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Reviewed newspaper notices
1 distinct notices from 1 retained pages, earliest first. Reprints of the same notice are merged; 1 pages have saved inline excerpts. Open a notice for its clipping, reading and profile assessment.
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1 distinct notices · 1 retained pages
1737Verified surname passagemilitary/church appointmentStrong match
James Glasgow
Edinburgh Castle garrisonb. by c. 1719 adult estimate
Appointed chaplain to Edinburgh Castle garrison; commission reported read in presbytery.
Birth estimate / source
Adult clerical role (styled Clerk/chaplain) in 1737, assuming 18+; age not stated
Occupation / trade
Published 1737-11-03 · The Daily Gazetteer · p. 1
Faithful bounded excerpt of the inspected original. Supplemental context is separately preserved where needed; issue metadata supplied by Newspapers.com. Source reference: The Daily Gazetteer · 1737-11-03 · p. 1. Open for full size; inspect the original page for context.
What the notice says
James Glasgow, styled Clerk, is appointed chaplain to the garrison of Edinburgh Castle by a royal commission reported read in the presbytery.
Evidence and identity limits
Full notice retained with Scotland section heading, Edinburgh dateline, preceding sentence, full appointment sentence and following paragraph start. Printed long-s glyph in Glasſgow is f-shaped and can produce OCR Glafgow; normalized surname reading Glasgow. 'Yesterday' refers to the Edinburgh Oct. 21 dateline; identity with the 1738 notice is not asserted. The 1737 and 1738 notices are a probable same-officeholder sequence, not a proved profile identity. Clerk is a clerical style, not evidence of a separate clerk occupation. Neither relative date is calculated from the newspaper issue date. Identity review (6 October 2026): 1737 Edinburgh report that James Glasgow, Clerk, was commissioned chaplain to the Edinburgh Castle garrison. Fasti and the Kilbirnie Fasti entry identify the Castle minister as James, son of Rev. John Glasgow of Kilbirnie and Margaret Scott: Glasgow-1140, strong.
[b. c. 1700-03-17; d. ?] · appointee, chaplain/minister of Edinburgh Castle garrisonWhy this candidate?
Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, new ed., vol. 1 (1915), Edinburgh Castle: 'JAMES GLASGOW, M.A. (Glasgow, 10th March 1718); commissioned by George II. 7th July 1737; ord. 14th Feb. 1738; died 9th Feb. 1746, aged about 48'. The notice's commission read in presbytery on 20 Oct 1737 ('yesterday' in the Edinburgh 21 Oct report) follows that 7 July 1737 commission. Fasti vol. 3 (1920), Kilbirnie, under JOHN GLASGOW, minister 1688-1721: 'He marr. (1) Jean ... Cunningham ... and had issue - Robert of Puddockholme, ancestor of the Montgreenan family: (2) Margaret Scott, and had issue - James, min. of Edinb
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