The Wallace Family

The ancestors of the Wallace family lived among the Strathclyde-Briton people in the Scottish/English Borderlands.

Wallensis, in Latin, means a Briton of Strathclyde, which until 1018 remained a seperate kingdom. Around 1170 Richard Wallensis aquired the land of Riccarton, in Ayrshire and it is the claim of lands and the spreading of a family that creates different branches.

Spelling variations include: Wallace, Wallis, Wallys, Walace, Uallas (Gaelic) and others.

There are six branches of the Clan Wallace.

* Wallace of Cairnhill
* Wallace of Cessnock
* Wallace of Cragie
* Wallace of Kelly
* Wallace of Riccarton

There may be different regions which the family name covers but as a family all related from some past connection, close or distant, their tartans and their family motto apply to them all - Pro Libertate - which in English means - For Freedom.

Three tartans are associated with the family of Wallace.

There is a wealth of information regarding the history of the Wallace family, and the more that you learn, the more you realise the importance of the Scottish family. William Wallace never produced off spring, and so with the death of his father when fighting the English when William was a teenager, then with the death of William himself, the Wallace name was continued by cousins - distant cousins and so on.

Sir William Wallace of Elerslie, defied the odds and united the other families of Scotland, whether nobles or peasants, to protect their homes and protect their freedom. One man took a family motto of Pro Libertate and gave it to a nation - For Freedom.