A little investigation

Some looking into the family John (~1750) grew up in and I've learned a few things.

I had originally counted him as tenth out of eleven, but I knew that having two Williams who lived was unlikely, and very soon I found a bogus Hugh.

But it turns out there was a Hugh that qualified, and he could have been one of the four who landed in New York, and he could even be the one they referred to as "ending up in South Carolina," though in fact, he was a Revolutionary War soldier, went down there, had a child, but ended up back in Pennsylvania. More research necessary.

Another interesting finding was a brother Thomas who was in Cecil County Maryland and even died there. This answers the question of why John and family would moove to Cecil County of all places when it seemed he had relatives in Pennsylvania, and even had been in Carlisle if not other places. One would expect him to go where relatives were, and when he disappeared to disappear off into where there are other relatives, either his or Geneva Jane's.

There were four from the Veach-Moore tree, all oddly different from the rest, and I finally concluded they were falsely put into John's family because their father Willliam either had the same birthdate (1711) or was given it in mistake. I don't think Jean Campbell is a second wife so much as a separate wife of a separate William. Interestingly of those four one died in Jamaica and two died in India; the fourth, their Thomas, stayed in Scotland and was known as Thomas Esq. (that Esq. is sometimes given to ours - similar birthdates). The Thomases are getting confused, as are the Johns and Williams. But a family is really likely to have only one of each, unless one died really early, and those don't seem to even appear at all.

So naturally I'm looking for the ones who ended up staying in the USA and dying there, as those are the ones who would have a farm by the early 1800s where John and Geneva Jane could go if and when they got sick of Cecil County. Nathaniel came over, and ended up in Ohio. James died in York, PA but there's some question about him because some of his descendants came over later - perhaps there are two Jameses. Perhaps my parents attributed one James to our family that was not the right one, or, they got death places wrong. More. research necessary.

A William born 1745 ended up in Scotchtown New York and therefore could be the one referred to by the Beaver Co. Historical piece that confidently said one ended up in Goshen New York. Those could be close enough.

So there are still questions to answer here, but we could take that tract by the BCHS to be mostly accurate or at least representing the best it could the knowledge that the New Castle Wallaces were carrying down through the generations.

Eventually I'll get the best of my judgement down on a piece of paper so that it could be published. There is a lot of variation in years born, but more alarmingly, in who was their mother. I have no problem believing that our William had more than one wife, but he probably didn't have two or three at once, or go back and forth, etc. On the contrary what happens is that people attribute certain mothers to people as a reasonable guess and it goes down as fact so that it appears there's a string of different mothers. Or perhaps they just misspell them. It's an important mystery to unfold.

So far this represents by best idea of the kids of our William (1711), disregarding who was alleged by whom to be each one's mother; that's for another day.

Jane Wallace b. 1730
Agnes Wallace b. 1732
Robert Wallace b. 1737
James Wallace b. 1739 d. 1778 York, PA
William Wallace b. 1745 d. 1832 Scotchtown NY
Hugh Wallace b. 1749 d. 1820 Lawrence Co. PA
Nathaniel Wallace b. 1742 d. 1820 Fox, OH
John Wallace b. 1749/1750 d. ?
Thomas Wallace b. 1751 d. 1812 Cecil County MD
Lillias Wallace b. 1763

Notice that after two girls, they had seven boys in a row. John is now eighth out of ten. None of them, yet, ended up in Northern Ireland, though it's clear that some like John were there for a little while.