Researching Wallace Wade
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 11986 people with the Wade surname? In that year Wade was ranked number 345 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Wallace means "A Stranger" and is of French origin.
Records of Wallace Wade on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Wallace Wade and the Wade Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Wade Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Wade family tree.
Explore Parish Records for Wallace Wade at Find My Past.
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| Did you know that there are currently 14975 people with the Wade surname in the UK? Wade is now ranked number 383 for popularity in the UK. |
Wade Genealogy Databases
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Wade Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 121530 people with the Wade surname in the USA? Wade is ranked number 117 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Wade Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Wallace Wade. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Wallace Wade
William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama from 1923 to 1930 and at Duke University from 1931 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1950, compiling a career college football record of 171–49–10. His tenure at Duke was interrupted by military service during World War II. Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of 1925, 1926, and 1930 have been recognized as national champions, while his 1938 Duke team had an unscored upon regular season, giving up its only points in the final minute of the 1939 Rose Bowl. Wade won a total of ten Southern Conference football titles, four with Alabama and six with the Duke Blue Devils. He coached in five Rose Bowls including the 1942 game, which was relocated from Pasadena, California to Durham, North Carolina after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Wade served as the head basketball and baseball coach at Vanderbilt University for two seasons (1921–1923), tallying a mark of 24–16, while he was an assistant football coach there. He was also the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt from 1922 to 1923 and at Alabama from 1924 to 1927, amassing a career college baseball record of 87–45–2. Wade played football at Brown University. After retiring from coaching, Wade served as the commissioner of the Southern Conference from 1951 to 1960. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955. Duke's football stadium was renamed in his honor as Wallace Wade Stadium in 1967.
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