Decided to follow a new line from another Barlow ancestor. I was interested in 'Elizabeth Carlton Barlow' b 1750 Albemarle Virginia the wife of Thomas Barlow b 1730. Elizabeth's mother had an interesting surname. Wallace. So I started the journey following the male line tracing the Wallace name as far back as I could go. It has taken me back ""30"" generations, 921 years, and back to
Scotland in 1090.
Now I have followed Barlow to the Kimbrough and Thompson family lines, and I have gone well back to medieval Scotland already before, joking about getting back to those 'Braveheart' days. This time following back from Elizabeth Wallace, mother of Elizabeth Carlton Barlow, the family line does indeed go back straight back (on the male line) to the Braveheart days in Scotland during the Scottish War of Independence. In fact the family line goes to directly back to John Wallace b 1277 Scotland, and he is reported as the brother of the famed William Wallace a main leader in the War of Scottish Independence fought against the English and portrayed in the movie Braveheart by Mel Gibson. Records indicate that John was killed by the English as was a second brother (Malcom) but not like the capture and public execution that his brother William faced.
