Glasgow Surname Project

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Ramelton

Ireland · 3 mapped associations

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1675Earliest mapped year
3Sources/provenance links

People recorded here

Catalogued surnames

Glasgow

Place timeline

1675/76

Archibald Glasgow M.A.

Archibald Glasgow of Ramelton named as bond obligee

Highly probable same Irish clericunknown
Record and source detail

PRONI D1825/A/2 names Archibald of Ramelton. The matching 1677 Rathmalton will names Archibald Glasgow, clerk; the name, place, occupation and dates make these two records almost certainly the same man.

1677

Archibald Glasgow M.A.

Prerogative will proved for Archibald Glasgow of Rathmalton clerk

Highly probable same Irish clericderivative
Record and source detail

The published will index names Archibald Glasgow of Rathmalton, County Donegal, clerk. This is almost certainly the 1675/76 Ramelton bond-holder; the abstract has not yet supplied any wife or children.

Supporting source

1679

Archibald Glasgow M.A.

Prerogative probate indexed at Rathmatton, County Donegal

Probable duplicate probate index entryderivative
Record and source detail

The uncommon name and residence strongly indicate the same Archibald as the 1677 Rathmalton will; the two-year discrepancy remains unresolved.

Unresolved identities

Archibald Glasgow M.A.

Relevant sources and provenance

  1. unknown Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, D1825/A/2, bond from William Dutton of Greenforte to Archibald Glasgow of Ramelton, 1675/76.
  2. derivative Sir Arthur Vicars, Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536–1810, entry for Archibald Glasgow, clerk, Rathmalton, County Donegal, 1677. https://archive.org/details/indextoprerogati00vica
  3. derivative Irish probate index transcription supplied July 2026, entry for Archibald Glascoe, Rathmatton, County Donegal, 1679.