genealogy 4

This post is going to start out with a general report. I am now ready to send the genealogy out to relatives and ask for updates. I've done nothing with it except format it and read it.

One of the major observations that came from reading it was that I determined that the last half of it was descended not from Robert's ten children, but instead from his uncle James' clan, who were no doubt occupying the same valley and thus familiar to them. I am just beginning my research into the area in general. It seems it is not really all that isolated, with Youngstown, East Liverpool, Beaver Falls, New Castle, and a number of other cities all nearby. It is Appalachian, but so is everything out there. It became heavily populated soon enough.

But at the time, even the river, Wallace Run, was being named after the Wallaces, and the road along it, Wallace Run Road, was where Robert chose to settle. My research isn't complete. Where was his house? Where were the others?

My working theory is that John and Robert were the pig-stealers, left Scotland, stopped over in Northern Ireland, and arrived in Pennsylvania around 1811. Robert would join the service and fight in the War of 1812. John would move on to Ohio. After the war, Robert found his bride in New Castle and brought her back to Wallace Run, and had ten kids, the first seven of whom were boys. Lots of Wallaces. There would ultimately be lots of doctors, too.

Euphalia and Orpha ended up being in the other half, uncle James' clan. Their parents were first cousins, and their dad's parents were also first cousins. There was no sibling marriages as I'd originally suspected. I'm often wrong about these things after careful study. And they weren't even in Robert's family; they were in the other half. Relatives though, as were they all. Perhaps first-cousin marriage was just no big deal in the 1800's. Some of my questions revolve around that - how did that happen? What was the result? Were there any genetic issues?

As for Wallace Run, I'd still like to know, what or who was this river named for? What other Wallaces, besides Robert and Uncle James' clan, were in the valley?

1812 was actually a very busy era in western Pennsylvania. The area was bound up in British-English fighting, and soon to be French and Indian War, etc. They'd also had the whiskey rebellion if I'm not mistaken. But the joining of the service was the turn for Robert; he went off a pig thief, but came back an honorable soldier.

By my theory though he would have stolen the pig, with his brother, at the age of only about 14 or less. The brother was 8 years older than him, so in my mind, responsible. But responsible also for bringing a 14-yr-old to a foreign country. Two of them. This theory might need some work; perhaps the pig-stealers were in an earlier generation. Or were a fiction.

The wildest thing is that all this stuff is on the web, if you only know where to look for it.

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