Glasgow Family History
Glasgow Name Meaning
Scottish: local name from the city on the Clyde (first recorded
in 1116 as Glasgu), or from either of two minor places with the
same name in Aberdeenshire. The etymology of the place name is
disputed; it is probably from Welsh glas ‘gray’, ‘green’,
‘blue’ + cau ‘hollows’.Scottish and Irish: altered
form of Closkey, reduced and Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Bhloscaidhe ‘son of Bloscadh’ (see McCloskey).Irish: variant of the English family name Glasscock, which
was once common in County Kildare.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Glasgow
Name Distribution of Glasgow Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Glasgow families
 49 - 95  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Glasgow families
|
82 - 162 28 - 81 |
1 - 27 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Glasgow census records
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Glasgow Family Origin
Glasgow Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Glasgow Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Glasgow families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Glasgow Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Glasgow census records
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Military Service by Glasgow
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