William Glasgow, Lanark testament dative: administrator-name reread
National Records of Scotland, Lanark Commissary Court, CC14/5/9, images 24-26
Reviewed: 2026-09-10
LLM-assisted working reading. Brackets/ellipses mark uncertainty or omissions; not a diplomatic edition.

IMAGE / PASSAGE NRS image 24
1. [preceding testament unresolved]
2. The testament dative and Inventar of the goods geir soumes of money and debtis
3. perteining to umquhile William Glasgow in [locality obscured at gutter]
4. quha deceisit in the moneth of [illegible] [year wording obscured]
5. [giver-up and appointment formula; names/capacities partly illegible]
6. [inventory begins with livestock and crops]

IMAGE / PASSAGE NRS image 25
1. [livestock, crops, household goods, and clothing]
2. Summa of the Inventar [amount unresolved]
3. Na debtis awand to the deid
4. Followes the debtis awand be the deid [creditor/account names partly unresolved]
5. [confirmation formula naming] Alexr Broun and Jon Neilsone executoris datives

IMAGE / PASSAGE NRS image 26
1. At Lanark the nynt day of Apryle 1673
2. [commissary/title formula; personal name unresolved]
3. Compeirit personallie Alexr Broun and Jon Neilsone executoris befoir named
4. [they produced and swore the inventory; formula partly unresolved]
5. fand Williame Neilsone in Biggar cautioner
6. [security and closing formula]
7. [following Ralph McDougal testament unresolved]

MODERN INTERPRETATION
This is William Glasgow's Lanark Commissary Court testament dative and inventory. The ScotlandsPeople index confirms the indexed residence as Quodquen and the proceeding date as 9 April 1673; the manuscript locality and death wording remain obscured in the gutter.
Alexander Brown and John Neilson are repeatedly named as executors dative and personally appear to produce and swear the inventory.
William Neilson in Biggar is the cautioner or surety. A shared surname does not prove that he was related to John Neilson, and none of these offices proves kinship to William Glasgow.
No spouse, parent, child, or sibling is securely named in the supplied entry.

EVIDENCE
Genuinely corrected reading: the first executor is Alexr (Alexander) Broun, not George Broun. The name repeats on images 25 and 26.
Confirmed: Jon Neilsone (John Neilson) is Alexander Brown's co-executor dative; both appear personally in the estate proceeding.
Confirmed: William Neilson in Biggar is cautioner, not a stated relative.
Unresolved: the opening locality, death month/year wording, names in the initial appointment formula, several account parties, and the presiding official's full name/title.
No direct kinship or new bridge to another Glasgow family is supplied by the testament.

CHANGES
Corrected every 'George Brown' conclusion to Alexander Brown from the repeated literal abbreviation 'Alexr Broun'.
Retained John Neilson as co-executor and William Neilson as cautioner; their administrative roles remain separate from family evidence.
Consolidated william-lanark-1673 as a duplicate alias rather than an independent case.
Preserved Glasgow-3912 as the maintained index-based identification while stating that Quothquan is not independently legible in the manuscript gutter.

UNRESOLVED
The index-confirmed residence is Quodquen; William's manuscript locality strokes and exact death month/year remain unresolved
Full giver-up and executor-appointment wording on image 24
The full names and capacities of every official and account party
Crop quantities, debts, rent, totals, and much of the legal formula
Any spouse, parent, child, or sibling of William