Peter Walley

Descendants of Peter WALLEY:

 1   Peter WALLEY b: Abt. 1772 in Pennsylvania   d: Bef. 1830 in Pennsylvania Burial: 1836 St. Michael's, Fryburg, Clarion Co., PA
..  +Mary Barbara GREENAWALT b: October 01, 1775 in Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA Baptism: October 29, 1775 Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA m: Abt. 1797 in Pennsylvania d: 1871 in Crown, Clarion Co., PA Burial: St Mary's, Crown, Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   John WALLEY b: Abt. 1797 in Pennsylvania   d: Abt. 1868 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St Mary's, Crown, Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Mary WALLEY b: May 09, 1799 in Armstrong Co., Pennsylvania Baptism: December 15, 1799 St. Vincent, Westmoreland Co., PA  d: 1882 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA
.........  +John MOORE b: 1799 in PA  m: Abt. 1822 in PA d: October 10, 1863 in Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Nicholas WALLEY b: January 17, 1802 in Toby Twp., Clarion Co., PA Baptism: April 04, 1802 St. Vincent, Westmoreland Co., PA  d: April 27, 1876 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St Mary's, Crown, Clarion Co., PA
.........  +Susan BOSTAPH b: 1801 in Pennsylvania  m: Abt. 1828 in PA d: May 22, 1882 in Crown, Clarion Co., PA Burial: St Mary's, Crown, Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
..... 2   Peter WALLEY b: Abt. 1803 in Armstrong Co., PA   d: 1834 in Clarion Co. PA
..... 2   Catherine WALLEY b: Abt. 1805 in Armstrong Co., PA   d: Aft. 1870
.........  +SHANNON  or SHARROW  d: Aft. 1870
..... 2   Elizabeth WALLEY b: Abt. 1808 in Toby Twp., Clarion Co., PA   d: May 13, 1838 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA
.........  +Andrew BOSTAPH b: October 01, 1805 in Westmoreland Co., PA Baptism: February 25, 1806 Brush Creek Luth, Westmoreland Co., PA m: Abt. 1830 in Pennsylvania d: December 30, 1862 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St Mary's, Crown, Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Thomas WALLEY b: 1810 in Armstrong Co., PA   d: May 03, 1887 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St Mary's, Crown, Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
.........  +Christina RUTHERFORD b: 1817 in Scotland  m: Abt. 1835 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA d: February 23, 1891 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St. Mary's Cem., Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   William WALLEY b: 1813 in Pennsylvania
.........  +Mary Ann SCHILLINGER b: 1815 in Germany  m: Abt. 1837 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Margaret "Peggy" WALLEY b: 1814 in Armstrong Co., PA   d: May 03, 1900
.........  +Frederick SCHILLINGER b: August 15, 1813 in Canton Matters, Switzerland  m: Abt. 1837 in PA d: May 24, 1879 in Knox Twp., Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Magdalena WALLEY b: 1816 in Pennsylvania   d: 1895 in Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
.........  +Ferry HEFREN b: 1806 in Ireland  m: Abt. 1836 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA d: 1863 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Anna WALLEY b: Abt. 1820 in Pennsylvania   d: January 21, 1850 in Pennsylvania
.........  +Victor TSCHUDI b: February 17, 1813 in Fountainebleau, France  m: Abt. 1840 in Clarion Co., PA d: December 31, 1860 in Clarion Co., PA


History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania by Aaron J. Davis 1877 Chapter LXXIII  History of Toby Township p. 617 identifies Peter Walley as husband of Mary Greenwald, sister of Joseph Greenwald, who with Peter were early settlers in Toby Towniship having planted crops there in 1797.  It also provides the names John McGarrah and Mr. McClure as the men who bought their farms from Peter Walley and Joseph Greenawalt.  Those farms are shown on a map in Caldwell's Atlas of Clarion County as being in the southwest corner of Toby Township, Clarion Co., PA near the Perry Township, Armstrong County border.

1800 Census, Armstrong Co., PA, (now Clarion Co.), Toby Twp.:
Peter Walhea male 26-45
[Mary Barbara] female 16-26
male under 10 [John]
[Daughter Mary was born and baptized in 1799 but not mentioned on the census.]

1810 Census Armstrong Co., PA, (now Clarion Co.). Toby Twp.:
Peter Walhee 26-45
1 female 26-45 (Mary)
 and children.

1820 Census, Armstrong Co. (now Clarion Co.), Toby Twp.:
Peter Walley over 45
1 female (Mary) over 45
and children.

1830 Census, Venango Co. (now Clarion Co.), Farmington Twp.:
(Peter is presumably dead as Mary is the head of household)
Mary Walley, 50-60;
and children

There is a record from St. Michael's Church in Fryburg written by Father Scopez ten years after the fact.  In it he identifies Peter as husband of Mary Barbara Greenawalt of Crown (The Wilderness).  He states that Peter was buried in 1836, but if that is the case it must have been a reburial.

Peter is mentioned in his father's will probated in 1811.

Peter along with his father, Nicholas, signed a petition to Bishop Carroll in 1803 requesting an English-speaking priest for the Donegal settlement, Armstrong Co.   The list of signatories is in Catholic Trails West Vol. II,  Appendix 2 page 630 and is explained on page 575.

Peter and wife are mentioned when their children Mary and Nicholas were baptized in 1799 and 1802 in Catholic Baptisms in Western Pennsylvania pages 14 & 19.


Link to Peter's father, Nicholas Walley