Glasgow Surname Project

Individual research record

Nancy Ellis (McCulloch) Glasgow

1788-11-27 – 1868-05-10

McCulloch-655 · 1 mapped association

Virginia, United StatesVirginia, United States

At a glance

Identity & family

Tree links organise the family; documentary status still varies.

1Mapped records
3Close relations
7Evidence items
2Candidate leads
Birth
1788-11-27 · Virginia, United States
Death
1868-05-10 · Virginia, United States
Parents
Not recorded
Spouses
Joseph Glasgow
Children
Elizabeth J A (Glasgow) JohnsRebecca J Glasgow
Gender
Female
WikiTree
McCulloch-655
Research clusters
Worldwide One-Tree profile leads
Mapped descendants
2

Comparison context

These child positions and checks are the subject details used to rank possible parents below.

Naming sequence used by the parentage model

Paternal grandfather positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Maternal grandfather positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Maternal grandmother positionRebecca J Glasgow (1817)
Paternal grandmother positionElizabeth J A (Glasgow) Johns (1819)

Known-position checks: 0 support · 1 conflict. Ordinals retain unnamed children and recognise reused names.

Estimate and relationship notes
  • 2 parent references point outside the current export.

Relationship comparison

Potential parents or duplicates

Compare scored leads with the subject details above—not proof.

Higher-signal leadReview carefullyWeak lead

No candidate met the minimum age, location or family-naming threshold.

How parent leads are calculated

Automated leads use birth surnames—not married surnames—as parental eligibility, role-specific biological age limits, bounded and approximate-date uncertainty, household chronology, specific time-aware localities, mapped distance, tenancy succession, migration destinations and sex-aware Scottish naming positions across generations. People already attached as the subject's parents stay in the identity summary and are excluded from this alternative-candidate list, regardless of relationship confidence. The main calibration uses clues available on disconnected profiles; existing parent and sibling links are retained as comparison context rather than treated as transferable evidence. Common ordered names and grandparent-to-child echoes receive a small non-zero weight, so a John or James match can support several independent criteria without producing a lead alone. Rare names, repeated bearers and bundles across otherwise distinct branches receive substantially more weight according to catalogue frequency. An exact migration place is weighted by its rarity and repetition across both branches; a shared destination country is worth only one point. Extra weight is added only when at least three independent clue types converge: naming, locality, specific migration, household chronology or collateral networks. Sparse profiles retain a clearly labelled chronology-only fallback instead of disappearing. Countries, states, counties and research clusters do not count as a shared locality, and fallback, broad representative or kin-inferred coordinates are excluded from distance scoring. Shared descendant profiles are removed before branch-name comparison. A candidate already recorded as a parent-in-law is excluded. A confident or independently supported parent is treated as settled; uncertain and unassessed attachments remain open to alternative comparison. A different linked parent, an uncle/aunt or grandparent path, and a matching existing child profile prevent an alternative from being classified as a strong direct-parent lead until the underlying tree conflict or duplicate is resolved. Familiar forms such as Bessie are normalised. Surname remains an eligibility filter worth zero points.

Naming customs, shared farms and occupations are circumstantial. Children, spouses and collateral relatives may be missing, and tree-derived family networks are not independent evidence. Scores rank research leads; they do not prove parentage.

Automated fit36/100
Similar Person
Dates1785–1850PlacesSouth Carolina → Giles County, TN, USAParent comparisonNo shared parent is indexed
Why it may fit
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 3 (+18)

No indexed conflict

Full comparison detail
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 3 (+18)

Conflicts: No indexed conflict

Automated fit20/100
Similar Person
Dates1800–?PlacesPlaces not recordedParent comparisonNo shared parent is indexed
Why it may fit
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 12 (+2)

No indexed conflict

Full comparison detail
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 12 (+2)

Conflicts: No indexed conflict

How duplicate leads are calculated

Dates are eligibility gates, not merely deductions: chronologically impossible people are excluded. Dates, places, spouses, parent certainty and children's profiles and names are then compared. A high score is a prompt to inspect records, not a merge recommendation.

Open only what you need

Research & records

Life and record timelineChronological mapped occurrences and their underlying sources.1 record
b. 1788

Profile-stated birthplace: Virginia, United States

Virginia, United States

One-Tree export profile fields are search leads, not sources; relationships are shown only where the export supplies parent links.

One-Tree profile leadunknown
Source and mapping detail

WikiTree profile export for McCulloch-655

No sufficiently specific citation match found.

Precision: Country-centre fallback for profile locality

Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.4 claims
4Derivative
2Unknown
1Tree Only

Documented or strongly supported

No claims in this category have been formally assessed.

Working hypotheses and conflicts

No claims in this category have been formally assessed.

Research questionsOpen problems, missing bridges and the next records to inspect.0 open

No formal open question is recorded for this person.

Sources and provenanceStructured citations and source-quality classifications.7 sources
Technical profile and raw captureDataset metadata, machine dossier and captured WikiTree biography.Advanced

WikiTree profile information

Dataset: ONT_Glasco_2026-08-18T16_05.json · generated 2026-08-20

Machine-readable dossier

WikiTree biography, citations and relationship snapshot

McCulloch-655 was captured 2026-08-07T09:54:35+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2024-07-16.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birthVirginia, United StatesWikiTree profile field
deathVirginia, United StatesWikiTree profile field
marriage1816-02-29Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United StatesWikiTree relationship field

Immediate relationship snapshot

RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ParentsRoderickMcCulloch-6361740-11-06 · Westmoreland, Virginia · 1826-11-01 · Virginia, United States
ParentsElizabethHorsley-21901749-03-22 · Amherst, Virginia · 1821-04-07 · Amherst, Virginia, United States
ChildrenRebecca J GlasgowGlasgow-6501817-09-13 · 1837-07-25
ChildrenElizabeth J A JohnsGlasgow-6511819-11-01 · 1895-00-00
SiblingsMaryMcCulloch-6481771-02-25 · Amherst, Colony of Virginia · 1851-09-19 · Amherst, Virginia, United States
SiblingsElizabethMcCulloch-6351773-03-11 · Colony of Virginia · 1833-03-20 · Virginia, United States
SiblingsBelindaMcCulloch-6501775-06-21 · Va · 1817-00-00
SiblingsRoderickMcCulloch-6511777-10-20 · 0000-00-00
SiblingsFrancesMcCulloch-6521781-07-15 · Va · 0000-00-00 · Hannibal, Mo
SiblingsIsabellaMcCulloch-6531784-01-22 · 1860-06-05
SiblingsRobertMcCulloch-6541786-05-01 · 1839-10-09
SiblingsWilliamMcCulloch-6561791-12-10 · Virginia, United States · 1855-03-05 · Osceola, St. Clair, Missouri, United States
SpousesJoseph GlasgowGlasgow-6481783-10-14 · Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States · 0000-00-00 · 1816-02-29

Profile categories

Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia Oak_Grove_Cemetery,_Lexington,_Virginia

Record-bearing passages

Profile source citations

  1. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ7-M4Q8 source link 1
  2. http://www.mathewscommunications.com/mathews/mw5/mw5g54.htm#88047 source link 1
  3. [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BAo7AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA291] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: Parents, Siblings, Marriage, Husband, Children page 291, 292, 293 source link 1
  4. "Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ7-M4Q8 : Thu Oct 26 06:50:12 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Glasgow and Nancy E McCulloch, 26 Feb 1816. source link 1
  5. "United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DG-XHC : Sun Oct 15 22:50:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Glasgow and Nancy E Glasgow, 1850. source link 1
  6. Her husband's death record. "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRSB-MDQ : 29 January 2020), Nancy in entry for Joseph Glasgow, 1856. source link 1
Full captured biography text
Biography
Nancy was born in 1788, in Virginia. She was the daughter of Roderick McCulloch and Elizabeth Cabell Horsely. 

On 26 Feb 1816, in Rockbridge, she married Joseph Glasgow https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ7-M4Q8 . They had two children.
#Rebecca Glasgow b. 1817 - d. 1837, age 20
#Elizabeth A Glasgow b. 1819 - d. aft. 1895, m. Hobson Johns

Nancy lived in Rockbridge throughout her life. It is here she passed away in 1868. She is buried at the Oak Grove Cemetery.
Sources
* http://www.mathewscommunications.com/mathews/mw5/mw5g54.htm#88047
*[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BAo7AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA291] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: Parents, Siblings, Marriage, Husband, Children page 291, 292, 293

* 

*"Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ7-M4Q8 : Thu Oct 26 06:50:12 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Glasgow and Nancy E McCulloch, 26 Feb 1816.

*"United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DG-XHC : Sun Oct 15 22:50:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Glasgow and Nancy E Glasgow, 1850.

*Her husband's death record. "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRSB-MDQ : 29 January 2020), Nancy in entry for Joseph Glasgow, 1856.
Raw WikiTree biography markup
[[Category:Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia]]
== Biography ==
Nancy was born in 1788, in Virginia. She was the daughter of [[McCulloch-636|Roderick McCulloch]] and [[Horsely-19|Elizabeth Cabell Horsely]]. 

On 26 Feb 1816, in Rockbridge, she married [[Glasgow-648|Joseph Glasgow]]<ref>https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ7-M4Q8</ref>. They had two children.
#[[Glasgow-650|Rebecca Glasgow]] b. 1817 - d. 1837, age 20
#[[Glasgow-651|Elizabeth A Glasgow]] b. 1819 - d. aft. 1895, m. Hobson Johns

Nancy lived in Rockbridge throughout her life. It is here she passed away in 1868. She is buried at the Oak Grove Cemetery.

== Sources ==
<references />
* http://www.mathewscommunications.com/mathews/mw5/mw5g54.htm#88047
*[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BAo7AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA291]   The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company:  Parents, Siblings, Marriage, Husband, Children page 291, 292, 293

*{{FindAGrave|145395007}}

*"Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1901", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JZ7-M4Q8 : Thu Oct 26 06:50:12 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Glasgow and Nancy E McCulloch, 26 Feb 1816.

*"United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8DG-XHC : Sun Oct 15 22:50:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Joseph Glasgow and Nancy E Glasgow, 1850.

*Her husband's death record. "Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1853-1912", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRSB-MDQ : 29 January 2020), Nancy in entry for Joseph Glasgow, 1856.