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Its former Aberdeen identity\nhas been removed. The live profile incorrectly treats 9 May 1605—the testament\nconfirmation date—as a marriage date and uses Stevenson, Lanarkshire; the\nrecord supports spouse and Stevenston parish, Ayrshire, but no marriage date.\nThe original further states that Katherine died in January 1603. Its\nconfirmation date appears `[26?] May 1605`, whereas Findmypast and Grant give\n9 May; preserve the conflict and treat only May 1605 as settled.\n\nWilliam, James and probably Jonet Weir were three minor executors, with Thomas acting\nin their names. Their surname, minority and his representation make them very\nprobably the children of Thomas and Katherine, although no explicit\nparent-child wording survives. Complete local and fully paged live WikiTree\nduplicate audits on 8 September 2026 found no compatible profile for any of\nthe three. They can be created as distinct people with uncertain parent links;\nJonet's forename and each inferred Stevenston birthplace also remain uncertain."},{"title":"Source findings","category":"sources","markdown":"| Source | Finding | Assessment |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Francis J. Grant, ed., *Commissariot Record of Glasgow*, [p. 196](https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up), citing NRS CC9/7/4 | Katherine Glasgow was spouse of Thomas Weir in Stevenston parish; confirmation is calendared as 9 May 1605. | Direct printed spouse/locality evidence; not a marriage record and not decisive for the day where the manuscript differs. |\n| [Findmypast SCOT/WILLS/057453](https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=SCOT%2FWILLS%2F057453&tab=this), Scotland, Will and Testament Index 1481–1807 | Katherine Glasgow, spouse of Thomas Weir, parish of Steinstone; 9 May 1605. | Derivative index evidence consistent with Grant; does not resolve the manuscript day. |\n| NRS CC9/7/4, images 6–7 | Katherine was Thomas's wife and died in January 1603. Confirmation appears `[26?] May 1605`. William, James and probably Jonet Weir were three minor executors, with Thomas acting in their names. | Direct for wife, death month/year, minority and executorship. The three are very probably their children, but no explicit parent-child term survives. Working transcription supplied 8 September 2026. |\n| [FamilySearch indexed record](https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY6J-CQS) | Older derivative citation retained from the live profile. | A lead only; it does not override the original testament. |"}]}],"similar_people":[],"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. 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.","warning":"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."},"wikitree_update":{"profile_id":"Weir-4172","significance":55,"summary":"Replace the stale biography's about-1590 statement with the uncertain before-1580 boundary already used in the structured field; retain Katherine as the directly proved wife and describe William, James and Jonet as probable rather than proved children.","remote_captured_at":"2026-09-07T21:05:55+00:00","remote_revision":"2026-08-26","draft_wikitext":"{{Estimated Date}}\n[[Category:Stevenston, Ayrshire]]\n\n== Biography ==\n'''Thomas Weir''' lived in the parish of Stevenston, Ayrshire. The original\ntestament of [[Glasgow-1495|Katherine Glasgow]] explicitly identifies her as\nhis wife and states that she died in January 1603.<ref name=\"KatherineWill\">National\nRecords of Scotland, Glasgow Commissary Court, testament dative and inventory\nof Katherine Glasgow, CC9/7/4, images 6–7; original register inspected through\n[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-records/legal-records/wills Scotland's\nPeople] and working transcription supplied 8 September 2026.</ref>\n\nWilliam, James and probably Jonet Weir were appointed as three minor executors, and\nThomas acted in their names.<ref name=\"KatherineWill\" /> Their surname,\nminority and Thomas's representation of them make them very probably the\nchildren of Thomas and Katherine, although the surviving passage does not\nexplicitly call Thomas their father or Katherine their mother.\n\nThe manuscript confirmation date appears to be '''[26?] May 1605'''. Grant's\nprinted calendar and the Findmypast transcript instead give '''9 May\n1605'''.<ref name=\"KatherineWill\" /><ref name=\"Grant\">Francis J. Grant, ed.,\n''The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547–1800''\n(Edinburgh, 1901), [https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/196/mode/1up\np. 196], entry for Katherine Glasgow.</ref><ref name=\"FMP\">Findmypast,\n[https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=SCOT%2FWILLS%2F057453&tab=this\nScotland, Will and Testament Index 1481–1807], Katherine Glasgow,\nSCOT/WILLS/057453, citing the Glasgow Commissary Court register.</ref> The\nconfirmation occurred in May 1605, but its exact day remains unresolved.\n\n== Research Notes ==\n=== Current evidence assessment ===\n\nThe record is a testament, not a marriage entry. Neither possible confirmation\nday is a marriage date, and Stevenston is the family's documented parish.\n\nA full working transcription, modern-English rendering and record-boundary\nanalysis is maintained at [[Space:Kathereine Glasgow: Will and testament\ntranslation]].\n\nAn older FamilySearch index entry is retained as a derivative lead, but it\ndoes not override the original testament.<ref>FamilySearch,\n[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY6J-CQS indexed record].</ref>\n\nThomas's exact birth, parents and death are not established. The birth date is\nonly an estimate based on his adult role in the testament. [[Weir-4172]] is\nThe established profile for Katherine's Stevenston husband; its former,\nincompatible 1590 Aberdeen identity should not be restored.\n\nComplete local and fully paged live WikiTree duplicate audits on 8 September\n2026 found no compatible profile for William, James or Jonet Weir. Distinct\nprofiles may therefore be created, with both parent links and the inferred\nStevenston birthplaces marked uncertain. Jonet's forename must also remain\nuncertain.\n\n== Sources ==\n<references />\n* [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY6J-CQS Archived or supplementary source]"}}