I didn’t know either of my Grandmothers as they lived on the
other side of the pond. I pieced together the story of Ann Wallace from what my
father told me about his mother plus from sources I got from Ancestry.com and
Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. I think I got most of the highlights correct.
Ann Wallace born on the 21st
if March in the year 1879 the ninth child of Twelve Children to Mary McTeiney and
James Wallace in the small village of Carluke in Lanarkshire in the country of
Scotland. She lived with her family having fun playing with her brothers and
sisters. The family moved to Combusnethan Wishaw where she went to school.
After school she went to work in a
factory that made nails making money to help support the Wallace family. One Sunday
her day off she met and fell in love with Hugh Boyle my Grandfather. They
started a relationship right there in Wishaw Scotland with my Grandfather
working as a Boiler maker which I figure must have been in nearby Glasgow maybe
in the shipyards.
What with love blooming at the dawn
of a new century Hugh decided to go to Boston in America figuring that it being
a port so must have jobs for Boiler makers. So, in 1901 Hugh traveled to Boston
and a year later sent for Ann who arrived in Boston in April of 1902 and they
were married on the 8th day of October 1902 in Boston Massachusetts.
My Dad said that the family moved
around a lot he even remembers moving to Utica NY and since my Aunt Mary Angus
Boyle was born in Providence RI on the 24th of April in the year 1904,
we know they moved to there around 1904. The family must have moved back to
Boston after that for my Dad was born in Boston on the 24th day of
January in the year 1906 and My Aunt Sarah Veronica Boyle was also born in Boston
on the 4th day of April in the year 1912. So they were on the road a
lot while they were in America it must have been hard on Ann Wallace and she
must have been getting feed up with my Grandfather Hugh.
