James Wallace 1739-1788

I just started looking into this guy, an older (possibly half-) brother, who may not have been on that original 1770 passage because he was married and possibly living in Northern Ireland, or perhaps Scotland. There are many versions of who his parents were, and I couldn't get to the bottom of how or when he traveled, or how he died.

If you look carefully at that death date he very well could have fought in the Revolution, as one person suggested, but I found no evidence for that. He had one daughter but she had descendants who cared enough to make a profile. He died in York County PA, which could be war-related or not. He seemed to leave his descendants there too. But look at those dates - he was only 49 when he died.

There were some odd suggestions about his parentage. One was that Mary Coke and Mary Muir were the same people, so his mother was Mary Coke Muir. Hugh's mom, the same. Several people put him with Hugh as if you had this full brother and then some half-brothers. Very possible.

One of the fathers suggested for him was William Hugh Wallace (1717), who has come up before - but while I was there I just followed him jp until I found that he had as the father the same guy our William (1711) had, which meant they were the same people? wrong dates? THere were lots of cousins in there, lots of Williams. James' grandad had maybe thirteen; William had maybe ten; no surprise that there were a few other Williams around.

If he died in 1778 at the age of 49, he left a wife and daughter in York, but they were ok. It was not the wide extended family implied by the description but they would at least be recognized relatives in the Wallace line, also in Pennsylvania. I'm no closer to finding who the mothers were. It seems a lot of that is lost in the vagueness of Scottish marriage records.