the heat has ramped up quite a bit and i find myself driving around, windows up, aircon on even if it is a little inadequate. and all this is before noon - i try to finish dashing at noon and make myself a lunch. then i'm ready for coffee and a nap, and to have aircon just pouring out cool air on me while i recover.
it could be that i'm getting old for doordashing and three or more hours, six days a week, is a little too much.
i've found some interesting things about wallace ancestors, which would be my mother's side. they are proud of scottish heritage - everyone is - but in those times they had lots of brothers hanging around glasgow with nothing to do. the king put quite a few people in northern ireland for various reasons, but over there, they had work but weren't really welcome. they found themselves going back and forth a lot. people started going to america. boats became more doable, safer, more predictable.
it seems there may have been two boys who stole a pig as the family legend goes, and went to northern ireland and from there america. some have found a passage of four wallace boys; some have identified 1770, while some say 1774. 1770 is more likely because our ancestor was back in scotland in 1772 marrying the daughter of an irish fisherman, and he would stay back there in donegal/londonderry having and raising six kids from 1774 to 1796. According to the story he married, had a son in america, then left the son to be raised by his grandparents, somewhere in carlisle pennsylvania or near there. so during the revolution he was back in northern ireland with his new family. that was john.
john, james, william and hugh. were the ones alleged to come over together in 1770 or whenever. of the four james 1739) and hugh (1740) were oldest; a william (1745) and john (1749?), being younger, may have been the pig boys who looked for their brothers in northern ireland before getting passage. but if these were the four. they would have been 31, 30, 25 and 21 at the time of passage. supposedly john married and his wife died before he went back, but it also appears that james may have gone back too. james had married in londonderry in 1763, which makes us wonder where his wife was when he came over, or if indeed that was him who came over.
two others appear to have come over, either then or at a nearby time. thomas (1751) was younger than any of them, but appears to have ended up in cecil county maryland. nathaniel (1745) ended up in eastern ohio with a daughter, and given the date, could have been a pig boy and could have been on that passage if it wasn't william. if william and nathaniel were both 1745 would that make them twins? i may have to iron out my information here. it is not at all clear to me who even could be in the running for making this all work.
by 1797 john was ready to move the whole family to america, and did. our robert was only one at the time. he chose to settle in cecil county maryland, where his younger brother was apparently, yet he disappeared from there shortly. robert would go off to fight in the war of 1812, at the age of 16, but end up marrying a new castle girl and settling in wallace run. many of the others were to end up up there in western pennsylvania.
hugh had fought in the revolution. we can see by their arrival that it was looming even then. he lived in south carolina for a while but seemed to end up near new castle. this is important, i think.
it's important because john and geneva jane, having disappeared from cecil county, probably brought robert, the youngest, up there somewhere. there is still no record of their death. i am still looking.
it could be that i'm getting old for doordashing and three or more hours, six days a week, is a little too much.
i've found some interesting things about wallace ancestors, which would be my mother's side. they are proud of scottish heritage - everyone is - but in those times they had lots of brothers hanging around glasgow with nothing to do. the king put quite a few people in northern ireland for various reasons, but over there, they had work but weren't really welcome. they found themselves going back and forth a lot. people started going to america. boats became more doable, safer, more predictable.
it seems there may have been two boys who stole a pig as the family legend goes, and went to northern ireland and from there america. some have found a passage of four wallace boys; some have identified 1770, while some say 1774. 1770 is more likely because our ancestor was back in scotland in 1772 marrying the daughter of an irish fisherman, and he would stay back there in donegal/londonderry having and raising six kids from 1774 to 1796. According to the story he married, had a son in america, then left the son to be raised by his grandparents, somewhere in carlisle pennsylvania or near there. so during the revolution he was back in northern ireland with his new family. that was john.
john, james, william and hugh. were the ones alleged to come over together in 1770 or whenever. of the four james 1739) and hugh (1740) were oldest; a william (1745) and john (1749?), being younger, may have been the pig boys who looked for their brothers in northern ireland before getting passage. but if these were the four. they would have been 31, 30, 25 and 21 at the time of passage. supposedly john married and his wife died before he went back, but it also appears that james may have gone back too. james had married in londonderry in 1763, which makes us wonder where his wife was when he came over, or if indeed that was him who came over.
two others appear to have come over, either then or at a nearby time. thomas (1751) was younger than any of them, but appears to have ended up in cecil county maryland. nathaniel (1745) ended up in eastern ohio with a daughter, and given the date, could have been a pig boy and could have been on that passage if it wasn't william. if william and nathaniel were both 1745 would that make them twins? i may have to iron out my information here. it is not at all clear to me who even could be in the running for making this all work.
by 1797 john was ready to move the whole family to america, and did. our robert was only one at the time. he chose to settle in cecil county maryland, where his younger brother was apparently, yet he disappeared from there shortly. robert would go off to fight in the war of 1812, at the age of 16, but end up marrying a new castle girl and settling in wallace run. many of the others were to end up up there in western pennsylvania.
hugh had fought in the revolution. we can see by their arrival that it was looming even then. he lived in south carolina for a while but seemed to end up near new castle. this is important, i think.
it's important because john and geneva jane, having disappeared from cecil county, probably brought robert, the youngest, up there somewhere. there is still no record of their death. i am still looking.
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