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Irish Glendinning Family Tree

(From J.P. Collins' "Brief Memorial etc...")

see: The Origins of the Glendinnings (in section entitled "Published Works')

Tree I

Tree II

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From Anne Glendinning- Steiner: I wanted to let you know that Alfred Lyall Glendinning - my dear dad died on October 22 2003 aged 85, so that you can update the Family Tree you so kindly have on your Irish Glendinnings site. Thank you once again for putting so many of us in contact with each other. I'm sure that your efforts have enriched many lives worldwide.

 

Posted to the Glendinning Mailing List on August 22nd 2002 by William Glendinning:

History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations Biographical NY: The American Historical Society, Inc. 1920 p. 96:

 

HENRY DUKE GLENDINNING -- In the younger circles of the legal profession of Providence, Henry Duke Glendinning holds a prominent place as an able lawyer, and has a personality of such force that he would make himself felt in whatever circumstances he might be placed. Though he comes of a family of means he owes his success wholly to his own efforts, and may thus be considered justified in a certain pride in his achievements. He is not a native of the State, but a son by adoption, having been born in Troy, N.Y., the son of John Emmett and Sarah (Trimble) Glendinning. His father was a large linen manufacturer of that city, and is now dead, but his mother is still living and makes her residence in Providence.

 

When a boy his family moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he began his education in the public schools, later going abroad and completing his studies in Scotland and Ireland. He returned to the United States in 1896, making Providence his objective, and here he attended the Rhode Island Law School. After this he became a student in a law office where he mastered the practical details of the profession and completed his studies for admission to the bar. This aim was accomplished in 1902 and since that time he has been steadily at work at this profession, building up an excellent practice. He is a member of the American Bar Association, of the Pen and Pencil Club, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is an ex-president of the Washington Park Yacht Club. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted in Substitute Company A, Rhode Island Militia. He has a brother, Thomas Trimble Glendinning, who is a member of Company E., Twenty-First Engineers, United States Expeditionary Force, now in France and another brother, William Bell Glendinning, M. D., who is practicing his profession in Cleveland, O., and a sister, Mrs. Walter T. Smith, who makes her home in Providence, R. I.

 

Mr. Glendinning married, Octover 3, 1903, Maud M. Blakeley, of Taunton, Mass. Mrs. Glendinning's brother, Frank Blakeley, was the first sailor killed on the American side in the Spanish-American War. Mr. and Mrs. Glendinning have one son, H. Ervin, born May 5, 1904, who is now attending the New York Military Academy."

On November 20th 2001 I discovered http://www.angelfire.com/ar/ken/glendinning.html which reads: "GLENDINNING married SHEGOG. Robert Glendinning born July, 1808 at Brackagh,Ireland married Margaret Shegog in 1843 in Ireland. Their issue were: 1. Eliza Glendinning born 1845,Ireland married William Murphy. 2. Mary Glendinning born 1849, Ireland married John Shields Simpson. 3. William Glendinning born 8th March,1847, Ireland married Eliza Jane Frost. 4. George Glendinning born 1855,Ireland married Rosa Mary Davies. 5. Margaret Glendinning born 1851, Ireland married Abraham Crawford. 6. John Glendinning born 1853, Ireland married Emmeline Logan. 7. Penelope Glendinning born January,1810 at Derry,Ireland, died 17th June, 1864 at Sandhurst,Victoria,Australia. Email: glendfam@net2000.com.au. This fellow belongs on Tree I.

On May 28th 2001 Phil Adams wrote: I am a grandson of Acheson Harden Glendinning, the grandson of William Bell Glendinning, as shown in "Tree II" of your Irish Glendinning Family Tree. I have a copy of a substantial family tree compiled by Kathlene Shrosbree and extended by Margery Glendinning. Kathlene Shrosbree is the daughter of James Porter Collins Glendinning (not to be confused with James Porter Collins, the author of "A Brief Memorial ...").

J.P.C Glendinning was the son of Alexander Glendinning and Margaret Neely; he appears to have been the son described in your tree as "A Presbyterian Minister at Saintfield, Co. Down", although I cannot confirm his occupation and Kathlene Shrosbree states that he lived in Lurgan and Moira, not Saintfield. He had two younger sisters Martha & Minnie. I recently discovered the birth record of an elder sister Mary Anne who does not appear in either your or my trees, so I assume she must have died in infancy.

Margery Glendinning is my aunt, the eldest daughter of Acheson Harden Glendinning, and still hale and hearty at the age of 94. She has corresponded with members of the Australian branch of the family, so is probably known to them. I was amazed to find "A Brief Memorial ...." mentioned on the net - Kathlene Shrosbree included a hand-written extract from it in her family tree but I never thought to see reference to it on the net. I am happy to supply whatever information I can to other Glendinning descendants.

12 September 2000: Another descendant of William Bell Glendinning makes contact - see: David Cunningham's Genealogy on Line.

14 April 1999 - much excitement as Anne Glendinning- Steiner, daughter of Alfred Lyall Glendinning, has made contact. I have not heard from 'Fred' in about 16 years! The Australian and American branches of this family are now corresponding. Anne wrote: I'd just like to thank you for putting our 'Irish Glendinnings' on your web-site and tell you how much pleasure reading it has given both to my father and myself. I was delighted to see on a further inspection yesterday that there is now news of our cousins in America, in fact after sending this email I wil also send one to Tom Glendinning who is part of my great- grandfather's cousin's family who migrated to America at about the time that my great-grandfather's widowed mother brought all of her children to Australia to join her brother in Melbourne. I am an English teacher with migrants in Sydney married to a Swiss sculptor. We have 2 lovely daughters, one studying Fine Arts at university and the other in her final year of high school.

27 February 1999 from Maureen Kerr-Pereversoff. I am looking for anyone related to my grandmother, her name was Caroline Glendinning. Born in 1883 in Belfast - parents James & Margaret Glendinning. She left Ireland to married my grandfather Thomas Kerr of Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone. in Calgary Alberta, Canada around 1909.

February 21st 1999 Colin Glendinning, a descendant of Robert Glendinning and Margaret Shegog, has now made contact and provided a GECOM file of his branch of the family in Australia. Tree I altered to reflect that he is descended from their son George.

February 1st 1999 More information from Tom Glendinning: Son of William Bell Glendinning was Paul Madison Glendinning (1916-1981). I was born February 25 1944 Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

January 19th 1999 Tom Glendinning: While searching for my brother on the net, I found your home page. Thank you for the family documentation. I have the degrees of my grandfather, William Bell Glendinning, and, elsewhere, the degrees of my father and great-grandfather. William B. G. graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio in May, 1904. He was licensed in Ohio in April, 1898 graduating from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, 1898. Father graduated from Western Reserve University ca. 1942-4. Great-grandfather from a university in Ireland. I will research his degree from my cousins.