Glasgow Surname Project

Individual research record

John Glasgow

1767-04-10 – 1851-12-23

Glasgow-822 · 2 mapped associations

Ireland→Guernsey County, Ohio, United States
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Identity & family

Tree links organise the family; documentary status still varies.

2Mapped records
10Close relations
13Evidence items
10Candidate leads
Birth
1767-04-10 · Ireland
Death
1851-12-23 · Guernsey County, Ohio, United States
Parents
Not recorded
Spouses
Mary (Arthur) Glasgow
Children
Adam GlasgowArthur GlasgowJames GlasgowJane GlasgowJohn GlasgowLavinia GlasgowMargaret (Glasgow) WalkinshawMaria GlasgowRose Ann (Glasgow) McKeown
Gender
Male
WikiTree
Glasgow-822
Research clusters
Descendants of Unknown Glasgow (before 1740)
Mapped descendants
158

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 positionAdam Glasgow (1804)
Maternal grandfather positionJames Glasgow (1808)
Maternal grandmother positionRose Ann (Glasgow) McKeown (1799)
Paternal grandmother positionMaria Glasgow (1800)

Known-position checks: 1 support · 1 conflict. Ordinals retain unnamed children and recognise reused names.

Estimate and relationship notes
  • The export reports 6 children but 9 named child profiles are 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

Possible fathers5 leads

Automated fit72/100
Strong Multi-Factor Lead
Dates1758–1844Generationnominally 9 years; approximate dates permit about 16–19 years age gapRecorded placesCounty Londonderry — exact locality unproved (estimated) · Tamlaght O'Crilly, County Londonderry, Ireland, United Kingdom · County Londonderry — exact locality unprovedIndependent clue breadth · 9Age · Broad Migration · Indirect Multi-Factor Convergence · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Rare Name Bundle · Sex-Aware Ordered Naming · Tradition Validation · Two-Generation · Undated LocalityCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • same specific indexed locality despite wider place-label differences: inishrush (+10)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming
  • the nominal 9-year gap is too small, but the approximate birth date permits a narrow biologically viable interval (16–19 years) (+4)

parentage requires the approximate birth estimate to be early enough (no deduction); no known spouse has a plausible maternal age at the subject's birth (−6; an unknown spouse remains possible)

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  • the nominal 9-year gap is too small, but the approximate birth date permits a narrow biologically viable interval (16–19 years) (+4)
  • candidate's birth is 41 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • same specific indexed locality despite wider place-label differences: inishrush (+10)
  • same research cluster (+0; grouping is not kinship evidence)
  • candidate's name matches the first dated son Adam Glasgow, the expected father position for a male subject (+13; catalogue rarity 5, Adam in 15 profiles)
  • family naming controls: 1 supporting and 1 conflicting known positions (already reflected in naming weight)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Adam +14 (15 public profiles; subject branch: Adam Glasgow, Adam Glasgow; candidate branch: Adam Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus); Rose +14 (9 public profiles; subject branch: Rose May Glasgow, Rose Glasgow; candidate branch: Rose Ann (Glasgow) Redpath; +2 repetition bonus); Jane +5 (71 public profiles; subject branch: Jane Florence Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; candidate branch: Jane Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus) (+41 total including +8 multi-name bonus)
  • descendant branches share only a broad migration destination country (+1; weak alone): united states
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming

Deductions and cautions: parentage requires the approximate birth estimate to be early enough (no deduction); no known spouse has a plausible maternal age at the subject's birth (−6; an unknown spouse remains possible)

Automated fit43/100
Moderate Lead
Dates1722–?Generationat least 45 years age gapRecorded placesTamlaght, County Londonderry, Ireland · Inishrush · Portglenone — regional family-tradition referenceIndependent clue breadth · 5Age · Indirect Multi-Factor Convergence · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Two-Generation · Undated LocalityCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • same specific indexed locality despite wider place-label differences: inishrush (+10)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming
  • candidate's birth is 77 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)

No indexed conflict; documentary proof still required

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  • bounded birth date gives a parent-child age gap of at least 45 years (+10; true age remains uncertain)
  • candidate's birth is 77 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • same specific indexed locality despite wider place-label differences: inishrush (+10)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Adam +14 (15 public profiles; subject branch: Adam Glasgow, Adam Glasgow; candidate branch: Adam Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus) (+14 total)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming

Deductions and cautions: No indexed conflict; documentary proof still required

Show 3 lower-scoring possible fathers
Automated fit39/100
Weak Lead
Dates1751–1852Generation16 years age gapRecorded placesCounty Antrim, Ireland · County Antrim, Ireland, United Kingdom · Carnbuck townland Loughguile parishIndependent clue breadth · 8Age · Broad Migration · Indirect Multi-Factor Convergence · Mapped Proximity · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Rare Name Bundle · Same-Sex Generational Naming · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • possible 16-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming
  • candidate's birth is 48 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)

candidate already has another child named John Glasgow (Glasgow-867) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

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  • possible 16-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 48 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • mapped Glenleslie townland is 20.5 km from the subject's birth-period Inishrush (+1; one or both placements are unproved)
  • candidate and subject share the given name John (+4; weak direct parent-child name recurrence, 278 public profiles)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Adam +16 (15 public profiles; subject branch: Adam Glasgow, Adam Glasgow; candidate branch: Adam Glasgow, Adam Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus); Rose +14 (9 public profiles; subject branch: Rose May Glasgow, Rose Glasgow; candidate branch: Rose Ann Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus); Jane +9 (71 public profiles; subject branch: Jane Florence Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; candidate branch: Jane Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; +6 repetition bonus) (+47 total including +8 multi-name bonus)
  • descendant branches share only a broad migration destination country (+1; weak alone): united states
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming

Deductions and cautions: candidate already has another child named John Glasgow (Glasgow-867) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

Automated fit39/100
Weak Lead
Dates1750–1822Generation17 years age gapRecorded placesMoneymore, County Londonderry, Ireland · Rockbridge, Virginia, United States · MoneymoreIndependent clue breadth · 7Age · Child Naming · Indirect Multi-Factor Convergence · Mapped Proximity · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Rare Name Bundle · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • possible 17-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming
  • candidate's birth is 49 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)

candidate already has another child named John Glasgow (Glasgow-2070) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

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  • possible 17-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 49 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • mapped Moneymore is 22.5 km from the subject's birth-period Inishrush (+1; one or both placements are unproved)
  • candidate's given name recurs among another recorded child (+5; Arthur occurs in 11 public profiles)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Arthur +14 (11 public profiles; subject branch: Arthur Glasgow, Arthur Neal Glasgow; candidate branch: Arthur Graham Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus); Nancy +7 (49 public profiles; subject branch: Nancy Glasgow; candidate branch: Nancy Jane (Campbell) Glasgow, Nancy Mary Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus) (+25 total including +4 multi-name bonus)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming

Deductions and cautions: candidate already has another child named John Glasgow (Glasgow-2070) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

Automated fit39/100
Weak Lead
Dates1749–1839Generation18 years age gapRecorded placesMoneymore, County Londonderry, Ireland · Georges Creek, Adams County, Ohio, United States · MoneymoreIndependent clue breadth · 7Age · Indirect Multi-Factor Convergence · Mapped Proximity · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Rare Name Bundle · Spouse · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • possible 18-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming
  • candidate's birth is 50 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)

candidate already has another child named John M Glasgow (Glasgow-1965) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

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  • possible 18-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 50 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • mapped Moneymore is 22.5 km from the subject's birth-period Inishrush (+1; one or both placements are unproved)
  • known spouse Peggy (Wright) Glasgow had a bounded, possibly plausible maternal age (19) at the subject's birth (+3)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Arthur +14 (11 public profiles; subject branch: Arthur Glasgow, Arthur Neal Glasgow; candidate branch: Arthur Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus); Rose +14 (9 public profiles; subject branch: Rose May Glasgow, Rose Glasgow; candidate branch: Rose Imer Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus); Jane +7 (71 public profiles; subject branch: Jane Florence Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; candidate branch: Jane Glasgow, Jane (Glasgow) Patton; +4 repetition bonus) (+43 total including +8 multi-name bonus)
  • 3 independent unlinked-profile clue types converge (+5): household chronology, locality, naming

Deductions and cautions: candidate already has another child named John M Glasgow (Glasgow-1965) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

Possible mothers5 leads

Automated fit39/100
Weak Lead
Dates1725–?Generation42 years age gapRecorded placesCounty Londonderry, Ireland · County Londonderry — exact locality unprovedIndependent clue breadth · 5Age · Broad Migration · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Rare Name Bundle · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • possible 42-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 74 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Arthur +16 (11 public profiles; subject branch: Arthur Glasgow, Arthur Neal Glasgow; candidate branch: Arthur Glasgow, Arthur Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus); Nancy +7 (49 public profiles; subject branch: Nancy Glasgow; candidate branch: Nancy Jane (Campbell) Glasgow, Nancy Crockett (Glasgow) Black; +4 repetition bonus); Jane +5 (71 public profiles; subject branch: Jane Florence Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; candidate branch: Jane (Glasgow) Patton; +2 repetition bonus) (+36 total including +8 multi-name bonus)

same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

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  • possible 42-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 74 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Arthur +16 (11 public profiles; subject branch: Arthur Glasgow, Arthur Neal Glasgow; candidate branch: Arthur Glasgow, Arthur Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus); Nancy +7 (49 public profiles; subject branch: Nancy Glasgow; candidate branch: Nancy Jane (Campbell) Glasgow, Nancy Crockett (Glasgow) Black; +4 repetition bonus); Jane +5 (71 public profiles; subject branch: Jane Florence Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; candidate branch: Jane (Glasgow) Patton; +2 repetition bonus) (+36 total including +8 multi-name bonus)
  • descendant branches share only a broad migration destination country (+1; weak alone): united states

Deductions and cautions: same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10); descendant-name recurrence has no independent household, record, migration or specific-locality anchor (score capped at 39)

Automated fit28/100
Weak Lead
Dates1736–?Generation31 years age gapRecorded placesCounty Antrim, Ireland · New Town — LarneIndependent clue breadth · 3Age · Collateral Naming · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • plausible 31-year parent-child age gap (+18)
  • candidate's birth is 63 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • candidate's sibling and niece/nephew network repeats names in the subject's descendant line (three rarest at most): Rose +16 (9 public profiles; sibling Rose Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus) (+16 total)

same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10)

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  • plausible 31-year parent-child age gap (+18)
  • candidate's birth is 63 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • candidate's sibling and niece/nephew network repeats names in the subject's descendant line (three rarest at most): Rose +16 (9 public profiles; sibling Rose Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus) (+16 total)

Deductions and cautions: same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10)

Show 3 lower-scoring possible mothers
Automated fit22/100
Weak Lead
Dates1757–1840Generationnominally 10 years; approximate dates permit about 15–20 years age gapRecorded placesIreland · Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States · County Antrim — exact locality unprovedIndependent clue breadth · 6Age · Broad Geography · Broad Migration · Rare Branch-Name Recurrence · Rare Name Bundle · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • the nominal 10-year gap is too small, but the approximate birth date permits a narrow biologically viable interval (15–20 years) (+4)
  • candidate's birth is 42 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • same broad administrative area only (+1; not a locality match)

parentage requires the approximate birth estimate to be early enough (no deduction); candidate already has another child named John Glasgow (Glasgow-209) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict)

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  • the nominal 10-year gap is too small, but the approximate birth date permits a narrow biologically viable interval (15–20 years) (+4)
  • candidate's birth is 42 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • same broad administrative area only (+1; not a locality match)
  • uncommon given names recur in both otherwise distinct descendant branches: Nancy +7 (49 public profiles; subject branch: Nancy Glasgow; candidate branch: Nancy (Glasgow) Donald, Nancy Glasgow; +4 repetition bonus); Jane +5 (71 public profiles; subject branch: Jane Florence Glasgow, Jane Glasgow; candidate branch: Jane Glasgow; +2 repetition bonus) (+16 total including +4 multi-name bonus)
  • descendant branches share only a broad migration destination country (+1; weak alone): united states

Deductions and cautions: parentage requires the approximate birth estimate to be early enough (no deduction); candidate already has another child named John Glasgow (Glasgow-209) without a documented death permitting name reuse (−4; check whether the child profiles duplicate or conflict)

Automated fit17/100
Weak Lead
Dates1735–?Generation32 years age gapRecorded placesCounty Antrim, Ireland · New Town — LarneIndependent clue breadth · 3Age · Child Naming · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • plausible 32-year parent-child age gap (+18)
  • candidate's birth is 64 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • candidate's given name recurs among another recorded child (+5; Rose occurs in 9 public profiles)

same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10)

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  • plausible 32-year parent-child age gap (+18)
  • candidate's birth is 64 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • candidate's given name recurs among another recorded child (+5; Rose occurs in 9 public profiles)

Deductions and cautions: same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10)

Automated fit8/100
Weak Lead
Dates1750–?Generation17 years age gapRecorded placesCounty Antrim — exact locality unprovedIndependent clue breadth · 4Age · Child Naming · Household · Two-GenerationCurrent relationshipNot currently linked as parent
Strongest signals
  • possible 17-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 49 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • a known child was born within 1 years of the subject (+3)

same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10)

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  • possible 17-year parent-child age gap (+10)
  • candidate's birth is 49 years before the subject's earliest dated child (1799), a compatible grandparent-generation interval (+4)
  • a known child was born within 1 years of the subject (+3)
  • candidate's given name recurs among another recorded child (+1; Jane occurs in 71 public profiles)

Deductions and cautions: same country, but no indexed locality overlap (−10)

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.

No sufficiently similar same-name person is currently indexed.

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.

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Research & records

Latest case researchThe current conclusion from the durable research case file.Updated

Current conclusion and tree action

Glasgow-822 · updated 2026-08-09

John Glasgow (Glasgow-822), born 10 April 1767, is the strongest identity candidate for the John Glasco who headed Inishrush house 2 in 1831. Because the existing profile belongs to a separately maintained identity, create the 1831 householder as a new record-defined profile and submit a merge proposal. Leave the proposal pending until both identities 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.

Life and record timelineChronological mapped occurrences and their underlying sources.2 records
10 Apr 1767

Birth entered in family Bible

Inishrush

The Bible supplies the exact date but no birthplace or parents; the point represents his strongly supported Inishrush family context.

Primary family recordderivative
Source and mapping detail

The family lived at Inishrush, County Londonderry. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland. The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB).

Candidate matched on record type, place; inspect before treating it as the underlying record.

Precision: Contextual family location; birthplace unproved

1809

Attended Reformed Presbyterian session

Drumlamph townland

Strong locality and denomination fit for John born 1767.

Probablederivative
Source and mapping detail

The family lived at Inishrush, County Londonderry. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland. The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB).

Candidate matched on record type, year; inspect before treating it as the underlying record.

Precision: Townland centrepoint

Case-file source findingsSource extracts and analysis regenerated from findings.md.1 section(s)

Source findings

Glasgow-822 · updated 2026-08-09

SourceFindingEvidence effect
John and Mary Glasgow family Bible, images saved as page 1 and page 2Records John's birth on 10 April 1767, Mary's birth on 25 March 1774, their marriage on 21 May 1798, nine children, and son James's death on 20 April 1823. The death entry gives no place.Primary family evidence. It disproves the derivative claim that the Bible places the family in Ohio in 1823.
Same Bible child order, compared with Scotland's People guidance on traditional forenamesThe Bible explicitly calls Rose the first daughter. The sons occur as Adam (first), James (second), John (third), and Arthur (fourth); the first three positions correspond to the traditional Scottish sequence paternal grandfather, maternal grandfather, then father. The daughters begin Rose, Maria, Jane; under the same convention Maria in second position would represent the paternal grandmother.Strong onomastic evidence that John's father may have been an older Adam and his mother Maria. The exact third-son match to father John shows the sequence is not merely a list of overlapping common names. Naming custom is not proof and the third daughter Jane does not match mother Mary.
John Glasgow family page and registerPlaces eldest daughter Rose's 1799 birth at Inishrush and transcribes the nuclear family.Derivative but specific evidence that this family was established at Inishrush by 1799.
John Glasgow McKeown family-Bible transcription and Drimbolg church historyA second family Bible records that John's grandson John Glasgow McKeown was born at Innicruch/Inishrush on 17 April 1821 and baptised by Rev. Joseph Orr. Orr served the Drimbolg Reformed Presbyterian congregation, whose history records a John Glasgow in 1809 and as an elder in 1827.Independent descendant evidence joining this family to Inishrush and the same ministerial network. This substantially strengthens Glasgow-822 = Glasgow-3927, but does not name Adam or state kinship.
Physical/source-date audit of the John and Mary BibleThe volume was printed in 1797, but the family entries include deaths extending to 1859 and 1886 and contain later hands. The marriage entry supplies a date but no place, witnesses or parents.Treat it as a family register containing strong dates, not as a contemporaneous 1798 marriage certificate or proof of parentage.
1796 County Londonderry flax-premium listThe county's only Glasgow entry is John Glasgow of Desertoghill, awarded two spinning wheels. John-822 was 29, unmarried, and still in Ireland.A plausible earlier record of John, but the parish differs from Inishrush and the list gives no age, family or later residence. Identity is unproved.
1799 County Londonderry pro-Union declarationGlasco, Adam appears after the transcript's +Cloughole heading and before +Moyagol; John does not appear. Cloughole is in Faughanvale parish.Excludes this entry as evidence for Adam-3902 of Inishrush or for his relationship to John.
QUB thesis, Appendix 10A remembered 1801 joint lease of part of Inishrush names Hills, Hastings, Neills and Brattans, not Glasgow.Negative only for the named head lessees of that part-townland lease. Either Glasgow could still have been an undertenant or occupied another portion.
Virtual Record Treasury exact-search auditExact searches for Adam Glasco, Adam Glasgow, John Glasco and Inishrush produced only the known 1831 census copies, no Adam Glasgow hit, an unrelated 1766 Derryloran John, and non-relational Inishrush material. Raw responses are preserved under research/Glasgow-3927/sources/.No direct kinship evidence exists in the currently indexed Treasury corpus. This does not cover undigitised PRONI, estate or church records.
Hiltner/McKeown source catalogue S17The database cites Robert Glasgow's Descendants of John Glasgow.pdf 2018 and Glasgow Register Report.doc for John and his descendants, but the underlying files are not attached to John's public media and were not present in the archived-PDF inventory.A concrete missing family compilation, not evidence for parents until its contents and citations are recovered. Saved catalogue page under the Glasgow-3905 source set.
John Glasgow letter, 20 March 1847John recalled family beekeeping at Inishrush. The transcript separates three items: a letter from Adam dated 27 December 1846; R. Mulhollan's report about western Canada and the potato rot; and McCaivey's transatlantic news that James Glasgow reportedly had a child by a servant who was a daughter of Henry Barkly.Direct Inishrush association plus evidence that John remained in the intimate news network of a local James Glasgow. Adam's gravestone-proved son James, a farmer who remained at Inishrush, is the strongest candidate, but the letter supplies no kin term and does not identify him. The earlier attribution of the James/Barkly report to Mulhollan is withdrawn.
Henry Barkly's 1831 Tyanee household, Jane Barklie's 1828 marriage, and Nancy Glasgow's 1842 marriageHenry Barkly headed a seven-person Presbyterian household at adjoining Tyanee; the marriage register identifies wife Jane Galloway and one daughter. Adam's sixth daughter Nancy also married into Tyanee.Triangulates the people and locality in John's 1847 news with Adam's proved family network. It strengthens close association but does not make the reported James identification certain.
6 April 1772 Tamlaght O'Crilly declarationHugh Glasgow, Thos. Mulhollan and James Berkley appear in the same Inishrush-area arms-surrender subscriber list.Provides an older local Glasgow–Mulhollan–Berkley community link relevant to names in John's 1847 letter. It supports a possible information network, not a family relationship or identification of R. Mulhollan.
Original 1830 Richland Township census pageThe Ohio household's John was aged 40-49. John born in 1767 was 63.Excludes the household head from being John-822, but does not invalidate the 1767 birth. Audit the WikiTree source attachment: it may have been attached because a son or other household member was present. Detach it from John only if directly attached to him; preserve it on any correctly identified person.
Guernsey County, Ohio, Deed Book H, p. 457A deed recorded in 1833 is the earliest Ohio record located in this review for John.Corrects the migration chronology but names no Irish parent or sibling in the information inspected so far. Obtain a full abstract.
Drimbolg Reformed Presbyterian Church historyA John Glasgow attended a session at Drumlamph in 1809 and was an elder present on 19 July 1827.Exact denomination, locality and age fit for Glasgow-822, who was 42 and 60. Strong identity support, though the church account states no birth date.
W. Melancthon Glasgow, *History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America* (1888), Londonderry congregationThe Guernsey County congregation was organised about 1822; its account names Glasgow among the old and prominent families, with William Sloane pastor from 1829 to 1838 and James Love from 1839 to 1864.Independently places a Glasgow household in John's exact Ohio denomination and settlement. The printed account gives no forename or Irish relationship; the congregation's underlying admissions/session records are now a specific proof target.
Dr James H. Sterrett, “Western Pennsylvania Obituaries in *The Reformed Presbyterian*, 1837-1862” and original volume 15The abstract contains no John Glasgow and passes from November 1851 to January 1852. John's 23 December 1851 death belongs in volume 15 (March 1851-February 1852). A Google Books copy has now been identified as 1Hs0AQAAMAAJ, but its search-within-volume results and relevant pages could not be retrieved in this session.Bounded negative only for the abstract. The original volume is precisely identified but remains unsearched; no parent or sibling statement can yet be claimed.
Guernsey County will index, 1967 typed *Wills Index of Guernsey County, Ohio, 1812-1900*, and Guernsey County Genealogical Society probate holdingsNeither public will index contains a Glasgow testator. The society separately holds a probate case-file index covering the mid-1840s onward, but its entries are not public.No recorded will has been found. An intestate administration remains possible, so no probate-based negative about John's heirs or relatives is justified until the case-file index is checked.
First Kilrea Presbyterian marriage register, 6 October 1825Mary Patton of Tyanee, daughter of John Patton and Margaret Glasgow, married Wilson Gordon.Establishes another Glasgow woman in the immediate Portglenone–Tyanee network. Because Margaret already had a marriageable daughter in 1825, she belongs more naturally to Adam and John's generation and is a candidate sister or cousin, not a safely inferred daughter of Adam. The entry states no relationship to either man.
Tamlaght O'Crilly 1831 census, entry 1019John Glasco headed Inishrush house 2 with four males and four females, all Presbyterian. Adam Glasco separately headed house 91 with three males and five females, all Presbyterian.Strong locality and religious match. It proves two separate same-generation Glasgow households but does not state kinship.
Bible child sequence compared with the 1831 returnAfter married daughter Rose and deceased son James are removed, the four expected males are exactly John, sons Adam, John and Arthur. Mary plus daughters Maria, Jane, Lavina and Margaret gives five possible females, so the census total of four requires only one adult daughter to be elsewhere.Near-exact household reconstruction and strong identity support. The new Gray evidence below makes Jane the leading candidate for the absent female.
Complete Tamlaght O'Crilly 1831 census transcriptionJohn Gray headed Boveedy house 79 with exactly one male and one female, both Presbyterian. John Glasgow's daughter Jane was then 28; her known husband John Gray, born 25 December 1798, was 32.Strong contemporary household match for Jane and John as a married, childless couple living outside her parents' home. The return does not name the woman, so identity remains probable rather than proved.
1833 Tamlaght O'Crilly Tithe Applotment transcriptionJno. Gray was still a landholder at Boveady in 1833; Samuel Gray was separately recorded there.Corroborates continuity of the 1831 Boveedy John Gray household immediately before Jane and her husband appear in descendant accounts as emigrants to Kentucky. It does not name John's wife.
Jane Glasgow descendant page, John Gray descendant page, Glasgow-822 biography, and original family grave photographThe compiled family source identifies Jane's husband as John Gray, born 25 December 1798 in Ireland, and the WikiTree biography reports that they married in Ireland before going to Kentucky. Their adjacent inscribed stones corroborate the later burial grouping of Jane Glasgow (1802-1893) and John Gray (1798-1886).The Ireland-marriage statement is a descendant report, not a located marriage entry. Combined with the exact 1831 Boveedy household it makes Jane the best explanation for the missing female.
PRONI church-record inventory and RootsIreland Tamlaght O'Crilly coverageBoveedy Presbyterian marriages survive only from 1842.Explains why no local marriage entry can presently confirm an expected marriage before 1831; absence from the surviving register is not negative evidence.
Ordnance Survey Memoir emigrants, 1834-1835The extracted Tamlaght O'Crilly list names no Gray, Glasgow, Wallace or relevant Mulholland family.No support for a 1834-35 departure; the couple may have left before or after the covered window. This does not identify the 1831 wife.
Descendant naming in the Hiltner family pagesJohn's son Arthur named his first son Adam; daughter Rose had sons John Glasgow McKeown and Arthur Glasgow McKeown and later used Adam twice; son Adam also named a son Adam.Shows that Adam was a persistent identity-bearing name in John's Glasgow line rather than a single isolated choice. These are derivative descendant records and cannot identify the original namesake.
Arthur Glasgow, son of John and Mary, Mary Arthur, Arthur Glasgow-649, and Faris's WorldCat summaryArthur was John's fourth son and later gave his first two sons the recurring names Adam and James. Other descendants used Arthur Glasgow as a compound name. John's wife was Mary Arthur. Faris calls emigrant Robert a son of James of Moneymore; later accounts make Robert, Joseph and Arthur brothers.This opens a coherent but low-confidence model in which older Adam was another son of James and brother of Arthur-649, so John's Adam-James-John-Arthur sequence preserved father, grandfather, self and uncle. Mary Arthur independently explains Arthur, and no record names older Adam in the emigrant family.
Arthur Glasgow's 1901 obituary transcriptReports only his death near Londonderry, funeral and advanced age; it names no Irish relative or origin.Negative result: the obituary does not connect the family to Arthur Glasgow-649 or identify John-822's parents.
Migration chronology from descendant pages and later U.S. recordsThe false 1830 Ohio census is removed. John's adult children begin appearing in Ohio by the mid-1830s, and John is there by 1840; an 1831 Irish household followed by emigration in the early 1830s is chronologically coherent.The corrected chronology supports rather than contradicts the proposed 1831 identity. Individual immigration dates remain derivative unless supported by passenger or naturalisation records.
Alexander Wallace and Maria Glasgow family pageJohn's daughter Maria later had children at Rasharkin in 1840 and 1842. No Alexander Wallace household occurs in the complete 1831 Tamlaght O'Crilly return.Establishes later movement within the wider Bann Valley network, but supplies no evidence that Maria had married or left home by 1831.
W. M. Glasgow family manuscript, saved as PDFThe manuscript explicitly traces William Glasgow to son John, grandson Hugh (born about 1706), and Hugh's sons John, Robert and Hugh. It then traces only the youngest Hugh's children and says that family emigrated together in 1796, leaving many kin behind. It never names Adam of Inishrush or John born 1767.Defines the claimed Hugh-548 line but supplies no direct bridge to either target. The omitted “kin” cannot be converted into named children or nephews.
J. L. Lewis, *Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa* (1890), biography of Alexander McKeownA published descendant biography identifies Alexander McKeown as a son of Alexander and Rose Glasgow McKeown, both natives of County Antrim, and names their children Henry, John, James, Adam, Mary J., Alexander, Arthur G., Levina, Rose A., Glasgow and William.Independent nineteenth-century support for Rose's Irish identity and the persistent Adam/Arthur/James/Glasgow naming set in John-822's descendants. It does not name Rose's grandparents or relate her father John to Adam or Hugh.
Registry of Deeds Index Project, surname and variant search, 1700-1850The current volunteer index returns seventeen Glasgow transactions, including Kilwaughter, Larne, Cookstown and Cavankilgreen entries, but no deed naming Adam or John of Inishrush and no Glasgow transaction located at Inishrush. The indexed 1734 Inishrush leases name other head tenants.Bounded negative result only: no already-indexed memorial proves the relationship. Unindexed memorial text remains a live route through the FamilySearch full-text collection.
Public-media and web-archive audit of Hiltner source S17The cited 2018 Descendants of John Glasgow.pdf / Glasgow Register Report.doc is not exposed as media on John or his children, has no source-page attachment, and was not found in the Internet Archive CDX inventory of the Hiltner document/PDF paths.Prevents treating the title as evidence. Its contents remain unknown and cannot support a parent or sibling until the actual file is recovered.
FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow project metadata and Legacy Tree project reviewKit N18544, attributed to John born 1767, belongs to the broad U106/FT25406 Glasgow group. Public comparison data do not identify a tested, documented strict male-line descendant of Adam or Hugh-540; an older claim about a “Melanchthon branch” cannot be reproduced from current public metadata.Confirms wider shared Glasgow paternal ancestry but does not prove a recent Adam-John or Hugh-John relationship.
Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.13 claims
7Derivative
5Tree Only
1Original

Documented or strongly supported

John Glasgow was probable same man as John Glasgow and Mary Arthur

strongly_supported1 linked evidence item

Bible composition reproduces the 1831 household when Jane is placed with John Gray; the 1847 letter directly recalls Inishrush; a separate McKeown Bible records John-822's grandson born at Inishrush in 1821 and baptised by Rev. Joseph Orr, whose Drimbolg congregation recorded local John in 1809 and 1827. No single record carries the exact birth date into the 1831 return.

Working hypotheses and conflicts

John Glasgow was recorded in Drumlamph townland (1809).

probable1 linked evidence item

Attended Reformed Presbyterian session

Case-file assessments

Relationship assessment

Glasgow-822 · updated 2026-08-09

Direct-proof result

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.

Placement relative to AdamAssessmentReason
SonContradictedAdam was about nine when John was born.
BrotherPlausible, but insufficient for attachmentOnly nine years apart; separate Presbyterian households in the same townland; John fits the Drimbolg elder; patterned naming and the 1847 news support association. No record names a shared parent or uses a kin term.
CousinPlausible alternativeThe records never expressly name a shared parent.
Unrelated namesakePossible but weakerRequires two contemporary Covenanter John Glasgows associated with the same Inishrush/Drimbolg setting after the false Ohio evidence is removed.

Relationship to Hugh Glasgow-548

Glasgow-822 · updated 2026-08-09

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.

Paste-ready relationship note

Glasgow-822 · updated 2026-08-09

John is the strongest proposed identity match for the John Glasco who headed a Presbyterian household at Inishrush in the 1831 census. 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.
Research questionsOpen problems, missing bridges and the next records to inspect.4 open

Which records prove the subject's identity across events?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: Not specified

Which original or indexed records identify the parents?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: A contemporary record explicitly identifying the parent or parents.

Which spouses and children are directly supported by records?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: Not specified

What conflicts or same-name conflations must be resolved?

No current conclusion recorded.

Missing bridge: Not specified

Sources and provenanceStructured citations and source-quality classifications.11 sources

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

  1. tree_only John Glasgow family register and descendant page (https://hiltner.com/mckeown/getperson.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1) (accessed 20 July 2026).
  2. derivative John Glasgow to Jane Glasgow Gray, 20 March 1847 (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/documents/John%20Glasgow%20letter%20to%20Jane%20Glasgow%20Gray%203-20-1847.pdf), scan and transcript (accessed 20 July 2026).
  3. derivative The family lived at Inishrush, County Londonderry. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland. The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB).
  4. derivative “United States Census, 1840,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRF-1B6 : 8 September 2017), John Glascow, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing p. 355, NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 396; FHL microfilm 20,165.
  5. derivative They were living in Arthur's household in Londonderry Township in 1850. “United States Census, 1850,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3M-HP3 : 12 April 2016), John Glasgow in household of Arthur Glasgow, Londonderry, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing family 1538, NARA microfilm publication M432.
  6. derivative “Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch ( : 13 December 2015), John Glasgow, died 1851; burial in Scotch Covenanter Cemetery, Guernsey County, Ohio; citing
  7. derivative “Tamlaght O'Crilly Census – 1831” (), entry 1019, John Glasco, Innisrush house 2; transcription by Richard John Torrens (accessed 20 July 2026
  8. original 1830 United States census, Richland Township, Ohio (), original census image (accessed 20 July 2026
  9. tree_only Family of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/familychart.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1), Hiltner.com.
  10. tree_only Glasgow Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about).
  11. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-822
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-822 was captured 2026-08-18T15:04:41+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2026-08-05.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birth—IrelandWikiTree profile field
death—Guernsey County, Ohio, United States of AmericaWikiTree profile field
marriage1798-05-21IrelandWikiTree relationship field

Immediate relationship snapshot

RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ChildrenRose Ann McKeownGlasgow-8211799-03-04 · Ireland · 1886-04-00 · Guernsey County, Ohio, United States of America
ChildrenMaria GlasgowGlasgow-39281800-09-22 · Ireland · 0000-00-00
ChildrenJane GlasgowGlasgow-39291802-10-05 · Ireland · 0000-00-00
ChildrenAdam GlasgowGlasgow-33731804-07-07 · 0000-00-00
ChildrenLavinia GlasgowGlasgow-39301806-06-21 · 0000-00-00
ChildrenJames GlasgowGlasgow-11651808-11-09 · Ireland · 1836-08-17
ChildrenMargaret WalkinshawGlasgow-431810-10-23 · Ireland · 1860-11-12 · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
ChildrenJohn GlasgowGlasgow-16171813-03-04 · County Londonderry, Ireland · 1836-08-17 · Ohio, United States
ChildrenArthur GlasgowGlasgow-16081815-07-01 · Ireland · 1901-06-16 · Londonderry, Guernsey County, Ohio
SpousesMary GlasgowArthur-24801774-03-25 · Ireland · 1859-05-17 · Londonderry, Guernsey, Ohio, United States · 1798-05-21

Record-bearing passages

  • Biography John Glasgow was born in Ireland on 10 April 1767. John Glasgow family register and descendant page (https://hiltner.com/mckeown/getperson.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1) (accessed 20 July 2026). John Glasgow to Jane Glasgow Gray, 20 March 1847 (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/documents/John%20Glasgow%20letter%20to%20Jane%20Glasgow%20Gray%203-20-1847.pdf), scan and transcript (accessed 20 July 2026). He married Mary Arthur on 21 May 1798, and their nine children were born in Ireland between 1799 and 1815.
  • The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB). He was recorded there in 1840. “United States Census, 1840,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRF-1B6 : 8 September 2017), John Glascow, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing p. 355, NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 396; FHL microfilm 20,165. By 1847, John and Mary were being cared for by their son Arthur, who left “nothing undone” to make them comfortable. They were living in Arthur's household in Londonderry Township in 1850. “United States Census, 1850,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3M-HP3 : 12 April 2016), John Glasgow in household of Arthur Glasgow, Londonderry, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing family 1538, NARA microfilm publication M432.
  • The Glasgows were a strict Covenanter family; family tradition states that even whistling on the Sabbath was forbidden. John's surviving letter reflects this outlook through repeated references to prayer, salvation and holding to Christ “for righteousness and life.”
  • John died on 23 December 1851 and was buried in the Scotch Covenanter Cemetery in Guernsey County. “Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKX-FB2D : 13 December 2015), John Glasgow, died 1851; burial in Scotch Covenanter Cemetery, Guernsey County, Ohio; citing . Children The Glasgow family register records nine children:

  • Rose or “Rosanna”, born 4 March 1799; married Alexander McKeown in Ireland and settled in Harrison County, Ohio.

    • Maria , born 22 September 1800.
    • Jane, born 5 October 1802; married John Gray in Ireland and settled in Kentucky. John's 1847 letter was apparently addressed to her.
    • Adam, born 7 July 1804.
    • Lavinia, born 21 June 1806.
    • James, born 9 November 1808; died 20 April 1823.
    • Margaret, born 17 October 1810; married John H. Walkinshaw.
    • John, born 4 March 1813; died 17 August 1836 in Ohio.
    • Arthur, born 1 July 1815; married Jane Neil. Research Notes
    • John Glasgow (bef.1813-) represents the John Glasco who headed house 2 at Inishrush in the 1831 census. His household contained four males and four females, all Presbyterian. “Tamlaght O'Crilly Census – 1831” (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/Tamlaght/1831census_3.html), entry 1019, John Glasco, Innisrush house 2; transcription by Richard John Torrens (accessed 20 July 2026). The location, religion and household composition are compatible with this family, but the census gives no ages, names or relationships. If they were the same man, John emigrated between the 1831 census and his 1833 Ohio land purchase.
    • The John Glasgow recorded in Richland Township, Belmont County, in 1830 was aged forty to forty-nine and was almost certainly a different man. John, born in 1767, would have been about sixty-three. The citation is retained to document the rejected identification, but should not be used as evidence that he was in Ohio by 1830. 1830 United States census, Richland Township, Ohio (https://archive.org/details/populationsc18300127unit/page/n484/mode/1up), original census image (accessed 20 July 2026).
    • John may have descended from Adam Glasgow (bef.1706-), associated with Kilbirnie and the Presbytery of Irvine. This remains unproved. Sources
    • Family of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/familychart.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1), Hiltner.com.
    • Glasgow Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about).

Profile source citations

  1. John Glasgow family register and descendant page (https://hiltner.com/mckeown/getperson.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1) (accessed 20 July 2026). source link 1
  2. John Glasgow to Jane Glasgow Gray, 20 March 1847 (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/documents/John%20Glasgow%20letter%20to%20Jane%20Glasgow%20Gray%203-20-1847.pdf), scan and transcript (accessed 20 July 2026). source link 1
  3. The family lived at Inishrush, County Londonderry. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland. The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB). source link 1
  4. “United States Census, 1840,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRF-1B6 : 8 September 2017), John Glascow, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing p. 355, NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 396; FHL microfilm 20,165. source link 1
  5. They were living in Arthur's household in Londonderry Township in 1850. “United States Census, 1850,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3M-HP3 : 12 April 2016), John Glasgow in household of Arthur Glasgow, Londonderry, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing family 1538, NARA microfilm publication M432. source link 1
  6. John's surviving letter reflects this outlook through repeated references to prayer, salvation and holding to Christ “for righteousness and life.” John died on 23 December 1851 and was buried in the Scotch Covenanter Cemetery in Guernsey County. “Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKX-FB2D : 13 December 2015), John Glasgow, died 1851; burial in Scotch Covenanter Cemetery, Guernsey County, Ohio; citing . source link 1
  7. * Rose or “Rosanna”, born 4 March 1799; married Alexander McKeown in Ireland and settled in Harrison County, Ohio. * Maria , born 22 September 1800. * Jane, born 5 October 1802; married John Gray in Ireland and settled in Kentucky. John's 1847 letter was apparently addressed to her. * Adam, born 7 July 1804. * Lavinia, born 21 June 1806. * James, born 9 November 1808; died 20 April 1823. * Margaret, born 17 October 1810; married John H. Walkinshaw. * John, born 4 March 1813; died 17 August 1836 in Ohio. * Arthur, born 1 July 1815; married Jane Neil. Research Notes * John Glasgow (bef.1813-) represents the John Glasco who headed house 2 at Inishrush in the 1831 census. His household contained four males and four females, all Presbyterian. “Tamlaght O'Crilly Census – 1831” (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/Tamlaght/1831census_3.html), entry 1019, John Glasco, Innisrush house 2; transcription by Richard John Torrens (accessed 20 July 2026). source link 1
  8. * The John Glasgow recorded in Richland Township, Belmont County, in 1830 was aged forty to forty-nine and was almost certainly a different man. John, born in 1767, would have been about sixty-three. The citation is retained to document the rejected identification, but should not be used as evidence that he was in Ohio by 1830. 1830 United States census, Richland Township, Ohio (https://archive.org/details/populationsc18300127unit/page/n484/mode/1up), original census image (accessed 20 July 2026). source link 1
  9. Family of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/familychart.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1), Hiltner.com. source link 1
  10. Glasgow Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about). source link 1
Full captured biography text
Biography
John Glasgow was born in Ireland on 10 April 1767. John Glasgow family register and descendant page (https://hiltner.com/mckeown/getperson.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1) (accessed 20 July 2026). John Glasgow to Jane Glasgow Gray, 20 March 1847 (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/documents/John%20Glasgow%20letter%20to%20Jane%20Glasgow%20Gray%203-20-1847.pdf), scan and transcript (accessed 20 July 2026). He married Mary Arthur on 21 May 1798, and their nine children were born in Ireland between 1799 and 1815. 

The family lived at Inishrush, County Londonderry. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland. 

The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB). He was recorded there in 1840. “United States Census, 1840,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRF-1B6 : 8 September 2017), John Glascow, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing p. 355, NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 396; FHL microfilm 20,165. By 1847, John and Mary were being cared for by their son Arthur, who left “nothing undone” to make them comfortable. They were living in Arthur's household in Londonderry Township in 1850. “United States Census, 1850,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3M-HP3 : 12 April 2016), John Glasgow in household of Arthur Glasgow, Londonderry, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing family 1538, NARA microfilm publication M432. 

The Glasgows were a strict Covenanter family; family tradition states that even whistling on the Sabbath was forbidden. John's surviving letter reflects this outlook through repeated references to prayer, salvation and holding to Christ “for righteousness and life.” 

John died on 23 December 1851 and was buried in the Scotch Covenanter Cemetery in Guernsey County. “Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKX-FB2D : 13 December 2015), John Glasgow, died 1851; burial in Scotch Covenanter Cemetery, Guernsey County, Ohio; citing . 
Children
The Glasgow family register records nine children: 

* Rose or “Rosanna”, born 4 March 1799; married Alexander McKeown in Ireland and settled in Harrison County, Ohio.
* Maria , born 22 September 1800.
* Jane, born 5 October 1802; married John Gray in Ireland and settled in Kentucky. John's 1847 letter was apparently addressed to her. 
* Adam, born 7 July 1804.
* Lavinia, born 21 June 1806.
* James, born 9 November 1808; died 20 April 1823.
* Margaret, born 17 October 1810; married John H. Walkinshaw.
* John, born 4 March 1813; died 17 August 1836 in Ohio.
* Arthur, born 1 July 1815; married Jane Neil.
Research Notes
* John Glasgow (bef.1813-) represents the John Glasco who headed house 2 at Inishrush in the 1831 census. His household contained four males and four females, all Presbyterian. “Tamlaght O'Crilly Census – 1831” (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/Tamlaght/1831census_3.html), entry 1019, John Glasco, Innisrush house 2; transcription by Richard John Torrens (accessed 20 July 2026). The location, religion and household composition are compatible with this family, but the census gives no ages, names or relationships. If they were the same man, John emigrated between the 1831 census and his 1833 Ohio land purchase. 
* The John Glasgow recorded in Richland Township, Belmont County, in 1830 was aged forty to forty-nine and was almost certainly a different man. John, born in 1767, would have been about sixty-three. The citation is retained to document the rejected identification, but should not be used as evidence that he was in Ohio by 1830. 1830 United States census, Richland Township, Ohio (https://archive.org/details/populationsc18300127unit/page/n484/mode/1up), original census image (accessed 20 July 2026). 
* John may have descended from Adam Glasgow (bef.1706-), associated with Kilbirnie and the Presbytery of Irvine. This remains unproved.
Sources
* Family of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur (https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/familychart.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1), Hiltner.com.
* Glasgow Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about).
Raw WikiTree biography markup
== Biography ==

John Glasgow was born in Ireland on 10 April 1767.<ref name="JohnRegister">[https://hiltner.com/mckeown/getperson.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1 John Glasgow family register and descendant page] (accessed 20 July 2026).</ref><ref name="JohnLetter">[https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/documents/John%20Glasgow%20letter%20to%20Jane%20Glasgow%20Gray%203-20-1847.pdf John Glasgow to Jane Glasgow Gray, 20 March 1847], scan and transcript (accessed 20 July 2026).</ref> He married [[Arthur-2480|Mary Arthur]] on 21 May 1798, and their nine children were born in Ireland between 1799 and 1815.<ref name="JohnRegister" />

The family lived at '''Inishrush, County Londonderry'''. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland.<ref name="JohnLetter" />

The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County.<ref name="Deed1833">[http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457].</ref> He was recorded there in 1840.<ref name="Census1840">“'''United States Census, 1840''',” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRF-1B6 : 8 September 2017), John Glascow, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing p. 355, NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 396; FHL microfilm 20,165.</ref> By 1847, John and Mary were being cared for by their son Arthur, who left “nothing undone” to make them comfortable.<ref name="JohnLetter" /> They were living in Arthur's household in Londonderry Township in 1850.<ref name="Census1850">“'''United States Census, 1850''',” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3M-HP3 : 12 April 2016), John Glasgow in household of Arthur Glasgow, Londonderry, Guernsey, Ohio, United States; citing family 1538, NARA microfilm publication M432.</ref>

The Glasgows were a strict Covenanter family; family tradition states that even whistling on the Sabbath was forbidden.<ref name="JohnRegister" /> John's surviving letter reflects this outlook through repeated references to prayer, salvation and holding to Christ “for righteousness and life.”<ref name="JohnLetter" />

John died on 23 December 1851 and was buried in the Scotch Covenanter Cemetery in Guernsey County.<ref name="Grave">“Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKX-FB2D : 13 December 2015), John Glasgow, died 1851; burial in Scotch Covenanter Cemetery, Guernsey County, Ohio; citing {{FindAGrave|43524841}}.</ref>

== Children ==

The Glasgow family register records nine children:<ref name="JohnRegister" />

* [[Glasgow-821|Rose or “Rosanna”]], born 4 March 1799; married Alexander McKeown in Ireland and settled in Harrison County, Ohio.
* '''[[Glasgow-3928|Maria ]]''', born 22 September 1800.
* '''[[Glasgow-3929|Jane]]''', born 5 October 1802; married John Gray in Ireland and settled in Kentucky. John's 1847 letter was apparently addressed to her.<ref name="JohnLetter" />
* [[Glasgow-3373|Adam]], born 7 July 1804.
* '''[[Glasgow-3930|Lavinia]]''', born 21 June 1806.
* [[Glasgow-1165|James]], born 9 November 1808; died 20 April 1823.
* [[Glasgow-43|Margaret]], born 17 October 1810; married John H. Walkinshaw.
* [[Glasgow-1617|John]], born 4 March 1813; died 17 August 1836 in Ohio.
* [[Glasgow-1608|Arthur]], born 1 July 1815; married Jane Neil.

== Research Notes ==

* [[Glasgow-3927|John Glasgow (bef.1813-)]] represents the John Glasco who headed house 2 at Inishrush in the 1831 census. His household contained four males and four females, all Presbyterian.<ref name="Census1831">[https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/Tamlaght/1831census_3.html “Tamlaght O'Crilly Census – 1831”], entry 1019, John Glasco, Innisrush house 2; transcription by Richard John Torrens (accessed 20 July 2026).</ref> The location, religion and household composition are compatible with this family, but the census gives no ages, names or relationships. If they were the same man, John emigrated between the 1831 census and his 1833 Ohio land purchase.<ref name="Census1831" /><ref name="Deed1833" />
* The John Glasgow recorded in Richland Township, Belmont County, in 1830 was aged forty to forty-nine and was almost certainly a different man. John, born in 1767, would have been about sixty-three. The citation is retained to document the rejected identification, but should not be used as evidence that he was in Ohio by 1830.<ref name="Ohio1830">[https://archive.org/details/populationsc18300127unit/page/n484/mode/1up 1830 United States census, Richland Township, Ohio], original census image (accessed 20 July 2026).</ref>
* John may have descended from [[Glasgow-1475|Adam Glasgow (bef.1706-)]], associated with Kilbirnie and the Presbytery of Irvine. This remains unproved.

== Sources ==

<references />

* [https://www.hiltner.com/mckeown/familychart.php?personID=I368&tree=tree1 Family of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur], Hiltner.com.
* [https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about Glasgow Surname Project at FamilyTreeDNA].