Hugh Glasgow

Current answer

No contemporary record found identifies the Hugh Glasgow born about 1706 in County Tyrone, his wife Margaret McCullough, or their sons. Two distinct men named Hugh Glasgow were Protestant householders in Tamlaght O'Crilly parish in 1740. Either could be the older Hugh of the family history, but the return supplies no age, occupation, wife, children, or townland and cannot distinguish them.

The second Hugh occurs in a collector sequence strongly linked to the Inishrush leasehold community, immediately before Hugh Ellis and James McCullough. That makes him a better geographic lead, not a proved Inishrush resident or a proved husband of Margaret McCullough.

The conjunction is nevertheless substantial indirect corroboration of the late
family account: an adult Hugh of the correct generation appears in the correct
parish seven years after the reported marriage, immediately beside an Ellis
from the Inishrush head-tenant family and a James McCullough. Entry 1272 is the
high-confidence candidate for this profile, while still short of a direct
identity statement because two Hugh householders were returned.

For project disposition, entry 1272 should receive its own unconnected,
record-defined profile. This preserves the demonstrably separate 1740
household without falsely assigning it to this profile. A later direct identity
bridge may justify a merge; the McCullough adjacency alone does not.

The late account also says this Hugh's grandson John was born in 1780 on the
family farm in County Londonderry, `not far from` Portglenone. In combination
with the 1740 Ellis/McCullough cluster, the 1772 parish Hugh, and Adam and John
later at Inishrush, this makes the Hugh-548 family a high-probability match to
their extended local Glasgow cluster. It still does not state the intervening
relationship.

The traditional sons John-549 and Robert-550 are both old enough to father Adam
and John of Inishrush, but the child sequence points instead to shared parents
called Adam and Maria. The return itself supplies a cleaner structural model:
entry 1272 may represent Hugh-548, while the other 1740 Hugh may head the
collateral line that produced older Adam/Maria. This respects the late account's
explicit three-son list rather than adding an unreported son to Hugh-548. It is
still a hypothesis because neither Hugh's children are named in the return.

Source findings

| Source | Finding | Assessment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PRONI `T808/15258`, *Names of 14,400 Protestant householders*, Tamlaght O'Crilly pages 108-109 | The 1740 return contains two separate householders named Hugh Glasgow. In W. Macafee's numbered transcript they are entries 1195 and 1272; both townlands are `Not specified`. The first lies between Tole O'Cain and Patrick O'Quin. The second lies between Henry Lennox and Hugh Alice/Ellis, followed by James McCullough, James Knox, James McCleland, Patrick McVeagh, Patrick McFadden, Thomas Rainy, Eneas Welsh, Samuel and William Hasty, James Neal, Henry, Laughlin, Murphy, Huey and Wilson households. | Direct proof of two adult-household entries in the target parish and high-confidence evidence of an earlier generation than `Glasgow-540`. It does not identify either man with this profile. Images, OCR, item metadata, and manifest are saved in `sources/`. |
| [Registry of Deeds Index Project, memorial 57951](https://www.irishdeedsindex.net/mem.php?memorial=57951), lease dated 29 March 1734 | William Conolly leased Inishrush to Hercules Ellis, John Wilson, James Bay, James McCleland and Alexander Hueyall of Inishrush. Named lives included sons of Ellis, Wilson and McCleland. No Glasgow was a principal or named life. | Independently anchors Ellis, Wilson, Bay, McCleland and Huey at Inishrush six years before the second 1740 Hugh's cluster. This supports an Inishrush association for that sequence, but cannot place Hugh there or exclude him as an undertenant. Saved townland-index results in `sources/rodi_townland_inishrush_2026.html`. |
| [Belfast News-Letter, 14 April 1772](https://arborealis.ca/records/newspapers/kilrea-news/1770-1779/), notice dated Innisrush 6 April | Hugh Glasgow was among subscribers described collectively as `Inhabitants of the Parish of Tamlaght O'Crilly` who surrendered arms to Henry Ellis of Inishrush. The notice does not call Hugh an inhabitant of Inishrush. | Direct proof of a Hugh in the parish in 1772, but no age, occupation or kinship distinguishes the older Hugh, the younger emigrant Hugh, or another namesake. Saved transcript in `sources/arborealis_kilrea_news_1770_1779.html`. |
| William Melanchthon Glasgow, *History of the Glasgow Family*, original scan p. 2 | Written roughly 160 years after the events, it says the older Hugh worked for an aged weaver named McCullough, married the employer's daughter Margaret McCullough in 1733, and had sons John, Robert and Hugh. This wording is present in William's own narrative, not a later WikiTree interpolation. | Family tradition only. The narrative does not name Margaret's father or cite a contemporary source and cannot be used to select the 1740 entry merely because James McCullough follows one Hugh in collector order. Saved scan in `sources/william_melanchthon_glasgow_family_history.pdf`. |
| Same family history, original scan p. 3 | It says the younger Hugh's eldest son John was born on 28 April 1780 on the family farm in County Londonderry, `not far from` Portglenone. | Late testimony, but a specific geographic statement independently consistent with the Tamlaght O'Crilly/Inishrush evidence. It strengthens the extended-cluster identification without naming Adam's father. |
| Same family history, original scan p. 3 | When the younger Hugh's family emigrated in August 1796, they reportedly left many kin and acquaintances behind. | Positive late-family testimony that collateral relatives remained in Ireland. Adam and John are plausible members of that residual kin network, especially given their later Covenanter association, but they are not named. |
| Same family history, checked against Hugh Glasgow's original Pennsylvania will | The history says the younger Hugh died in 1824, but he signed his will on 29 March 1827 and it was proved 25 April 1831. Its 1796 emigration narrative concerns the younger Hugh's household, not this older Hugh. | A demonstrated chronology error requires caution with its unsupported 1706, 1733 and kinship details. The WikiTree biography captured on 30 September 2026 already correctly describes the 1796 migration as the younger Hugh’s household. The earlier concern about misattribution is superseded; retain this family context. |
| PRONI Bellaghy estate series described in `D1062/1/5`, `D2094/50-51, 68, 75-76, 78`, and `T2825/C/19/1-13` | Lease books, rentals and accounts survive for the period in which a Glasgow tenancy could be identified, but the relevant name-level Inishrush rows are not digitised. A published study using the series warns that rentals may list head tenants and omit subtenants. | These are the best remaining direct-record targets. A missing Glasgow head tenant would not by itself exclude residence. Catalogue inventory and study are saved in `sources/`. |

Ellis and Dobbin network audit

The Ellis records were searched because the second 1740 Hugh Glasgow is followed in collector order by Hugh Ellis and James McCullough, and because Henry Ellis later received the parish inhabitants' arms in 1772. The audit found a real Ellis-Dobbin family and property network, but **no public record that calls a Glasgow or McCullough an Ellis relative, tenant, servant, beneficiary, executor, witness, debtor, or creditor**.

| Source | Finding | Assessment |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [NLI Sources `MS_UR_027542`](https://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_027542), PRONI `T597/3` | A will of Hercules Ellis of Innish Rush dated 3 May 1750 survives at PRONI. The public catalogue gives only title, date, place and reference. | This is the strongest surviving probate target, but no beneficiaries, witnesses, relationships or tenants are publicly exposed. No scan or beneficiary-level abstract was located. Exact access note saved as `sources/proni_T597_3_public_catalogue_note.md`. |
| Leonard Dobbin, *History of the family of Dobbin* (1874), PRONI `T367`; FamilySearch book 269766; Geneanet OCR index | A public search snippet identifies Henry Ellis of Ennisrush as son of Hercules Ellis and Mary Dobbin. The Geneanet index reports 12 Ellis hits and four OCR hits split between `mc CULLOUGH` and `MCCULLOCH`. | This establishes the compiled Ellis-Dobbin pedigree, not a Glasgow relationship. The McCullough contexts could not be exposed: Geneanet reserves page images for Premium users, FamilySearch returned a sign-in/403 barrier, and ArchiveViewer reported zero accessible images. No Glasgow appears in Geneanet's displayed multi-hit surname list, which cannot exclude a singleton. |
| [NLI Sources `MS_UR_004208`](https://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_004208), PRONI `T648/2-3` | Surviving copies include a 25 October 1791 letter from C. Sharp to Mrs Ellis of Innisrush `on family matters` and a 27 January 1798 letter from C. Hamilton to William Adams concerning a christening at Mr Ellis's. | Relevant descendant papers exist, but the public catalogue names no Glasgow or McCullough and supplies no text or images. |
| [Belfast News-Letter transcripts](https://arborealis.ca/records/newspapers/kilrea-news/surname-index-1800/), 16 July 1758 and 21 May 1765 | Henry Ellis of Innishrush married Mrs Elizabeth Dobbin of Belfast in 1758. In 1765 he acted as administrator for debts owed to the late Alderman Rigby Dobbin or Rigby's deceased son John Dobbin. | Contemporary confirmation of the Ellis-Dobbin connection and estate administration. Neither notice names Glasgow or McCullough. Saved in the `1750_1759` and `1760_1769` source files. |
| Registry of Deeds townland index and original-access audit, especially `193/462/128477` | Six later transactions for `Innishrushe + mill` pair Ellis with Dobbyn, Murphy, Huey or Conolly. No original or full transcript was publicly accessible; FamilySearch maps memorial 128477 to DGS 007905840 but requires login. | Memorial 128477 remains the only securely localized deed lead because the index itself records `Innishrushe + mill`. Contemporary 1758 notices independently connect Henry Ellis, Elizabeth Dobbin, Inishrush and its mill, but do not prove the memorial's parties, purpose, witnesses or named lives. Full audit: `research/Glasgow-3905/agent_deed_originals.md`. |
| Registry of Deeds name-index leads, `215/276/141741` and `393/423/260245` | Secondary compilations respectively say `McCULLOGH John & Robt to ELLIS` and `McCULLOCH William to ELLIS`. No original or full transcript was publicly accessible. | Memorial 141741 is unusable until checked because the same compilation also assigns that memorial number to a McMurray-Ellis entry at a different book/page. Memorial 260245 is unlocalized; an adjacent Ballynease deed is a different instrument and cannot transfer place or kinship. Neither lead supports Hugh, Margaret or Adam. Saved audit and TSV under the root case. |
| Vicars/VRTI Prerogative will index, `VRTI Wills/1/18/10/1791` | Henry Ellis of Innisrush had a Prerogative Court will indexed in 1791, Vicars p153. | Only the index entry was located; it has no beneficiaries or dispositive content. The original Prerogative Court will collection was destroyed in 1922, and no public replacement copy was found. |

The full source and access audit is saved as `sources/ellis_public_record_audit_2026-07-16.tsv`.

Collector-order analysis

The surname continuity is useful but not conclusive:

- The second sequence contains many surnames independently documented at Inishrush in the 1734 lease or the 1831 census, including Ellis, McClelland, Hasty, Walsh, Neill, Henry, Laughlin, Murphy and McFadden.
- Henry Lennox immediately precedes the second Hugh, while 1831 Lennox households were concentrated at Moneysallin. This is evidence that the sequence can cross locality boundaries.
- The first sequence contains Kane, Quinn, O'Neill, Woods and Richey names strongly repeated at Gortmacrane in 1831.
- The 1831 comparison is 91 years later and proves surname continuity, not residence or identity in 1740.

Therefore entry 1272 is best described as **in an Inishrush-linked collector cluster**, not `of Inishrush`.

Identity separation

- Neither 1740 householder is a credible match for the younger Hugh on WikiTree as `Glasgow-540` if his approximate 1739 birth is even broadly correct. Treating him as an adult householder in 1740 would also require exceptional longevity through his 1827 will and very late fatherhood for children born in the 1780s-1790s. This is a high-confidence generational exclusion, not an age statement in the 1740 return.
- One of the 1740 householders could be this profile's older Hugh. No record found chooses between them or verifies the McCullough marriage.
- Entry 1272 is the stronger identity candidate for this profile because of the
  McCullough adjacency, but should be created separately and unconnected unless
  a direct bridge is found. Entry 1195 remains a distinct possible root for the
  older Adam/Maria line; that placement is not proved.
- The Hugh named in 1772 cannot be assigned to either generation from that
  notice. Preserve it as an unassigned occurrence in the Tamlaght
  O'Crilly/Inishrush documentary cluster rather than creating another person.

Do not add as fact

- Do not assign entry 1272 to Inishrush as a stated residence; the townland is explicitly not specified.
- Do not identify entry 1272 as Margaret McCullough's husband solely from adjacency to James McCullough.
- Do not state that this older Hugh emigrated in 1796. The family-history wording applies that migration to the younger Hugh's family.

Decisive next records

1. Inspect the Inishrush rows and endorsements in PRONI `D1062/1/5` and `D2094/50-51, 68, 75-76, 78` for Hugh, Robert, John and Adam Glasgow.
2. Inspect `T2825/C/19/9` and `/11`, especially the 1795-1801 rental years.
3. Obtain the Inishrush address group from the Belfast News-Letter pro-Union subscription of 27 September 1799.
4. Search surviving Tamlaght O'Crilly/Kilrea Presbyterian session, communion, baptism and marriage material for a McCullough-Glasgow household before 1760.

Source findings

### Findmypast sweep — 7 October 2026

- **Known record, Findmypast form only.** Findmypast's *Ireland, Census of Protestant Householders 1740* indexes **Hugh (1) Glasgow** and **Hugh (2) Glasgow** in Tamlaghtocrilly, barony of Loughinsholin (`IRE/PRONI/1740PH/G/00359` and `/00360`). The index gives no townland, collector order or neighbours, so it cannot separate the two men any further than the Macafee and Torrens transcriptions already do. Note that Findmypast cites the source as "T808/1528 and T716/9", not the `T808/15258` used above; the difference looks like a typing error in the index and should be checked before either reference is quoted.
- Searches that found nothing: no Findmypast record (wills, deeds, valuation, marriage licence bonds, newspapers) names a Hugh Glasgow in Tamlaght O'Crilly, Inishrush or Portglenone between 1741 and 1850. The Irish Hugh Glasgow probate entries of 1825 and 1833 (`IRE/DIOC/WILL/00011507`, `IRE/INREV/WILLS/0148379/1`, `IRE/ENEC001/26354`) all belong to Hugh of Drumgreenagh, County Armagh (`Glasgow-4012`), who died on 22 February 1825; they are not this family. British Newspaper Archive searches for "Hugh Glasgow" with Tamlaght, Innisrush or Portglenone returned nothing, so the 1772 Belfast News-Letter subscriber list was not found again in the BNA OCR.