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- Email from Alan McGowan, historian for Chess Scotland, researching the history of the Glasgow Chess Club. He notes "club member Robert Pirrie, who is mentioned in your pages, gifted a notice from 1827 that was addressed to 'A. Glasgow, Esq., Messrs. Frew & Glasgow, North Albion Court.' This notice said that 'The Chess Club will meet in the Royal Hotel Georges Square on Monday first the 12th curt., at 7 o'clock Evenin
- Hardy Bertram M'Call, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Mid-Calder, with Some Account of the Religious House of Torphichen, Founded upon Record (Edinburgh: Richard Cameron, 1894), pp. 245–246; Internet Archive
- 'History of the County of Ayr' (James Paterson, vol 2, 1852, (T G Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1847-1852) Vol 2 page 252) I. Rev John Glasgow, minister of Kilbirnie
- Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society, Glasgow High Kirk Baptisms 1609-1777, 7 August 1610, vol. 1/320, James Fultoun, lawful son of Robert Fultoun and Marion Glasgow; witnesses John Howie and James Barr, public record index
- Hardy Bertram McCall, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Mid-Calder (1894), barony-court extracts; The Germanic Toponymicon of Southern Scotland, University of Glasgow thesis, Hermand entry
- James Paterson, History of the County of Ayr : with a genealogical account of the families of Ayrshire, (Edinburgh : T.G. Stevenson, 1847-1852), Vol. II, p. 252 - 253; Internet Archive, (Available on Archive.org : viewed 3 December 2025)
- James R. Anderson, ed., Burgesses & Guild Brethren of Glasgow, 1573–1750; Scottish Record Society, The Commissariot Record of Glasgow: Register of Testaments, 1547–1800, surname entries for Cunningham and Muir
- Muniments of the Royal Burgh of Irvine, vol. II (Edinburgh: David Douglas for the Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association, 1891), p. 103, act no. 60, 16 April 1686
- Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, vol. III, pp. 130–131. Google Books
- The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, by Robert Wodrow, 1721
- Thomas Dickson and James Balfour Paul, eds., Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 5, A.D. 1515–1531, preface p. xxvii, citing account p. 275
- William Glasgow, The History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, with Sketches of all her Ministry, Congregations, Missions, Institutions, Publications, etc. (Baltimore: Hill & Harvey, Publishers, 1888), 245. jardine's book of martyrs