This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wallace Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/718 Message Board Post: Your conclusion that our Lydia Wallace are not the same person is my conclusion also. However, I still wonder if they may be connected in some way. A thread of evidence to support this theory is found in the following: A brother of my William A. Wallace [1824-1894] was named John Wallace [b. 1822, NY] who had a son named Albert C. Wallace [b. 1857, NY]. John married Eliza Ann Thompson on 4 June 1845 in Ticonderoga, Essex County, NY. I've never uncovered the meaning of the "A" in Wm A. Wallace. It's possible it may also be for Albert. Although I am confident that the father of Wm A. Wallace and his brother John was also named John, I do not know the given name of the next generation back. Could it also be Albert Wallace?? There seems to be two given names in common here, Lydia and Albert.