Alexander Glasgow

Biography
Alexander Glasgow was born about 1810 or 1811 in County Antrim, Ireland.
The 1851 census recorded him as forty, County Antrim-born and a farmer. 1851 Census of Ireland (https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1851/Antrim/Kilconway/Rasharkin/Lisnagaver/35/), Lisnagaver household 35. 

Alexander married Mary, also called Molly, McCaughan or McAughern about 1836.
Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism transcriptions place the family at Gortereghy in
1837–38 and Lisnagaver by 1843–44. Barbara Braswell, transcript of Rasharkin Presbyterian baptisms, 1834–1846 (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/Baptisms_1834.html), entries for the children of Alexander Glasgow and Molly McAughern; original register PRONI MIC1P/292. 

Their known or probable children include:

* James, baptised in 1837, who probably died before the name was reused;
* an incompletely transcribed child recorded in 1838;
* Robert Glasgow, born about 1840;
* James Glasgow, born about 1843; and
* Anna or Ann Glasgow, born about 1847. 

In 1851 Alexander and Mary headed Lisnagaver household 35 with Robert, James and
Ann. Nearby households were headed by John Glasgow and his
brother Samuel, and by Thomas Glasgow. 

The original 1834 tithe book records an Alexander Glasgow holding twenty-nine
acres at Lisnagaver and a Robert Glasgow holding a separate thirty-five
acres. Bill MacAfee, North Antrim Tithe Applotment Books arranged in document order (https://www.billmacafee.com/182030stithe/tithenorthantrimrevisionorder.pdf), Lisnagaver, 1834; original PRONI FIN/5/A/236, folio 17. The Alexander entry may be this man or an older namesake. It does not supply an age or relationship.

Griffith's Valuation and the later revision books continue Alexander on
Lisnagaver lot 25. His name remained through the 1865–78 revision volume and was
struck out in the 1879–88 volume; Robert Elder held the lot by 1889. This proves
tenancy continuity, not a death date.

Alexander was alive in 1851. His exact death date and place have not been found.
The former claim that he died in Glasgow, Scotland in 1852 or 1861 belongs to a
conflated identity. The documented migration to Scotland begins with his son
Robert, not Alexander.
Family
Alexander married Mary "Molly" McCaughan about 1836, probably in County Antrim.

The detailed 1851 census transcription records 1836 as the first-marriage year for both Alexander and Mary. 1851 Irish Census Returns: comma-delimited transcription (https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf), field definitions and Lisnagaver households 34–37, p. 183 (accessed 16 July 2026). This is a transcription of the same census return, not independent evidence. 

No original marriage entry has been identified. The surviving Rasharkin Presbyterian marriage register begins only in 1845 and is therefore too late to contain their marriage. John Grenham, Church records for Rasharkin (https://www.johngrenham.com/records/church.php?civilparish=Rasharkin&civilparishid=347&search_type=full), Presbyterian entry citing PRONI MIC.1P/292: baptisms from 1834 and marriages from 1845 (accessed 16 July 2026). 

Second Portglenone Presbyterian Church remains a specific candidate because its surviving marriage register begins in 1822 under PRONI reference MIC.1P/357. John Grenham, Historic Presbyterian church records for County Antrim (https://www.johngrenham.com/records/county_church_full.php?county=Antrim&denomination=Presbyterian&location=Public+Record+Office+of+Northern+Ireland&search_type=full), Second Portglenone entry citing PRONI MIC.1P/357, marriages from 1822 (accessed 2026). It should not, however, be described as the known or presumed marriage congregation until an entry is found.

Mary's surname appears in a published transcription of the Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism register as McAughin and McAughern. Her given name appears as both Mary and Molly. Richard John Torrens, Rasharkin Presbyterian Church Baptisms, 1834–1846 (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/Baptisms_1834.html), transcription by Barbara Braswell, particularly entries 75, 106 and 203 (accessed 16 July 2026). The page warns that faded or difficult entries may contain transcription errors. The original register is PRONI MIC.1P/292. 

These variants appear to concern one couple. Molly was a familiar form of Mary, not evidence of a second wife. The entries do not establish Mary's parents or the exact original spelling of her surname.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ Children and candidate child of Alexander Glasgow
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Child
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Birth / Age
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Residence
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Evidence and Assessment
|-
| James Glasgow
| Born 17 January 1837
| Gortereagh
| Baptised 9 February 1837. The published transcription names Alex Glascaw and Mary McAughin as his parents. The later reuse of James suggests that he died before October 1843, but no burial has been identified and the original register should be checked before treating this as proved.
|-
| Unknown Glasgow
| Entry dated 1838
| Gortereagh
| An incomplete transcription names Alex Glascow and Molly McAughern. The child's personal name and dates were not preserved. The entry should not be assigned to Robert, Ann or another known child without inspection of the original register. 
|-
| Robert Glasgow
| About 1840 or 1841
| County Antrim
| Recorded as Alexander and Mary's ten-year-old son in 1851. National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland, 1851, Lisnagaver, Rasharkin, County Antrim, household 35, Alexander Glasgow household; household images (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1851/Antrim/Kilconway/Rasharkin/Lisnagaver/35/) (accessed 16 July 2026). His 1866 marriage independently names his father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer. General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register, entry 142, marriage of Robert Glasgow and Jane Graham, 5 April 1866, Churchtown, parish of Tamlaght O'Crilly, County Londonderry; digital image (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11531/8240963.pdf). Proved son.
|-
| Mary Glasgow
| Age 28 in 1871; exact birth year unresolved
| Lisnagaver in 1871
| Married Robert Elder in 1871 and named her father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer. General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register, Ballymoney registration district, marriage of Robert Elder and Mary Glasgow, 14 June 1871, Churchtown, parish of Tamlaght O'Crilly, County Londonderry; digital image (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1871/11341/8162804.pdf). Robert's later succession to Alexander's exact lot 25 holding strongly identifies her father with the Lisnagaver farmer. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, valuation revision books for Lisnagaver, Rasharkin parish, PRONI VAL/12/B/4/16B–D, lot 25; valuation revision-book search (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/Val12B/Search.aspx). Alexander remained named through the 1865–1878 volume and was later replaced by Robert Elder. Her mother and possible identification with Maryan Glasgow remain unresolved.
|-
| James Glasgow
| Born 9 October 1843
| Lisnagaver
| Baptised 7 January 1844. The transcription names Alex and Molly McAughern as his parents, and he was Alexander and Mary's seven-year-old son in 1851. 
|-
| Ann Glasgow
| About 1846 or 1847
| County Antrim
| Recorded as Alexander and Mary's four-year-old daughter in 1851. 
|}

The published baptism transcription contains no baptism entries for 1840 or 1841. Robert's missing baptism is therefore most likely a record-coverage or transcription issue and is not evidence that he belonged to another family. 
Residences and Farming
Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Moneyleck are separate adjoining townlands in Rasharkin civil parish, barony of Kilconway, County Antrim. Lisnagaver Townland, County Antrim (https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/kilconway/rasharkin/killoquin/lisnagaver/), administrative divisions and adjoining-townland map (accessed 2026). 

The records place Alexander within this small area over several decades:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ Residence and land-record sequence
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Date
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Place
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Record and Assessment
|-
| 1834
| Lisnagaver
| The Rasharkin Tithe Applotment Book records separate holdings for Alexr Glasgow, 29 acres, and Robt Glasgow, 35 acres. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Tithe Applotment Book for the parish of Rasharkin, 1834, PRONI FIN/5/A/236, manuscript folio 17, Lisnagaver entries for Alexr and Robt Glasgow; digital image accessed 5 August 2026 through the PRONI eCatalogue (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx). The identity of the 1834 Alexr with this Alexander is unproved.
|-
| 1837–1838
| Gortereagh
| Residence in the transcribed baptism entries for Alexander and Mary's children. 
|-
| 1843–1844
| Lisnagaver
| Residence in James's birth and baptism entry. 
|-
| 1851
| Lisnagaver
| Alexander was a farmer and head of household 35. 
|-
| Valuation era
| Lisnagaver, lot 25
| Alexander occupied a house, offices and 8 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches under Robert Harvey. General Valuation of Ireland, Lisnagaver, Rasharkin civil parish, County Antrim, lots 24–26; original valuation extract reproduced below. 
|-
| Later revision sequence
| Lisnagaver, lot 25
| Alexander remained named in VAL/12/B/4/16B, covering 1865–1878. He was struck out during the later revision sequence and Robert Elder was occupier by the volume beginning in 1889. The books bracket the tenancy change; they do not prove Alexander's death date.
|}

The changing descriptions may reflect residence on one side of a townland boundary and landholding on the other rather than a substantial migration. No exact move date should be inferred.
Original 1834 Tithe Holding
The original Rasharkin Tithe Applotment Book records two separate Glasgow holdings at Lisnagaver in 1834:

* Alexr Glasgow — 29 acres, comprising 10 acres first quality, 10 acres second quality and 9 acres third quality.
* Robt Glasgow — 35 acres, comprising 11 acres first quality, 10 acres second quality and 14 acres third quality.

The red numbers 4 and 5 beside their names are consecutive entry numbers, not ages. The men appear on separate lines with separate acreages and assessments. The manuscript states no relationship between them. 

The two holdings total exactly 64 acres.

In the later valuation, the Glasgow holdings numbered 24–26—occupied by John Glasgow, Alexander and Thomas Glasgow—totalled 63 acres, 0 roods and 10 perches. 

The difference is less than one acre.

One plausible interpretation is that substantially the same Glasgow land block was subsequently redistributed from two holdings into three. Changed survey methods, boundaries or the inclusion and exclusion of marginal land could also account for part of the difference. The comparison therefore supports continuity of a local Glasgow landholding network, but it does not establish either succession or kinship.

Two competing possibilities remain important:

# the 1834 Alexr and Robt were members of an older generation whose holdings were later divided among John, Alexander and Thomas; or
# the 1834 Alexr was this Alexander, then about twenty-three, and the later valuation reflects subdivision or reorganisation during his own lifetime.

The tithe itself does not distinguish between these interpretations.

The comparison also does not prove that the Alexr Glasgow recorded in 1834 was the man born about 1811. An older namesake such as Alexander Glasgow remains possible, as does a connection with Robert Glasgow.
Griffith's Valuation
The original Griffith's Valuation page for Lisnagaver records Alexander, John and Thomas Glasgow on three consecutive numbered principal holdings, all under the same immediate lessor, Robert Harvey. 

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|+ Glasgow holdings at Lisnagaver
|-
! Map lot
! Occupier
! Immediate lessor
! Description
! Area
! Approximate decimal acres
|-
| 24
| John Glasgow
| Robert Harvey
| House, offices and land
| 21 acres, 2 roods, 25 perches
| 21.66
|-
| 25
| Alexander Glasgow
| Robert Harvey
| House, offices and land
| 8 acres, 2 roods, 10 perches
| 8.56
|-
| 26a
| Thomas Glasgow
| Robert Harvey
| House, offices and land
| 32 acres, 3 roods, 15 perches
| 32.84
|-
| 26b
| John M‘Cochrane
| Thomas Glasgow
| House
| No land recorded
| —
|}

Alexander, John and Thomas were therefore not merely three men of the same surname somewhere in Lisnagaver. They occupied lots 24, 25 and 26, held from the same landlord, and each principal holding included a house, offices and agricultural land.

The consecutive lot numbers strongly suggest that the holdings were physically close. The valuation map should still be consulted before stating that every plot directly adjoined or shared a boundary.

Alexander's holding, at 8 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches, was considerably smaller than John's holding of about 21.66 acres and Thomas's holding of about 32.84 acres. This could reflect subdivision of an earlier holding, different lease arrangements or independently acquired tenancies. Acreage alone does not establish how the men were related.

Thomas also acted as immediate lessor of the house occupied by John M‘Cochrane on lot 26b. This indicates that Thomas controlled the principal lot 26 holding and sublet at least one associated dwelling. It may reflect a different tenancy or economic position from Alexander and John, although it does not establish ownership of the land.

The valuation names Alexander Glasgow as occupier of lot 25 rather than his widow, representatives or estate. In the absence of another identified Alexander at Lisnagaver, this was probably the farmer recorded there in the 1851 census.

The revision books strengthen the continuity of that tenancy by continuing Alexander's name into VAL/12/B/4/16B, covering 1865–1878, before Robert Elder later replaced him. 

Valuation records could lag behind an occupier's death, departure or informal transfer. The sequence therefore cannot be used as a precise life record. It does, however, make the history of lot 25 central to the identification of Alexander's later family network.
Mary Glasgow and the Elder Network
The original 1871 marriage entry records:

* Robert Elder, aged 40, bachelor and farmer of Gortereghy;
* Mary Glasgow, aged 28, spinster of Lisnagaver;
* Robert's father, Nathaniel Elder, farmer;
* Mary's father, Alexander Glasgow, farmer;
* witnesses William Glasgow and John Collins. 

The registrar's district was Ballymoney, not Ballymena. Civil-birth searches for children of this marriage should therefore begin with Ballymoney registrations, while allowing for births registered in adjoining districts.

Mary's stated residence, her father's name and occupation, and Robert Elder's subsequent succession to Alexander's exact lot 25 holding provide a coherent land-and-marriage chain. Taken together, they make it very likely that Mary was a daughter of Alexander of Lisnagaver.

William Glasgow's presence as a marriage witness adds a significant same-surname FAN connection. The marriage does not state his relationship to Mary. He may have been a brother, uncle, cousin or unrelated associate and should not be attached to the family without another record.

A published transcription of a 1864 Presbyterian marriage records William Elder, farmer of Ballymaconnally, as a son of Nathaniel Elder, farmer. Robert Elder was a witness. First Garvagh Presbyterian Church Marriages, 1845–1889 (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/GarvaghP1/Marriages/1845-1889marr.html), entry dated 6 September 1864 for William Elder and Ellen J. McMaster (accessed 7 August 2026). This is a transcription; the original register should be inspected. 

Because Robert's 1871 marriage names the same father and occupation, William was probably Robert's brother or another close paternal relative. The transcription does not by itself prove the exact relationship.

Churchtown Presbyterian's baptism register survives under PRONI reference MIC.1P/347A/1. The online transcription covers only an earlier portion ending in 1863; the later original register is therefore a principal source for reconstructing Robert and Mary's children. Churchtown Presbyterian Church Baptisms (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/TamlaghtP/Baptisms.html), description of PRONI MIC.1P/347A/1 and the limited online transcription (accessed 7 August 2026). 

A Mary Jane Elder died at Lisnagaver on 11 June 1897, aged 65. She was described as married and the wife of a farmer; John Elder, son, reported the death. General Register Office of Ireland, civil death register, Dervock registrar's district, entry 285, Mary Jane Elder, died 11 June 1897 at Lisnagaver, aged 65; digital image (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1897/05858/4660280.pdf). 

The entry does not name her husband or parents.

A separate 1901 census transcription places a 71-year-old John Elder and his 27-year-old son Robert in house 7 at Lisnagaver. 1901 census browse: Lisnagaver, County Antrim (https://downtheroad.dev/pt/census?county=Antrim&tab=browse&townland=Lisnagaver&year=1901), house 7, John and Robert Elder (accessed 7 August 2026). This is a derivative census presentation; the original household and house forms should be inspected. 

Until Robert and Mary's children and the separate Elder households at Lisnagaver have been reconstructed, the 1897 deceased cannot safely be identified as the Mary Glasgow who married Robert Elder in 1871.
The Lisnagaver Glasgow Network
Several Glasgow households appear together in the surviving Lisnagaver census fragment. 

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ Nearby Glasgow households at Lisnagaver in 1851
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Household
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Family Head
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Age
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Occupation
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Notes
|-
| 34
| John Glasgow
| 50
| Farmer
| His unmarried brother Samuel Glasgow, aged 60, was also present.
|-
| 35
| Alexander Glasgow
| 40
| Farmer
| Lived with Mary, Robert, James and Ann.
|-
| 36
| John Watters
| —
| Blacksmith
| Intervening non-Glasgow household.
|-
| 37
| Thomas Glasgow
| 35
| Farmer
| Lived with Mary Ann and their children.
|}

Enumeration order does not prove that the houses stood immediately beside one another. It does establish that John, Samuel, Alexander and Thomas belonged to the same small Lisnagaver residential cluster.

The census explicitly identifies John and Samuel as brothers. It does not call John, Samuel, Alexander and Thomas one sibling group.

The later valuation adds a separate land-based connection: John, Alexander and Thomas occupied the consecutive principal holdings 24, 25 and 26 under the same immediate lessor. 

The combined census, land and church evidence therefore supports a close Glasgow family-and-neighbour network at Lisnagaver while leaving the precise relationships unresolved.
Alexander and Thomas
The contemporary Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism register creates a stronger connection between Alexander and Thomas than census proximity or repeated forenames alone.

Alexander and Mary or Molly used the congregation while associated with Gortereagh and Lisnagaver. Thomas and Mary Ann McCracken used the same congregation while associated with Moneyleck and Lisnagaver. 

Most notably:

* Alexander's son James was born at Lisnagaver on 9 October 1843;
* Thomas's daughter Eliza was born there on 17 October 1843.

The two children were born eight days apart in the same small townland and appear in the same Presbyterian register. 

Alexander and Thomas were also:

* born in County Antrim about five years apart;
* farmers;
* able to read and write;
* associated with the same Presbyterian congregation;
* recorded within the same Lisnagaver–Gortereagh–Moneyleck micro-area;
* heads of closely grouped Lisnagaver households in 1851;
* and later occupiers of consecutive valuation lots under the same lessor.

This is substantial FAN evidence for a close relationship.

No surviving record presently calls them brothers. Thomas should therefore be treated as Alexander's probable close relative and possible brother, not as a proved sibling.
Thomas and Daniel
A reported will record for Daniel Glasgow of Kilrea identifies Thomas Glasgow as his "late brother" and Daniel Neely Glasgow as a nephew. Will of Daniel Glasgow of Kilrea, proved 1871, reported in accumulated family research as identifying Thomas Glasgow as his "late brother". The original probate copy and complete archival citation are still required. 

This supports Daniel and Thomas as brothers.

It does not establish Alexander's relationship to either man.
Death
Alexander was alive when the 1851 census was taken. 

He was probably the Alexander named as occupier of lot 25 during the valuation era and remained named through the revision volume covering 1865–1878. 

Valuation entries could remain unchanged after an occupier's death or removal. The revision sequence therefore cannot be converted into a precise death date.

The Glasgow Surname DNA Project includes participant-submitted pedigree metadata giving an 1852 death year for an Alexander Glasgow born in 1811. Glasgow Surname DNA Project (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about), public project information and results (accessed 2026). No civil, church, burial, probate or other contemporary record has been located supporting that exact date.

The valuation sequence does not by itself disprove death in 1852, because a deceased tenant's name could remain in the books for some time. It does mean that 1852 should not be treated as established merely from participant-supplied pedigree data.

His death should therefore be recorded conservatively as:

* Date: after 1851;
* Place: unknown.
Y-DNA
Glasgow Surname DNA Project kit B580327 has a Big Y result within haplogroup R-FT20271 and a participant-supplied paternal pedigree ending with an Alexander Glasgow born about 1811 in County Antrim. 

If the submitted pedigree is correct, the result places Alexander's direct paternal line within a wider north-Irish or Scottish Glasgow Y-DNA cluster. It does not identify his father, and the pedigree itself remains participant-supplied family-tree information rather than an independent genetic finding.

FamilyTreeDNA estimates the common ancestor represented by R-FT20271 at approximately the seventeenth century. FamilyTreeDNA Discover, R-FT20271 (https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-FT20271) (accessed 2026). 

A descendant of Thomas, Daniel, John or Samuel merely testing somewhere within R-FT20271 would therefore not prove an early nineteenth-century brotherhood.

A useful comparison would require:

* each tester's current terminal SNP;
* shared downstream variants below R-FT20271;
* private-variant sharing;
* nearest Big Y matches;
* and an estimated common-ancestor range compatible with the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

A different haplogroup in a well-documented Thomas-line tester would disprove a shared direct paternal line. A newly formed recent downstream branch shared by Alexander- and Thomas-line testers would materially strengthen the close-kinship hypothesis.

Further details are maintained in the Alexander Glasgow Research Space (https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Alexander_Glasgow) and the Glasgow DNA research space (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Glasgow_DNA).
Research Notes
Current evidence assessmentParents and siblings
Alexander is attached to Alexander Glasgow and Rosanna Unknown
as uncertain parents. A later descendant account names Alexander and Rosanna as
The parents of Thomas of Lisnagaver and describes two Kilrea clockmaker
relatives. “Trying to find Glasgow,” Genes Reunited (https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_topics/thread/465937), descendant account posted 25 January 2007. 

The account is partly corrected by documentary evidence. Daniel
Glasgow of Kilrea called the late Thomas his brother in his 1871 will, and
Daniel Neely Glasgow's 1888 marriage names Thomas Glasgow, farmer, as his
father. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Will Calendars (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/willscalendar_ie/willssearch.aspx), will of Daniel Glasgow of Kilrea, proved 1871. General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1888/10763/5925382.pdf), Daniel Neely Glasgow and Mary Jane Boyd, 28 June 1888. Daniel and Thomas are therefore proved brothers.

Alexander is their probable brother because he belonged to the same small
Lisnagaver/Kilrea cluster, was of a compatible age and is included in the later
family reconstruction. No contemporary record calls him their brother or names
The older Alexander as his father, so both his parent links remain uncertain.

John Glasgow of Glenleslie has not been proved as Alexander's
father. The Mary Glasgow once used to connect them was twenty-eight in 1871 and
cannot be John's granddaughter Maryan, who was already seventeen in 1851.
Son Robert and Gortereghy
Robert's 1866 marriage explicitly names his father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer.
Robert was a Lisnagaver farmer and his bride Jane Graham lived at Gortereghy. General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11531/8240963.pdf), Robert Glasgow and Jane Graham, 1866. This directly proves Robert's parentage and makes him the best candidate for the Robert Glasgow carried at Gortereghy in Griffith's Valuation and later revision books.
Y-DNA
A direct male-line descendant of Alexander has taken a Big Y-700 test. Kit
B580327 is assigned to R-FT20271. FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow Surname Project, public Y-DNA results (https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Glasgow?iframe=ydna-results-overview), kit B580327. 

Kit 1002232, representing the James J Glasgow line, is also
R-FT20271. The two kits are genetic distance three at Y-111, differ at four of
662 compared Big Y STRs and share DYS714=27. A local uncalibrated model places
their likely branching node around 1750 with a displayed 95% interval of
1700–1750. That interval is a research window, not proof of a particular
ancestor: the same model misdates a known control relationship.

The result proves a shared direct paternal Glasgow ancestor. It does not show
whether Alexander's father was the older Alexander, John of Glenleslie, Robert
of Glenleslie or another collateral man. It supports retaining plausible
uncertain attachments while documentary evidence is sought.
Highest-priority surviving parentage source
PRONI's Ballymoney Reformed Presbyterian register, references
CR5/32/1/1/1–2, covers 1804–1844 and includes Dervock and Kilraughts
society lists, baptisms, marriages, deaths and removals. It spans Alexander's
probable 1810–11 birth and Rosanna's reported death in 1822. A household or
society entry placing a child Alexander with named parents could provide the
direct evidence still missing. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Guide to Church Records (https://www.proni.gov.uk/files/proni/2026-01/PRONI%20Guide%20to%20Church%20Records.pdf), Ballymoney Reformed Presbyterian material; see also the PRONI eCatalogue (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx), references CR5/32/1/1/1–2. 

A targeted request covering Glasgow, Glascow, Glasco, Glascoe and similar
spellings was sent to PRONI on 19 August 2026. No result has yet been received,
so the source is a pending evidence target rather than proof of either parent.
Additional sources consulted
The 1851 household can also be viewed through the National Archives' earlier census page (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1851/Antrim/Kilconway/Rasharkin/Lisnagaver/35/) and the detailed census transcription (https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf). The land sequence was checked in PRONI's revision-book search (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/Val12B/Search.aspx), the PRONI eCatalogue (https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx), Lisnagaver townland reference (https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/kilconway/rasharkin/killoquin/lisnagaver/) and Slater's directory (https://www.failteromhat.com/slater/0192.pdf).

Church and family searches included the Rasharkin church-register inventory (https://www.johngrenham.com/records/church.php?civilparish=Rasharkin&civilparishid=347&search_type=full), County Antrim Presbyterian register inventory (https://www.johngrenham.com/records/county_church_full.php?county=Antrim&denomination=Presbyterian&location=Public+Record+Office+of+Northern+Ireland&search_type=full), Rasharkin Presbyterian graveyard (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/graveyard.html), Tamlaght baptisms (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/TamlaghtP/Baptisms.html) and Garvagh marriages (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/GarvaghP1/Marriages/1845-1889marr.html). The later Elder family was checked through the 1871 Elder–Glasgow marriage (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1871/11341/8162804.pdf), an 1897 civil death (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1897/05858/4660280.pdf), the Ballymoney civil search (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/search/?church-or-civil=civil&event-birth=1&lastname=Elder&location=Ballymoney&per_page=100) and 1901 Lisnagaver census browse (https://downtheroad.dev/pt/census?county=Antrim&tab=browse&townland=Lisnagaver&year=1901). None identifies Alexander's parents.

The Y-DNA assessment uses both the Glasgow project page (https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about) and the R-FT20271 haplotree page (https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-FT20271).
Parentage
No surviving baptism, marriage entry, will, lease, gravestone, census relationship or civil record located for this profile explicitly names Alexander's parents.

Current WikiTree parent relationships, family traditions and nearby same-surname holdings should therefore be treated as research hypotheses rather than proved genealogy.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ Parentage evidence and competing hypotheses
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Candidate / Hypothesis
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Evidence
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Assessment
|-
| John Glasgow of Glenleslie
| John's 1851 household included Maryan Glasgow, aged 17 and described as his granddaughter. The Mary who married Robert Elder in 1871 named Alexander Glasgow as her father.
| Possible, conditional on the two Marys being one woman. Even then, "granddaughter" would not expressly state whether John was her paternal or maternal grandfather.
|-
| Older Alexander Glasgow and Rosanna
| A descendant account concerning Thomas Glasgow names Thomas's parents as Alexander and Rosanna and reports Rosanna's death about 23 October 1822. Trying to find Glasgow (https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_topics/thread/465937), descendant post dated 25 January 2007, concerning Thomas Glasgow of Lisnagaver and his family (accessed 16 July 2026). This is later family testimony, not a contemporary record. 
| Family tradition and working hypothesis. Applying it to this Alexander requires proof that he and Thomas shared parents.
|-
| Robert Glasgow or the 1834 Robt Glasgow
| Robt Glasgow held a separate 35-acre Lisnagaver tithe holding in 1834 and may have belonged to an older generation. 
| Possible older relative; insufficient evidence for father.
|-
| John Glasgow and Mary Arthur of Inishrush
| Their reported family-Bible sequence includes children born before and after Alexander's estimated birth year, but no Alexander.
| Weak alternative. No documentary bridge has been found.
|}

No candidate currently reaches a documentary standard of probable father.
John Glasgow of Glenleslie
John Glasgow's 1851 Glenleslie household included his granddaughters Ann Glasgow, aged 18, and Maryan Glasgow, aged 17. National Archives of Ireland, Census of Ireland, 1851, Glenleslie, Dunaghy parish, County Antrim, household 21, John Glasgow household; see detailed transcription (https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf), pp. 103–104. 

The discovery that Mary Glasgow of Lisnagaver married Robert Elder in 1871 and named her father as Alexander Glasgow makes this household more relevant than it previously appeared.

If Mary Glasgow and Maryan Glasgow were the same woman, John would have been a grandfather of one of Alexander's daughters. That would materially strengthen a parentage connection.

It would not, however, prove that John was Alexander's father. The census describes Maryan only as John's granddaughter and does not state whether the link ran through her father or mother.

The identity of the two Marys therefore has to be established independently before the Glenleslie relationship can be used as parentage evidence.
Descendant Account: Alexander and Rosanna
A descendant of Thomas Glasgow's daughter Jane posted a family account in 2007 naming Thomas's parents as Alexander and Rosanna. The account also reports that Rosanna died on or about 23 October 1822 and that Thomas possibly had two uncles at Kilrea who were clockmakers. 

The account is not primary evidence and gives no original source for the preceding generation. It does, however, reportedly identify Thomas's wife, several children and Lisnagaver residence correctly.

Applying this parentage to Alexander requires two separate propositions:

# Alexander and Thomas were brothers or otherwise shared the same parents.
# The descendant account correctly preserved Thomas's parents' names.

The first remains plausible but unproved. The second rests on descendant testimony rather than a contemporary record.

The attached relationships to an older Alexander Glasgow and Rosanna or Rose Ann may therefore be retained only as uncertain working relationships.
The Clockmaker Tradition and Rosanna's Surname
Slater's 1846 directory lists two watch and clock makers at Kilrea:

* Daniel Glasco;
* James Shaw. Isaac Slater, Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland (1846), Kilrea, p. 473, under "Watch & Clock Makers"; digital copy (https://www.failteromhat.com/slater/0192.pdf) (accessed 16 July 2026). 

This once suggested that Daniel Glasgow and James Shaw were the paternal and maternal clockmaker uncles remembered by Thomas's descendants, leading to the reconstruction of Rosanna's surname as Shaw.

That argument is no longer secure.

The reported Daniel Glasgow will identifies Thomas as Daniel's brother, not nephew. The clockmaker story therefore appears to have shifted by a generation, by the descendant's perspective or through ordinary family-memory error.

James Shaw's occupation at Kilrea does not establish that he was Rosanna's brother.

Rosanna's surname remains unknown. If Shaw is retained in a linked profile, it should be marked uncertain and described as a discarded or weak working hypothesis rather than a genealogical conclusion.
Robert Glasgow of Lisnagaver
Robert Glasgow or the Robt Glasgow recorded at Lisnagaver in 1834 remains a significant place-based candidate for Alexander's father or older close relative.

Supporting evidence includes:

* Robert and Alexander held the two separately assessed Glasgow holdings at Lisnagaver in the original 1834 tithe;
* Robert's 35-acre holding and Alexander's 29-acre holding together formed a 64-acre block;
* Alexander was only about twenty-three in 1834 if the census age is accurate, so Robert may have represented an older generation;
* Alexander later named a son Robert;
* the name Robert recurs in related or possibly related Glasgow branches.

Main limitations:

* the tithe gives no ages or relationships;
* the identity of the tithe Robert with Robert Glasgow is not yet securely established;
* no document yet shows Robert's holding passing directly to Alexander;
* no direct bridge has been found between Robert and the later lots 24–26 occupiers;
* naming patterns alone are weak evidence.

Robert is therefore a significant possible father or older relative, but not a proved or presently probable father.
John Glasgow and Mary Arthur of Inishrush
The Inishrush family Bible reportedly identifies John Glasgow and Mary Arthur and lists their children in a close sequence from 1799 to 1815, including Margaret on 17 October 1810 and John on 4 March 1813, but no Alexander. Inishrush Glasgow family Bible transcription, listing the children of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur from 1799 to 1815. The original image, provenance and full citation should be added to the research space when available. 

Alexander's presumed birth about 1810 or 1811 falls directly into this sequence.

Unless his census age is materially wrong or the transcription is incomplete, adding another child at that point is chronologically awkward. John and Mary should therefore not be proposed as Alexander's parents without new evidence.
Glenleslie Parentage and the Separate Alexander
John Glasgow and Rose Alexander of Glenleslie were previously treated as possible parents of this Alexander.

The newly reopened Mary/Maryan question means John cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant, but the older direct-parent theory remains unproved.

John and Rose were a real couple living at Glenleslie in 1851. The presence of William Alexander, described as John's brother-in-law, supports Rose's maiden surname being Alexander. 1851 Irish Census Returns: comma-delimited transcription (https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf), Glenleslie household 21, pp. 103–104 (accessed 16 July 2026). 

Important cautions remain:

* John and Rose belonged to the Glenleslie cluster rather than Lisnagaver;
* Rose was alive in 1851, whereas the Rosanna in Thomas's descendant tradition was reportedly dead by 1822;
* a separate Alexander Glasgow lived at Glenleslie with Mary Ann and their son John;
* no record directly identifies John or Rose as parents of the Lisnagaver Alexander.

The separate Glenleslie Alexander was born about 1816 and must not be merged with this Lisnagaver farmer. 1851 Irish Census Returns: comma-delimited transcription (https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf), Glenleslie household 35, p. 104 (accessed 16 July 2026). 

The similarity between the names Rose, Rose Ann and Rosanna is not sufficient to merge the two women or their families.
Other Weak Reconstructions
The birth year 1788 sometimes assigned to the proposed older Alexander is unsupported and should not be relied upon. It is also difficult to reconcile with treating Daniel Glasgow, born about 1795 or 1796, as his son.

No positive evidence currently connects this Alexander to Adam Glasgow and Rose of Inishrush. Their possible relationship belongs in wider-family research, not in the proved biography.

James Glasgow senior of Ballybogy and an older Robert Glasgow at Doonbought remain possible members of the wider local network, but neither presently has a direct documented bridge to Alexander.
Mary Glasgow and Maryan Glasgow
The 1871 marriage register clearly records Mary Glasgow as aged 28, implying birth about 1842 or 1843. 

Maryan Glasgow was aged 17 in John Glasgow's Glenleslie household in 1851, implying birth about 1833 or 1834. 

The age conflict is substantial. It does not by itself disprove identity because marriage ages could be understated or otherwise inaccurate, but the two records should not be treated as matching without further evidence.

The 1897 Mary Jane Elder was aged 65, implying birth about 1831 or 1832, which is much closer to Maryan's census age. That death cannot yet be used as confirmation because the entry does not name her husband or parents, and another Elder household existed at Lisnagaver.

Mary does not appear in Alexander's 1851 household. That is useful negative evidence but not disproof. A teenage daughter could have been living with grandparents, relatives, an employer or another household.

If Maryan was Alexander's daughter, her apparent birth about 1833 or 1834 would also precede Alexander and Mary's reported first-marriage year of 1836.

Possible explanations include:

* Maryan was born to Alexander and Mary before their marriage;
* Maryan was Alexander's daughter by a previous relationship;
* the reported first-marriage year or census age is inaccurate;
* Maryan was the child of another son or daughter of John Glasgow;
* or Maryan and the 1871 Mary were separate women.

No surviving record presently distinguishes these possibilities.

Current assessment: Mary, the 1871 bride, was probably a daughter of Alexander of lot 25. Her identification with Maryan Glasgow is possible and worth active investigation, but remains unproved. The profiles should remain separate until the Elder children, the 1897 deceased and the relevant 1901 households have been reconstructed.
John and Samuel Branch
The 1851 census explicitly identifies Samuel Glasgow as John Glasgow's brother. It does not identify either man as Alexander's or Thomas's brother. 

John's reported age conflicts with a Rasharkin gravestone:

* the 1851 transcription suggests birth about 1800 or 1801;
* the gravestone says he died on 20 June 1895 aged 78, suggesting birth about 1816 or 1817. Richard John Torrens, Rasharkin Presbyterian Graveyard (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/graveyard.html), Glasgow memorial for John Glasgow and Margaret Garvin (accessed 2026). 

The 1846 civil marriage of John Glasgow and Margaret Garvin is therefore an important proxy-parent record for this adjacent branch.

The full registration image should be obtained for John's residence, occupation, father's name and occupation, witnesses, church and minister.

Any father named there applies first to John and Samuel only. It should not automatically be extended to Alexander or Thomas.
Identity and Record Cautions
* The 1871 Elder–Glasgow marriage belongs to the Ballymoney registration district, not Ballymena. 
* The witness William Glasgow is an important associate but is not yet identified.
* The 1897 Mary Jane Elder should not be attached as Robert Elder's wife solely from surname and residence.
* The 1834 Alexr Glasgow of Lisnagaver may be this Alexander or an older namesake. The tithe gives no age or relationship.
* This Alexander should not be confused with Alexander Glasgow, born about 1816, who lived at Glenleslie with Mary Ann and their son John.
* The alleged Barony, Lanarkshire, marriage of 12 June 1838 concerns another couple. Alexander and Mary already had a child born at Gortereagh in January 1837. 
* No Scottish or Australian death should be attached without evidence connecting the record to Mary McCaughan, Lisnagaver or the known children.
* Lisnagaver in Rasharkin parish is not Lisnagarvey, the former name of Lisburn.
* Mary's age of 40 in 1851 supports a birth about 1810 or 1811, not 1817 or 1818.
* Robert Glasgow's exact birth date of 6 November 1840 has not been established by the records cited here.
* The red 4 and 5 on the 1834 tithe page are entry numbers, not ages.
Robert Glasgow, Son of Alexander
Robert Glasgow was recorded as Alexander and Mary's ten-year-old son in 1851. 

His civil marriage to Jane Graham on 5 April 1866 independently names his father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer. 

Robert's reported Scottish death on 27 November 1902 in Glasgow remains potentially useful because a Scottish death registration would normally identify both parents, including the mother's maiden surname, if known to the informant.

The original Scottish death record should be obtained before relying on parent details copied from online trees.
Female and Affinal Network
The Rasharkin baptism transcription also names adult Glasgow women in the same regional generation, including:

* Elisabeth Glasgow with James Anderson at Drumack;
* Charlotte Glasgow with a James Anderson at Drumack;
* Jane Glasgow with James Dysart at Granagh and Crushybracken.

They should not be attached as Alexander's sisters without a direct bridge.

Their husbands' wills, children's marriages, witnesses, gravestones and tenancy records may nevertheless preserve relationships omitted from male land records.

The same register records McAughern households in or near Lisnagaver. This does not prove a relationship to Mary, but it makes the local McAughern network worth reconstructing.

The newly identified William Glasgow witness at Mary's 1871 marriage should be added to this FAN network and investigated alongside the existing male and female associates.
Land and Estate Records
The tithe and valuation sources identify occupiers or persons responsible for land. They do not automatically establish ownership, residence or kinship.

The land evidence is nevertheless unusually useful here because it provides exact parcels, acreage and succession rather than surname-only appearances.

Priority record groups include:

* the original 1834 Rasharkin Tithe Applotment Book under PRONI FIN/5/A/236 and related microfilm material;
* the original Griffith's Valuation page and map for Lisnagaver;
* the complete Lisnagaver valuation-revision sequence, including VAL/12/B/4/16B–D and subsequent volumes;
* Killoquin estate map and related material under D/2972;
* title-deed schedules concerning Moneyleck under T/1459;
* early Bateson-Harvey estate accounts under D/3300/256/1;
* any Harvey estate rentals, lease books, arrears ledgers, assignments, surrenders, notices to quit and tenant correspondence covering approximately 1820–1890.

PRONI reference D3209/1 is a 1790 Killoquin rent roll and arrears account that explicitly includes Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Moneyleck. A targeted request for its complete Lisnagaver section was sent to PRONI on 13 August 2026; it may identify an earlier Glasgow tenant generation but cannot alone prove Alexander's father.

The land search should follow numbered parcels and transactions rather than surnames alone.

Useful findings would include:

* one Glasgow occupier replacing another on the same parcel;
* "representatives of" wording;
* a widow inserted after a deletion;
* division or consolidation of plots;
* transfers between Glasgow and Elder occupiers;
* common map-number roots;
* an estate assignment naming a son, brother, daughter or son-in-law;
* or an explicit surrender and regrant explaining the transition from Alexander Glasgow to Robert Elder.

Lot 25 is now especially important because the marriage evidence provides a plausible reason for an Elder son-in-law to succeed Alexander there.

Lots 24 and 26 should still be traced in parallel. Their histories may reveal whether the Glasgow block was divided among relatives from an earlier common tenancy.
Church Records
Highest-priority church work includes:

* inspect the original Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism images under MIC.1P/292 for Alexander and Thomas's entries, including adjacent pages and marginal notes;
* search Second Portglenone Presbyterian MIC.1P/357 for Glasgow marriages from 1822 to 1845, particularly Alexander and Mary about 1834–1838 and Thomas and Mary Ann about 1838–1842;
* inspect Churchtown Presbyterian MIC.1P/347A/1 from June 1871 through about 1890 for children of Robert Elder and Mary Glasgow;
* collect every Glasgow, McAughern, McCracken, Elder, Garvin and related witness rather than searching only the target couples;
* examine any surviving session, communicant, stipend, pew-rent, Sunday-school or congregational-account material.

Pre-civil Presbyterian marriage entries may not name fathers. Residences, witnesses and repeated associates may be the most useful surviving details.
DNA Research
The most informative next test remains Big Y-700 for a documented direct male-line descendant of Thomas Glasgow.

Suggested recruitment order:

# Thomas Glasgow's documented male-line descendants;
# Daniel Glasgow's documented male-line descendants;
# John Glasgow or Samuel Glasgow's documented male-line descendants;
# more distant project members with well-sourced north-Irish Glasgow pedigrees.

Autosomal matches or descendants through daughters cannot directly answer the paternal-line question.

A Big Y match should be interpreted below R-FT20271 rather than merely at that broad haplogroup level.
Priority ResearchPriority 1 — reconstruct Robert and Mary's children
* Inspect PRONI MIC.1P/347A/1, Churchtown Presbyterian baptisms, from June 1871 through about 1890 for children of Robert Elder and Mary Glasgow.
* Record birth dates, baptism dates, residences, maternal surnames, sponsors and marginal notes.
* Identify their son John and determine whether he was the informant at Mary Jane Elder's 1897 death.
* Search Ballymoney civil births for Elder (https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/search/?church-or-civil=civil&event-birth=1&lastname=Elder&location=Ballymoney&per_page=100) from 1871 onward and inspect original images for father Robert, mother Mary formerly Glasgow, and Lisnagaver or Gortereghy residence.
Priority 1 — distinguish the Elder households
* Obtain the original 1901 Form A, B1 and B2 returns for house 7, Lisnagaver, occupied by John Elder and his son Robert.
* Establish John's marital status and occupation and compare the property description with the valuation revision books.
* Trace every Elder holding at Lisnagaver through VAL/12/B/4/16C–D and subsequent volumes rather than assuming that all Elders there belonged to one household.
* Determine which Elder household occupied Alexander's former lot 25 and whether later subdivision created additional Elder tenancies.
Priority 1 — identify William Glasgow
* Search Churchtown Presbyterian, Rasharkin Presbyterian and Ballymoney civil records for William Glasgow in the Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Tamlaght O'Crilly area before and after 1871.
* Compare his residence, occupation, father, witnesses and landholding with Alexander's known family.
* Search for William as a witness to other Glasgow, Elder, McCaughan/McAughern or Graham events.
* Do not attach him as Mary's brother without a direct record.
Priority 1 — complete the lot 24–26 land sequence
* Trace lots 24, 25 and 26 through every available valuation-revision volume.
* Record every dated deletion, insertion and occupier change.
* Note "representatives of" wording, acreage changes, subdivisions and consolidations.
* Establish the earliest securely dated transition from Alexander Glasgow to Robert Elder on lot 25.
* Compare the later parcels with the 1834 64-acre tithe block.
Priority 2 — reconstruct Nathaniel Elder's family
* Obtain the original 6 September 1864 marriage entry for William Elder and Ellen J. McMaster and verify Robert Elder's witness signature.
* Search marriages, baptisms, deaths and valuation records for children of Nathaniel Elder, farmer, particularly Robert and William.
* A record expressly naming Robert and William as brothers would establish the witness network independently.
Priority 2 — resolve Mary/Maryan
* Reconstruct Maryan Glasgow forward from the 1851 Glenleslie census.
* Determine whether she appears in any marriage, death, church or emigration record under that identity.
* Reconstruct all children of Robert Elder and Mary Glasgow for maternal-age evidence and naming patterns.
* Determine whether the 1897 Mary Jane Elder was Robert's wife.
* Search for records naming Mary's mother.
* Keep Mary and Maryan as separate profiles until the evidence converges.
Priority 2 — church and estate records
* Inspect PRONI MIC.1P/292 for the original Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism entries and adjacent pages.
* Search PRONI MIC.1P/357, Second Portglenone Presbyterian marriages, about 1834–1838, for Alexander Glasgow variants and Mary McCaughan, McAughin or McAughern variants.
* Examine Killoquin estate material under D/2972.
* Examine Moneyleck title-deed schedules under T/1459.
* Examine Bateson-Harvey estate accounts under D/3300/256/1.
* Search additional Harvey estate rentals, leases, assignments and tenant correspondence for Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Moneyleck.
Priority 2 — adjacent Glasgow branches
* Obtain the 1846 civil marriage image for John Glasgow and Margaret Garvin.
* Record John's father, occupation, residence, witnesses and church.
* Treat any resulting father identification as applying first to John and Samuel only.
* Investigate whether John, Samuel or their children appear as witnesses or successors in the Alexander/Thomas land and church network.
Priority 3 — probate and paternal-network testing
* Obtain the complete probate copy and archival citation for Daniel Glasgow's will.
* Seek a contemporary source for Rosanna's reported death on or about 23 October 1822.
* Recruit a documented direct male-line descendant of Thomas Glasgow for Big Y testing.
* Compare recent downstream and private variants with kit B580327 rather than relying solely on shared placement in R-FT20271.
Cape Supreme Court records
Cape Supreme Court indexes name an Alexander Glasgow in an 1893 estate motion and in Maria Welch v. Alexander Glasgow in 1898. These records belong to the Cape Town property and debt context relevant to this profile, but the indexes give no age, birthplace, occupation or family. Identity with this Alexander remains unproved, and the two proceedings are not proved to concern one man. Underlying record source: alexander glasgow (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.za/node/737). 
Sources

[[Category:Glasgow Name Study]]

== Biography ==
{{Ireland Native}}
{{Occupation|image=Wikimedia_Commons_photos-3.jpg|text=was a farmer}}
'''Alexander Glasgow''' was born about 1810 or 1811 in County Antrim, Ireland.
The 1851 census recorded him as forty, County Antrim-born and a farmer.<ref name="Census1851">[https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1851/Antrim/Kilconway/Rasharkin/Lisnagaver/35/ 1851 Census of Ireland], Lisnagaver household 35.</ref>

Alexander married Mary, also called Molly, McCaughan or McAughern about 1836.
Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism transcriptions place the family at Gortereghy in
1837–38 and Lisnagaver by 1843–44.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms">[https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/Baptisms_1834.html Barbara Braswell, transcript of Rasharkin Presbyterian baptisms, 1834–1846], entries for the children of Alexander Glasgow and Molly McAughern; original register PRONI MIC1P/292.</ref>

Their known or probable children include:

* James, baptised in 1837, who probably died before the name was reused;
* an incompletely transcribed child recorded in 1838;
* [[Glasgow-938|Robert Glasgow]], born about 1840;
* [[Glasgow-973|James Glasgow]], born about 1843; and
* [[Glasgow-438|Anna or Ann Glasgow]], born about 1847.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" /><ref name="Census1851" />

In 1851 Alexander and Mary headed Lisnagaver household 35 with Robert, James and
Ann. Nearby households were headed by [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]] and his
brother Samuel, and by [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]].<ref name="Census1851" />

The original 1834 tithe book records an Alexander Glasgow holding twenty-nine
acres at Lisnagaver and a Robert Glasgow holding a separate thirty-five
acres.<ref name="Tithe1834">[https://www.billmacafee.com/182030stithe/tithenorthantrimrevisionorder.pdf Bill MacAfee, ''North Antrim Tithe Applotment Books arranged in document order''], Lisnagaver, 1834; original PRONI FIN/5/A/236, folio 17.</ref> The Alexander entry may be this man or an older namesake. It does not supply an age or relationship.

Griffith's Valuation and the later revision books continue Alexander on
Lisnagaver lot 25. His name remained through the 1865–78 revision volume and was
struck out in the 1879–88 volume; Robert Elder held the lot by 1889. This proves
tenancy continuity, not a death date.

Alexander was alive in 1851. His exact death date and place have not been found.
The former claim that he died in Glasgow, Scotland in 1852 or 1861 belongs to a
conflated identity. The documented migration to Scotland begins with his son
Robert, not Alexander.

=== Family ===

Alexander married [[McCaughan-222|Mary "Molly" McCaughan]] about 1836, probably in County Antrim.

The detailed 1851 census transcription records 1836 as the first-marriage year for both Alexander and Mary.<ref name="CensusTranscript">[https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf 1851 Irish Census Returns: comma-delimited transcription], field definitions and Lisnagaver households 34–37, p. 183 (accessed 16 July 2026). This is a transcription of the same census return, not independent evidence.</ref>

No original marriage entry has been identified. The surviving Rasharkin Presbyterian marriage register begins only in 1845 and is therefore too late to contain their marriage.<ref name="ChurchCoverage">John Grenham, [https://www.johngrenham.com/records/church.php?civilparish=Rasharkin&civilparishid=347&search_type=full Church records for Rasharkin], Presbyterian entry citing PRONI MIC.1P/292: baptisms from 1834 and marriages from 1845 (accessed 16 July 2026).</ref>

Second Portglenone Presbyterian Church remains a specific candidate because its surviving marriage register begins in 1822 under PRONI reference MIC.1P/357.<ref name="SecondPortglenone">John Grenham, [https://www.johngrenham.com/records/county_church_full.php?county=Antrim&denomination=Presbyterian&location=Public+Record+Office+of+Northern+Ireland&search_type=full Historic Presbyterian church records for County Antrim], Second Portglenone entry citing PRONI MIC.1P/357, marriages from 1822 (accessed 2026).</ref> It should not, however, be described as the known or presumed marriage congregation until an entry is found.

Mary's surname appears in a published transcription of the Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism register as '''McAughin''' and '''McAughern'''. Her given name appears as both '''Mary''' and '''Molly'''.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms">Richard John Torrens, [https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/Baptisms_1834.html Rasharkin Presbyterian Church Baptisms, 1834–1846], transcription by Barbara Braswell, particularly entries 75, 106 and 203 (accessed 16 July 2026). The page warns that faded or difficult entries may contain transcription errors. The original register is PRONI MIC.1P/292.</ref>

These variants appear to concern one couple. ''Molly'' was a familiar form of Mary, not evidence of a second wife. The entries do not establish Mary's parents or the exact original spelling of her surname.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ '''Children and candidate child of Alexander Glasgow'''
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Child
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Birth / Age
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Residence
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Evidence and Assessment
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-3939|James Glasgow]]'''
| Born 17 January 1837
| Gortereagh
| Baptised 9 February 1837. The published transcription names Alex Glascaw and Mary McAughin as his parents.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" /> The later reuse of James suggests that he died before October 1843, but no burial has been identified and the original register should be checked before treating this as proved.
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-3940|Unknown Glasgow]]'''
| Entry dated 1838
| Gortereagh
| An incomplete transcription names Alex Glascow and Molly McAughern. The child's personal name and dates were not preserved. The entry should not be assigned to Robert, Ann or another known child without inspection of the original register.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-938|Robert Glasgow]]'''
| About 1840 or 1841
| County Antrim
| Recorded as Alexander and Mary's ten-year-old son in 1851.<ref name="CensusHousehold">National Archives of Ireland, ''Census of Ireland, 1851'', Lisnagaver, Rasharkin, County Antrim, household 35, Alexander Glasgow household; [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1851/Antrim/Kilconway/Rasharkin/Lisnagaver/35/ household images] (accessed 16 July 2026).</ref> His 1866 marriage independently names his father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer.<ref name="RobertMarriage1866">General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register, entry 142, marriage of [[Glasgow-938|Robert Glasgow]] and [[Graham-21720|Jane Graham]], 5 April 1866, Churchtown, parish of Tamlaght O'Crilly, County Londonderry; [https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11531/8240963.pdf digital image].</ref> '''Proved son.'''
|-
| '''Mary Glasgow'''
| Age 28 in 1871; exact birth year unresolved
| Lisnagaver in 1871
| Married [[Elder-7251|Robert Elder]] in 1871 and named her father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer.<ref name="ElderGlasgow1871">General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register, Ballymoney registration district, marriage of [[Elder-7251|Robert Elder]] and Mary Glasgow, 14 June 1871, Churchtown, parish of Tamlaght O'Crilly, County Londonderry; [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1871/11341/8162804.pdf digital image].</ref> Robert's later succession to Alexander's exact lot 25 holding strongly identifies her father with the Lisnagaver farmer.<ref name="LisnagaverRevision25">Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, valuation revision books for Lisnagaver, Rasharkin parish, PRONI VAL/12/B/4/16B–D, lot 25; [https://apps.proni.gov.uk/Val12B/Search.aspx valuation revision-book search]. Alexander remained named through the 1865–1878 volume and was later replaced by Robert Elder.</ref> Her mother and possible identification with [[Glasgow-3167|Maryan Glasgow]] remain unresolved.
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-973|James Glasgow]]'''
| Born 9 October 1843
| Lisnagaver
| Baptised 7 January 1844. The transcription names Alex and Molly McAughern as his parents, and he was Alexander and Mary's seven-year-old son in 1851.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" /><ref name="CensusHousehold" />
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-438|Ann Glasgow]]'''
| About 1846 or 1847
| County Antrim
| Recorded as Alexander and Mary's four-year-old daughter in 1851.<ref name="CensusHousehold" />
|}

The published baptism transcription contains no baptism entries for 1840 or 1841. Robert's missing baptism is therefore most likely a record-coverage or transcription issue and is not evidence that he belonged to another family.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />

=== Residences and Farming ===

Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Moneyleck are separate adjoining townlands in Rasharkin civil parish, barony of Kilconway, County Antrim.<ref name="Townlands">[https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/kilconway/rasharkin/killoquin/lisnagaver/ Lisnagaver Townland, County Antrim], administrative divisions and adjoining-townland map (accessed 2026).</ref>

The records place Alexander within this small area over several decades:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ '''Residence and land-record sequence'''
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Date
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Place
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Record and Assessment
|-
| '''1834'''
| Lisnagaver
| The Rasharkin Tithe Applotment Book records separate holdings for Alexr Glasgow, 29 acres, and Robt Glasgow, 35 acres.<ref name="RasharkinTithe1834">Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, ''Tithe Applotment Book for the parish of Rasharkin'', 1834, PRONI FIN/5/A/236, manuscript folio 17, Lisnagaver entries for Alexr and Robt Glasgow; digital image accessed 5 August 2026 through the [https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx PRONI eCatalogue].</ref> The identity of the 1834 Alexr with this Alexander is unproved.
|-
| '''1837–1838'''
| Gortereagh
| Residence in the transcribed baptism entries for Alexander and Mary's children.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />
|-
| '''1843–1844'''
| Lisnagaver
| Residence in James's birth and baptism entry.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />
|-
| '''1851'''
| Lisnagaver
| Alexander was a farmer and head of household 35.<ref name="CensusHousehold" />
|-
| '''Valuation era'''
| Lisnagaver, lot 25
| Alexander occupied a house, offices and 8 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches under Robert Harvey.<ref name="GriffithOriginal">''General Valuation of Ireland'', Lisnagaver, Rasharkin civil parish, County Antrim, lots 24–26; original valuation extract reproduced below.</ref>
|-
| '''Later revision sequence'''
| Lisnagaver, lot 25
| Alexander remained named in VAL/12/B/4/16B, covering 1865–1878. He was struck out during the later revision sequence and [[Elder-7251|Robert Elder]] was occupier by the volume beginning in 1889.<ref name="LisnagaverRevision25" /> The books bracket the tenancy change; they do not prove Alexander's death date.
|}

The changing descriptions may reflect residence on one side of a townland boundary and landholding on the other rather than a substantial migration. No exact move date should be inferred.

=== Original 1834 Tithe Holding ===

The original Rasharkin Tithe Applotment Book records two separate Glasgow holdings at Lisnagaver in 1834:

* '''Alexr Glasgow''' — 29 acres, comprising 10 acres first quality, 10 acres second quality and 9 acres third quality.
* '''Robt Glasgow''' — 35 acres, comprising 11 acres first quality, 10 acres second quality and 14 acres third quality.

The red numbers '''4''' and '''5''' beside their names are consecutive entry numbers, not ages. The men appear on separate lines with separate acreages and assessments. The manuscript states no relationship between them.<ref name="RasharkinTithe1834" />

The two holdings total exactly '''64 acres'''.

In the later valuation, the Glasgow holdings numbered 24–26—occupied by [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]], Alexander and [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]]—totalled '''63 acres, 0 roods and 10 perches'''.<ref name="GriffithOriginal" />

The difference is less than one acre.

One plausible interpretation is that substantially the same Glasgow land block was subsequently redistributed from two holdings into three. Changed survey methods, boundaries or the inclusion and exclusion of marginal land could also account for part of the difference. The comparison therefore supports continuity of a local Glasgow landholding network, but it does not establish either succession or kinship.

Two competing possibilities remain important:

# the 1834 Alexr and Robt were members of an older generation whose holdings were later divided among John, Alexander and Thomas; or
# the 1834 Alexr was this Alexander, then about twenty-three, and the later valuation reflects subdivision or reorganisation during his own lifetime.

The tithe itself does not distinguish between these interpretations.

The comparison also does not prove that the Alexr Glasgow recorded in 1834 was the man born about 1811. An older namesake such as [[Glasgow-3904|Alexander Glasgow]] remains possible, as does a connection with [[Glasgow-1367|Robert Glasgow]].

=== Griffith's Valuation ===

The original Griffith's Valuation page for Lisnagaver records Alexander, John and Thomas Glasgow on three consecutive numbered principal holdings, all under the same immediate lessor, Robert Harvey.<ref name="GriffithOriginal" />

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
|+ '''Glasgow holdings at Lisnagaver'''
|-
! Map lot
! Occupier
! Immediate lessor
! Description
! Area
! Approximate decimal acres
|-
| 24
| [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]]
| Robert Harvey
| House, offices and land
| 21 acres, 2 roods, 25 perches
| 21.66
|-
| 25
| '''Alexander Glasgow'''
| Robert Harvey
| House, offices and land
| 8 acres, 2 roods, 10 perches
| 8.56
|-
| 26a
| [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]]
| Robert Harvey
| House, offices and land
| 32 acres, 3 roods, 15 perches
| 32.84
|-
| 26b
| John M‘Cochrane
| Thomas Glasgow
| House
| No land recorded
| —
|}

Alexander, John and Thomas were therefore not merely three men of the same surname somewhere in Lisnagaver. They occupied lots 24, 25 and 26, held from the same landlord, and each principal holding included a house, offices and agricultural land.

The consecutive lot numbers strongly suggest that the holdings were physically close. The valuation map should still be consulted before stating that every plot directly adjoined or shared a boundary.

Alexander's holding, at 8 acres, 2 roods and 10 perches, was considerably smaller than John's holding of about 21.66 acres and Thomas's holding of about 32.84 acres. This could reflect subdivision of an earlier holding, different lease arrangements or independently acquired tenancies. Acreage alone does not establish how the men were related.

Thomas also acted as immediate lessor of the house occupied by John M‘Cochrane on lot 26b. This indicates that Thomas controlled the principal lot 26 holding and sublet at least one associated dwelling. It may reflect a different tenancy or economic position from Alexander and John, although it does not establish ownership of the land.

{{Image
|file=Glasgow-951-1.png
|caption=Original Griffith's Valuation extract showing lots 24–26 at Lisnagaver
|size=L
}}

The valuation names '''Alexander Glasgow''' as occupier of lot 25 rather than his widow, representatives or estate. In the absence of another identified Alexander at Lisnagaver, this was probably the farmer recorded there in the 1851 census.

The revision books strengthen the continuity of that tenancy by continuing Alexander's name into VAL/12/B/4/16B, covering 1865–1878, before Robert Elder later replaced him.<ref name="LisnagaverRevision25" />

Valuation records could lag behind an occupier's death, departure or informal transfer. The sequence therefore cannot be used as a precise life record. It does, however, make the history of lot 25 central to the identification of Alexander's later family network.

=== Mary Glasgow and the Elder Network ===

The original 1871 marriage entry records:

* [[Elder-7251|Robert Elder]], aged 40, bachelor and farmer of Gortereghy;
* Mary Glasgow, aged 28, spinster of Lisnagaver;
* Robert's father, Nathaniel Elder, farmer;
* Mary's father, Alexander Glasgow, farmer;
* witnesses '''William Glasgow''' and John Collins.<ref name="ElderGlasgow1871" />

The registrar's district was '''Ballymoney''', not Ballymena. Civil-birth searches for children of this marriage should therefore begin with Ballymoney registrations, while allowing for births registered in adjoining districts.

Mary's stated residence, her father's name and occupation, and Robert Elder's subsequent succession to Alexander's exact lot 25 holding provide a coherent land-and-marriage chain. Taken together, they make it very likely that Mary was a daughter of Alexander of Lisnagaver.

William Glasgow's presence as a marriage witness adds a significant same-surname FAN connection. The marriage does not state his relationship to Mary. He may have been a brother, uncle, cousin or unrelated associate and should not be attached to the family without another record.

A published transcription of a 1864 Presbyterian marriage records William Elder, farmer of Ballymaconnally, as a son of Nathaniel Elder, farmer. Robert Elder was a witness.<ref name="WilliamElder1864">[https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/GarvaghP1/Marriages/1845-1889marr.html First Garvagh Presbyterian Church Marriages, 1845–1889], entry dated 6 September 1864 for William Elder and Ellen J. McMaster (accessed 7 August 2026). This is a transcription; the original register should be inspected.</ref>

Because Robert's 1871 marriage names the same father and occupation, William was probably Robert's brother or another close paternal relative. The transcription does not by itself prove the exact relationship.

Churchtown Presbyterian's baptism register survives under PRONI reference '''MIC.1P/347A/1'''. The online transcription covers only an earlier portion ending in 1863; the later original register is therefore a principal source for reconstructing Robert and Mary's children.<ref name="ChurchtownRegister">[https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/TamlaghtP/Baptisms.html Churchtown Presbyterian Church Baptisms], description of PRONI MIC.1P/347A/1 and the limited online transcription (accessed 7 August 2026).</ref>

A Mary Jane Elder died at Lisnagaver on 11 June 1897, aged 65. She was described as married and the wife of a farmer; John Elder, son, reported the death.<ref name="MaryElderDeath1897">General Register Office of Ireland, civil death register, Dervock registrar's district, entry 285, Mary Jane Elder, died 11 June 1897 at Lisnagaver, aged 65; [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1897/05858/4660280.pdf digital image].</ref>

The entry does not name her husband or parents.

A separate 1901 census transcription places a 71-year-old John Elder and his 27-year-old son Robert in house 7 at Lisnagaver.<ref name="Elder1901">[https://downtheroad.dev/pt/census?county=Antrim&tab=browse&townland=Lisnagaver&year=1901 1901 census browse: Lisnagaver, County Antrim], house 7, John and Robert Elder (accessed 7 August 2026). This is a derivative census presentation; the original household and house forms should be inspected.</ref>

Until Robert and Mary's children and the separate Elder households at Lisnagaver have been reconstructed, the 1897 deceased cannot safely be identified as the Mary Glasgow who married Robert Elder in 1871.

=== The Lisnagaver Glasgow Network ===

Several Glasgow households appear together in the surviving Lisnagaver census fragment.<ref name="CensusTranscript" />

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ '''Nearby Glasgow households at Lisnagaver in 1851'''
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Household
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Family Head
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Age
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Occupation
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Notes
|-
| 34
| [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]]
| 50
| Farmer
| His unmarried brother [[Glasgow-2908|Samuel Glasgow]], aged 60, was also present.
|-
| 35
| '''Alexander Glasgow'''
| 40
| Farmer
| Lived with Mary, Robert, James and Ann.
|-
| 36
| John Watters
| —
| Blacksmith
| Intervening non-Glasgow household.
|-
| 37
| [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]]
| 35
| Farmer
| Lived with Mary Ann and their children.
|}

Enumeration order does not prove that the houses stood immediately beside one another. It does establish that John, Samuel, Alexander and Thomas belonged to the same small Lisnagaver residential cluster.

The census explicitly identifies '''John and Samuel as brothers'''. It does not call John, Samuel, Alexander and Thomas one sibling group.

The later valuation adds a separate land-based connection: John, Alexander and Thomas occupied the consecutive principal holdings 24, 25 and 26 under the same immediate lessor.<ref name="GriffithOriginal" />

The combined census, land and church evidence therefore supports a close Glasgow family-and-neighbour network at Lisnagaver while leaving the precise relationships unresolved.

==== Alexander and Thomas ====

The contemporary Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism register creates a stronger connection between Alexander and Thomas than census proximity or repeated forenames alone.

Alexander and Mary or Molly used the congregation while associated with Gortereagh and Lisnagaver. Thomas and [[McCracken-5681|Mary Ann McCracken]] used the same congregation while associated with Moneyleck and Lisnagaver.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />

Most notably:

* Alexander's son James was born at Lisnagaver on '''9 October 1843''';
* Thomas's daughter Eliza was born there on '''17 October 1843'''.

The two children were born eight days apart in the same small townland and appear in the same Presbyterian register.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />

Alexander and Thomas were also:

* born in County Antrim about five years apart;
* farmers;
* able to read and write;
* associated with the same Presbyterian congregation;
* recorded within the same Lisnagaver–Gortereagh–Moneyleck micro-area;
* heads of closely grouped Lisnagaver households in 1851;
* and later occupiers of consecutive valuation lots under the same lessor.

This is substantial FAN evidence for a close relationship.

No surviving record presently calls them brothers. Thomas should therefore be treated as Alexander's '''probable close relative''' and possible brother, not as a proved sibling.

==== Thomas and Daniel ====

A reported will record for [[Glasgow-3896|Daniel Glasgow]] of Kilrea identifies [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]] as his "late brother" and [[Glasgow-2413|Daniel Neely Glasgow]] as a nephew.<ref name="DanielWill">Will of Daniel Glasgow of Kilrea, proved 1871, reported in accumulated family research as identifying Thomas Glasgow as his "late brother". The original probate copy and complete archival citation are still required.</ref>

This supports Daniel and Thomas as brothers.

It does not establish Alexander's relationship to either man.

=== Death ===

Alexander was alive when the 1851 census was taken.<ref name="CensusHousehold" />

He was probably the Alexander named as occupier of lot 25 during the valuation era and remained named through the revision volume covering 1865–1878.<ref name="GriffithOriginal" /><ref name="LisnagaverRevision25" />

Valuation entries could remain unchanged after an occupier's death or removal. The revision sequence therefore cannot be converted into a precise death date.

The Glasgow Surname DNA Project includes participant-submitted pedigree metadata giving an 1852 death year for an Alexander Glasgow born in 1811.<ref name="DNAProject">[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about Glasgow Surname DNA Project], public project information and results (accessed 2026).</ref> No civil, church, burial, probate or other contemporary record has been located supporting that exact date.

The valuation sequence does not by itself disprove death in 1852, because a deceased tenant's name could remain in the books for some time. It does mean that 1852 should not be treated as established merely from participant-supplied pedigree data.

His death should therefore be recorded conservatively as:

* '''Date:''' after 1851;
* '''Place:''' unknown.

=== Y-DNA ===

Glasgow Surname DNA Project kit '''B580327''' has a Big Y result within haplogroup '''R-FT20271''' and a participant-supplied paternal pedigree ending with an Alexander Glasgow born about 1811 in County Antrim.<ref name="DNAProject" />

If the submitted pedigree is correct, the result places Alexander's direct paternal line within a wider north-Irish or Scottish Glasgow Y-DNA cluster. It does not identify his father, and the pedigree itself remains participant-supplied family-tree information rather than an independent genetic finding.

FamilyTreeDNA estimates the common ancestor represented by R-FT20271 at approximately the seventeenth century.<ref name="DNADiscover">[https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-FT20271 FamilyTreeDNA Discover, R-FT20271] (accessed 2026).</ref>

A descendant of Thomas, Daniel, John or Samuel merely testing somewhere within R-FT20271 would therefore not prove an early nineteenth-century brotherhood.

A useful comparison would require:

* each tester's current terminal SNP;
* shared downstream variants below R-FT20271;
* private-variant sharing;
* nearest Big Y matches;
* and an estimated common-ancestor range compatible with the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

A different haplogroup in a well-documented Thomas-line tester would disprove a shared direct paternal line. A newly formed recent downstream branch shared by Alexander- and Thomas-line testers would materially strengthen the close-kinship hypothesis.

Further details are maintained in the [https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Space:Alexander_Glasgow Alexander Glasgow Research Space] and the [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Glasgow_DNA Glasgow DNA research space].

== Research Notes ==
=== Current evidence assessment ===

==== Parents and siblings ====
Alexander is attached to [[Glasgow-3904|Alexander Glasgow]] and Rosanna Unknown
as uncertain parents. A later descendant account names Alexander and Rosanna as
The parents of Thomas of Lisnagaver and describes two Kilrea clockmaker
relatives.<ref name="DescendantAccount">[https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_topics/thread/465937 “Trying to find Glasgow,” ''Genes Reunited''], descendant account posted 25 January 2007.</ref>

The account is partly corrected by documentary evidence. [[Glasgow-3896|Daniel
Glasgow]] of Kilrea called the late Thomas his brother in his 1871 will, and
Daniel Neely Glasgow's 1888 marriage names Thomas Glasgow, farmer, as his
father.<ref name="DanielWill">[https://apps.proni.gov.uk/willscalendar_ie/willssearch.aspx Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Will Calendars], will of Daniel Glasgow of Kilrea, proved 1871.</ref><ref name="DanielNeelyMarriage">[https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1888/10763/5925382.pdf General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register], Daniel Neely Glasgow and Mary Jane Boyd, 28 June 1888.</ref> Daniel and Thomas are therefore proved brothers.

Alexander is their probable brother because he belonged to the same small
Lisnagaver/Kilrea cluster, was of a compatible age and is included in the later
family reconstruction. No contemporary record calls him their brother or names
The older Alexander as his father, so both his parent links remain uncertain.

[[Glasgow-1022|John Glasgow of Glenleslie]] has not been proved as Alexander's
father. The Mary Glasgow once used to connect them was twenty-eight in 1871 and
cannot be John's granddaughter Maryan, who was already seventeen in 1851.

==== Son Robert and Gortereghy ====
Robert's 1866 marriage explicitly names his father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer.
Robert was a Lisnagaver farmer and his bride Jane Graham lived at Gortereghy.<ref name="RobertMarriage1866">[https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1866/11531/8240963.pdf General Register Office of Ireland, civil marriage register], Robert Glasgow and Jane Graham, 1866.</ref> This directly proves Robert's parentage and makes him the best candidate for the Robert Glasgow carried at Gortereghy in Griffith's Valuation and later revision books.

==== Y-DNA ====
A direct male-line descendant of Alexander has taken a Big Y-700 test. Kit
B580327 is assigned to R-FT20271.<ref name="FTDNA">[https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Glasgow?iframe=ydna-results-overview FamilyTreeDNA Glasgow Surname Project, public Y-DNA results], kit B580327.</ref>

Kit 1002232, representing the [[Glasgow-2738|James J Glasgow]] line, is also
R-FT20271. The two kits are genetic distance three at Y-111, differ at four of
662 compared Big Y STRs and share DYS714=27. A local uncalibrated model places
their likely branching node around 1750 with a displayed 95% interval of
1700–1750. That interval is a research window, not proof of a particular
ancestor: the same model misdates a known control relationship.

The result proves a shared direct paternal Glasgow ancestor. It does not show
whether Alexander's father was the older Alexander, John of Glenleslie, Robert
of Glenleslie or another collateral man. It supports retaining plausible
uncertain attachments while documentary evidence is sought.

==== Highest-priority surviving parentage source ====
PRONI's Ballymoney Reformed Presbyterian register, references
'''CR5/32/1/1/1–2''', covers 1804–1844 and includes Dervock and Kilraughts
society lists, baptisms, marriages, deaths and removals. It spans Alexander's
probable 1810–11 birth and Rosanna's reported death in 1822. A household or
society entry placing a child Alexander with named parents could provide the
direct evidence still missing.<ref name="PRONICR5Guide">[https://www.proni.gov.uk/files/proni/2026-01/PRONI%20Guide%20to%20Church%20Records.pdf Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, ''Guide to Church Records''], Ballymoney Reformed Presbyterian material; see also the [https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx PRONI eCatalogue], references CR5/32/1/1/1–2.</ref>

A targeted request covering Glasgow, Glascow, Glasco, Glascoe and similar
spellings was sent to PRONI on 19 August 2026. No result has yet been received,
so the source is a pending evidence target rather than proof of either parent.

==== Additional sources consulted ====
The 1851 household can also be viewed through the National Archives' [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1851/Antrim/Kilconway/Rasharkin/Lisnagaver/35/ earlier census page] and the [https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf detailed census transcription]. The land sequence was checked in [https://apps.proni.gov.uk/Val12B/Search.aspx PRONI's revision-book search], the [https://apps.proni.gov.uk/eCatNI_IE/SearchPage.aspx PRONI eCatalogue], [https://www.townlands.ie/antrim/kilconway/rasharkin/killoquin/lisnagaver/ Lisnagaver townland reference] and [https://www.failteromhat.com/slater/0192.pdf Slater's directory].

Church and family searches included the [https://www.johngrenham.com/records/church.php?civilparish=Rasharkin&civilparishid=347&search_type=full Rasharkin church-register inventory], [https://www.johngrenham.com/records/county_church_full.php?county=Antrim&denomination=Presbyterian&location=Public+Record+Office+of+Northern+Ireland&search_type=full County Antrim Presbyterian register inventory], [https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/graveyard.html Rasharkin Presbyterian graveyard], [https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/TamlaghtP/Baptisms.html Tamlaght baptisms] and [https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/GarvaghP1/Marriages/1845-1889marr.html Garvagh marriages]. The later Elder family was checked through the [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marriages_1871/11341/8162804.pdf 1871 Elder–Glasgow marriage], an [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1897/05858/4660280.pdf 1897 civil death], the [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/search/?church-or-civil=civil&event-birth=1&lastname=Elder&location=Ballymoney&per_page=100 Ballymoney civil search] and [https://downtheroad.dev/pt/census?county=Antrim&tab=browse&townland=Lisnagaver&year=1901 1901 Lisnagaver census browse]. None identifies Alexander's parents.

The Y-DNA assessment uses both the [https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/glasgow/about Glasgow project page] and the [https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-FT20271 R-FT20271 haplotree page].

=== Parentage ===

No surviving baptism, marriage entry, will, lease, gravestone, census relationship or civil record located for this profile explicitly names Alexander's parents.

Current WikiTree parent relationships, family traditions and nearby same-surname holdings should therefore be treated as research hypotheses rather than proved genealogy.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="padding:20px; width:100%;"
|+ '''Parentage evidence and competing hypotheses'''
|-
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Candidate / Hypothesis
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Evidence
! style="background-color:#E1F0B4;" | Assessment
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-1022|John Glasgow]] of Glenleslie'''
| John's 1851 household included [[Glasgow-3167|Maryan Glasgow]], aged 17 and described as his granddaughter. The Mary who married Robert Elder in 1871 named Alexander Glasgow as her father.
| '''Possible, conditional on the two Marys being one woman.''' Even then, "granddaughter" would not expressly state whether John was her paternal or maternal grandfather.
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-3904|Older Alexander Glasgow]] and Rosanna'''
| A descendant account concerning Thomas Glasgow names Thomas's parents as Alexander and Rosanna and reports Rosanna's death about 23 October 1822.<ref name="ThomasTradition">[https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_topics/thread/465937 Trying to find Glasgow], descendant post dated 25 January 2007, concerning Thomas Glasgow of Lisnagaver and his family (accessed 16 July 2026). This is later family testimony, not a contemporary record.</ref>
| '''Family tradition and working hypothesis.''' Applying it to this Alexander requires proof that he and Thomas shared parents.
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-1367|Robert Glasgow]] or the 1834 Robt Glasgow'''
| Robt Glasgow held a separate 35-acre Lisnagaver tithe holding in 1834 and may have belonged to an older generation.<ref name="RasharkinTithe1834" />
| '''Possible older relative; insufficient evidence for father.'''
|-
| '''[[Glasgow-822|John Glasgow]] and [[Arthur-2480|Mary Arthur]] of Inishrush'''
| Their reported family-Bible sequence includes children born before and after Alexander's estimated birth year, but no Alexander.
| '''Weak alternative.''' No documentary bridge has been found.
|}

No candidate currently reaches a documentary standard of probable father.

==== John Glasgow of Glenleslie ====

[[Glasgow-1022|John Glasgow]]'s 1851 Glenleslie household included his granddaughters Ann Glasgow, aged 18, and [[Glasgow-3167|Maryan Glasgow]], aged 17.<ref name="Glenleslie1851">National Archives of Ireland, ''Census of Ireland, 1851'', Glenleslie, Dunaghy parish, County Antrim, household 21, John Glasgow household; see [https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf detailed transcription], pp. 103–104.</ref>

The discovery that Mary Glasgow of Lisnagaver married Robert Elder in 1871 and named her father as Alexander Glasgow makes this household more relevant than it previously appeared.

If Mary Glasgow and Maryan Glasgow were the same woman, John would have been a grandfather of one of Alexander's daughters. That would materially strengthen a parentage connection.

It would not, however, prove that John was Alexander's father. The census describes Maryan only as John's granddaughter and does not state whether the link ran through her father or mother.

The identity of the two Marys therefore has to be established independently before the Glenleslie relationship can be used as parentage evidence.

==== Descendant Account: Alexander and Rosanna ====

A descendant of Thomas Glasgow's daughter Jane posted a family account in 2007 naming Thomas's parents as '''Alexander and Rosanna'''. The account also reports that Rosanna died on or about 23 October 1822 and that Thomas possibly had two uncles at Kilrea who were clockmakers.<ref name="ThomasTradition" />

The account is not primary evidence and gives no original source for the preceding generation. It does, however, reportedly identify Thomas's wife, several children and Lisnagaver residence correctly.

Applying this parentage to Alexander requires two separate propositions:

# Alexander and Thomas were brothers or otherwise shared the same parents.
# The descendant account correctly preserved Thomas's parents' names.

The first remains plausible but unproved. The second rests on descendant testimony rather than a contemporary record.

The attached relationships to an older '''Alexander Glasgow''' and '''Rosanna or Rose Ann''' may therefore be retained only as '''uncertain working relationships'''.

==== The Clockmaker Tradition and Rosanna's Surname ====

Slater's 1846 directory lists two watch and clock makers at Kilrea:

* '''Daniel Glasco''';
* '''James Shaw'''.<ref name="Slater1846">Isaac Slater, ''Slater's National Commercial Directory of Ireland'' (1846), Kilrea, p. 473, under "Watch & Clock Makers"; [https://www.failteromhat.com/slater/0192.pdf digital copy] (accessed 16 July 2026).</ref>

This once suggested that Daniel Glasgow and James Shaw were the paternal and maternal clockmaker uncles remembered by Thomas's descendants, leading to the reconstruction of Rosanna's surname as Shaw.

That argument is no longer secure.

The reported Daniel Glasgow will identifies Thomas as Daniel's brother, not nephew.<ref name="DanielWill" /> The clockmaker story therefore appears to have shifted by a generation, by the descendant's perspective or through ordinary family-memory error.

James Shaw's occupation at Kilrea does not establish that he was Rosanna's brother.

Rosanna's surname remains unknown. If '''Shaw''' is retained in a linked profile, it should be marked uncertain and described as a discarded or weak working hypothesis rather than a genealogical conclusion.

==== Robert Glasgow of Lisnagaver ====

[[Glasgow-1367|Robert Glasgow]] or the Robt Glasgow recorded at Lisnagaver in 1834 remains a significant place-based candidate for Alexander's father or older close relative.

Supporting evidence includes:

* Robert and Alexander held the two separately assessed Glasgow holdings at Lisnagaver in the original 1834 tithe;
* Robert's 35-acre holding and Alexander's 29-acre holding together formed a 64-acre block;
* Alexander was only about twenty-three in 1834 if the census age is accurate, so Robert may have represented an older generation;
* Alexander later named a son Robert;
* the name Robert recurs in related or possibly related Glasgow branches.

Main limitations:

* the tithe gives no ages or relationships;
* the identity of the tithe Robert with [[Glasgow-1367|Robert Glasgow]] is not yet securely established;
* no document yet shows Robert's holding passing directly to Alexander;
* no direct bridge has been found between Robert and the later lots 24–26 occupiers;
* naming patterns alone are weak evidence.

Robert is therefore a significant possible father or older relative, but not a proved or presently probable father.

==== John Glasgow and Mary Arthur of Inishrush ====

The Inishrush family Bible reportedly identifies John Glasgow and Mary Arthur and lists their children in a close sequence from 1799 to 1815, including Margaret on 17 October 1810 and John on 4 March 1813, but no Alexander.<ref name="InishrushBible">Inishrush Glasgow family Bible transcription, listing the children of John Glasgow and Mary Arthur from 1799 to 1815. The original image, provenance and full citation should be added to the research space when available.</ref>

Alexander's presumed birth about 1810 or 1811 falls directly into this sequence.

Unless his census age is materially wrong or the transcription is incomplete, adding another child at that point is chronologically awkward. John and Mary should therefore not be proposed as Alexander's parents without new evidence.

==== Glenleslie Parentage and the Separate Alexander ====

[[Glasgow-1022|John Glasgow]] and [[Alexander-16967|Rose Alexander]] of Glenleslie were previously treated as possible parents of this Alexander.

The newly reopened Mary/Maryan question means John cannot simply be dismissed as irrelevant, but the older direct-parent theory remains unproved.

John and Rose were a real couple living at Glenleslie in 1851. The presence of William Alexander, described as John's brother-in-law, supports Rose's maiden surname being Alexander.<ref name="JohnRose1851">[https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf 1851 Irish Census Returns: comma-delimited transcription], Glenleslie household 21, pp. 103–104 (accessed 16 July 2026).</ref>

Important cautions remain:

* John and Rose belonged to the Glenleslie cluster rather than Lisnagaver;
* Rose was alive in 1851, whereas the Rosanna in Thomas's descendant tradition was reportedly dead by 1822;
* a separate Alexander Glasgow lived at Glenleslie with Mary Ann and their son John;
* no record directly identifies John or Rose as parents of the Lisnagaver Alexander.

The separate Glenleslie Alexander was born about 1816 and must not be merged with this Lisnagaver farmer.<ref name="OtherAlexander1851">[https://durrushistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1851irishcensusreturnscommadelimitedtextfilejul24_071.pdf 1851 Irish Census Returns: comma-delimited transcription], Glenleslie household 35, p. 104 (accessed 16 July 2026).</ref>

The similarity between the names '''Rose''', '''Rose Ann''' and '''Rosanna''' is not sufficient to merge the two women or their families.

==== Other Weak Reconstructions ====

The birth year '''1788''' sometimes assigned to the proposed older Alexander is unsupported and should not be relied upon. It is also difficult to reconcile with treating Daniel Glasgow, born about 1795 or 1796, as his son.

No positive evidence currently connects this Alexander to Adam Glasgow and Rose of Inishrush. Their possible relationship belongs in wider-family research, not in the proved biography.

James Glasgow senior of Ballybogy and an older Robert Glasgow at Doonbought remain possible members of the wider local network, but neither presently has a direct documented bridge to Alexander.

=== Mary Glasgow and Maryan Glasgow ===

The 1871 marriage register clearly records Mary Glasgow as aged '''28''', implying birth about 1842 or 1843.<ref name="ElderGlasgow1871" />

[[Glasgow-3167|Maryan Glasgow]] was aged 17 in [[Glasgow-1022|John Glasgow]]'s Glenleslie household in 1851, implying birth about 1833 or 1834.<ref name="Glenleslie1851" />

The age conflict is substantial. It does not by itself disprove identity because marriage ages could be understated or otherwise inaccurate, but the two records should not be treated as matching without further evidence.

The 1897 Mary Jane Elder was aged 65, implying birth about 1831 or 1832, which is much closer to Maryan's census age.<ref name="MaryElderDeath1897" /> That death cannot yet be used as confirmation because the entry does not name her husband or parents, and another Elder household existed at Lisnagaver.

Mary does not appear in Alexander's 1851 household. That is useful negative evidence but not disproof. A teenage daughter could have been living with grandparents, relatives, an employer or another household.

If Maryan was Alexander's daughter, her apparent birth about 1833 or 1834 would also precede Alexander and Mary's reported first-marriage year of 1836.

Possible explanations include:

* Maryan was born to Alexander and Mary before their marriage;
* Maryan was Alexander's daughter by a previous relationship;
* the reported first-marriage year or census age is inaccurate;
* Maryan was the child of another son or daughter of John Glasgow;
* or Maryan and the 1871 Mary were separate women.

No surviving record presently distinguishes these possibilities.

'''Current assessment:''' Mary, the 1871 bride, was probably a daughter of Alexander of lot 25. Her identification with [[Glasgow-3167|Maryan Glasgow]] is possible and worth active investigation, but remains unproved. The profiles should remain separate until the Elder children, the 1897 deceased and the relevant 1901 households have been reconstructed.

=== John and Samuel Branch ===

The 1851 census explicitly identifies [[Glasgow-2908|Samuel Glasgow]] as [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]]'s brother. It does not identify either man as Alexander's or Thomas's brother.<ref name="CensusTranscript" />

John's reported age conflicts with a Rasharkin gravestone:

* the 1851 transcription suggests birth about 1800 or 1801;
* the gravestone says he died on 20 June 1895 aged 78, suggesting birth about 1816 or 1817.<ref name="JohnGravestone">Richard John Torrens, [https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/RasharkinP/graveyard.html Rasharkin Presbyterian Graveyard], Glasgow memorial for John Glasgow and Margaret Garvin (accessed 2026).</ref>

The 1846 civil marriage of John Glasgow and Margaret Garvin is therefore an important proxy-parent record for this adjacent branch.

The full registration image should be obtained for John's residence, occupation, father's name and occupation, witnesses, church and minister.

Any father named there applies first to John and Samuel only. It should not automatically be extended to Alexander or Thomas.

=== Identity and Record Cautions ===

* The 1871 Elder–Glasgow marriage belongs to the '''Ballymoney''' registration district, not Ballymena.<ref name="ElderGlasgow1871" />
* The witness '''William Glasgow''' is an important associate but is not yet identified.
* The 1897 Mary Jane Elder should not be attached as Robert Elder's wife solely from surname and residence.
* The 1834 Alexr Glasgow of Lisnagaver may be this Alexander or an older namesake. The tithe gives no age or relationship.
* This Alexander should not be confused with [[Glasgow-2385|Alexander Glasgow]], born about 1816, who lived at Glenleslie with Mary Ann and their son John.
* The alleged Barony, Lanarkshire, marriage of 12 June 1838 concerns another couple. Alexander and Mary already had a child born at Gortereagh in January 1837.<ref name="RasharkinBaptisms" />
* No Scottish or Australian death should be attached without evidence connecting the record to Mary McCaughan, Lisnagaver or the known children.
* Lisnagaver in Rasharkin parish is not Lisnagarvey, the former name of Lisburn.
* Mary's age of 40 in 1851 supports a birth about 1810 or 1811, not 1817 or 1818.
* [[Glasgow-938|Robert Glasgow]]'s exact birth date of 6 November 1840 has not been established by the records cited here.
* The red 4 and 5 on the 1834 tithe page are entry numbers, not ages.

=== Robert Glasgow, Son of Alexander ===

[[Glasgow-938|Robert Glasgow]] was recorded as Alexander and Mary's ten-year-old son in 1851.<ref name="CensusHousehold" />

His civil marriage to [[Graham-21720|Jane Graham]] on 5 April 1866 independently names his father as Alexander Glasgow, farmer.<ref name="RobertMarriage1866" />

Robert's reported Scottish death on 27 November 1902 in Glasgow remains potentially useful because a Scottish death registration would normally identify both parents, including the mother's maiden surname, if known to the informant.

The original Scottish death record should be obtained before relying on parent details copied from online trees.

=== Female and Affinal Network ===

The Rasharkin baptism transcription also names adult Glasgow women in the same regional generation, including:

* Elisabeth Glasgow with James Anderson at Drumack;
* Charlotte Glasgow with a James Anderson at Drumack;
* Jane Glasgow with James Dysart at Granagh and Crushybracken.

They should not be attached as Alexander's sisters without a direct bridge.

Their husbands' wills, children's marriages, witnesses, gravestones and tenancy records may nevertheless preserve relationships omitted from male land records.

The same register records McAughern households in or near Lisnagaver. This does not prove a relationship to Mary, but it makes the local McAughern network worth reconstructing.

The newly identified William Glasgow witness at Mary's 1871 marriage should be added to this FAN network and investigated alongside the existing male and female associates.

=== Land and Estate Records ===

The tithe and valuation sources identify occupiers or persons responsible for land. They do not automatically establish ownership, residence or kinship.

The land evidence is nevertheless unusually useful here because it provides exact parcels, acreage and succession rather than surname-only appearances.

Priority record groups include:

* the original 1834 Rasharkin Tithe Applotment Book under PRONI FIN/5/A/236 and related microfilm material;
* the original Griffith's Valuation page and map for Lisnagaver;
* the complete Lisnagaver valuation-revision sequence, including VAL/12/B/4/16B–D and subsequent volumes;
* Killoquin estate map and related material under '''D/2972''';
* title-deed schedules concerning Moneyleck under '''T/1459''';
* early Bateson-Harvey estate accounts under '''D/3300/256/1''';
* any Harvey estate rentals, lease books, arrears ledgers, assignments, surrenders, notices to quit and tenant correspondence covering approximately 1820–1890.

PRONI reference D3209/1 is a 1790 Killoquin rent roll and arrears account that explicitly includes Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Moneyleck. A targeted request for its complete Lisnagaver section was sent to PRONI on 13 August 2026; it may identify an earlier Glasgow tenant generation but cannot alone prove Alexander's father.

The land search should follow numbered parcels and transactions rather than surnames alone.

Useful findings would include:

* one Glasgow occupier replacing another on the same parcel;
* "representatives of" wording;
* a widow inserted after a deletion;
* division or consolidation of plots;
* transfers between Glasgow and Elder occupiers;
* common map-number roots;
* an estate assignment naming a son, brother, daughter or son-in-law;
* or an explicit surrender and regrant explaining the transition from Alexander Glasgow to Robert Elder.

Lot '''25''' is now especially important because the marriage evidence provides a plausible reason for an Elder son-in-law to succeed Alexander there.

Lots '''24''' and '''26''' should still be traced in parallel. Their histories may reveal whether the Glasgow block was divided among relatives from an earlier common tenancy.

=== Church Records ===

Highest-priority church work includes:

* inspect the original Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism images under '''MIC.1P/292''' for Alexander and Thomas's entries, including adjacent pages and marginal notes;
* search Second Portglenone Presbyterian '''MIC.1P/357''' for Glasgow marriages from 1822 to 1845, particularly Alexander and Mary about 1834–1838 and Thomas and Mary Ann about 1838–1842;
* inspect Churchtown Presbyterian '''MIC.1P/347A/1''' from June 1871 through about 1890 for children of Robert Elder and Mary Glasgow;
* collect every Glasgow, McAughern, McCracken, Elder, Garvin and related witness rather than searching only the target couples;
* examine any surviving session, communicant, stipend, pew-rent, Sunday-school or congregational-account material.

Pre-civil Presbyterian marriage entries may not name fathers. Residences, witnesses and repeated associates may be the most useful surviving details.

=== DNA Research ===

The most informative next test remains Big Y-700 for a documented direct male-line descendant of [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]].

Suggested recruitment order:

# Thomas Glasgow's documented male-line descendants;
# [[Glasgow-3896|Daniel Glasgow]]'s documented male-line descendants;
# [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]] or [[Glasgow-2908|Samuel Glasgow]]'s documented male-line descendants;
# more distant project members with well-sourced north-Irish Glasgow pedigrees.

Autosomal matches or descendants through daughters cannot directly answer the paternal-line question.

A Big Y match should be interpreted below R-FT20271 rather than merely at that broad haplogroup level.

=== Priority Research ===

==== Priority 1 — reconstruct Robert and Mary's children ====

* Inspect PRONI '''MIC.1P/347A/1''', Churchtown Presbyterian baptisms, from June 1871 through about 1890 for children of [[Elder-7251|Robert Elder]] and Mary Glasgow.
* Record birth dates, baptism dates, residences, maternal surnames, sponsors and marginal notes.
* Identify their son John and determine whether he was the informant at Mary Jane Elder's 1897 death.
* Search [https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/search/?church-or-civil=civil&event-birth=1&lastname=Elder&location=Ballymoney&per_page=100 Ballymoney civil births for Elder] from 1871 onward and inspect original images for father Robert, mother Mary formerly Glasgow, and Lisnagaver or Gortereghy residence.

==== Priority 1 — distinguish the Elder households ====

* Obtain the original 1901 Form A, B1 and B2 returns for house 7, Lisnagaver, occupied by John Elder and his son Robert.
* Establish John's marital status and occupation and compare the property description with the valuation revision books.
* Trace every Elder holding at Lisnagaver through VAL/12/B/4/16C–D and subsequent volumes rather than assuming that all Elders there belonged to one household.
* Determine which Elder household occupied Alexander's former lot 25 and whether later subdivision created additional Elder tenancies.

==== Priority 1 — identify William Glasgow ====

* Search Churchtown Presbyterian, Rasharkin Presbyterian and Ballymoney civil records for William Glasgow in the Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Tamlaght O'Crilly area before and after 1871.
* Compare his residence, occupation, father, witnesses and landholding with Alexander's known family.
* Search for William as a witness to other Glasgow, Elder, McCaughan/McAughern or Graham events.
* Do not attach him as Mary's brother without a direct record.

==== Priority 1 — complete the lot 24–26 land sequence ====

* Trace lots 24, 25 and 26 through every available valuation-revision volume.
* Record every dated deletion, insertion and occupier change.
* Note "representatives of" wording, acreage changes, subdivisions and consolidations.
* Establish the earliest securely dated transition from Alexander Glasgow to Robert Elder on lot 25.
* Compare the later parcels with the 1834 64-acre tithe block.

==== Priority 2 — reconstruct Nathaniel Elder's family ====

* Obtain the original 6 September 1864 marriage entry for William Elder and Ellen J. McMaster and verify Robert Elder's witness signature.
* Search marriages, baptisms, deaths and valuation records for children of Nathaniel Elder, farmer, particularly Robert and William.
* A record expressly naming Robert and William as brothers would establish the witness network independently.

==== Priority 2 — resolve Mary/Maryan ====

* Reconstruct [[Glasgow-3167|Maryan Glasgow]] forward from the 1851 Glenleslie census.
* Determine whether she appears in any marriage, death, church or emigration record under that identity.
* Reconstruct all children of Robert Elder and Mary Glasgow for maternal-age evidence and naming patterns.
* Determine whether the 1897 Mary Jane Elder was Robert's wife.
* Search for records naming Mary's mother.
* Keep Mary and Maryan as separate profiles until the evidence converges.

==== Priority 2 — church and estate records ====

* Inspect PRONI MIC.1P/292 for the original Rasharkin Presbyterian baptism entries and adjacent pages.
* Search PRONI MIC.1P/357, Second Portglenone Presbyterian marriages, about 1834–1838, for Alexander Glasgow variants and Mary McCaughan, McAughin or McAughern variants.
* Examine Killoquin estate material under '''D/2972'''.
* Examine Moneyleck title-deed schedules under '''T/1459'''.
* Examine Bateson-Harvey estate accounts under '''D/3300/256/1'''.
* Search additional Harvey estate rentals, leases, assignments and tenant correspondence for Lisnagaver, Gortereghy and Moneyleck.

==== Priority 2 — adjacent Glasgow branches ====

* Obtain the 1846 civil marriage image for [[Glasgow-867|John Glasgow]] and Margaret Garvin.
* Record John's father, occupation, residence, witnesses and church.
* Treat any resulting father identification as applying first to John and Samuel only.
* Investigate whether John, Samuel or their children appear as witnesses or successors in the Alexander/Thomas land and church network.

==== Priority 3 — probate and paternal-network testing ====

* Obtain the complete probate copy and archival citation for [[Glasgow-3896|Daniel Glasgow]]'s will.
* Seek a contemporary source for Rosanna's reported death on or about 23 October 1822.
* Recruit a documented direct male-line descendant of [[Glasgow-987|Thomas Glasgow]] for Big Y testing.
* Compare recent downstream and private variants with kit B580327 rather than relying solely on shared placement in R-FT20271.

=== Cape Supreme Court records ===
Cape Supreme Court indexes name an Alexander Glasgow in an 1893 estate motion and in Maria Welch v. Alexander Glasgow in 1898. These records belong to the Cape Town property and debt context relevant to this profile, but the indexes give no age, birthplace, occupation or family. Identity with this Alexander remains unproved, and the two proceedings are not proved to concern one man.<ref>[https://www.nationalarchives.gov.za/node/737 Underlying record source: alexander glasgow].</ref>

== Sources ==
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