An old genealogy

There is an old family origin story in my branch of the Wallaces that goes like this: Two brothers stole a pig in Scotland, and were being chased by the authorities, so they escaped to Northern Ireland. There, they were able to survive and live with friends or relatives, but they weren't happy. So they decided to go to Pennsylvania, where some other Wallaces had settled, and they did. And that's how our ancestors got to Pennsylvania.

Naturally I had questions about who they were: when did they live? Where did they start out and what was their transit point in Northern Ireland? It seems they were from Ayreshire in Scotland. There were thousands of Wallaces in Ayreshire (sp.?) at the time so the trail seems to have gone cold.

But I turned up a genealogy the other day, and got it off an ancient computer where it was actually in html form; I reformatted it and now have a word document that I can send around. I am not sure if it is the only one I have for the Wallaces, or how it compares to others that might be around. It had huge formatting issues and lots of typos which I only fixed if they were obvious.

I might now be able to answer a couple of questions from above. It seems my best guess would be John and Robert Wallace, born at the end of the 1700's, John about eight years older than Robert. They knew their siblings' names, as well as their parents and their grandfather William Wallace who is the only #1 character in this genealogy. Of course all of us Wallaces would like to think we are descended from a William, if not THE William.

So John and Robert are in the third generation, and many of the lower generation are listed. Nobody knew much about John's descendants but they knew when he died. Robert then had most of the ones we know, twelve pages of them, many of them Wallaces, including our own Wallace family with its twelve cousins me among them. Some dates and names are wrong. It doesn't go past my birth, and therefore was probably updated by my parents as early as the sixties when the Leverett one was made (the Leverett one now has my children, if not theirs, but that probably reflects the fact that my dad was still updating it for years. I'm not sure if there is anything updated on my mom's side, the Wallaces; this one is not updated though).

I may put it on this blog. I may even update it on this blog. If you're interested, contact me. I'll make sure you get one.

Update: found it on this very blog.

Wallace genealogy