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Glasgow may qualify Richard's office or location rather than a hereditary surname. Possible identity candidate for the 1289/90 escheator; no bridge proves it.","evidence_status":"direct","source_quality":"derivative","independence_group":"SRC-c35fed1eaa01","source":{"title":"Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, pp. 383-384; DEEDS 06190338","repository":null,"reference":"f107451eb3706dd3","url":"https://deeds.utsc.utoronto.ca/charters/06190338/"},"provenance":"cartulary-transcription-and-scholarly-index"}],"open_questions":[],"research_leads":[],"source_summary":[{"title":"Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, pp. 383-384; DEEDS 06190338","url":"https://deeds.utsc.utoronto.ca/charters/06190338/","source_quality":"derivative","independence_group":"SRC-c35fed1eaa01","provenance":"cartulary-transcription-and-scholarly-index"}],"warnings":[],"provenance":{"tree":"WikiTree One-Tree export","mapped_records":"Glasgow Surname Project map dataset","profile_capture":"Public WikiTree profile evidence capture","relationship_assessments":"Controlled local relationship hypothesis register","research_findings":"Durable research/<profile-or-catalogue-ID>/findings.md case file"},"research_findings":[{"profile_id":"record-medieval-1283-alexander-richard-messenger","updated":null,"source_path":"research/record-medieval-1283-alexander-richard-messenger/findings.md","sections":[{"title":"Current conclusion","category":"conclusion","markdown":"The 1283 Paisley-register receipt defines a distinct associated person and directly proves him as son of the late Richard, messenger of Glasgow. It does not prove that either man bore Glasgow as a hereditary surname. Pre-1500: maintain the [individual free-space draft](../../surname-research/free-space-pages/Alexander_son_of_Richard_messenger_of_Glasgow.md); do not create a person profile."},{"title":"Source findings","category":"sources","markdown":"* *Registrum Monasterii de Passelet*, pp. 383–384; [DEEDS 06190338](https://deeds.utsc.utoronto.ca/charters/06190338/). Alexander was principal in a burgage exchange and acknowledged receipt of five marks from Gilbert of the bishop's chamber."},{"title":"Identity and relationship assessment","category":"assessment","markdown":"Richard → Alexander is **certain from the text**. Identity with the 1289/90 escheator is **possible**, supported by the Glasgow property setting and six-to-seven-year interval but lacking a shared office, property, associate or explicit alias. Keep him separate from the contemporaneous son of Richard the former constable."},{"title":"Recommended next records","category":"actions","markdown":"Trace the exchanged burgage, its referenced companion instrument, Richard the messenger, Gilbert of the bishop's chamber and later administrative occurrences of Alexander."}]}],"similar_people":[{"id":"record-medieval-1283-alexander-richard-constable","name":"Alexander, son of Richard the former constable of Glasgow","catalogue_id":"record-medieval-1283-alexander-richard-constable","html_url":"/people/record-medieval-1283-alexander-richard-constable.html","birth_year":1265,"death_year":null,"birth_place":"Glasgow, Scotland (estimated)","death_place":null,"score":68,"classification":"similar person","match_reasons":["same first and last name (+18)","same birth year (+30)","shared recorded place (+20)"],"conflicts":[],"matching_children":[],"child_name_overlap":[],"parent_comparison":"No shared parent is indexed"},{"id":"record-medieval-1289-alexander-escheator","name":"Alexander de Glasgow","catalogue_id":"record-medieval-1289-alexander-escheator","html_url":"/people/record-medieval-1289-alexander-escheator.html","birth_year":1272,"death_year":null,"birth_place":"Southern Scotland (estimated)","death_place":null,"score":28,"classification":"similar person","match_reasons":["same first and last name (+18)","birth years within 7 (+10)"],"conflicts":[],"matching_children":[],"child_name_overlap":[],"parent_comparison":"No shared parent is indexed"}],"potential_parentage":{"children_recorded":[],"earliest_dated_son":null,"earliest_dated_daughter":null,"second_dated_son":null,"second_dated_daughter":null,"third_dated_son":null,"third_dated_daughter":null,"naming_controls":{"matches":0,"mismatches":0,"factor":1.0,"details":[]},"candidates":[],"method":"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. 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