John Glasgow

Compare the Larne, Inishrush and American family reconstruction, including the alternative immediate-parent routes and their source tests.

Larne hypothesis context — 13 September 2026

If Adam Glasgow-3902 and John were brothers, the proposed James Glasgow-1509 → Adam route is compatible with John's 1767 birth: a reported 1737 father would have been about 30. That conditional extension is not evidence that John was James's son. The Bible's nine children and its Adam–James–John, Rose–Maria pattern continue to support an older Adam and Maria as a naming-model alternative, while no record names either of John's parents. The Bible weakens Alexander Glasgow-951 as a proposed child of John and Mary; it does not decide wider Lisnagaver kinship.

Master reassessment, 5 September 2026

The Bible's nine-child sequence contains no Alexander. This substantially weakens any proposal that John and Mary Arthur were Alexander Glasgow-951's parents, although a family register cannot prove absolute completeness. Do not attach Alexander as their child.

The 1831 Inishrush John is probably this Bible John, based on locality and the close household reconstruction, but the return names only its head. The separate Adam household proves neither brotherhood nor shared parents. Maria's identity with Maria Glasgow, wife of Alexander Wallace, remains possible rather than proved.

John Glasgow (Glasgow-822), born 10 April 1767, is the strongest identity candidate for the John Glasco who headed Inishrush house 2 in 1831. Glasgow-3927 now already represents that record-defined householder. Submit or maintain a merge proposal between the two identities, but leave it pending until both profiles are reviewed.

Adam Glasgow (Glasgow-3902), born about 1758, cannot have been John's father: he was only about nine when John was born. Brother and cousin are both viable, but no record states either relationship. John and the record-defined duplicate Glasgow-3927 should not be attached beneath Adam's unidentified-father placeholder Glasgow-3905.

This proves a signatory association with the appeal only. It does not establish occupation, age, family, residence, contribution amount or attendance. The 27 November issue is a reprint of the same planned event (“THIS DAY”), not proof of a second act.

A request by parishioners of St Andrew’s parish in Dublin, including St Mark’s, St Peter’s and St Anne’s, sought a meeting at the Corn Exchange Rooms at 3 p.m. on 27 November 1838 to arrange collection for O’Connell’s Annuity. J. Glasco signed the appeal. This proves a signatory association with the appeal only. It does not establish occupation, age, family, residence, contribution amount or attendance. The 27 November issue is a reprint of the same planned event (“THIS DAY”), not proof of a second act. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1838-11-26, p.1, Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1838-11-27, p.1

Eight inspected newspaper notices document successive military-medical roles or status changes under the names J. Glasco, John Glasco, and Glasco. The 1816 J. Glasco to 1822 John Glasco connection is probable because the 1822 notice places John on half-pay of the 59 th Foot; it is not explicit. The August 1826 notice calls a retiring surgeon “John Glasco, sen.”, while the December 1836 notice names Staff-Surgeon John Glasco appointed at Liverpool after employment in Grenada. The senior 1826 retiree may be a different man from the later staff surgeon. The 1838 Liverpool subscription and 1839 half-pay retirement are compatible with a later career sequence but do not resolve all links. No existing profile is assigned.

The 59th Foot: Assistant Surgeon J. Glasco was to be surgeon vice Hagan, deceased; the appointment entry is dated 8 February 1816. The entry date is 8 February, not a reported date of Hagan’s death. The issue was published on 28 February. Only the initial J. is printed. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1816-02-28, p.3

The 60th Foot: Surgeon John Glasco, from half-pay of the 59th Foot, was to be surgeon vice William Burgess Marle, who exchanged. The full name and prior 59th Foot half-pay provide a probable career link to the 1816 J. Glasco, not explicit identity proof. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1822-10-02, p.4

Under Hospital Staff, “To be Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals by Brevet,” the notice names Staff-Surgeon John Glasco. Appointment wording is explicit. The precise effective/commission date is not established; the issue date is the safe date. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1825-06-21, p.3

For the 60th Foot, Assistant Surgeon John Winterscale from the 71st Foot was to be surgeon vice Glasco, promoted; this replacement entry is dated 20 April 1826. The source shows Glasco promoted from the 60th Foot surgeon post but does not specify the promotion destination. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1826-05-16, p.3

Under Hospital Staff, Surgeon Alexander Melville, M.D., from the 25th Foot, was appointed vice John Glasco, sen., who retires upon half-pay. The printed surname wraps across a line. The qualifier “sen.” is explicit and material; do not assume this retiree is the John Glasco reported in 1836–1839. Effective date is not established beyond the notice/issue dates. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1826-08-18, p.1

Staff-Surgeon John Glasco, lately employed at Grenada, was appointed Surgeon of the Liverpool Recruiting District in the room of Staff-Surgeon Elliott, removed to Barbadoes. Full name, prior Grenada employment and Liverpool appointment are explicit. Relationship to the senior 1826 retiree remains unresolved. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1836-12-30, p.1

A £1 Curran Monument subscription list includes “Staff-Surgeon Glasco, Liverpool.” Surname only; compatible with the 1836 Liverpool appointment, but a contribution list is not a service record or independent continuity proof. Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1838-08-31, p.2

Under Hospital Staff, Surgeon A. Sinclair, M.D., from the 25th Foot, was appointed vice John Glasco, who retires upon half-pay. Full name and retirement upon half-pay are stated; exact effective date was not seen. Links among this John, the 1836–1838 staff surgeon and the senior 1826 retiree remain qualified. The Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal, 1839-09-28, p.4

5 October 2026: this profile remains a possible County Londonderry contemporary of the John Glasco listed 24 September 1799. The original roster and 1798 Dublin comparison do not identify him or establish a family relationship. The 1799 list category is unresolved; do not call him a juror or freeholder.

Recorded in research/profile-preservation-audit-2026-09-30/Glasgow-822-reconciled.wiki (30 September 2026), from the live Glasgow-822 biography; carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

The original Glasgow family-Bible register image (register; title page; local copy sources/glasgow-bible-8479.jpeg) records these children of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur:

Seen as an image of the original register. It proves the dates and the parent family within the register; it gives no birthplaces, so County Londonderry or Inishrush birthplaces rest on other evidence. The child-to-profile mapping follows the 29 August 2026 analysis.

Recorded in research/free-space-pages/missing-evidence-analysis.md (29 August 2026); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

• Adds detail to the known 1831 census entry for the probable same man (Glasgow-3927). Findmypast's index of the 1831 return gives John Glasco at Innisrush, house 2, folio 41, 4 males and 4 females, and in one of its two copies 8 Presbyterians (IRE/CENSUS/1821-1831/154369; duplicate /266913 has no denomination). This supports the Presbyterian reading, which suits a Covenanter family, but it is an index, not the original.
• Negative: the Valuation Office field book for Inishrush (9 May 1832, OL/4/1093) indexes Adam Glascow and no John.
• Searches that found nothing: British Newspaper Archive searches for "John Glasgow"/"John Glasco" with Innisrush, Desertoghill or Garvagh, and for Glasgow with Drimbolg, found no notice of John or his family. The Drimbolg hits were all about the city of Glasgow or its ministers.

The Drimbolg Reformed Presbyterian Church history names a John Glasgow at a session at Drumlamph in 1809 and as an elder present on 19 July 1827. In the page's comment thread, replying to a descendant, the author says the attendance list came from "very old local newspapers", not from a transcript of the session book. The 1809 and 1827 attendances are therefore a derivative account with unspecific newspaper provenance: they corroborate a local Covenanter John Glasgow's church role, but should not be cited as session-book entries, and they state no relationship to Adam Glasgow-3902. The Drimbolg session and discipline book for 1809–59 (PRONI MIC1C/15) remains uninspected.

Recorded in research/Glasgow-3905/agent_published_manuscripts.md (17 July 2026); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

The complete three-page manuscript of John's letter of 20 March 1847 was read, not only the online transcript. It contains no omitted word calling Adam, James, Hugh, Mulhollan, McCaivey, the Boggs family or Barkly John's brother, father, uncle or cousin.

• R. Mulhollan, who sent news of Irish settlers in western Canada and the potato failure, is strongly identified by the source audit as John's son-in-law Richardson Mulholland. The Hiltner family page gives Richardson Mulholland as husband of John's daughter Lavina, and a descendant-submitted query in the County Derry surname registry says Richardson and Adamson Mulholland emigrated in spring 1832 with Lavina on the same ship. Both are derivative, not a marriage record or passenger list. Caution: ../Glasgow-3927/findings.md cites a local-history note naming her husband Richard Mulholland and his voyage as 1833 on the Hawsbury; the forename and year conflict between these derivative accounts.
• Adam, whose letter of 27 December 1846 John had received, was alive in 1846 and so cannot be Adam Glasgow-3902 (died 1844); John's son Adam (born 7 July 1804) is the natural identification.
• McCaivey, the young man who brought the James and Barkly report, was not identified under McCaivey, McCavey, McAveety or McCaffey with Inishrush, Tamlaght O'Crilly, Portglenone or Londonderry. The reading Bogg's (a family that travelled with the Glasgows) is uncertain and no matching family was found. A Hugh Henry named in the letter was not matched.

The letter shows John in close contact with Inishrush news but states no kinship to Adam.

Recorded in research/Glasgow-822/source-audits/letter-associates-and-covenanter-2026-07-21.md (21 July 2026); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

• James McLeod Willson's The Covenanter, volume 7 (1851–52) and volume 8 (1852–53), were searched in full text for John Glasgow, the surname, Londonderry, Guernsey and the death date. No death notice, obituary, immigration account or kin statement for John (died 23 December 1851) was found; surname hits were the Scottish city or unrelated people. Bounded negative for these two volumes.
• The full texts of the 1882 Guernsey County history and the 1895 Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio (OCR saved as sources/portrait_biographical_guernsey_1895.txt) were searched for Glasgow, McKeown and Mulholland; neither contains a biography naming John's Irish parents or siblings.

Recorded in research/Glasgow-822/source-audits/letter-associates-and-covenanter-2026-07-21.md and research/Glasgow-822/source-audits/direct-link-loop-2026-07-21.md (21 July 2026); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

The 1886 obituary of Jane Neill, wife of John's son Arthur Glasgow (Glasgow-1608), as transcribed on her Hiltner page, says she joined Rev. William Kennedy McKay's Presbyterian congregation at Portglenone at about eighteen, around 1833. McKay also officiated at the 14 January 1842 marriage of Adam Glasgow's sixth daughter Nancy to John Kyle of Tyanee. This is a concrete overlap between the church networks of John's family and Adam's, but Jane was an in-law and neither notice states any Glasgow kinship. PRONI D2594 holds McKay and First Portglenone papers (see also NLI Sources); no pre-1845 marriage register or member roll survives to test John and Adam.

Recorded in research/Glasgow-822/source-audits/direct-link-loop-2026-07-21.md (21 July 2026); carried into this file on 7 October 2026.

No inspected gravestone, family Bible, 1847 letter, census, tithe, flax list, deed index, probate index, lease transcription or church-history extract calls Adam and John brothers or names a shared parent. The separate McKeown Bible makes John's identity with the Inishrush/Drimbolg man appreciably stronger; it does not change the exact relationship from inferred to proved.

William Melanchthon Glasgow's late family history says Hugh-548's youngest son Hugh had a family farm in County Londonderry near Portglenone by 1780. That specific locality aligns with the two 1740 Tamlaght O'Crilly Hugh households, the 1772 parish Hugh, and John's proved Inishrush association. The cumulative case makes membership in Hugh-548's extended local family highly probable, but does not state the intervening parent.

The two 1740 Hugh households suggest a cleaner topology. Entry 1272, beside Ellis and McCullough, is the stronger candidate for Hugh-548; entry 1195 could head the collateral line that produced older Adam and Maria. If the choice is restricted to Hugh-548's traditional sons, John-549 and Robert-550 are both possible direct fathers, but the current evidence does not distinguish them. Older Adam cannot be placed beneath either without compressing two generations into 1758.

John is the strongest proposed identity match for the John Glasco who headed a household at Inishrush in the 1831 census. Published transcriptions disagree about its denomination, so that field remains unresolved. His family register and 1847 letter connect him personally to Inishrush. A separate Bible records that his grandson John Glasgow McKeown was born at Inishrush in 1821 and baptised by Rev. Joseph Orr, the minister associated with the Drimbolg congregation in which a John Glasgow appears in 1809 and as an elder in 1827. His Bible sons occur as Adam, James and John, matching the traditional Scottish positions for paternal grandfather, maternal grandfather and father; the second daughter Maria occupies the usual paternal-grandmother position. The four surviving household males also reproduce the 1831 total exactly. John's 1847 letter relayed intimate Irish news about a James Glasgow and Henry Barkly's daughter in the same Inishrush-Tyanee network as Adam's proved son James and daughter Nancy. The 1830 Ohio census previously cited for John belongs to a man aged 40-49, whereas this John was 63, and the Bible gives no place for son James's 1823 death. The cumulative case strongly supports the proposed identity, but it does not establish brotherhood with Adam; cousin or another collateral relationship remains possible. Leave the parents blank and any merge proposal pending for review.

• The Public Register, or, Freeman's Journal, 1799-09-24, p.2: no longer a candidate for this profile. Public Register 24 Sep 1799: John Glasco in a continued roster under the heading COUNTY OF LONDONDERRY (list category unresolved). Several Londonderry John Glasgows are compatible. Glasgow-3927, whose 1831 census entry is itself spelled 'John Glasco', is listed first, but all remain possible.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1816-02-28, p.3: no longer a candidate for this profile. 1816 notice: Assistant Surgeon J. Glasco to be surgeon of the 59th Foot vice Hagan. The army medical roll identifies him as John Glasco, the junior of two army surgeons of that name (b. 4 Sept 1783, BA TCD, d. Dinan 1869). He has no WikiTree profile, and the three Ulster namesakes are excluded.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1822-10-02, p.4: no longer a candidate for this profile. 1822 notice: Surgeon John Glasco, from half-pay of the 59th, to be surgeon of the 60th Foot. He is the same man as the 1816 J. Glasco: John Glasco junior (b. 1783, d. Dinan 1869). No WikiTree profile.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1825-06-21, p.3: no longer a candidate for this profile. June 1825 notice: Staff-Surgeon John Glasco to be Deputy Inspector of Hospitals by brevet. This is the senior army surgeon John Glasco (Regimental Mate 1794, Staff Surgeon 1809, d. Lambeth 14 Jan 1834), not the 59th/60th surgeon. No WikiTree profile.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1826-05-16, p.3: no longer a candidate for this profile. 1826 notice: Winterscale to be surgeon of the 60th Foot vice Glasco, promoted (dated 20 April 1826). The promoted man is John Glasco junior, who joined the Hospital Staff on 20 Apr 1826. No WikiTree profile.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1826-08-18, p.1: no longer a candidate for this profile. August 1826 notice: Melville appointed to the Hospital Staff vice John Glasco, sen., who retires on half-pay. This is the senior surgeon John Glasco (Deputy Inspector by brevet 1825, d. Lambeth 1834). 'Sen.' only distinguishes him from the younger John Glasco, who joined the Staff that April. No WikiTree profile, and no kinship is stated.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1836-12-30, p.1: no longer a candidate for this profile. Freeman's Journal, 30 December 1836: Staff-Surgeon John Glasco, lately at Grenada, appointed Surgeon of the Liverpool Recruiting District. He is the army surgeon John Glasco of Drew's Roll (b. 1783, BA TCD, staff surgeon 1826-39, d. Dinan 1869), who has no WikiTree profile; none of the earlier comparison profiles fits.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1838-08-31, p.2: no longer a candidate for this profile. Freeman's Journal, 31 August 1838: 'Staff-Surgeon Glasco, Liverpool' subscribed GBP1 to the Curran Monument. This is the same army surgeon John Glasco (Drew's Roll no. 2845), then Surgeon of the Liverpool Recruiting District; he has no WikiTree profile.
• Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 1838-11-26, p.1: no longer a candidate for this profile. Freeman's Journal, 26-27 November 1838: J. Glasco signed the St Andrew's parish (Dublin) requisition for a Corn Exchange meeting to collect O'Connell's Annuity. Initial only, no occupation or address beyond the parish; not identifiable on WikiTree. The staff surgeon John Glasco was posted at Liverpool at this time and is not indicated.
• The Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal, 1839-09-28, p.4: no longer a candidate for this profile. Drogheda Argus, 28 September 1839: Surgeon A. Sinclair, M.D., from the 25th Foot, appointed to the Hospital Staff vice John Glasco, who retires upon half-pay. Drew's Roll dates this retirement 20 September 1839; the man has no WikiTree profile.

The conditional extension above is unchanged: James Glasgow-1509 as father of Adam, and so possibly of John, is a working hypothesis with no record.

The audit of 6 October 2026 withdrew the earlier routes from Larne to Alexander Glasgow-951 through older Alexander Glasgow-3904 and younger James Glasgow-3986. Alexander's probable father is John Glasgow, farmer, and any Larne connection must join above him. The Inishrush comparison therefore does not by itself connect the Lisnagaver family.

The Inishrush Y-DNA kit has no SNP result and its pedigree is unverified. In the testing recommendation of the same date it is a lower priority for a Big Y upgrade than the two Kilwaughter kits. No relationship is changed. Recommendation.

The most probable reconstruction is now:

Inishrush house 2
Males:   John Glasgow; sons Adam, John and Arthur                 = 4
Females: Mary Arthur; daughters Maria, Lavina and Margaret       = 4

Elsewhere
Rose Glasgow: already married to Alexander McKeown
Jane Glasgow: probably the unnamed wife in John Gray's 1m/1f
              Presbyterian household at Boveedy
James Glasgow: died 20 April 1823

This is not direct proof because the census named only household heads. It is, however, a substantially tighter fit than the earlier unspecified missing-daughter argument: family evidence says Jane married John Gray in Ireland, and the parish return contains a contemporary John Gray household with exactly the required wife. Maria has no matched Alexander Wallace household in the parish, while the only Richard Mulholland household is a three-person Roman Catholic household at Killygullib and is not a credible match to Lavina's later husband.

The Bible revives, but does not prove, this working reconstruction:

Older Adam Glasgow = Maria Unknown
├── Adam Glasgow (about 1758), of Inishrush
└── John Glasgow (1767), probably the 1831 Inishrush householder

This is stronger than simply observing that John used the names Rose and Adam, but it remains circular if used to create the very parents it is meant to test. His sons fall in the order Adam - James - John, matching the traditional Scottish paternal-grandfather, maternal-grandfather, father sequence; his second daughter was Maria, the conventional paternal-grandmother position. Keep the shared parents unnamed structurally until a record supplies them, but preserve older Adam and Maria only as search terms, not attached people.

The 1890 biography of Alexander McKeown cited in the source table (Internet Archive item biographicalhist00lewi_4) is in the Biographical History of Page County, Iowa (Chicago: Lewis & Dunbar, 1890), pp. 669–70, not a Ringgold and Decatur Counties volume; the table entry has been corrected. The same biography adds that Alexander and Rose (Glasgow) McKeown emigrated in 1823, spent their first year in Belmont County, Ohio, and then settled in Harrison County, Ohio, where they entered government land; Alexander died in 1853 and Rose survived until 1886. Read from the item's OCR text; a derivative county biography written while their son was living. It does not name Rose's parents.

Recorded in research/Glasgow-3905/agent_ulster_archives.md (16 July 2026), checked against research/Glasgow-3905/sources/biographicalhist00lewi_4_djvu.txt; carried into this file on 7 October 2026.