Glendinning Name Study

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About the Project

The Glendinning Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Glendinning name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Glendinning name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Glendinning's), by time period (18th Century Glendinning's), or by topic (Glendinning DNA, Glendinning Occupations, Glendinning Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

Surname Distribution in 1900/1901 censuses shows the Glendinning name is prevalent in United Kingdom and Ireland, but the variants Glendenning and Glendening are more common in North America. However the Glendenning (and Glendening) figures from the censuses in USA and Canada may be over stated as several census records have this spelling, whereas other records and gravestones for those individuals are shown with Glendinning as the correct spelling.

How to Join

To join the Glendinning Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Ian Glendinning for assistance.

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Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

• Various theories have been put forward about the origins of the name Glendinning, but we can be sure that the family was well established by the 13th Century in South West Scotland. An extract from Douglas's Baronage of Scotland gives details of these early knights and their dealings with the Kings of Scotland at that time. The main line listed by Douglas eventually dies out, but it has been suggested that Archibald Glendinning 3rd son of Sir Simon Glendinning and Elizabeth Lindsay was the progenitor of the Westerkirk line. There are certainly a high proportion of Archibalds in this line from which Ian Archibald Glendinning the creator of The Glendinning Family Website is descended.
• "The Parish and Kirk of Staplegordon" an article written in 1904 for the Hawick Archaeological Society gives further information about the connection of the early Glendinning to the parishes of Staplegordon, Westerkirk and Langholm, from the 14th century onwards, and is reproduced here with their kind permission. This article again shows the close connection of the ancient Glendinning barons to the Earls of Douglas and the Scottish Royal Family on the one hand, and to the area of Westerkirk and Langholm in Dumfriesshire which was the birthplace of many generations of Glendinning whose descendants then emigrated to Canada, New Zealand and United States of America
• Currently researching the recently released 1921 censuses for Scotland and England
• Currently researching the recently released 1950 census for USA

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Related Surnames and Surname Variants

• Glendenning
• Glendening