William Wallace.....

Jeans girl · Post by **Jeans girl** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:20 pm

Help Please.

Iam stuck in trying to find a Marriage or death records for William Wallace
born 1875 in Kennoway Fife. Parents James Wallace, Margaret Cumming

I have searched most William Wallace entries on Scotlands people to no avail.
I have him in the 1891 Census still at home.
Any suggestions appreciated

Many Thanks
Margaret. (NZ)

AnnetteR · Post by **AnnetteR** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:53 am

Hi Margaret

Can't help with the marriage or death but William is on the 1901 census aged 23 and working as a Coal miner with his father (now a widower) his sister Jane aged 33 and there is a grandchild aged 10 by the name of Maggie C Wallace. They are living at Kennoway Road, Markinch, Windygates.

Do you know for sure that he married? Have you checked the Commonwealth War Graves web site www.cwgc.org perhaps he was a casualty of WW1 alternatively he may have survived past 1955 as he would only have been 77 years old then. I have his birth as 1878 and not 1875 but I realise that could just have been a typo.

Hope this allows you to narrow your search a little. Just as a by the way, I am still searching after 4 years for the death of my GG Grandfather Robert Lindsay who was alive and well on the 1881 census after which, I can only assume, there was an alien abduction as I have never found his death yet.

Good Luck and keep us posted

Regards

Annette R

Jeans girl · Post by **Jeans girl** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:51 am

Hi Annette,

Thanks for the reply.Yes that is the family. He may well have lived to much older as his father lived to 91yrs.

I presume he married as I can remember my Grandmother Maggie telling me about her Uncle Bill and how he had married this women I think the Family felt he had been trapped into it somehow.

I suppose he will be like his Grandfather George Wallace and prove very elusive to trace.

Regards
Margaret.