Welcome to putting the pieces of our history together. Two blogs exist for displaying what I've learned about our family name: luallin.blogspot.com, contains lineage, and the lore, bios, pictures, etc. are at luallin1.blogspot.com. This information is gathered from census, bibles, death registries, word of mouth, email/letter notifications, and perhaps some assumptions.
The surname Luallin and perhaps Luallen is believed to be the phonetic spelling offered by immigration clerks as illiterate Llewellyn Welsh immigrants were processed. Often other officials documented the family members with their own spellings through dealings with the census and the civil war. The first Luallin I found was in the 1790 census in SC...he was from Prussia. I later found family in Ashe county NC, TN, and VA.
The purpose of this blog is to show what we have discovered through talking to other family members and share information. This is a good way to show lineage, pictures, and interesting stories we know. Facebook has a group site for the name under Luallins, and we hope to share email addresses and any other data you may wish to share. Send me anything you would like posted. My email: luallinl@verizon.net, phone: (757) 499-4968
My name is Lloyd E. Luallin, and I look forward to hearing from you.
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March 17 2010
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The Luallin name is shrouded in mystery. Most believe it is of Welsh origin derived from the name LLewellyn a very common name in Wales. Two LL's is a cl sound in welsh or Cymraeg in their own language. Welsh means stranger, the Welsh call themselves Cymru pronounced Cumree. They are the oldest of the Celtic people and have genetic ties with the Basque on the coast of Spain. They love to sing and are famous for their male choirs. A happy go lucky kind of people known for working in the coal mines of Britain and all over the world. It is fabled that a Welsh prince by the name of Modoc made the voyage to the America's around 1160 landing in Mobile Bay Alabama. This was long before Columbus. The survivors and their descendants intermingled with the natives and some think migrated north to North Dakota and became the tribe called the Mandans. There are many welsh sounding words in the languages of the souther tribes but most remarkable is the observations of explorers and trappers including Lewis and Clark (Lewis is a welsh name by the way) that pointed out the similarities to the welsh language, the ceremonies that depict biblical events and the possession of Roman coins with the Dragon (the symbol of Wales, also on their flag). Most remarkable is their use of what was called a Bull boat that is used no where else in the world except Wales where it is called a coracle. The Welsh did not use surnames but were always referred to as the son of or AP in Cymraeg. Hence you were john ap griffith william ap jones. When the English conquered the Cymru they forced the use of surnames and the person you were the son of became your surname. There were and are not many Welsh surnames so it is easy to recognize someone of Welsh descent. Some that you might see are Jones, Williams, Owen, Morgan, Thomas, Lewis, Griffith. So having the same surname does not indicate family ties. Research to find your lineage is very difficult due to these factors and also that most records were kept locally at the church. When Coming to the new world most Welsh were illiterate and depending on when they came over their names were usually written phonetically. Even then, the rewriting of it could change perhaps many times. It is believed that at some point the spelling Luallin was settled upon and the is where the family line started as we know it.
At this writing the author has not found a Luallin yet that could not follow their lineage to a Thomas and Lucy Luallin circa 1840. It is also interesting to note that so far they are from two sons John and Alexander. Thomas and Lucy had seven sons so there is the possibility that there are other branches of this tree. Because of this set of circumstances this creates a unique group, if you will ,probably numbering less than 100. So far this hypothesis is to date unchallenged. For more information on the Luallins join the group Luallins on Facebook or check out the Blog by Lloyd Luallin luallin.blogspot.com
My great grandfather was Alexander Stephen Luallin--his mother was Lucy Cole Luallin. You must be a cousin!!
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Good job Randy.....written as a scholar!
ReplyDeleteHi, we come from Lewallens in Taney Co., Mo and find Levi's first letter very interesting as our line is a John Robert Lewallen born around 1800 in TN. He went by the name of Robert and had a nickname of 'Babil'. He lived close by Springfield, Mo. and family stories have him going to the Gold Rush; although we believe he did go, we believe the stories of when he went to be most likely incorrect due to finding land patents by him in Dec of 1850 in Taney Co., Mo. He and his family came from TN or KY via NC to Yellville, Ark then up to Taney Co., Mo.
ReplyDeleteWe were very excited to find Levi mentioning Uncle Robert in his letter and that he was to meet him in Springfield. We are left to wonder where Levi's Uncle Robert's house was located, as Levi states in his letter that he stopped there before going on to Springfield.
Robert's children had various spellings for their surname: Louallen (Daughter Mary Jane), Lewallen and Lieuallen (Son George Washington). On the land patents, Robert's name is spelled Lewalling! When mappping out the land patents locations we are happy to say they match the locations of their whereabouts as stated in John Mitchell's book, 'Tales of Bull Creek Country'.
Robert and his wife Hannah had children in TN, NC, Ark and Missouri. His wife Hannah is believed to have been a Ford or a Motley - we lean strongly towards the Ford.
His children were:
"Bill"-William b. TN (no proof-only stories)
C. (female) b. TN
Mary Jane b. TN
Matthew John b. TN
Jesse V. b. TN
E.A. Keziah b. NC
Sarah Emmaline b. ARK
Robert b. MO
James Ross b. MO
Elizabeth b. MO
This family is our Brick Wall.
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Hi, this is Judith Darlene Luallin Ralls. I can relate a story told to me by my grandfather, Wilbert Luallin. He told me that when his ancestors came from Wales, they entered into the U.S. by way of Ellis Island. At that time, they had to identify themselves to an immigration officer. Grandpa said at the time, many immigration officers would just spell the name given to them as they heard it. Grandpa said when his ancestor said LLEWELLYN, the immigration office heard and wrote down LUALLIN. He told me this is how we got the spelling of our last name, but he said it was still pronounced as Llewellyn (Lew-well-in) not Luallin (Lew-al-in). Hope this might be an insight to someone else out there.
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