[
  {
    "id": "ayrshire-followup-2026-09-10",
    "title": "Ayrshire: follow the tenancies and the women's estates",
    "question": "Can the Corsinkell father-and-sons group be connected to Geillis and Katherine Glasgow, or to the later James Glasgow married to Margaret Smith at Brekpleughe?",
    "conclusion": "The local network is real, but the missing kinship clause has not been found. The 1571 Corsinkell sons already have record-defined identities: James Glasgow-3921 and John Glasgow-4061, sons of James elder Glasgow-1168. Do not replace John-4061 with the unproved Kilwinning candidate John-3193. The most discriminating unexamined sources are now the estates of Margaret Smith in 1632, Agnes Glasgow in 1628 and John Mathie of Ibert in 1607, rather than another unrestricted search for James Glasgow.",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "The 1559-60 Stevenston list contains a wider Glasgow, Wilson, Weir and Mathie network.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The printed page was visually inspected. Matthew Glasgow shares the Ardeer Nether entry with John Mathie. Michael Glasgow appears at Brakpleuch with John and Robert Wilson and also at Dubbs. Ninian Weir appears at Hawkhill and Hullerhirst Over. Geillis Wilson appears at Corscraig; she is not thereby identified with Geillis Glasgow of the 1603 testament. Repeated names at separate holdings may represent one tenant or namesakes.",
        "source_url": "https://aanhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/people-of-ayrshire.pdf#page=36",
        "source_reference": "Margaret H. B. Sanderson, The People of Sixteenth Century Ayrshire, Ayrshire Collections14/8(1987), p.331, Cunninghame teind lists1559-60. Published reconstruction of Register of Acts and Decreets vol.22,fols.102v-167v; original litigation not inspected.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "The creditor James in Geillis's estate is not yet identified as either a particular Corsinkell James or Margaret Smith's husband.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The 1603 original identifies James Glasgow in Stevenston as someone the estate owed. It supplies no age, father, wife or Corsinkell/Brekpleughe designation for him. A shared parish and an expected name are not a record-to-record identity bridge. The possibility of close local kin remains worth testing.",
        "source_url": "/research/transcriptions/geillis-1603/#name-audit",
        "source_reference": "NRS CC9/7/3,images113-114, Geillis Glasgow, confirmed11May1603; original-image name audit of10September2026 carried forward, not another handwriting pass.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "Margaret Smith's 1632 estate is a more specific test of the later Brekpleughe household than the existing James profile attachment.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The published calendar identifies her as James Glasgow's spouse at Brekpleughe, Stevenston. It does not identify him as the younger Corsinkell tenant first recorded in1559-60. The72-73year interval requires an actual continuity record. It is not a conclusive age contradiction: a confirmation date does not establish when a spouse died or that he remained alive at confirmation. The original may name children, heirs, creditors and the husband's living/deceased status.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/460/mode/1up",
        "source_reference": "Francis J. Grant, Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments1547-1800(1901),p.460,21February1632; published-index entry. Text cross-reference independently retrieved in this pass; exact year retained from maintained source citation. Original testament not supplied or inspected.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "Agnes Glasgow's 1628 estate is a direct route to testing the proposed Glasgow-Smith parentage.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The index calls Agnes the spouse of John Logane, trumpmaker in Stevenston, but names neither parent. That is a distinct, searchable household. Her estate could supply the missing parental or sibling identifiers; the index cannot confirm Agnes as Margaret Smith's daughter. Preserve existing attachments while recording the uncertainty, rather than following older notes that recommended leaving parents blank.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/195/mode/1up",
        "source_reference": "Grant, Glasgow testament calendar,p.195,4March1628; exact spouse/occupation entry independently retrieved as published text in this pass. Current local profiles: Glasgow-3178 and Smith-374110. Original testament not inspected.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "John Mathie of Ibert's estate could test the proposed link between the city and Glencairn households.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The calendar entry for John of Ibert, Kilmaronock, confirmed9November1607, was independently recovered. Maintained research uses January1607 tutory retours for his brother Matthew and children James, David, Agnes and Margaret. His original testament could add a wife, an older child or an identifying associate. It is not currently evidence that Jonet Mathie, married to John Glasgow in1618, was his daughter or granddaughter.",
        "source_url": "https://www.tradeshouselibrary.org/uploads/4/7/7/2/47723681/commissariot_records_of_glasgow_1547-1800.pdf",
        "source_reference": "Grant, Glasgow testament calendar,Mathie entry9November1607. Wider tutory/Glencairn reconstruction is maintained in research/Glasgow-3908/mathie-glencairn-bridge-1554-1618.md and was not newly proved here.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "The records support probable collateral Glasgow kin, but do not identify a father for Michael or connect James elder to William of Glasgow burgh.",
        "status": "probable",
        "basis": "Maintained research places Michael as an adult Glencairn-network witness in1549 and a probable match to the later Brakpleuch tenant. His generation and locality make brother/cousin of James elder a better hypothesis than son. Matthew of Ardeer is a possible son or nephew. These are qualified kin hypotheses, not new explicit relationships from this follow-up. James elder's attachment to William Glasgow-1098 remains uncertain.",
        "source_url": "https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD39%2F1%2F59",
        "source_reference": "NRS GD39/1/59,28January1549, Michael Glasgow witness; maintained catalogue-based identification in Glasgow-3911/findings.md and Glasgow-1168/findings.md. Original deed not inspected in this pass.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "Corsinkell names and profile identities",
        "result": "Reconciled maintained Glasgow-1168/3921 findings with indexed NRS GD39/5/59. The record-defined John is Glasgow-4061; Glasgow-3193 is only a comparison. No new parental bridge."
      },
      {
        "target": "NRS and indexed web searches for Glasgow with Brekpleughe, Brakpleuch, Breckpleuch and Stevenston",
        "result": "No additional person-identifying succession instrument located. Results mostly repeated the testament calendar, the teind list or unrelated modern place references. This is limited indexed coverage, not a search of all underlying deeds."
      },
      {
        "target": "Published1559-60 teind list, Stevenston parish",
        "result": "Downloaded the public scholarly PDF and visually inspected printedp.331. The groupings and distinct Wilson/Weir search leads are genuine. No manuscript folio, household kinship or equivalence of repeated tenants was inferred."
      },
      {
        "target": "Glasgow testament calendar: Margaret Smith/Brekpleughe, Agnes Glasgow/trumpmaker, John Mathie/Ibert",
        "result": "Retrieved the public edition text and recovered the entries. No corresponding original1632 PDF was found among supplied testament filenames. The calendar is a finding aid and does not supply the missing kinship clauses."
      },
      {
        "target": "Ninian Weir/Hullerhirst and Wilson/Chaipliehill indexed searches",
        "result": "No relevant kinship-bearing original located. The published Weir index section also has fragmented OCR date columns; no exact date or relationship was promoted from those fragments."
      },
      {
        "target": "Indexed WikiTree searches for Ninian Weir of Stevenston, Geillis Wilson in1559 and John Wilson at Brakpleuch",
        "result": "No compatible profile identified in the returned indexed results. Live API and a complete duplicate audit were not undertaken; these remain HOLD research leads, not ready-to-create profiles or newly attached relatives."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Obtain the Glasgow Commissary originals for Margaret Smith, spouse of James Glasgow at Brekpleughe, confirmation21February1632; Agnes Glasgow, spouse of John Logane, trumpmaker at Stevenston, confirmation4March1628; and John Mathie of Ibert, Kilmaronock, confirmation9November1607. Read spouses, kin terms, heirs, creditors and cautioners before matching anyone to the Corsinkell line. For the earliest tenancies, consult Register of Acts and Decreets vol.22,fols.102v-167v rather than expecting the abbreviated1559-60 list to preserve omitted relationships.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Glasgow-1168",
      "Glasgow-3921",
      "Glasgow-4061",
      "Glasgow-3193",
      "Glasgow-3908",
      "Glasgow-3911",
      "Glasgow-3179",
      "Glasgow-1495",
      "Weir-4172",
      "Smith-374110",
      "Glasgow-3178"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "burgh-bridge-2026-09-10",
    "title": "Early Glasgow burgh kinship bridge: targeted protocol recheck",
    "question": "Do the Bridgegait conveyance to Archibald Glasgow and Isobell Newlands, or the later rear-title, expressly connect Robert Glasgow, Archibald Glasgow, Isobella Glasgow wife of Archibald Herbesoun, and the proved John Glasgow son of William Glasgow and Esbell Brade?",
    "conclusion": "No explicit kinship bridge was found in the newly inspected target abstracts. Protocol 84 proves Archibald Glasgow and Isobell Newlands were spouses and names Robert Glasgow as a witness; protocol 205 identifies John Glasgow only as the eastern neighbour of the relevant back tenement. Neither calls any of them child, sibling, heir, or other relative. This is consistent with, and does not weaken, the maintained probable sibling reconstruction supported by the wider property, craft, witness, and Herbesoun network. John remains the only member of this group directly proved as William and Esbell's son by protocol 1196 (1534).",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "On 21 May 1551 Elizabeth Beith sold the specified fore-and-back Bridgegait tenement to Archibald Glasgow and Isobell Newlands, spouses; Robert Glasgow was one of the witnesses.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "Direct reading of Renwick's printed abstract: it names the spouses, the tenement's north-side Bridgegait boundaries (Thomas Bargill west; St Roche chaplainry east), and witnesses including Robert Glasgow. It contains no kin term between Robert and either purchaser.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/download/abstractsofproto01glas/abstractsofproto01glas_djvu.txt",
        "source_reference": "Robert Renwick, ed., Abstracts of Protocols of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, vol. I, protocol 84, p. 31, 21 May 1551 (Internet Archive item abstractsofproto01glas; public-domain scan/OCR; printed abstract, not the original protocol register).",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "On 31 January 1554/55, a back tenement held by Thomas Bargill lay with John Glasgow's lands on its east; the act does not state how John acquired his adjacent property or relate him to Archibald, Robert, or the Newlands spouses.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "Direct reading of Renwick's printed abstract: protocol 205 describes the Bargill/Paterson rear-title boundary and names John Glasgow only as adjacent owner. No familial, succession, or conveyance clause connects the Glasgow parties.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/download/abstractsofproto01glas/abstractsofproto01glas_djvu.txt",
        "source_reference": "Robert Renwick, ed., Abstracts of Protocols of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, vol. I, protocol 205, 31 January 1554/55 (Internet Archive item abstractsofproto01glas; public-domain scan/OCR; printed abstract, not the original protocol register).",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "The target recheck found no contradiction to the maintained conclusion that Robert, Archibald, and Isobella are probable, not documented, siblings of John Glasgow.",
        "status": "probable",
        "basis": "The two checked acts independently preserve the documented spouse/witness/adjoining-title pattern but lack an express kin clause. Absence of a kin term in these abstracts cannot disprove the broader reconstruction or establish an unrelated family.",
        "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abstracts_of_protocols_of_the_town_clerks_of_Glasgow_(IA_abstractsofproto01glas).pdf",
        "source_reference": "Targeted recheck of Renwick, vol. I, protocols 84 and 205; compare the maintained evidence register, Glasgow Kinship Circle, current early-burgh reconstruction.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "Renwick vol. I, protocol 84, 21 May 1551, Archibald Glasgow and Isobell Newlands",
        "result": "Inspected public-domain OCR/printed abstract. Spouses and Robert Glasgow witness confirmed; no explicit kin term."
      },
      {
        "target": "Renwick vol. I, protocol 205, 31 January 1554/55, rear title beside John Glasgow",
        "result": "Inspected public-domain OCR/printed abstract. John Glasgow appears only as eastern adjoining owner; no title-transfer or kin clause."
      },
      {
        "target": "Renwick vol. II, protocols 307 and 402",
        "result": "Internet Archive target-item OCR endpoint returned HTTP 503. Alternate Internet Archive catalogue search found only series identifiers for vols. I, V, and VIII-X; no volume-II item was exposed under that prefix. No content was treated as inspected or cited."
      },
      {
        "target": "Alternate Wikimedia Commons digitized scan for Renwick vol. II",
        "result": "Public Commons file-catalogue search for the expected Volume-II identifier returned zero matches; no text inspected."
      },
      {
        "target": "Google Books public metadata for an alternate Renwick vol. II digitization",
        "result": "Public API request returned HTTP 429 before metadata could be inspected; no text or bibliographic claim added."
      },
      {
        "target": "Renwick vol. II, 1559/60 Herbesoun/Glasgow acts",
        "result": "Search discovery located only volume-level catalogue references, not a newly inspectable entry; no claim added."
      },
      {
        "target": "Renwick vols. V-VII Robert Rowand, Herbesoun, and fisher-group target protocols",
        "result": "Not re-read in this bounded pass because they are maintained baseline association evidence and no fresh explicit-kin lead emerged from the bridge-title check."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Obtain and inspect the original-register image or a reliable full transcription for the missing conveyance behind the 1551-55 Bridgegait boundary sequence, then inspect Renwick vol. II protocols 307 and 402 once the scan endpoint is available. Prioritize any act that names the source of Archibald's title, a Glasgow heir, or a disposition among relatives.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Glasgow-1098",
      "Brade-232",
      "Glasgow-1093",
      "Glasgow-1096",
      "Glasgow-1097",
      "Newlands-647",
      "Glasgow-3916"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "corstoun-followup-2026-09-10",
    "title": "Andrew Glasgow of [Corsoun?], Calder Cleir: later holding and locality follow-up",
    "question": "Can a later primary rental, tack, deed or parish record identify Elizat Stevinsoun or Robert Glasgow as successor to Andrew Glasgow's holding, and can the testament locality safely be equated with Corstoun/Costoun?",
    "conclusion": "No later record located in this bounded pass names Andrew's widow Elizat, his proved son Robert, or a succession from Andrew. The NRS catalogue confirms a Calder Cleir estate geography and identifies the relevant Calder estate series, but its catalogue descriptions do not name the family. A distinct Costoun rental is first catalogued for 1663-1695 (including 1674), too late and not shown to be Andrew's locality. The 1641 apprenticeship identifies James as son of a Robert Glasgow serving at Wester Duddingston, but provides no Andrew, Elizat, Corsoun/Corstoun, Calder Cleir, land, or succession bridge; it cannot identify that Robert as Andrew's son.",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "Calder Cleir was a named commonty in the Kirknewton/East Calder area and is related in the NRS catalogue to the Morton papers (GD150).",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "NRS catalogue descriptions for the 1806 and 1839 plans call the subject Calder Cleir/Calderclear commonty and place it at Kirknewton, Midlothian; both list GD150 as related material. This establishes a geographic research corridor, not Andrew's exact farm or tenure.",
        "source_url": "https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=RHP523",
        "source_reference": "National Records of Scotland, RHP523, Plan of the commonty of Calder Cleir, Kirknewton, Midlothian, 1806; catalogue, open access to catalogue description; digital image only in NRS Virtual Volumes/ScotlandsPeople. Corroborating catalogue item: RHP93287, Plan of Calderclear (Calder Cleir) commonty, Kirknewton, [1839], open catalogue description.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "The highest-value unexamined primary series remains the Morton estate material for the Barony of Caldercleir.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The NRS catalogue assigns GD150/696-757 to the Barony of Caldercleir, 1506-1824, and GD150/320-493 to general deeds, 1551-1597. Catalogue-level access is open, but no digitised item image or person-level description naming Andrew, Elizat or Robert was found in this pass.",
        "source_url": "https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD150",
        "source_reference": "National Records of Scotland, GD150, Papers of the Earls of Morton; catalogue record, access status Open, location Off site. The catalogue is a finding aid, not the underlying rentals/tacks/deeds.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "Costoun/Couston cannot presently be substituted for the manuscript [Corsoun?]/printed Corstoun locality.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "GD119/450 is catalogued as accounts relating to Costoun, including a rental for 1674, with date range 1663-1695. It supplies neither Andrew Glasgow, Elizat Stevinsoun nor Robert Glasgow, and its date is at least 65 years after Andrew's 1598 confirmation. The catalogue does not equate Costoun with Corsoun/Corstoun in Andrew's testament.",
        "source_url": "https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/browseTreeview.aspx?reference=GD119/102",
        "source_reference": "National Records of Scotland, GD119/450, Accounts relating to lands of Costoun, including a rental for 1674, intromitted with by Mary Eastone, lady Costoune, 1663-1695; catalogue description, access level not stated in the browse-tree result. A later archival lead only, not evidence of identity or place equivalence.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "Robert Glasgow of Wester Duddingston remains a distinct, unbridged candidate rather than Andrew and Elizat's proved son.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The published Edinburgh apprenticeship register records on 16 June 1641 James Glasgow, son of Robert Glasgow, servant to William Crichtoun in Wester Duddingston, apprenticed to William Sclaitter, weaver. This proves a father-son statement for James and that Robert's service/residence description, but does not name Andrew, Elizat, Calder Cleir, Corsoun/Corstoun, or an inherited holding. It therefore does not discriminate Robert Glasgow-1156 as Andrew's son.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso28scotuoft/page/71/mode/2up",
        "source_reference": "Francis J. Grant, ed., Register of Apprentices of the City of Edinburgh, 1583-1666 (Scottish Record Society, 1906), p. 71; public digitised printed transcription, not the original apprenticeship entry.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "NRS catalogue and web indexes: GD150, Caldercleir, Andrew/Robert Glasgow",
        "result": "Confirmed GD150/696-757 as Barony of Caldercleir, 1506-1824, and GD150/320-493 as 1551-1597 deeds; no catalogue-described item naming Andrew, Elizat or Robert. Underlying material requires item-level archive consultation."
      },
      {
        "target": "NRS catalogue and web indexes: Corsoun, Corstoun, Costoun/Couston with Glasgow",
        "result": "No person-level Andrew/Elizat/Robert hit. GD119/450 surfaced as later Costoun accounts/rental, but the description supplies no place equivalence or Glasgow name."
      },
      {
        "target": "NRS catalogue: Calder Cleir geography",
        "result": "RHP523 and RHP93287 confirm the Calder Cleir/Calderclear commonty in the Kirknewton/East Calder area and related GD150 provenance; they do not locate Andrew's holding."
      },
      {
        "target": "Published Edinburgh apprentices: James son of Robert Glasgow, Wester Duddingston, 1641",
        "result": "The published entry is real and directly identifies James's father Robert, but has no Andrew/Elizat/Calder or holding reference; it leaves the proposed bridge unproved."
      },
      {
        "target": "Exact web searches for Andrew Glasgow + Costoun and Robert Glasgow + Costoun",
        "result": "No relevant early-Lothian primary or derivative record found; results were later/unrelated same-name material."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Consult NRS GD150/696-757 for rentals, tacks, tenant lists and transfers dated c.1597-1635, then GD150/494-533 and GD150/2027-2060 for a Robert succeeding Andrew or an Elizat/Stevinsoun widow holding the same named land. Capture the exact item reference, folio/image, tenure and place spelling before proposing any identification. If the holding proves Costoun/Couston, separately document the explicit record-based equivalence; do not infer it from orthography.",
    "profile_ids": []
  },
  {
    "id": "jonet-meik-husband-letterforms",
    "title": "Jonet Meik: why the husband's name is probably Niniane",
    "question": "Does the 1607 testament name Niniane or Williame Glasgow as Jonet Meik's husband, and which relationships can actually be read?",
    "conclusion": "Niniane remains the better reading. A fresh initial reading as William did not survive comparison with the repeated names and the clerk's tall l strokes. This strengthens the explanation of the maintained reading rather than changing the family tree. Robert is expressly Jonet's son; the disputed letters concern her husband's forename, not Robert's relationship to her.",
    "status": "probable",
    "figures": [
      {
        "src": "/assets/research/testament-crops/jonet-meik-name-comparison-2026-09-10/opening.jpg",
        "alt": "Opening of Jonet Meik's testament, including latterwill, the husband's name after spous to, and the executor clause naming Robert her son",
        "caption": "CC9/7/5, image 82: compare the short strokes in the husband's forename with the taller l strokes in latterwill above. The name recurs in the executor clause. This is an unretouched crop, not a reconstructed word."
      },
      {
        "src": "/assets/research/testament-crops/jonet-meik-name-comparison-2026-09-10/repetitions.jpg",
        "alt": "Accounting passage in the same testament containing another occurrence of the husband's name",
        "caption": "Image 82, lower passage: another occurrence supplies a same-document comparison. Repetition helps test the letter sequence; it does not make an uncertain name certain by itself."
      },
      {
        "src": "/assets/research/testament-crops/jonet-meik-name-comparison-2026-09-10/will-confirmation.jpg",
        "alt": "Continuation showing the bequest to Marioun Glasgow, the residue left to Robert Glasgow her son, and surrounding attestation and confirmation text",
        "caption": "Image 83: Robert is again called hir sone in the residue. The words following Marioun Glasgow remain unclear and must not be silently expanded into a niece or daughter relationship."
      }
    ],
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "Three occurrences favour Niniane rather than Williame, but the reading remains probable.",
        "status": "probable",
        "basis": "The opening spouse clause, executor clause and accounting passage share a capital-N-like start, a sequence of short n/i strokes and an apparent ending -ane. The regular paired tall l ascenders expected in a full Williame are not apparent; tall l strokes are visible in the same hand's latterwill. Short repeated strokes can be ambiguous, and no securely isolated same-hand William comparator was established. The letter comparison therefore favours Niniane without claiming certainty or using the expected family as proof.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-records/legal-records/wills",
        "source_reference": "NRS Glasgow Commissary Court, CC9/7/5, images 82-83, Jonet Meik; original supplied PDF visually inspected. Maintained case jonet-melk-1607.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "Robert Glasgow is directly identified as Jonet's son in two different clauses.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The executor passage names Robert Glasgow hir sone; the residue again names Robert Glasgow hir sone. This is explicit maternity, independently of the husband's disputed forename. Identifying this record-defined Robert with other Robert Glasgow records still requires the family and chronology comparison already maintained in the wider study.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-records/legal-records/wills",
        "source_reference": "NRS CC9/7/5, image 82 executor clause and image 83 residue clause; original-image rereading reconfirms the existing finding.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "The bequest to Marioun does not yet establish a niece, daughter or sister relationship.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The visible name Marioun Glasgow is followed by hir nycht[?] and further uncertain wording apparently introducing a bequeathed object. The ambiguous token is not relationship-grade evidence. Do not automatically identify this beneficiary with the Marioun called Ninian's sister in his 1613 testament, or fill the gap with a kinship term merely because the same surname occurs.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-records/legal-records/wills",
        "source_reference": "NRS CC9/7/5, image 83, opening bequest; compare the separate Ninian 1613 study without merging the two occurrences of Marioun.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "The testament date, death interval and confirmation date must remain separate.",
        "status": "probable",
        "basis": "The maintained reading is an oral testament on [15?] February 1606, death an unread number of days afterwards, and confirmation on [27?] August 1607. Today's comparison agrees with that earlier reading. Neither an exact death date nor a February 1607 death should be manufactured from the catalogue year. The uncertain day numbers retain their question marks.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-records/legal-records/wills",
        "source_reference": "CC9/7/5, images 82-83; date wording already recorded in the original-image reread of jonet-melk-1607, reconfirmed in this comparison.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "Identify the PDF filed under archival number CC000900007-00005-00082 rather than a personal name",
        "result": "It is the already-maintained Jonet Meik testament, not the missing John Mathie of Ibert original. The other Jonet PDF contains the same archive pages in a different wrapper/compression; the files are not independent witnesses."
      },
      {
        "target": "Test a fresh William reading against repeated names and same-clerk letterforms",
        "result": "The initial William reading was withdrawn before publication. Niniane remains probable; Robert's explicit relationship and the existing date readings are unchanged."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Compare a securely identified Niniane and Williame in adjacent entries written by this same clerk. Inspect the full Marioun bequest before proposing any kinship term. No profile merge, parent replacement or new testament identity follows from this comparison.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Meik-14",
      "Glasgow-3188",
      "Glasgow-1027"
    ],
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        "method": "Crop of the embedded original image; no ink alteration or synthetic reconstruction."
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      },
      {
        "asset": "will-confirmation.jpg",
        "source_file": "testaments/ScotlandsPeople_CC000900007-00005-00082-.pdf",
        "pdf_page": 2,
        "archive_image": 83,
        "original_dimensions": [
          1720,
          2550
        ],
        "crop_xywh": [
          260,
          180,
          1350,
          1000
        ],
        "method": "Crop of the embedded original image; no ink alteration or synthetic reconstruction."
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "leith-parish-image-targets",
    "title": "Leith: four dated child records to compare with the 1662 testament",
    "question": "Which parish entries can test the family of Archibald Glasgow and Agnes Watson, and might they connect the maltman to William Glasgow's shoemaker son?",
    "conclusion": "Public WikiTree biographies provide four precise record leads for children attached to Archibald Glasgow and Agnes Watson: Archibald (1654), John (1656), George (1658) and William (1660). Three names agree with the sons in the inspected 1662 testament. This makes the parish household a useful comparison, but the original parish images have not been inspected in this pass. The profiles' attachment to Archibald born in 1618 is not independent evidence that the maltman and the 1647 shoemaker were one man.",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "The official index guide does not distinguish birth dates from baptism dates; the original entry is needed.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "Scotland'sPeople explains that its old-parish-register index date may be a birth or baptism date and more usually is baptism. This supports keeping the four profile dates as acquisition leads rather than treating every BirthDate field as a proved birth. NRS coverage information places the dates within the broad surviving South Leith register period, but neither coverage nor a film number proves a particular entry's contents. No original parish image was obtained in this continuation.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/help-and-support/guides/church-registers",
        "source_reference": "Official Scotland'sPeople church-register guide, consulted 10 September 2026; contextual guidance, not a transcription of these four entries.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "Archibald: profile date 8 October 1654; FamilySearch record FQMH-M86.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The public Glasgow-3079 profile names Archibald Glasgow and Agnes Watson as parents and cites the Scotland Births and Baptisms index for Archbald Glasgowe, 1654. Its structured BirthDate is 1654-10-08, but the biography does not establish whether that exact date is birth or baptism. Check the original parish entry before treating it as either. The record image and index details were not independently read in this pass.",
        "source_url": "https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQMH-M86",
        "source_reference": "Record citation and date recovered from public WikiTree profile Glasgow-3079 through getRelatives, 10 September 2026; derivative acquisition lead, not a fresh original-record transcription.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "John: profile date 27 April 1656; FamilySearch record XY75-RRX.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "Glasgow-3516 names the same parents and cites the Scotland Births and Baptisms index for Johne Glasgow, 1656. The exact day comes from the profile's structured BirthDate, not an inspected register. John is not among the three sons named in the 1662 testament. Check both the parish entry and any burial evidence; his omission does not by itself prove that he died before 1662, was unrelated, or has been mistranscribed.",
        "source_url": "https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY75-RRX",
        "source_reference": "Public WikiTree profile Glasgow-3516 and its FamilySearch citation, retrieved 10 September 2026; original image and precise event type outstanding.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "George: reported South Leith baptism 16 May 1658; FamilySearch record FQMH-CXH.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "Glasgow-2714 explicitly describes this as a baptism at South Leith and names Archibald Glasgow and Agnes Watson as parents. Unlike the other profiles' date fields, the biography supplies an event type and parish, but this remains a derivative report. Direct retrieval of the FamilySearch record returned an internal error; no register image, witnesses or paternal occupation were available for inspection.",
        "source_url": "https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQMH-CXH",
        "source_reference": "Public WikiTree biography Glasgow-2714, citing Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, Georg Glasgowe, 1658; retrieved 10 September 2026.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "William: profile date 15 October 1660; FamilySearch record FQMH-DD9.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "Glasgow-3080 names Archibald Glasgow and Agnes Watson as parents and cites the Scotland Births and Baptisms index for William Glasgow, 1660. Its date field supplies 1660-10-15; birth versus baptism and the register wording still need inspection. A matching name among the 1662 sons supports the household comparison, not an automatic identification of the father with the earlier shoemaker.",
        "source_url": "https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQMH-DD9",
        "source_reference": "Public WikiTree profile Glasgow-3080 and its FamilySearch citation, retrieved 10 September 2026; exact day is profile metadata, not a newly read church record.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "The 1646 Margaret Hilstones marriage is a separate, precisely cited comparison target, not a proved first marriage of Agnes Watson's husband.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The current Glasgow-3078 biography cites Archbald Glasgow and Margaret Hilstones, 14 April 1646, South Leith OPR 692/2, 90/310, FR3086. This is a parish marriage reference, not an Edinburgh commissary testament reference. The original should be compared for occupation and identifying associates. A remarriage is possible; neither it nor a supposed clerical substitution of Agnes's name has been demonstrated.",
        "source_url": "https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3078",
        "source_reference": "Public profile citation inspected through the WikiTree API, 10 September 2026. OPR 692/2, 90/310 is reported by the biography and has not been checked against the original image here.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "Robert Glasgow and Euphame Lorimer's 1666 Edinburgh burgess entry is not evidence of kinship with the Leith Archibalds.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The printed roll identifies Robert as a cordiner admitted through his wife Euphame, daughter of the late Andrew Lorimer, beltmaker. It does not name Archibald or a Leith family relationship. This entry was already cited locally. A contradictory automated statement in Glasgow-3938's findings has now been corrected: the secure Robert-Euphame household must not be automatically assigned to the Robert who married Jonet Thomsone in 1652. The underlying transcript is retained as identity-separation evidence, with no attachments changed.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso46scotuoft/page/208/mode/2up",
        "source_reference": "Charles B. Boog Watson, ed., Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses and Guild-Brethren, 1406-1700 (1929), printed p. 208, 4 July 1666; local correction to source-assignment block fmp-glasgow-937fb03a9d56 in research/Glasgow-3938/findings.md.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "NRS parish-register coverage and alternative film-catalogue access",
        "result": "South Leith OPR 692/2 has early coverage beginning in 1599. A secondary film catalogue identifies GS film 1067770 for an early register and films 1067770-1067781 for the wider parish-register/index run. These are acquisition leads, not exact image references for the four children. Confirm each record's parish and event type. No authenticated image access was available."
      },
      {
        "target": "Read the current public Glasgow-3078 biography and the child/sibling biographies returned for Glasgow-2714",
        "result": "Recovered the dated four-child checklist and the exact reported 1646 marriage citation. Profile relationships and dates are derivative leads, not independent confirmation of the father's identity."
      },
      {
        "target": "Find local findings.md dossiers for Glasgow-2714, Glasgow-3079, Glasgow-3080 and Glasgow-3516",
        "result": "None of those four specific handoff files exists. This does not establish that no relevant evidence exists elsewhere in the repository."
      },
      {
        "target": "Open George's cited FamilySearch record FQMH-CXH and search for independently available parish evidence",
        "result": "The direct page returned an internal error; targeted web searches returned no usable historical record. No primary parish image was inspected and no absence-of-record conclusion follows."
      },
      {
        "target": "Compare the Edinburgh burgess entries with existing James and Robert Glasgow dossiers",
        "result": "James Glasgow's 20 June 1649 admission, repeating the 16 June 1641 apprenticeship to William Sclaitter, is already documented under Glasgow-1150. Robert's 4 July 1666 admission is also already recorded. Neither is a new discovery; the useful new outcome was correcting the conflicting Robert profile assignment."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Obtain the four cited parish entries, using South Leith OPR 692/2 as a starting point and confirming the parish for each record. Capture full entries and adjacent context, preserving birth and baptism dates separately. Transcribe both parents, occupation, abode, witnesses and any marginal notes. Compare the reported 14 April 1646 marriage. A record expressly connecting the trades or naming William the mealmaker as father would be strong bridging evidence; shared witnesses alone would only support a cumulative identity argument.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Glasgow-3078",
      "Watson-45727",
      "Glasgow-3079",
      "Glasgow-3516",
      "Glasgow-2714",
      "Glasgow-3080",
      "Glasgow-3938"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "leith-archibald-glasgow-identity",
    "title": "Archibald Glasgow of Leith: shoemaker and maltman identity test",
    "question": "Can Archibald Glasgow, son of William Glasgow the Leith mealmaker and documented as a shoemaker in 1647, be identified as Archibald Glasgow, maltman and indweller in Leith, whose 1662 testament names Agnes Watson and sons Archibald, George, and William?",
    "conclusion": "The identity remains unresolved. The 1639 apprenticeship, William Glasgow's 1646 testament, and the 1647 retour securely identify one Archibald Glasgow of Leith as William's son and a shoemaker. The 1662 original testament securely identifies an Archibald Glasgow of Leith as a maltman, husband of Agnes Watson, and father of Archibald, George, and William, but it gives no parentage, former occupation, guild status, property history, or other statement connecting him to William's son. The uncommon name, same town, and compatible chronology make identity possible, but they do not overcome the explicit occupational discontinuity. No marriage, child baptism, deed, property record, or guild record bridging the two descriptions was found in this bounded pass; a change from shoemaker to maltman must not be assumed.",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "On 23 October 1639 Archibald Glasgow, son of William Glasgow, mealmaker in Leith, was entered as apprentice to Thomas Park, cordiner.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "A digitized scan of the printed apprentice-register transcript reads: \"Glasgow, Archibald, son to William G., mealmaker in Leith, with Thomas Park, cordiner.\" This is a derivative printed transcript of the burgh record, not the original minute.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso28scotuoft/page/71/mode/2up",
        "source_reference": "Francis J. Grant, ed., The Register of Apprentices of the City of Edinburgh, 1583-1666, Scottish Record Society 28 (1906), p. 71, entry dated 23 October 1639",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "William Glasgow's testament connects the 1639 apprentice's stated father to an Archibald Glasgow who was William's lawful son and sole executor.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The original commissary-court scan describes William Glasgow as a mealmaker and indweller in Leith and records Archibald Glasgow as his lawful son and only executor dative. It supplies no occupation for Archibald, so it supports the father-son chain but does not bridge the later trades.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/",
        "source_reference": "National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court, testament dative of William Glasgow, CC8/8/62, images 461-462; death September 1644, confirmation 1646",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "On 1 May 1647 Archibald Glasgow, shoemaker and inhabitant of Leith, was retoured heir of William Glasgow, mealmaker and inhabitant there, his father.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The digitized scan of the printed official retour abstract reads: \"ARCHIBALDUS GLASGOW, calcearius incola villæ de Leith, heres Willielmi Glasgow farinarii incolæ dictæ villæ, patris.\" Calcearius identifies Archibald as a shoemaker. This is a published abstract referencing, but not itself reproducing, original retour xix.128.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/inquisitionumadc02scot",
        "source_reference": "Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum, quae in Publicis Archivis Scotiae adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio, vol. 2, General Retour no. 3278, 1 May 1647; original xix.128",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "The 1662 testament belongs to Archibald Glasgow, maltman and indweller in Leith, and names Agnes Watson and lawful sons Archibald, George, and William.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The original commissary-court scan opens with \"Archibald Glasgow maltman Indweller In leith\". It identifies Agnes Watson as his spouse/relict and tutor and Archibald, George, and William as his lawful sons and sole executors. The record does not name his father and does not call him a shoemaker, cordiner, or former shoemaker.",
        "source_url": "https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/",
        "source_reference": "National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh Commissary Court, testament of Archibald Glasgow, CC8/8/70, images 689-693, 1662",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "No source found in this pass bridges the shoemaker documented in 1647 to the maltman documented in 1662.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The local dossier and cached record corpus contain the two endpoint descriptions but no marriage, baptism, sasine, deed, guild entry, or property statement using both occupations or supplying the 1662 man's parentage. Targeted exact-name, spouse, child-mother, trade, and NRS catalogue searches returned no relevant historical record. This is a bounded negative result, not proof that no bridge exists.",
        "source_url": "research/Glasgow-3078/findings.md",
        "source_reference": "Local Glasgow-3078 evidence dossier plus targeted searches recorded below, reviewed 10 September 2026",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "The current association of the 1662 maltman testament with WikiTree profile Glasgow-3078 is not independently proved by the records examined.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "Same uncommon name, Leith residence, and a fifteen-year interval are compatible with one man, but the only explicit occupations differ: shoemaker in 1647 and maltman in 1662. The 1662 record lacks the father William or another unique identifier, and cached profile data only repeats the attachment rather than supplying a primary bridge.",
        "source_url": "research/Glasgow-3078/Glasgow-3078.md",
        "source_reference": "Cached WikiTree profile narrative compared with General Retour 3278 and NRS CC8/8/70",
        "new_this_pass": true
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "Unread local Glasgow-3078 dossier, profile cache, and research plan",
        "result": "Found a secure 1639-1647 father-son and shoemaker chain and the separately described 1662 maltman family, but no bridging record. The profile attachment is derivative and does not resolve the conflict."
      },
      {
        "target": "Cached repository records for exact Archibald Glasgow/Agnes Watson combinations, children Archibald, George, and William, and shoemaker/maltman role overlap",
        "result": "No independent marriage, baptism, guild, deed, sasine, or property record bridging the identities was located."
      },
      {
        "target": "Exact web searches for Archibald Glasgow with Agnes Watson or Watsone in Leith",
        "result": "No relevant historical result; returned results were unrelated people or later periods. Failed search, not negative proof."
      },
      {
        "target": "Exact and variant web searches combining Archibald Glasgow with shoemaker, cordiner, maltman, or Thomas Park",
        "result": "No source spanning the occupations was returned. Failed search, not negative proof."
      },
      {
        "target": "Indexed web searches for George Glasgow or William Glasgow with mother Agnes Watson in Leith",
        "result": "No relevant baptism or family index entry was returned. Failed search, not negative proof."
      },
      {
        "target": "National Records of Scotland online-catalogue web index for exact Archibald Glasgow in Leith",
        "result": "No relevant catalogue item was returned; visible hits were unrelated records. This does not search unindexed record contents."
      },
      {
        "target": "Internet Archive scan of the printed Edinburgh apprentice register",
        "result": "The known volume and page citation are preserved in the local dossier; direct browser retrieval returned an internal error in this pass. It remains a digitized derivative transcript rather than the original burgh minute."
      },
      {
        "target": "Internet Archive scan of the printed retour abstracts",
        "result": "The known volume, retour number, date, and exact Latin abstract are preserved in the local dossier; direct browser retrieval returned an internal error in this pass. It remains an official published abstract rather than original retour xix.128."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Inspect the original South Leith parish-register images, NRS OPR 692/2, for an Archibald Glasgow-Agnes Watson marriage and baptisms of sons Archibald, George, and William, then inspect any matching entry's witnesses and occupational wording. A contemporaneous entry naming William the mealmaker as grandfather, Thomas Park as associate, or Archibald under both shoemaker/cordiner and maltman descriptions would provide the needed bridge; a bare name match would not.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Glasgow-3078"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "montfoid-bessie-robertson-testament-comparison",
    "title": "Montfoid: test the rent clause before joining the families",
    "question": "Is Bessie Robertson's 1610 confirmation the unnamed Montfoid tenant's testament quoted by Paterson, and can it help identify her husband John Glasgow?",
    "conclusion": "A published extract gives a testable lead: an unnamed Montfoid tenant, said to have died in February 1606, owed Lady Jean Boyd one boll of rent meal, and the testament was confirmed on 17 August 1610. Bessie Robertson, spouse of John Glasgow in Montfoid, has the same confirmation date in the testament calendar. The shared estate and date make her testament worth comparing, but the extract omits the tenant's name. No death date or migration to Quothquan is proved by this match alone.",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "The calendar identifies Bessie Robertson as John Glasgow's spouse in Montfoid on the record confirmed 17 August 1610.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The existing calendar citation identifies the spouse and locality. It does not give a marriage date, establish the husband's parentage, or identify him with the later Quothquan deceased. The current Bessie profile is Robertson-33965; no new spouse profile is needed. Its sparse biography adds no independent death evidence.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/scottishrecordso07scotuoft/page/426/mode/2up",
        "source_reference": "Francis J. Grant, ed., The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547-1800, printed p. 426, Robertson, Bessie; cross-reference p. 196. Existing calendar finding, not a new original-image reading.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      },
      {
        "claim": "Paterson describes an unnamed estate tenant's February 1606 death and a distinctive rent creditor, not a named Glasgow death.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "The text across printed pp. 53-54 discusses Hugh Montfoid of that Ilk and his wife Jean Boyd. It reports Lady Montfoid as creditor for a boll of rent meal in an unnamed tenant's testament, gives that tenant's death as February 1606, and gives confirmation as 17 August 1610. The death clause refers to the tenant, not to Hugh or Jean. Neither Bessie Robertson nor John Glasgow is named in this passage. This is a nineteenth-century account quoting an earlier record, not the original testament itself.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcountie0003pt1pate/historyofcountie0003pt1pate.pdf",
        "source_reference": "James Paterson, History of the counties of Ayr and Wigtown, Cuninghame section, printed pp. 53-54; public scan inspected in context across the page break.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "The rent clause supplies a stronger comparison than surname or confirmation date alone.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "Obtain Bessie's original and look for Jeane Boyd, Lady Montfoid, as creditor for ane boll of ferme meill, together with the opening death clause and confirmation. If those distinctive details agree, the unnamed printed extract can be assigned much more securely. Until then, keep February 1606 as a candidate comparison date, not Bessie's death field. A court may confirm several estates on the same day.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/download/historyofcountie0003pt1pate/historyofcountie0003pt1pate.pdf",
        "source_reference": "Research inference from Paterson pp. 53-54 and the separately maintained calendar entry for Bessie Robertson; original CC9/7 volume and images still to be established.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "The Montfoid husband, the Mid Calder father and the Quothquan deceased remain a three-record identity hypothesis.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "The 1610 Montfoid calendar proves a spouse pair; the 1608 and 1609 Mid Calder baptism records name a local father John; the 1650 Quothquan testament identifies John and his sister Bessie Glasgow. None of these records supplies the missing cross-place link. Bessie the spouse Robertson and Bessie the sister Glasgow have different documented roles and must not be conflated. Preserve the existing uncertain working attachments while seeking a deed, tenancy succession or testament clause naming a second locality or the relevant relatives.",
        "source_url": "https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glasgow-3296",
        "source_reference": "Maintained Glasgow-3296 identity assessment, compared with the newly recovered Paterson passage; the WikiTree attachment itself is not independent proof.",
        "new_this_pass": false
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "Read the antecedent of the search snippet beginning with 1606 on printed p. 54",
        "result": "The full pp. 53-54 passage concerns Hugh Montfoid and Jean Boyd and quotes an unnamed tenant's testament. It does not name a Glasgow. The complete context prevents the tenant's death from being assigned to the wrong person."
      },
      {
        "target": "Identify the existing Bessie Robertson profile through the public WikiTree API",
        "result": "Glasgow-3296's spouse is Robertson-33965. Her biography cites the printed testament calendar; her death field is empty. No original-image or death-date evidence was added by that biography."
      },
      {
        "target": "Find a source route that could prove the Montfoid-to-Quothquan identity",
        "result": "The recovered passage supplies a specific original-testament comparison, but no cross-place family link. A proposed move is not established by this bounded search."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Find Bessie Robertson's original Glasgow commissary testament, confirmed 17 August 1610. Compare the Lady Montfoid rent creditor and death wording, then transcribe every named relative, debtor and locality. Only after that should the Montfoid husband be tested against the Mid Calder and Quothquan records. If a 1606 death is established, assess any proposed maternity of later-baptised children from their full birth/baptism entries rather than assuming baptism dates are birth dates.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Robertson-33965",
      "Glasgow-3296",
      "Glasgow-1086"
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "glasgow-protocol-volume-two-recovery",
    "title": "The missing protocols: John Glasgow's neighbouring properties, 1556-1557",
    "question": "Do protocols 307 and 402 supply the missing family connection among the early Glasgow burgesses?",
    "conclusion": "The correct second volume has now been recovered and both entries examined in its digitized printed text. They name John Glesgw as a neighbouring landholder, not as a party transferring property or as a witness. They improve the property chronology, but neither supplies a Glasgow parent, spouse or sibling. Existing probable family connections remain probable: these entries neither prove nor disprove them.",
    "status": "unresolved",
    "findings": [
      {
        "claim": "On 6 August 1556, John Glesgw's land formed the eastern boundary of property sold to Andrew Morsoune and Jonet Gilleis.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "Protocol 307, printed p. 15, describes Allan Roger and Jonet Scheles as spouses and the purchasers Andrew Morsoune and Jonet Gilleis as spouses. The back tenement and adjacent yard have John Glesgw's land on the east, Thomas Bargille on the south and Richard Ros on the west. John is a boundary reference only. No Glasgow-name person occurs in its witness list. This reading is from the digitized published abstract, not an inspection of the original manuscript.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/abstractsprotoc04robegoog",
        "source_reference": "Robert Renwick, ed., Abstracts of Protocols of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, vol. II: William Hegait's Protocols, 1555-60 (1896), protocol 307, printed p. 15, 6 August 1556. Locate by printed page/protocol if the scan opens elsewhere.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "On 22 November 1557, John Glesgw again appears as an eastern neighbour; the explicit father-son relationship belongs to the Bargilly family.",
        "status": "confirmed",
        "basis": "Protocol 402, printed p. 41, records John Bargilly receiving sasine as heir of his deceased father Thomas Bargillye and selling the back-tenement piece to James Schelis, mason. Andrew Morsoune bounds it on the north and west, Patrick Patersoune otherwise Schelis on the south, and John Glesgw on the east. The repeated neighbouring owners help trace the locality. The father named in this entry is Thomas Bargillye, not a Glasgow. John Glesgw is neither a party nor a witness.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/abstractsprotoc04robegoog",
        "source_reference": "Renwick, Abstracts of Protocols, vol. II (1896), protocol 402, printed p. 41, 22 November 1557, 10 a.m.; digitized published abstract, not the manuscript.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      },
      {
        "claim": "A boundary name must not be converted into a family relationship or a fresh proof of personal survival.",
        "status": "unresolved",
        "basis": "An adjoining property can continue to be described by a previous owner's name. These entries securely attest the boundary descriptions, but do not independently establish John's parentage, prove he was present or alive on either transaction date, or uniquely identify him with an existing WikiTree profile. The established William-to-John relationship rests on the separately cited direct records, not these two boundaries.",
        "source_url": "https://archive.org/details/abstractsprotoc04robegoog",
        "source_reference": "Interpretation of protocols 307 and 402 alongside the existing early-family evidence; no profile relationships changed.",
        "new_this_pass": true
      }
    ],
    "searches": [
      {
        "target": "Find the actual digitized volume containing protocols 307 and 402 rather than guessing an Internet Archive volume number",
        "result": "Recovered Internet Archive item abstractsprotoc04robegoog. Its title page identifies vol. II, William Hegait's Protocols, 1555-60; both target entries and printed-page citations are present. The identifier's '04' is not the printed volume number."
      },
      {
        "target": "Distinguish explicit Glasgow kinship from property bounds and other families' kinship",
        "result": "Both Glasgow references are eastern boundaries. The express spouses in 307 and father-son succession in 402 concern other surnames. No additional Glasgow kinship established."
      }
    ],
    "next_record": "Follow the same properties into a conveyance that names a Glasgow grantor, heir, spouse or predecessor explicitly. Compare the original manuscript if a personal-identity or kinship claim depends on wording omitted from Renwick's abstracts. Do not treat repeated boundary names alone as succession evidence.",
    "profile_ids": [
      "Glasgow-1093",
      "Glasgow-1098",
      "Glasgow-1096",
      "Glasgow-1097",
      "Glasgow-3916"
    ]
  }
]