I wish you had put this in just one day earlier. I ran across a
Glasgow family just yesterday in the library while working with census
records.
If you wish to email me privately I will go back over what I did
yesterday and try to narrow down the areas I researched for you. I
recall being quite surprised and thought "they must have been from
Glasgow and took the name as remembrance"!
<You qualify. The 'temper' bit clinched it. Change your name
back to Sinclair.>
My friends describe my personality as "intense". I
think they are being very kind........ ;o)
I have another question that is perhaps a bit off topic, for the
Scots on the list................my g-g-g-g-g-grandmother's maiden name
was Glasgow (Agnes), married to John Snoddy. I cannot find my
Snoddy line past this generation right now. Agnes' parents were Hugh and
Janet Kilpatrick (possibly Patrick) Glasgow. Is the surname Glasgow
a place name or was the city of Glasgow named for a family?
Sincerely,
Rebecca Snody
The name Glasgow would be taken from the place of that name just as we
took our name from
St Clair-sur-Epte. There are a number of places around the World
called Glasgow but there are
also two other small places in Aberdeenshire (Scotland) with that
name.
Glas = grey, green or blue and, in consequence, is
sometimes associated with water.
The gow part of the name comes from cau or
heuch (as in Ravenheuch which was the
earlier name for Ravenscraig, the Castle which Earl William
Sinclair received from James
III in compensation for surrendering the Earldom of Orkney) which means a
cliff.
I have just checked the London Telephone Directory where Glasgow is
quite a common surname.