Sex: Male.
Birth: ABT 1700 in Northwest Ireland
Death: ABT 1760 in Conestoga, Lancaster, PA
Family: Wife: Bright Waters 1700 - 1760.
Children: John Wade 1730 - 1785. Christian Wade 1740 - 1800. Benjamin Wade 1735 - 1790.
Timothy Wade is the legendary immigrant founder of the Wades in Pennsylvania. According to Warren Wade, a descendent, who read of the family origins in a Lancaster newspaper morgue in the late 1930's, Timothy Wade was a professor at Dublin University who killed a British tax collector. He fled to America, where he married a Conestoga Indian, Bright Waters. Timothy Wade's ancestors were said to have come from Scotland in the 14th Century.
This was considered a tall tale told to children, but other family members remember the same story from Warren.
A DNA test in 2006 identified Warren Wade son's y-haplotype as R1b1c7, with a distinctive motif matching those with ancestors from northwest Ireland and southwest Scotland. So it seems the family legend is true.
The so-called 'Scotts-Irish' immigration was a major constituent of early Pennsylvania settlement. They clashed with the Conestoga Indians and the German immigrants. By the time of John Wade, in the early 1700's, the Wades are intermarrying with the Protestant / Mennonite settlers.
Change: 19 May 2007 Time: 08:31:32.