Glasgow Surname Project

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Eliza Catherine Blair (Smyth) Glasgow

1903-11-08 – 1988-02-01

Smyth-4134 · 1 mapped association

Ballyclough, Aghadowey, Coleraine, County Londonderry, IrelandDungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

At a glance

Identity & family

Tree links organise the family; documentary status still varies.

1Mapped records
2Close relations
6Evidence items
2Candidate leads
Birth
1903-11-08 · Ballyclough, Aghadowey, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland
Death
1988-02-01 · Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Parents
Not recorded
Spouses
James Herbert Glasgow
Children
Living person (details withheld)
Gender
Female
WikiTree
Smyth-4134
Research clusters
Ireland One-Tree profile leads
Mapped descendants
1

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 positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles
Paternal grandmother positionNot identifiable from dated child profiles

Known-position checks: 0 support · 0 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 named children are recoverable, so child-naming analysis cannot be run.

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.

Same-name candidate

Eliza GlascoGlasco-58

Automated fit36/100
Similar Person
Dates1898–?PlacesPennsylvania, United StatesParent comparisonNo shared parent is indexed
Why it may fit
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 5 (+18)

No indexed conflict

Full comparison detail
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • birth years within 5 (+18)

Conflicts: No indexed conflict

Automated fit26/100
Similar Person
Dates1850–?PlacesAhoghill, County Antrim, IrelandParent comparisonNo shared parent is indexed
Why it may fit
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • overlapping locality (+8)

record-derived birth estimates differ by 53; retained without deduction

Full comparison detail
  • same first and last name (+18)
  • overlapping locality (+8)

Conflicts: record-derived birth estimates differ by 53; retained without deduction

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. 1903

Profile-stated birthplace: Ballyclough, Aghadowey, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland

Clough / Clogh, County Antrim

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

One-Tree profile leadoriginal
Source and mapping detail

Eliza Smith, 1903, Coleraine, Blair (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/9dc1e54755554) at Irish Civil Registration - Births

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

Precision: Settlement centrepoint

Evidence assessmentWhat is supported, uncertain or disputed in the current case model.2 claims
4Unknown
1Original
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.6 sources

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

  1. original Eliza Smith, 1903, Coleraine, Blair (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/9dc1e54755554) at Irish Civil Registration - Births
  2. unknown On 9 December 1925 she married Herbert Glasgow. GRONI search: M/1925/L1/1132/3/82 Herbert Glasgow + Elizabeth Smyth 9th December 1925 Cookstown.
  3. unknown Her mother died there; info from mother's obituary.
  4. unknown "Obituary" (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002006/19880218/165/0023), Mid-Ulster Mail - Thursday 18 February 1988, Page 23
  5. unknown 1911 Ireland census () - Residents of a house 6 in Ballyclough (Drumcroon, Londonderry
  6. tree_only WikiTree profile export for Smyth-4134
Technical profile and raw captureDataset metadata, machine dossier and captured WikiTree biography.Advanced

WikiTree profile information

Smyth-4134

Eliza Catherine Blair (Smyth) Glasgow

Updated 2025-10-02

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

Machine-readable dossier

WikiTree biography, citations and relationship snapshot

Smyth-4134 was captured 2026-08-07T09:54:35+00:00; WikiTree profile revision 2025-10-02.

Profile location claims

EventDateLocationStatus
birthBallyclough, Aghadowey, Coleraine, County Londonderry, IrelandWikiTree profile field
deathDungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United KingdomWikiTree profile field
marriage1925-12-09Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United KingdomWikiTree relationship field

Immediate relationship snapshot

RelationshipPersonWikiTree IDDates and places returned
ParentsHenrySmyth-41331836-00-00 · Lisnamuck, Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Ireland · 0000-00-00
ParentsCatherineBlair-117031861-00-00 · Crosscanley Glebe, Aghadowey, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland · 1940-06-12 · Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
ChildrenGeraldGlasgow-37071925-00-00 · Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · 0000-00-00
ChildrenAnnaGlasgow-37081945-00-00 · Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · 2026-03-12 · Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
SiblingsSarahSmyth-43981878-00-00 · County Londonderry, Ireland · 0000-00-00
SiblingsSamuelSmyth-43991887-00-00 · County Londonderry, Ireland · 0000-00-00
SiblingsRobertSmyth-56811891-09-24 · Ballyclough, Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Ireland · 1961-11-20 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SiblingsThomasSmyth-56821893-10-20 · Ballyclough, Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Ireland · 1953-09-16 · Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
SiblingsAlbertSmyth-41321898-12-04 · Ballyclough, Aghadowey, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland · 1935-03-29 · Pomeroy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
SpousesJames Herbert GlasgowGlasgow-16681900-02-19 · Killycurragh, Derryloran, Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland · 1965-09-29 · Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · 1925-12-09 · Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Profile categories

Ballyclough Townland, Aghadowey Parish, County Londonderry Ballyclough_Townland,_Aghadowey_Parish,_County_Londonderry Cluntyganny Townland, Lissan Parish, County Tyrone Cluntyganny_Townland,_Lissan_Parish,_County_Tyrone Forthill Cemetery, Cookstown, Tyrone Forthill_Cemetery,_Cookstown,_Tyrone

Record-bearing passages

  • Biography Eliza was born 8 November 1903 at Ballyclough, Aghadowey, County Londonderry. She was the daughter of Henry Smyth and Catherine Blair. Eliza Smith, 1903, Coleraine, Blair (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/9dc1e54755554) at Irish Civil Registration - Births
  • She was brought up as a Covenanter; switching to Brethren after marriage.
  • On 9 December 1925 she married Herbert Glasgow. GRONI search: M/1925/L1/1132/3/82 Herbert Glasgow + Elizabeth Smyth 9th December 1925 Cookstown.
  • They lived at Cluntyganny, Cookstown as of 1940. Her mother died there; info from mother's obituary.
  • She passed away 1 February 1988 "age 87" (actually 84) at Loane House, Dungannon, where she had been for over two years. The funeral was from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Lees of Ballybriest, to the Cookstown Cemetery. The chief mourners were: "Obituary" (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002006/19880218/165/0023), Mid-Ulster Mail - Thursday 18 February 1988, Page 23

    • Gerald, Bertie & Desmond Glasgow (sons)
    • William Lees (son-in-law)
    • grandsons Glasgow, Phillips & Lees; great-grandson. Research Notes The obituary describes her as "a native of the Coleraine area". Sources
    • 1911 Ireland census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Drumcroon/Ballyclough/652233/) - Residents of a house 6 in Ballyclough (Drumcroon, Londonderry). Henry Smyth (75), Catherine Jane (50, wife), David Martin (21, son), Thomas (17), Albert Melville Thompson (12), Edward (9), Lizzie C (7), Suzana Blair (76, sister, Presbyterian) - all Reformed Presbyterian otherwise; all born Co. Londonderry.

Profile source citations

  1. Eliza Smith, 1903, Coleraine, Blair (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/9dc1e54755554) at Irish Civil Registration - Births source link 1
  2. On 9 December 1925 she married Herbert Glasgow. GRONI search: M/1925/L1/1132/3/82 Herbert Glasgow + Elizabeth Smyth 9th December 1925 Cookstown.
  3. Her mother died there; info from mother's obituary.
  4. "Obituary" (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002006/19880218/165/0023), Mid-Ulster Mail - Thursday 18 February 1988, Page 23 source link 1
  5. 1911 Ireland census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Drumcroon/Ballyclough/652233/) - Residents of a house 6 in Ballyclough (Drumcroon, Londonderry). Henry Smyth (75), Catherine Jane (50, wife), David Martin (21, son), Thomas (17), Albert Melville Thompson (12), Edward (9), Lizzie C (7), Suzana Blair (76, sister, Presbyterian) - all Reformed Presbyterian otherwise; all born Co. Londonderry. source link 1
Full captured biography text
Biography
Eliza was born 8 November 1903 at Ballyclough, Aghadowey, County Londonderry. She was the daughter of Henry Smyth and Catherine Blair.
 Eliza Smith, 1903, Coleraine, Blair (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/9dc1e54755554) at Irish Civil Registration - Births 

She was brought up as a Covenanter; switching to Brethren after marriage.

On 9 December 1925 she married Herbert Glasgow.
 GRONI search: M/1925/L1/1132/3/82 Herbert Glasgow + Elizabeth Smyth 9th December 1925 Cookstown. 

They lived at Cluntyganny, Cookstown as of 1940.
 Her mother died there; info from mother's obituary. 

She passed away 1 February 1988 "age 87" (actually 84) at Loane House, Dungannon, where she had been for over two years. The funeral was from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Lees of Ballybriest, to the Cookstown Cemetery. The chief mourners were:
 "Obituary" (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002006/19880218/165/0023), Mid-Ulster Mail - Thursday 18 February 1988, Page 23 
* Gerald, Bertie & Desmond Glasgow (sons)
* William Lees (son-in-law)
* grandsons Glasgow, Phillips & Lees; great-grandson.
Research Notes
The obituary describes her as "a native of the Coleraine area".
Sources
* 1911 Ireland census (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Drumcroon/Ballyclough/652233/) - Residents of a house 6 in Ballyclough (Drumcroon, Londonderry). Henry Smyth (75), Catherine Jane (50, wife), David Martin (21, son), Thomas (17), Albert Melville Thompson (12), Edward (9), Lizzie C (7), Suzana Blair (76, sister, Presbyterian) - all Reformed Presbyterian otherwise; all born Co. Londonderry.
Raw WikiTree biography markup
[[Category:Forthill Cemetery, Cookstown, Tyrone]]
[[Category:Cluntyganny Townland, Lissan Parish, County Tyrone]]
[[Category:Ballyclough Townland, Aghadowey Parish, County Londonderry]]
== Biography ==
Eliza was born 8 November 1903 at Ballyclough, Aghadowey, County Londonderry. She was the daughter of [[Smyth-4133|Henry Smyth]] and [[Blair-11703|Catherine Blair]].
<ref>[https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civil/9dc1e54755554 Eliza Smith, 1903, Coleraine, Blair] at Irish Civil Registration - Births</ref>

She was brought up as a Covenanter; switching to Brethren after marriage.
<ref name="ob"/>

On 9 December 1925 she married Herbert Glasgow.
<ref>GRONI search: M/1925/L1/1132/3/82	Herbert	Glasgow	+ Elizabeth Smyth	9th December 1925	Cookstown.</ref>

They lived at Cluntyganny, Cookstown as of 1940.
<ref>Her mother died there; info from mother's obituary.</ref>

She passed away 1 February 1988 "age 87" (actually 84) at Loane House, Dungannon, where she had been for over two years. The funeral was from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Lees of Ballybriest, to the Cookstown Cemetery. The chief mourners were:
<ref name="ob">[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002006/19880218/165/0023 "Obituary"], ''Mid-Ulster Mail'' - Thursday 18 February 1988, Page 23</ref>
* [[Glasgow-3707|Gerald]], Bertie & Desmond Glasgow (sons)
* [[Lees-3249|William Lees]] (son-in-law)
* grandsons Glasgow, Phillips & Lees; great-grandson.
== Research Notes ==
The obituary describes her as "a native of the Coleraine area".

== Sources ==
<references />
* [http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/Drumcroon/Ballyclough/652233/ 1911 Ireland census] - Residents of a house 6 in Ballyclough (Drumcroon, Londonderry). Henry Smyth (75), Catherine Jane (50, wife), David Martin (21, son), Thomas (17), Albert Melville Thompson (12), Edward (9), Lizzie C (7), Suzana Blair (76, sister, Presbyterian) - all Reformed Presbyterian otherwise; all born Co. Londonderry.