Matthew Wallace, Resident of Manokin in Colonial Maryland - Matthew Wallace and earlier genealogies that give him parents

Cross referencing discussion https://www.geni.com/discussions/197466?msg=1302156

Here's the essence of the issue, as far as I can see so far.

Matthew Wallace, who lived in Colonial Maryland, appears in the different pedigrees that Neil cites.

That he was born about 1640 in County Donegal, Ireland, and died in Colonial Maryland in about 1715 -- those things are apparently agreed upon.

As to parentage:

The Wikitree pedigree does not give him parents.
The Our Family Tree pedigree gives him parents John Wallace and Margaret Thomson, both of whom were from Glasgow. There is no evidence cited.
The Montgomery and Rountree site gives him also John Wallace and Margaret Thomson as parents, both of whom are given as living and dying in Glasgow. This site also gives Margaret a death date of 1633, which would make her quite dead when Matthew was born. There are no real citations.
The rootsweb tree also gives those parents, also from Glasgow, also with a long dead mother. Matthew himself is well cited, with reliable citations. There are no citations for his parents.

Now, the fact that Matthew was from Ireland, and his purported parents lived and died in Scotland, makes his connection to them pretty shaky. The fact that his supposed mother died three or four years before he was born makes it impossible.

Private User, bless his heart, has tracked down a James Wallace and Margaret Thomson, in Glasgow, with appropriate dates (details are in the Overview for Matthew Wallace), and notes that they did have a son named Matthew, but that son is not mentioned in Margaret's will (again, this is in the Overview for Matthew), so it would seem that he had died before she did, and she died in 1653.

But we know that this Matthew lived until 1716 or so.

So this is why at this time we have disconnected James and Margaret from Matthew's profile. We know he was from Ireland; he didn't have Scottish parents. Even if the Scottish parents had gone off to Ireland in order to have that son, the mother couldn't have been in on that, because she was dead. But even if! Even if the web pedigrees are wrong, and she didn't die until 1653, then it makes no sense that her son Matthew isn't in her will.

There is no evidence at this time that is compelling as to the parents of this Matthew Wallace, who was born in Ireland and died in Maryland.