Glasgow Surname Project

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Inishrush

Ireland · 14 mapped associations

12People
14Associations
1758Earliest mapped year
13Sources/provenance links

People recorded here

Catalogued surnames

Arthur · Glasgow · Kyle · McKeown

Place timeline

c.1758

Adam Glasgow

Birth year calculated from gravestone age

Derived age evidenceunknown
Record and source detail

The gravestone supports the approximate year but does not state a birthplace; the point represents Adam's documented later home at Inishrush.

10 Apr 1767

John Glasgow

Birth entered in family Bible

Primary family recordderivative
Record and source detail

The Bible supplies the exact date but no birthplace or parents; the point represents his strongly supported Inishrush family context.

Supporting source

1772

Hugh Glasgow

Parish declaration dated at Innisrush

Unresolved / separatederivative
Record and source detail

The declaration does not distinguish an older or younger Hugh.

Supporting source

c.1791

Samuel Glasgow

Wider Inishrush–Tamlaght candidate

Traditional / profile leadunknown
Record and source detail

Confirmed brother of John Glasgow (1751–c.1852). Evidence points away from Adam as his father. Glasgow-2908 is treated as a duplicate.

21 May 1798

John Glasgow and Mary Arthur

Marriage entered in family Bible

Primary family recordunknown
Record and source detail

The Bible supplies the exact date but no place witnesses or parents; the point represents the couple's documented Inishrush context by 1799.

4 Mar 1799

Rose Glasgow

Born at Inishrush

Derivative family recordunknown
Record and source detail

The descendant family register places John and Mary Glasgow's eldest daughter's birth at Inishrush; this is not a contemporary civil or church entry.

1821

John Glasgow McKeown

Born at Inishrush

Documentedunknown
Record and source detail

Grandson of John Glasgow; baptised by Rev. Joseph Orr.

1831–1833

Adam Glasgow

Household head, freehold applicant and tithe landholder

Documentedderivative
Record and source detail

House 91 in the 1831 census; October 1831 notice for a £10 freehold of houses and lands in Inishrush; first-listed Inishrush tithe holder in 1833.

Supporting source

1831

John Glasgow

Household head, house 2

Probablederivative
Record and source detail

Probably John Glasgow born 1767; household reconstruction is a strong fit.

Supporting source

1831

Mary Arthur

Probable member of John's household

Probableunknown
Record and source detail

Wife of John born 1767; the household reconstruction fits.

1842

Nancy Glasgow

Sixth daughter of Adam 'of Inishrush'

Documentedderivative
Record and source detail

Marriage notice identifies her father and residence.

Supporting source

1847

James Glasgow

Reported in John's letter

Probableunknown
Record and source detail

The 1851 marriage compellingly matches the reported James and Henry Barkley's servant-daughter; the child remains unidentified.

1851

Adam Glasgow

Father named in son's marriage

Documentedderivative
Record and source detail

James Glasgow of Inishrush named farmer Adam Glasgow as his father; the register does not state Adam's residence or identify him with Glasgow-3902.

Supporting source

17 Mar 1851

James Glasgow

Marriage: farmer, age 38; father Adam Glasgow

Documentedderivative
Record and source detail

Original register records James as a bachelor of Inishrush marrying Rosanna Barkley; this is the compelling match to the 1847 report.

Supporting source

Unresolved identities

James Glasgow · John Glasgow · Mary Arthur · Samuel Glasgow

Relevant sources and provenance

  1. derivative "Ireland Marriages, 1619–1898," database, FamilySearch (record FGC7-SDN (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGC7-SDN)), marriage of James Glasgow and Rosanna Barkley, 17 March 1851, Portglenone, County Antrim, Ireland; citing p. 153, line 89.
  2. unknown WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-3902
  3. derivative Tamlaght O'Crilly 1831 census transcription (https://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/Tamlaght/1831census_3.html).
  4. derivative Kilrea News extracts: Larne declaration dated at Innisrush, 1772
  5. unknown WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-1623
  6. derivative FamilySearch, database, “Ireland Marriages, 1619–1898,” entry for James Glasgow and Rosanna Barkley, married 17 March 1851 at Portglenone, County Antrim, Ireland; citing p. 153, line 89; FamilySearch record FGC7-SDN (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGC7-SDN).
  7. derivative The family lived at Inishrush, County Londonderry. In 1847, John recalled that they had kept more bees there than they ever kept at one time after leaving Ireland. The first secure evidence of John in Ohio is his 1833 purchase of land in Guernsey County. Guernsey County deeds, volume H, page 457 (http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WY-TFPB).
  8. unknown WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-822
  9. unknown WikiTree profile export for McKeown-2087
  10. unknown WikiTree profile export for Arthur-2480
  11. derivative Londonderry Standard, marriage notice, 14 January 1842, transcribed in “County Tyrone Ireland Marriage Notices 1840-42,” public transcription (https://cotyrone.com/~inthenews/marriages-notices-1840-42/).
  12. unknown WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-821
  13. unknown WikiTree profile export for Glasgow-2908