A question about William Wallace.

[ChattanCat]

Plenty of us have the surname Wallace in our ancestry but that doesn't mean to say any of us are descended from William Wallace.

BBBBBut, I am a Wallace, as is my Dad, and his dad. Them's fight'n words. To arms....





Ok, so it is my first name, and my fathers, and his...

[James MacMillan]

Isn't this why we invited the time travelers into the forum....?

Ask them!

[gilmore]

According to Scotland and her Tartans, by Alexander Fulton, Wallensis was a latin name for a Briton of Strathclyde. Richard Wallensis obtained the lands of Riccarton (Richard's Town) near Kilmarnock and he was a great grandfather of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie, near Paisley, who was father of William Wallace. I have also seen reference to Wallace being interchanged with Welsh, as a descriptive surname for anyone from Wales. To this day there are lots of people around the Paisley and Kilmarnock areas with the surname Wallace. I know that I had a great great great grandfather named Robert Wallace who was a weaver in Paisley two hundred years ago but before that it is just not possible to trace my Wallace line as there are little or no written records of ordinary working people in Scotland in earlier times. So unless your ancestors happened to be well heeled landowners or peers of the realm, you aren't going to be able to trace your ancestral lines back any further. So much as its a romantic notion to think of people called Wallace as being descended from the great Scottish patriot, I always take anyone who claims to be a descendent of William Wallace with a big pinch of salt,

I don't know about descended from him, but perhaps some one arguably related to him could be located. A brief perusal shows that he had no known children. You might contact the surname project administrator here: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/WallaceDNA/

or browse or post a query here:http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surn...e.html#WALLACE

or here: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl...N-WALLACE.html

or here: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wallace/mb.ashx

[highlander_Daz]

If Wallace never existed then who wrote the letter that sits in the national archive?

Mike who is the piper that we see on some of the pics , he has a beard (sometimes) and small round glasses he often wears a Black watch kilt Ive seen him play on the royal mile many times ? do you know him. (not the piper on the linked pic)

[highlander_Daz]

this guy

[Mike1]

Sorry Daz, I don't know who that would be. I know the piper in the linked pics from St. Kentigern's in Lanark, but not this fellow.