Born about in Brunswick, Virginia
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Elisha Walling
and Mary (Blevins) Walling
Sister of
Sarah (Walling) Lee, Thomas Walling, Joseph Walling, Elisha Walling, Margaret (Walling) Rice, James Walling and John Walling
Wife of
William Roberts
— married
1760 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
William Roberts
Died about
at about age 60
in Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Nov 2013
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The Birth Date is a rough estimate. See the text for details.
Biography
Elizabeth ("Betsey") Walling was the daughter of Elisha Walling and Mary Blevins. No source reliably establishing her date of birth has been found.[1][2] However, she was likely born between 1736-1744, either in Prince George's County, Maryland (where her father appears in 1733) or on the southwestern Virginia frontier where her father appears by 1741.[3]
Betsey Walling married William ("Will") Roberts.[4][1][2]
She reportedly died in Virginia in about 1800, but the source for this claim is unclear.
Research Notes
None of the available sources found so far include reliable birth dates or even birth order for most of the children of Elisha Walling Sr. and Mary Blevins. Maribelle Wilder provides dates for some of the children, but confirms that most are estimates and "dates of birth cannot be ascertained with certainty in most cases."[5] Carolyn Wallin provides only the list of children with no birth dates and makes clear that the birth order is unknown.[6] The estimated date of 1740 in this profile assumes that Elizabeth ("Betsey") was the youngest of the three daughters (Sarah, Margery & Betsey) identified by Mattie (Rice) Howard in 1868[1] and that all three girls were born between Joseph and James, but this is highly speculative.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Maribelle Wilder, A Wallen-Walling Genealogy (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985), 161.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carolyn D. Wallin, Elisha Wallen The Longhunter (Johnson City, TN: Overmountain Press, 1990), 116.
- ↑ See profile for Elisha Walling.
- ↑ Bible Notes of Mattie Elisabeth Rice Howard, 1868; copied by Mary C. Howard, 1939; contained in the "Allen Papers," Research notes of Penelope Johnson Allen; Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, Tennessee; transcription, Daniel Mahar, "Re: McClung Collection/Rice Family Rec.," (https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/rice/3514/ : accessed 26 May 2021).
- ↑ Wilder, A Wallen-Walling Genealogy, 161-63.
- ↑ Wallin, Elisha Wallen The Longhunter, 59.
See also:
- Message Board Roberts of Blackwater
- An American Family History "The Wallen Family"
- Wallen family info and dna of Edna Wood
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:
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~1.56%
Frank Walling
:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T914492 [compare], FTDNA kit #543495
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~1.17%
~3.12%
Linda Austin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A130596 [compare], Ancestry member kitnwon
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~0.78%
Denese O'Pry :
23andMe, GEDmatch M105495 [compare]
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~0.78%
Robin Smith :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Denny Rhoads :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Dianna (Taggart) Ehrhard :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Dianna (Burran) Wellman :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Erica Garner :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Cathryn Craig :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Richard Robinson :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member rirobin
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~0.78%
Randy Cullers :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Gary McLean :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Terry (Cummins) Yeatts :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Ronda (Nelson) Pack :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JB5651668 [compare], Ancestry member HolyCow2700
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~0.78%
Patricia (Collins) Smith :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Ronald Turner :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Brandy (Jernigan) Grote :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Bcgrote
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~0.39%
Angelia (Foley) Franklin :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lialou
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~0.39%
Bryan Walling :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ZW3931935 [compare], yourDNAportal BRY9c6435f2, Ancestry member Bwalling055
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Categories: Estimated Birth Date
If there are two different Elizabeth Walling/Wallens who married two different William Roberts, what is the evidence of this? In either case, there is only one Elisha Walling/Wallen Sr, and only one of the Elizabeth Walling/Wallens was his daughter, so we need to sort this out to avoid duplicate profiles and confusion. If the William Roberts who is currently listed as the spouse of Betsy Walling is not the correct one, we should fix that marriage and/or his profile.
edited by Scott McClain