Revision of Wallace's Genealogy from Sat, 2012-11-10 19:16

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.

WALLACE'S PARENTS - married 1807

 

Wallace's fatherThomas Vere Wallace
Born: 20 June 1771. Died (Hoddeston, Hertfordshire): 27 April 1843
Age: 71 years

Wallace's motherMary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Born: 1792. Died: 15 November 1868
Age: 76 years

THEIR CHILDREN

 

Elizabeth Martha
Born: 30 January 1808. Died: 7 September 1808
Age: 7 months

William Greenell
Born (Marylebone, London): 23 January 1809. Died: 9th March 1845
Age: 36 years

Elizabeth Greenell ("Eliza")
Born (Marylebone, London): 3 August 1810. Died (Hertford): 13 June 1832
Age: 21 years

Frances ("Fanny")
Born (Marylebone, London): 24 June 1812. Died: 14 September 1893
Age: 81 years

Mary Anne
Born (Enfield): 20 March 1814. Died (Llanbadoc, Wales): 20 November 1822
Age: 8 years

Emma
Born (Marylebone, London): 29 June 1816. Died (Llanbadoc, Wales): 23 January 1822
Age: 5 years

John
Born (St. George, Southwark, London): 30 July 1818. Died (Stockton, California): 26 March 1895
Age: 76 years

Alfred Russel Wallace
Born (Llanbadoc, Wales): 8 January 1823. Died (Broadstone, Dorset): 7 November 1913
Age: 90 years

Herbert Edward
Born (Hertford): 31 May 1829. Died (Para, Brazil): 8 June 1851
Age: 22 years

 

WALLACE AND HIS WIFE - married in April 1866

 

Alfred Russel Wallace

Anne Wallace (née Mitten) ("Annie") [NOT Ann Jordan Mitten!]
Born (Hurstpierpoint, Sussex): 12 February 1846. Died (Broadstone, Dorset): 10 December 1914
Age: 68 years

THEIR CHILDREN

 

Herbert Spencer ("Bertie")
Born: 22 June 1867. Died (Hurstpierpoint, Sussex): 24 April 1874
Age: 6 years

Violet Isabel
Born: 25 January 1869. Died (Sevenoaks, Kent): 7 September 1945
Age: 76 years

William Greenell
Born: 30 December 1871. Died: 6 May 1951
Age: 79 years

 

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 in England 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).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith