at 37 Aitchison Street New Monkland with his parents, siblings and granny. (Scotland Census 1851; Parish: New Monkland; ED:8; Page:16; Line:14; Roll: cssct1851_170)
  • John's mother died in 1858.
  • In 1859 John Glasgow and Mary Ann Little had a daughter. (Scotland Statutory Births 651/01 0374 Airdrie) They did not marry. Mary Ann Little raised a paternity order against John. (Birth no 374: In an order relating to the paternity of a child named Margaret Calder Little, born 27 June 1859 at the insistence of Ann Little, residing at 24 Bell Street, Airdrie against John Glasgow a miner, Aitchison Street, Airdrie. The Sheriff Substitute of Lanark has Judice upon 1st August 1859 pronounced that the said child was the illegitimate child of the parties forsaid.(August 3rd 1859)
  • In 1861 John was a coal miner living at 45 Aitchison Street New Monklands with his father and siblings (Scotland Census 1861; Parish: New Monkland; ED:7; Page:11; Line:8; Roll:cssct1861_117)
  • In 1871 John was living at 3 McPhee Land Shotts with his sister Isabella and her husband and child. Two of his brothers lived there also. They had a general servant living with them. The men were all coal miners (Scotland Census 1871; Parish: Shotts: ED:5 ; Page: 13; Line: 10; Roll: cssct1871_119)
  • John married Isabella Hamilton 15 Mar 1872 in Torbothie Cambusnethen Scotland. At the time he was a coal miner living at Dykehead Shotts. (Scotland Statutory Marriages 626/0B 0010)
  • John Forsyth Glasgow passed away 8 Jul 1913 in Minmi , New South Wales, Australia. Research notes This profile was created with birth date of 21 Nov 1844 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Birth source has different dates. Sources

Profile source citations

  1. "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTG9-LS6 : 16 September 2021), John Forsyth Glasgow, 1845. source link 1
  2. (Scotland Census 1851; Parish: New Monkland; ED:8; Page:16; Line:14; Roll: cssct1851_170)
  3. (Scotland Statutory Births 651/01 0374 Airdrie)
  4. (Birth no 374: In an order relating to the paternity of a child named Margaret Calder Little, born 27 June 1859 at the insistence of Ann Little, residing at 24 Bell Street, Airdrie against John Glasgow a miner, Aitchison Street, Airdrie. The Sheriff Substitute of Lanark has Judice upon 1st August 1859 pronounced that the said child was the illegitimate child of the parties forsaid.(August 3rd 1859)
  5. (Scotland Census 1861; Parish: New Monkland; ED:7; Page:11; Line:8; Roll:cssct1861_117)
  6. (Scotland Census 1871; Parish: Shotts: ED:5 ; Page: 13; Line: 10; Roll: cssct1871_119)
  7. (Scotland Statutory Marriages 626/0B 0010)
Full captured biography text
Biography
John was born 21 Jan 1844, christened 2 Jan 1845 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His parents were John Glasgow and Christina Forsyth. "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTG9-LS6 : 16 September 2021), John Forsyth Glasgow, 1845. 

In 1851 John was a scholar living at 37 Aitchison Street New Monkland with his parents, siblings and granny. (Scotland Census 1851; Parish: New Monkland; ED:8; Page:16; Line:14; Roll: cssct1851_170) 

John's mother died in 1858.

In 1859 John Glasgow and Mary Ann Little had a daughter. (Scotland Statutory Births 651/01 0374 Airdrie) They did not marry. Mary Ann Little raised a paternity order against John. (Birth no 374: In an order relating to the paternity of a child named Margaret Calder Little, born 27 June 1859 at the insistence of Ann Little, residing at 24 Bell Street, Airdrie against John Glasgow a miner, Aitchison Street, Airdrie. The Sheriff Substitute of Lanark has Judice upon 1st August 1859 pronounced that the said child was the illegitimate child of the parties forsaid.(August 3rd 1859) 

In 1861 John was a coal miner living at 45 Aitchison Street New Monklands with his father and siblings (Scotland Census 1861; Parish: New Monkland; ED:7; Page:11; Line:8; Roll:cssct1861_117) 

In 1871 John was living at 3 McPhee Land Shotts with his sister Isabella and her husband and child. Two of his brothers lived there also. They had a general servant living with them. The men were all coal miners (Scotland Census 1871; Parish: Shotts: ED:5 ; Page: 13; Line: 10; Roll: cssct1871_119) 

John married Isabella Hamilton 15 Mar 1872 in Torbothie Cambusnethen Scotland. At the time he was a coal miner living at Dykehead Shotts. (Scotland Statutory Marriages 626/0B 0010) 

They emigrated, in 1879, to Sydney New South Wales.

John Forsyth Glasgow passed away 8 Jul 1913 in Minmi , New South Wales, Australia. 
Research notes
This profile was created with birth date of 21 Nov 1844 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Birth source has different dates.
Sources
Raw WikiTree biography markup
== Biography ==

John was born 21 Jan 1844, christened 2 Jan 1845 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His parents were John Glasgow and Christina Forsyth. <ref>"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTG9-LS6 : 16 September 2021), John Forsyth Glasgow, 1845.</ref>

In 1851 John was a scholar living at 37 Aitchison Street New Monkland with his parents, siblings and granny.<ref> (Scotland Census 1851; Parish: New Monkland; ED:8; Page:16; Line:14; Roll: cssct1851_170)</ref>

John's mother died in 1858.

In 1859 John Glasgow and Mary Ann Little had a daughter.<ref>(Scotland Statutory Births 651/01 0374 Airdrie)</ref>  They did not marry.  Mary Ann Little raised a paternity order against John.<ref>(Birth no 374: In an order relating to the paternity of a child named Margaret Calder Little, born 27 June 1859 at the insistence of Ann Little, residing at 24 Bell Street, Airdrie against John Glasgow a miner, Aitchison Street, Airdrie. The Sheriff Substitute of Lanark has Judice upon 1st August 1859 pronounced that the said child was the illegitimate child of the parties forsaid.(August 3rd 1859)</ref>

In 1861 John was a coal miner living at 45 Aitchison Street New Monklands with his father and siblings<ref> (Scotland Census 1861; Parish: New Monkland; ED:7; Page:11; Line:8; Roll:cssct1861_117)</ref>

In 1871 John was living at 3 McPhee Land Shotts with his sister Isabella and her husband and child. Two of his brothers lived there also. They had a general servant living with them. The men were all coal miners<ref> (Scotland Census 1871; Parish: Shotts: ED:5 ; Page: 13; Line: 10; Roll: cssct1871_119)</ref>

John married Isabella Hamilton 15 Mar 1872 in Torbothie Cambusnethen Scotland. At the time he was a coal miner living at Dykehead Shotts.<ref>(Scotland Statutory Marriages 626/0B 0010)</ref>

They emigrated, in 1879, to Sydney New South Wales.

John Forsyth Glasgow passed away  8 Jul 1913 in Minmi , New South Wales, Australia. 


== Research notes ==
This profile was created with birth date of 21 Nov 1844 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Birth source has different dates.


== Sources ==

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