Brief Life History of Finlay
Finlay Wallace was born about 1844, in Shettleston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of Peter Wallace and Mary Torrance. He married Janet Davidson on 5 September 1861, in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 30 years. In 1881, at the age of 38, his occupation is listed as coal miner. He died on 4 June 1910, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Finley Wallace in household of Collins Hornal, "United States Census, 1910"
- Finlay Wallace, "Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910"
- Finley Wallace, "Tennessee Deaths and Burials, 1874-1955"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant of Wallis , especially in Scotland, where the name was introduced from the Welsh Marches by a family of tenants of the Stewarts in the 12th century.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, e.g. Wallach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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