Matthew Wallace, Resident of Manokin in Colonial Maryland - Follow up on Somerset Co MD Wallace families

Started by James E. Baucom Jr. on Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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I usually never edit other people's ancestors. I supply suggestions or corrections and let the managers decide what to use.
In the Family Search, Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander had 19 children. Their son William b 1684 d 1698 was wrong and their son Richard b 1682 actually had a son John identified in William's will. Richard born soon after his parents married. When you post their unknown daughter as N N Brevard she becomes the half sister to her siblings. Make her NN Wallace, and note note that she married Brevard..

One huge final error that caused me to smile. MATTHEW JR BORN 1672 at Cecil Co MD. His parents never left Somerset Co MD. Land Records show that Matthew Wallace. Alexanders, McKnitts and Brevard acquired land 1714 in Cecil Co. It is assumed but unproven that the Matthew son of Matthew Sr was the one who went to Cecil Co MD but it could have been Matthew, son of John, who was Matthew Sr's brother..

Jim, I agree. Chaff is what we might call some of what you are dealing with.

In 1996 William Wallace Barton and Jean Wallace Gayle printed 50 copies of their authoritative SIX WALLACE BROTHERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS FROM CHANCEFORD TWP., YORK COUNTY., PA IN THE MID-18TH CENTURY. This volume is readily available online and can be consulted without charge. An original copy is also available.

Downstream YDNA STRs in 2007 supported family history connections that relate these brothers to descendants of Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander of Somerset County, Maryland in the 1600s. More recently, FTDNA Big Y 700s SNS and STRs confirm the observations of 2007. They are all I-F2004s whose STRs reach match levels of 639/639 and 611/611. In some instances, these STR matches exist whether the I-F2044s are downstream I-BY444s or I-BY43s who dispersed after the 1600s to the North or South in the 1700s. Family histories are consistent.

Such observations cut through the chaff with which you are dealing.

I observe an error in my posting.

In the 2nd paragraph, I entered: "More recently, FTDNA Big Y 700s SNS and STRs..." "SNS" was intended to read "SNPs."

Matthew Wallace, his brother John who died 1685 and their cousin William who died 1698 have the same Y DNA. Here is proof:

Identifying the Wallace Families and some of their kin of Somerset MD 1670-1714,, using only the Somerset Co MD recorded wills of John Wallace and William Wallace, and not false postings elsewhere
By Jim Baucom, a researcher and a STEM guy (where’s there is a will, there is a way, has a second meaning)

1 The 1685 will of John Wallace who died at Somerset Co MD stated his wife was Jane and they had sons John (Jr) and Matthew.
John also states that Matthew Wallace of Somerset Co MD was his brother and that he also had a son Matthew (Jr)
Matthew Wallace (Sr)d abt 1714 at Somerset Co MD
Sources https://sites.rootsweb.com/~lclay/wallace.htm
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/wallace/8500/

2 The 1698 will for William Wallace states he has siblings Mary, Thomas, Robert and James and a son William (Jr) Source http://www.mdgenweb.org/somerset/tlis/tlis1_w.htm
NOTE Only legatees named Wallace are identified here, that includes a John Wallace, son of Richard, son of Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander

A different source states that William’s will bequeathed items to three cousins; Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander daughter Jean/Jane Wallace wife of John McKnitt, son Richard’s son John Wallace, and John Brevard who married an unidentified daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth.

https://ancestry.prf.hn/click/camref:1011l4xx5/type:cpc/destination...
It is obvious that the father of Matthew Wallace born 1640-1714, at Donegal Ireland and his brother John ?-1685 were sons of a man named Wallace who had a brother who was the father of William Wallace -1698 and that they all lived in Donegal Ireland and were no close provable kin to any Wallace in Scotland. Were William and his five siblings born in Ireland or were some of his siblings born at MD? John and Matthew had sons named Matthew, one went to Cecil Co MD and the other died at Somerset Co MD.

I found this information while looking for my ancestor Sarah Brevard who married John Nisbet. Someone had posted the myth that he was the grandson of the Nisbet who translated the New Testament and that John was born at Hardhill Castle Scotland and he married Sarah Brevard there before coming to PA. However, Hardhill Nisbet had no children so he gave his copy of the New Testament to a friend to hold until his nephew was an adult. But even without this information the myth requires John Brevard who left France 1685 for Ireland to have married there or at Scotland and their daughter born about 1707 was left at Scotland and John Brevard married Katherine McKnitt about 1710 at Maryland or Sarah Brevard was born at MD and sailed to Scotland alone. William Wallace provided the true data on this couple. He states in his 1698 will that his cousin was John Brevard who had married an unidentified daughter of Matthew and Elizabet (Alexander) Wallace. No information of when Brevard left Ireland and arrived at Somerset Co MD but it was before William died. Sarah’s Wallace mother died about 1710 at Somerset Co MD and Brevard soon married Katherine McKnitt. Sarah Brevard married John Nisbet. of nearby PA, at Cecil Co MD and later they relocated to NC.

Jim, in your message of 4/12/2023, you assert, "Matthew Wallace, his brother John who died 1685 and their cousin William who died 1698 have the same Y DNA."

The questions are begged:

1. What genealogical evidence do you have that the 3 "brothers" were brothers by YDNA?

2. What was the YDNA type of the 3 "brothers "in the 1600s?

By Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) testing, there is at least one unrelated YDNA variant arising among Wallace descendants of Wallace males of Somerset County, Maryland, of the late 1600s. This is a known fact.

Among closely related YDNA Wallaces of Somerset County, Maryland, of the 1600s, there were at least two variant YDNA types by FTDNA Big Y 700 DNA testing. As noted in my email of 4/15/2022, these closely related but variant YDNA types are the I-BY444 and the I-BY43 YDNA types. This, too, is a known fact.

To go a bit deeper, the I-BY444 and I-BY43 YDNA types of Somerset County of the 1600s are of an ancestral I-BY19 YDNA type of Scotland by FTDNA Big Y testing. By family histories, Big Y testing, as of 2014, established at least four closely related branches in Scotland not later than about 1600. As of today, this I-BY19 ancestral branch of Wallaces gives rise to some sixteen closely related branches.

Your review of 4/12/2023 also neglects a 1940s review of the Wallaces of Somerset County of the 1600s conducted by the Maryland Chapter of the National Daughters of the Revolution, NSDAR Acquisition 36135. Based on professional genealogical work of the 1930s, this document was updated by the addition of material from the family bible of Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman and presented to her at the White House in 1946. This lineage of Wallaces, of the I-BY444 type, is today run by FTDNA back to the ancestral I-BY19 Wallaces of Scotland.

For the interested reader, copies of the professional genealogical work of the 1930s and a copy of NSDAR Acquisition 36135 are retained in the Wallace Family Papers in the Special Collections and Archives of the Dunbar Library at the Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. This material may be identified by googling: MS 92 Wallace Wright State.

Of interest to some, NSDAR Acquisition 36135 provides specific evidence (pp 5-6) that the Matthew Wallace of Somerset County was living in the County of New Castle on the Delaware as early as 10 March 1707 when he established that his son-in-law, William Alexander, to transfer his lands in Somerset County to John Polk, Deeds, Princess Anne, Somerset County C D 10 (pp 90-91).

Also, NSDAR Acquisition 36135 identifies just seven "proven and assumed" children of Matthew Wallace and Elizabeth Alexander.

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