This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: georgiajohn3 Surnames: WELLS Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5517.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Is there a Wells male in your line who can take the Wells DNA test? My Wells family is from Willesborough and Godmersham, Kent. I have traced my line back to Robert Wells who died at Willesborough in 1559. I have taken the DNA test. John Wells Newnan, Georgia Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Currey_nz Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5517/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am researching the WELLS family and welcome any help or contacts to share data with. Cheers, Glen My Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother Thomas WELLS b. c1625 ESS or KEN, ENG; d. aft 1654 KEN, ENG or Hartford, Connecticut, USA m. 1645 Knockholt, KEN, ENG to Susan HILLS b. c1625 ESS, ENG -query; d. Aft 1660 Susan also married 1659/1660 Knockholt, KEN, ENG to Richard CACOTT ***** My Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother Thomas WELLS bap. 1651/1652 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. 1703/1704 Knockholt, KEN, ENG m. 1688 Sundridge Parish Church, KEN, ENG to Margaret HARRIS b. c1668 KEN, ENG; d. 1737 Knockholt, KEN, ENG ***** My Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother Thomas WELLS bap. 1689/1690 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. 1737/1738 Knockholt, KEN, ENG m. bef 1711 Knockholt, KEN, ENG to Lydia UNKNOWN b. c1690 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. poss 1737 Knockholt, KEN, ENG ***** My Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother William WELLS bap. 1737 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. aft 1772 m. bef 1759 Knockholt? KEN, ENG to Ann TURNER? b. c1739 Knockholt? KEN, ENG; d. aft 1772 ***** My Great Great Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother William WELLS bap. 1772 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. 1848 Knockholt, KEN, ENG m. 1792 Knockholt, KEN, ENG to Ann PACKMAN (poss parents Henry PACKMAN & Lydia BIRD?) bap. 1768 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. 1848 Knockholt, KEN, ENG ***** My Great Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother Thomas Packman WELLS b. 1806 Knockholt, KEN, ENG; d. 1874 Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, NZL m. 1830 Deptford, KEN, ENG to Sarah SCUDDER (d/o James SCUDDER & Sarah UNKNOWN) bap. 1805 Bexley, KEN, ENG; d. 1891 Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, NZL ***** My Great Great Grandfather & Grandmother James William WELLS b. 1842 Bexley, KEN, ENG; d. 1938 Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, NZL m. 1863 Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, NZL to Huldah aka Hari HOWLAND (d/o Seth Randall HOWLAND & Hare aka Huldah TIKI) b. 1845 Howland's Bay, Queen Charlotte Sounds, NZL; d. 1916 Chorlton, Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, NZL ***** My Great Grandfather & Grandmother Arthur Thomas WELLS b. 1865 Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, NZL; d. 1956 Hororata, NZL m. 1891 Little Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, NZL to Jane SHUTTLEWORTH (d/o Robert SHUTTLEWORTH & Jane STIMPSON) b. 1869 Little Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, NZL; d. 1937 Cheviot, NZL ***** My Grandfather & Grandmother Leslie Albert WELLS b. 1891 Little Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, NZL; d. 1850 Hororata, NZL m 1. 1913 CBY, NZL to Agnes Cameron YOUNG (poss parents Samuel YOUNG & Elizabeth McHAFFIER) b. 1894 possibly Renfew nr Glasgow, LKS, SCT; d. 1928 Hororata, NZL m 2. 1924 CBY, NZL to Janet McIntosh PATON nee WALKER (d/o George WALKER & Janet SHAW) b. 1879 NZL; d. 1929 NZL Janet was previously married in 1903 NZL to John Ernest PATON (s/o Thomas PATON & Eliza Tamar CHESHIRE) b. 1881 NZL; d. 1970 Auckland, NZL Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: georgestauch Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/1646.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Michael, Hi Mike - Are you the daughter of Betty and Wells of Trenton, Mi? The sister of my first wife Patricia, Daniel. Timothy, And Terri. Best regards, George Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I need an email for Virginia E DeMarce .. Please send it to ladybonita@usa.com Bonita \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // ( @ @ ) ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... Lady Bonita Nevada, USA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: elizabethengle Surnames: Wells Townsend Trumbull Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5515.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Very interested in this Wells-Townsend connection. For many years I have been looking for parents and ancestors of my gr. gr. grandmother, Harriet Townsend Wells (1798-1870) who abt 1828 married Samuel Wescott Trumbull (1790-1877)as his second wife. They emigrated in 1830 from Erie Co., NY, to Delaware Co., Ohio, where they raised 9 children (two of whom were from his previous marriage). After the Civil War they moved to Allen Co., Kansas, where they died. Would be interested in learning more about your Townsend family and kinship to the Wells family. Please contact me at lizengle@comcast.net. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: audiorij Surnames: Wells, Townsend Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5515/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am trying to solve a mystey, my great great great great grandfather, Joseph Townsend, was accidentally shot while hunting my a man named Wells. This occured in Tuscarawas County, Ohio in 1816 and a newspaper article said that Mr. Wells currently lived there and had been a neighbor of Townsend's near Mount Pleasant. Joseph Townsend had lived in Short Creek, Ohio which is near Mount Pleasant. While trying to find the name of Mr. Wells, I ran accross a surveyor John Wells who moved to Short Creek in 1806 and helped plat out New Philadelphia in Tascarawas County Ohio; Somerset County, Pennsylvania Recorder of Deeds, Book 2, page 481; Agreement "Somerset County PA [?] Before me John Wells one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace in & for said County personally came Isaac Bennett & Richard Nicholson the parties to the foregoing agreement, and acknowledged the same to be their Act and Deed & desired it to be recorded agreeably to law. In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal the first day of January one thousand eight hundred & one ~ 1801. John Wells (Recorded January 3d, 1801)" This Day in Ohio History By Rebecca Goodman, Barrett J. Brunsman, pg 287 Septermber 21, 1752 New Philadelphia Founder John Kinsley Born ....Knisley returned to Ohio in 1804 with the rest of his family and 33 other pioneers. He hired surveyor John Wells to lay out New Philadelphia in a grid fashion similar to that of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When Tuscarawas County was organized on March 15, 1808, the town became the county seat. Knisley died at age 82 on December 15, 1834. He is buried at East Fair Street Cemetery. Historical collections of Harrison County, in the state of Ohio: with lists ... By Charles Augustus Hanna , pg 123 In Short Creek Township before 1814.... Joseph Townsend, about 1812, from Bucks county, Pa.; John Wells, 1806; Ezra Wharton, 1806, from Bucks county, Pa * Short Creek is near Mount Pleasant. Historical collections of Harrison County, in the state of Ohio: with lists ... By Charles Augustus Hanna, pg 114 "Harrisville was platted by John Wells, Thomas Gray, Store Hutchinson, and Robert Dutton, Oct. 19, 1814. Plat filed, Jan. 9, 1815." The Western Herald, Steubenville, Ohio, December 20, 1816 Distressing Incident - A truly distressing and melancholy event transpired, on Wednesday last, in the woods between the Laurel and Atkinson forks of the Big Stillwater, near West Chester, Tuscarawa Co., Ohio. The circumstances are these: A Mr. (Joseph)Townsend and a Mr. (John?) Wells went out in company, hunting. They had separated a little distance. Mr. Townsend espying a flock of turkeys, had laid down, apparently with the intention of shooting, imitating the noise of a turkey, in order to draw them closer. Mr. Wells coming up at the same time, also saw the turkeys; and seeing the head of Mr. Townsend just rising above the ground, (who was in the act of firing himself), he unfortunately mistook the movement of his friend's head for the motion of a turkey; whereupon he levelled and fired. The ball pierced the head of Mr. Townsend, who expired before Mr. Wells had time to run to him; which the latter did as quick as possible, in order to pick up his turkey, as he thought-- e! ntirely unconscious of the distracting catastrophe, until his arrival at the fatal spot. What renders the event truly distressing is, that they were related. They had lived neighbors near Mountpleasant. Mr. Wells had removed some time previous, near to where the unhappy scene transpired, and Mr. Townsend had gone out there in order to pay a visit to his friend. I am wondering if John Wells, the surveyor of Somerset Pennsylvania could be the same John Wells that platted these areas in Ohio and may have lived there a few years while doing so.... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: trekgate88 Surnames: Wells Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/2621.2650/mb.ashx Message Board Post: They had 5 children: Louisa Wells born 1797 married Abel Sherman and died 1819/1820 Joseph C Wells (that you already have) Randall Wells born abt 1806 - never married - died 1880 Harris Wells born 1809 married Sarah LaGrage died 1858 Electa S Wells born 1815 married Jacob D Maxson died 1848 I have a lot of info on this family so feel free to contact me for more details. There's also info on my blog abou them www.wellsgenealogy.wordpress.com -Jennifer Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bhillmer Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5514/mb.ashx Message Board Post: if you would like an explanation of DNA and a way to find DNA of a deceased person ... >From GeneTree newsletter http://www.genetree.com/newsletters/7#section3 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: syascolt Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5513/mb.ashx Message Board Post: looking for info on charles wells jr. dad was charles a. wells. sister was arleane wells noble. brother minor and john wells... born in kalkaska. he had 4 children with annabelle grace nelson: michael, ernest, judy, and david. he later was involved with another woman and had one, possibly 2 children, maybe both girls. would like info on these children. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: drbrownlee Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5512/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Wilbur is pictured in the graduation yearbook of the 45-B class at Marfa (TX) Army Advanced Flying School. I'm not kin but thought it might help someone researching the family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: reileystacer Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5511/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for any information on a Greorge Wells I think from Ohio. He was in the 82 airborne during WW11 reileystacer@hotmail.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: clddbd Surnames: Wells, Duke Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5510/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I was at the Church of Scotland at Kirk "O" Shotts Scotland last week and took this picture. Hope someone finds this valuable. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sec41246 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5422.4.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: A message board 'friend' who is of Finnish descent was helping with the Finnish side and all of a sudden he was helping in all my lines! Since I don't have the means to subscribe to ancestry he did a lot for me. He sent a 'possible' 1920 census for Harold in CA as being in the USN. I don't know if Harold was in the USN but I held on to that census. Now Lydia is a lost cause! Your info of Lydia marrying a Wm. Lennox is totally new to me! I have Canadian records for her, in French, even possible her birth! I show she was 22 when she married Nelson Towner and the record has No in the previous marriage column for both of them. Never could find a marriage record for Harold & Lydia! On a 1925 marriage record for one of Lydia's brothers Harold & Lydia Wells were witnesses living in Detroit! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cathouchins1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5422.4.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Sharon, Yes, we were in touch a few years ago. I have information about Lydia's family. I don't have proof of the adoption, though I could ask Bill (Ervin's son). Fern Wells is still living but in Louisiana. Where is Harold in 1920 census? Sure can't find Lydia. I found Lydia married to a William Lennox in Canada, but don't know the date. Possibly before Nelson Towner. Lydia was always a mystery to me. She told stories that I'm not sure were true. She said she gave birth to twins. If you send me your email I can invite you to my family tree. Thanks Sharon. Cat Houchins Michigan City, IN Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sec41246 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5422.4.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, We have been in touch before if I remember correctly! I believe you even sent me pictures via e-mail! One had their grand-daughters in it! I have found, rather had help in finding, several records for Lydia Authier - about her parents, her birth record in Canada, her marriage to Nelson and I have a 'possible' 1920 census for Harold in the USN. I also was able to order obits for both Harold & Lydia. Do you have proof of Harold adopting Ervon? Also located info on Nelson! Harold was my Great Uncle and we would stop & visit them when going to a Tiger's game or visiting my half brothers. Sharon in Toledo OH Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cathouchins1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5422.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I was married to the grandson of Harold & Lydia Wells. Lydia was married to a Nelson Towner before marrying Harold Wells. Lydia had one son....Ervin from her first marriage and Harold Wells adopted him. I can't find Lydia, Ervin or Harold in the 1920 census. I never met Harold, but I did visit with Lydia often. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: marybethdamiani1 Surnames: Williams, Wells Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5509/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello. I am seeking information on the children of Christopher and Elizabeth (Williams) Wells, daughter of John and Margaret Williams from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Any information would be much appreciated. Thank you. Mary Beth Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hi Folks: I am a descendant of Peter Wells who married Nancy Simon in Gasconade County, Missouri on 02 Apr 1823. We have hit a brick wall with Peter. According to census records he was born abt 1800 in Kentucky. My mother was a Wells, [Rowena Hazel Wells, daughter of Henry Nolan Wells and Audora Reynolds; Henry was the son of Edward Felix Wells and Martha Jane Elizabeth Owen; Edward was the son of Peter Wells and Nancy Simon]. So we do not have the Wells surname in our immediate family, however some of my Wells cousins who have been active on this list have had other male relatives contribute to the Y-chromosome study and our branch has come up as belonging to W006 (Descendants of Thomas Wells, born abt 1653 who married Frances mnu). I noticed in looking over the DNA listings that a group of W006 families have “19” on the DYS158, and all those families are in the G Haplogroup subgroup of G2a2. This makes me think we are more closely related to each other than we are to the others in the W006 group. I am hoping that by researching these families somewhere we can find the connection to our Peter. These are the families in this subgroup: W461 Peter Wells/Nancy Simons Kentucky b: Cir 1800 to Austin County, Texas ID 421 W462 William A. Wells/Selma Andres Illinois Cir 1865 to Lewis, Pottawamie County, Iowa ID 436 W313 Nelson Wells/Uriel Jennings Mason Co., Kentucky b: cir 1799 to Grayson Co., Virginia ID 90 W314 Anderson H. Wells/Deborah Jennings Clermont Co., Ohio b: Cir 1800 to Schuyler Co., Illinois ID 193 W316 Charles Artemus Wells/Emma Ozella Harevey Grayson Co., Texas b: 28 Ap 1861 to Waco McLennan Co., Texas ID 273 W020 Zachariah Wells/Abigail Osborne Virginia? b: Cir 1739 to Lee/Wise Co, Virginia ID 548 There were two or three links on the Association web site for researchers with online family trees for descendants of this Thomas Wells. None of those links work, the websites have either been moved or no longer exist. If you belong to any of these families, and can send me a listing of descendants and ancestors of your line, I would be delighted to receive it. Please provide sources. I have not posted my family trees yet but will be happy to share what I have. I am also currently working on the Owen family connection through Martha’s father John B Owen and making some progress there. I have the 2011 version of Family Tree Maker and have membership on ancestry.com as gretchenstarke. As a side note: Family tradition says we have Native American blood. I am wondering if Peter is the son of a Wells that married a native American. My grandfather Henry Nolan Wells was tall with very prominent native American facial characteristics. He also had glaucoma in his later years, and I have been told his father also had glaucoma. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Gretchen Starke

Hi, I am trying to dig up ANY information on my gggg-grandfather, Phillip Wells, of Burlington County, New Jersey (born around 1770). I found the following under marriages for Burlington County: Philip Wells and Mary Fiels alias Willims (Mary Fields) Can anyone tell me what "alias" means in this context? does it mean that "Willims" is her birth name? Thanks for any help, Terri

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jpmanning6 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5458.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Moses Wells built my home and general store, Federal period in 1825 and 1828. I am not sure if there is any connection with the Moses Wells you are seeking but he was an early member of a family of barn builders and fine joiners in our area that built the historic Wells arch barns in the later 19th century. Look under Garbuttsville, Scottsville and Mumford, NY. Jim Manning Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.