What happened was, after I got ancestry dot com from a stepdaughter, I got a Wallace tree from a cousin. It didn't have much in the present fifty years or so, but if you combine the efforts of everyone on the web, and apply them to the ones going back, a lot of information comes out and onto the table.
And so, where my trail had stopped in Londonderry, I now have real people who were born and died in Scotland, and I have a clearer picture of the era when they came over. The parents of the four boys, William and Mary - I have their dates and the assertion that they died in Scotland, not forced to move over to Ireland. William was one of thirteen kids of Sir Thomas Wallace of Cairnhill, and that makes for some good travel around Ayrshire as I figure out who exactly he was, and whether all of those thirteen were real. On. this site it appears some stray people may have been dropped into the trees here and there; for example, William and Mary seem to have had two Williams who lived a while, one 1742-1778, another 1749-1832; you can guess that only one of them belongs there. Far from knowing which, at this point.
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