By George Beccaloni
Below is the most detailed account so far compiled on the dates of the births and deaths of all of Wallace's close relatives. Much of the information was taken from three pages of hand-written notes in a 1723 prayer-book, which had been owned by Wallace's grandfather, and which has been passed down through the Wallace family and is still owned by them. The original pages can be seen HERE, HERE and HERE.
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WALLACE'S PARENTS - married 1807 |
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THEIR CHILDREN |
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Elizabeth Martha |
William Greenell |
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Elizabeth Greenell ("Eliza") |
Frances ("Fanny") |
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Mary Anne |
Emma |
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John |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
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Herbert Edward |
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WALLACE AND HIS WIFE - married in April 1866 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace |
Anne Wallace (née Mitten) ("Annie") [NOT Ann Jordan Mitten!] |
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THEIR CHILDREN |
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Herbert Spencer ("Bertie") |
Violet Isabel |
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William Greenell |
Thomas Vere Wallace
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)NOTES ON SOME OF ARW's OTHER RELATIVES
ARW's Maternal Grandparents
ARW's maternal grandfather was John Greenell (1747 - 15 July 1824). He married his first wife ? Hudson (? - ?1895) in 17?? and they had 2 children: Martha (? - ?) (who married Thomas Wilson), and Mary Ann [Anne?] Wallace, ARW's mother. John Greenell second and final wife was Rebecca Greenell (? - 18 October 1828).
ARW's Paternal Grandparents
ARW's paternal grandfather was William Wallace (? - ?). He married Elizabeth Dilke in Hanworth, Middlesex in 1765. They had two children - William Greenell (17 May 1770 - 16 August 1770), and ARW's father, Thomas Vere (20 June 1771 - 27 April 1843).
John Wallace's (ARW's brother) Family
The only one of Wallace's siblings to have children was his brother John, who emigrated to California in 1849. John married Mary Elizabeth Webster on the 18th January 1855 and they had 6 children (see the new Image Galleries for pictures of them). Interestingly, the town of Wallace in Calaveras County, California is named after John – see http://westcalaverashistory.org/node/42 Also see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sfbwal.htm
William Greenell Wallace's (ARW's son) Family
The only one of Wallace's children to have offspring was William. William married Elizabeth Carr Whittle (2 January 1888 - 11 August 1976) in ? and had three children: Elizabeth Anne (25 December 1920 - 3 January 1921), Alfred John Russel Wallace (6 March 1922 - ), and Richard Russel Wallace (13 January 1924 - ). John has a daughter and Richard has two sons.
ARW's Inlaws
ARW's father-in-law was the chemist and amateur bryologist William Mitten (30 November 1819 - 27 July 1906). Mitten married Ann Jordan (1812/15 - >1906) on 19th December 1844 and they had four daughters, all of whom were born at Hurstpierpoint, Sussex: Anne (12 February 1846 - 10 December 1914) [ARW's wife - see above], Rose Elizabeth (1847/48 - ), Flora (1850 - ), and Bessie Jordan (1854 - ).
ARW's Australian Family
Thomas Wilson (1788 - 31 March 1863), ARW's uncle, emigrated to Adelaide, Australia with his wife Martha (née Greenell) (? - ?), the sister of ARW's mother, in 1838. His 8 children were Charles Algernon (1818 - 1884), T. P. (Percy), George, Edmund Major, Theodore Angustus Greenell...
Charles Algernon Wilson (1818 - 20 June 1884) and his wife Matilda (née King) (? - ?) had 5 children: Ella Dorothy Martha (1867 - 1907); Algernon Theodore King ("Ally") (1863 - 1925); Emily Annie Layard (1865 - 1953); Percy Major Graham (1868 - 1931); and Charles Ernest Cameron (1875 - 1951).