Documented Wallace Families in 1685-1698 Somerset Co MD AS Found in the Wills of John Wallace d 1685 and William Wallace Who Died 1698 both in Somerset Co MD/ Where there’s a will there’s a way.
I am Jim Baucom, b 1931 CO, retired Aerospace Electrical Engineer who started searching for ancestors OCT 1969. first at the LDS library in SLC UT, and all over the southern US. I’m a researcher and user of Y DNA to find ancestors and seldom copy unsourced illogical information. While looking for the mother of my ancestor Sarah Brevard in 2021 I found the answer in the Somerset Co MD will of William Wallace who left items to his cousins, Jane Wallace who m John McKnitt, his cousin, John Brevard and cousin John Wallace, son of Richard who was the son of Matthew and Elizabeth. Then I found parts of the 1685 will of John Wallace, that stated his wife was Jane, he had sons Matthew and John Jr and that he was the brother of Matthew Wallace who also had a son Matthew. The person who found the John’s will thought he was from Scotland and first went to VA and then to MD, but there is no evidence. If Matthew was from Donegal Ireland, so were his kin
Discussion:
Mr X Wallace b&d Ireland or Scotland
Sons Y Wallace and Z Wallace
Y Wallace b Ireland or Scotland d Donegal Co Ireland
Children
(1) Matthew-1 Wallace b1640 Donegal Ireland d-1714 Somerset Co MD, married Elizabeth Alexander
Children Matthew-2 Jr, m Sarah Alexander 1708, Jane m John McKnitt, Richard and his son John-1, and unnamed daughter m John Brevard before 1698
(2) John-2 Wallace b ? Donegal Co Ireland, d 1685 Somerset Co MD, married Jane
Children Sons John-2 and Matthew-3
Z Wallace b Ireland or Scotland d probably at Donegal Co Ireland or Somerset Co MD if some of his five children were born in MD
Children b in Donegal Co Ireland and maybe Somerset Co MD
(1) William-1 b? d 1698 Somerset Co MD
(2) Thomas
(3) James
(4) Robert
(5) Mary
None of the postings about these Wallace men at ancestry come close being accurate. This evidence raises several questions. Did they all arrive about 1670 on the same ship with the Alexanders and McKnitts? Matthews 2 and 3,are in the same generation, It is assumed with no proof that Matthew-2 Jr. went to Cecil Co MD and is buried at The Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church at Newark Delaware and that Johns son, Matthes-3 is buried at Somerset Co. MD.
And how do you know exactly which of these Wallace men is your ancestor? They all have the same Y DNA that may match earlier identified Scots named Wallace but how do you identify X, Y, and Z?
Will Sources for William Wallace d 1698
http://www.mdgenweb.org/somerset/tlis/tlis1_w.htm
andhttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48376/images/PAFam...
Will Source for John Wallace d 1685 at Somerset Co MD
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tennessee_Cousins/P7pdYCTikZkC... source for John Wallace d 1685 at Somerset Co MD
