This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/SCWBAIB/2994.2 Message Board Post: Message for Edward Wells, please email me on mel@melmorrisfamilytree.com - I have some information about your Minter/Harryman ancestry or visit my web site melmorrisfamilytree.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS EARLE STREETER HOLMES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/3482.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Judy: William Washington Wells (who married Elizabeth Streeter) is James Fones Wells younger brother. Do you have any information on the divorce of Sarah Holmes and James F. Wells? I know he went to Clarion, PA and married a widow Elizabeth (Waters) Cobaugh who had two children: Catherine and Henry. Her husband was Henry Cobaugh who died in April 1850 of typhoid. Her parents were Godfrey and Catherine (?) Waters of Clarion. Where do Dr. Daniel and Ira come into the picture? I wonder if they may be related to James' and William's parents, James Wells and Persis Earle? I know father James was supposedly born 13 Mar 1792 in NH or CT. She was also born in 1792 in Windsor Co., VT .. they married in Dec 1810 in Windsor Co., VT. Her father was John Earle s/o of Esck Earle. If you find anything more on Sarah, please let me know. If you need more on James and Persis' family, let me know. ladybonita (at) usa.com Bonita

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WELLS,THOMPSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4445 Message Board Post: WHERE ARE YOUR DECENDANTS, MINNIE AND BARNEY? MINNIE THOMPSON WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN MILTON THOMPSON MARRIED FIRST TO ABIGAIL WEBB WHO DIED GIVING BIRTH. SEC. MARRIAGE WAS TO ELIZABETH PENNINGTON. MINNIE THOMPSON MARRIED BARNEY"BUD"WELLS. MINNIE WAS BORN IN 1879.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells/Holmes/Streeter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/3482.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Bonita, not sure if you have this info or if it will help. Sarah HOLMES married James F. WELLS on 12 Feb 1844 at Monroeville ( a village four miles west of Norwalk). This informations comes from the Reflector paper published at Norwalk 20 Feb 1844. He was a stage driver and abandoned her, so she divorced him in 1850.I guess no children, she is living with her mother(?) on the 1850 census. I am still trying to find if she remarried, and prove her parents, Sarah and Thomas HOLMES. I also run back into more WELLS because of Elizabeth STREETER married Wm W. Wells in 1849. Judy (Holmes) , SC.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells/Minter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/SCWBAIB/3906.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for Francis Daniel Minter Greeneich 1860(next door to Deptford) I understand there may be a connection with the Wells family. I have seen messages from a Ted Wells looking for this same connection but this was 2002. His grand father was William Frank Wells 1885 and possibly married my great grandmothers sister a Minter. If you think this is a connection please contact me

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Gainey, Ganey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4444 Message Board Post: Still looking for Carolyn GAINEY/GANEY b abt 1935 SC, md UNK WELLS in NC possibly mid to late 1950s. Will share info have. Thanks in advance. donna donalitt@sbcglobal.net

One can use the same idea when looking for foreign born family members with sometimes unpronounceable or spellable names. My grandfather used the spelling Steven Gonzol and came from Hungary. I knew what county in NJ he lived in 1920, however wasn't sure of the town. I used every spelling I could think of for Gonzol and soundex, however no luck. I finally found him using a look up on every male around his age with a birth place of Hungary/Austria-Hungary/Magyar in Middlesex County and looked for a close enough name. I finally found him listed as Stefan Guernsey. In looking at the census one has to think like a detective and cover all angles. Census takers wrote what they heard, spelled what they knew, and sometimes ignored what they didn't understand or could not spell. With foreign ancestors, one sometimes has to take the back door to find them. Jackie Lubinski -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Engle [mailto:lizengle@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:53 AM To: WELLS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WELLS-L] Re: Vol. 6, #47 Creative use of the census Following up on Mary Beth, Cindy, and Orin's remarks on getting the best results from the census: Regarding the spelling (misspelling?) of names in the census: In 1934 we lived for a year in a rented house on a certain street in my home town. I wanted to include a more detailed account of those days in the memoires I am preparing for my children, but needed the correct address for that house. I knew the house had belonged to a man named "Grimshaw," and I also knew his first name and his wife's name. So I searched for Grimshaw in the 1930 census for that small town with absolutely no luck. But then I remembered living next door to us on that street a playmate whose last name was "Courtway." A search on "Courtway" turned up the next-door-neighbor in 1930 whose surname was given as "Gremilion" not "Grimshaw," but the two given names were correct. In this way I was able to ascertain the correct address for my childhood residence. The handwriting of the census taker was so terrible that it was easy to see how a recorder got "Gremilion" out of "Grimshaw," but if it hadn't been for that extra "Courtway" clue I never would have been successful. A search by Soundex turned up 100-plus names but never "Gremilion." So I guess what I am trying to say is "get creative in your search of the census and leave no tern unstoned." (Searching for my Harriet Townsend WELLS Trumbull and her brother Robert WELLS - NY, Ohio, and Kansas. 1798-1870) Cheers, Elizabeth Engle

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BUCHANAN ~ ROBERSON ~ BUBECK ~ DAVISON ~ ROHDE ~ REED ~ WELLS ~ HOOVER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SCWBAIB/4443 Message Board Post: AGENBROAD (Miami County, OH) ~ ALSPAUGH (OH) ~ ALTEVERS (OH) ~ BAISCH (BISH) (Dayton & Vicinity & Germany) ~ BEACH (OH) ~ BEIGEL (OH, MI & Germany) ~BESOM (Miami County, OH) ~ BUBECK (Dayton & Darke Cty, OH & Germany) ~ BUCHANAN (Zanesville, OH & Logan County, VA/WV) ~ CARD (OH & MI) ~ CHAMPLIN (Miami County, OH & CT) ~ CHRISTIAN (Darke County, OH) ~ DAVI(D)SON (Dayton & Vicinity) ~ DETAMORE (WV & OH) ~ ELLIOTT (OH) ~ GRISE/ GRICE (PA & OH) ~ KLOPFER (Dayton, Greenville, OH & Germany) ~ KUMMERY (OH) ~ LAUTENSCHLA(E)GER (OH & Germany) ~ HOOVER (Miami County, OH) ~ GALLESPIE (& Various spellings - NC & OH) ~ KENNEDY (OH) ~ MARKER (Darke Cty, OH) ~ MCDORMAN & Various spellings (NC & OH) ~ PITSENBARGER (OH) ~ REED (OH) ~ REEVES (Auglaize County, OH) ~ ROBERSON (VA/WV & OH) ~ ROHDE (OH & Germany) ~ ROSSBACH (OH & Germany) ~ ROUTZONG (Darke Cty, OH & PA) ~ SCOLES (Zanesville & Dayton, OH) ~ SKINNER (Miami County, OH) ~ SPRATT (Zanesville, OH & Logan County, VA/WV) ~ STALEY (OH) ~! TREADWAY(OH) ~ TRENT (VA/WV) ~ UNDERWOOD (Miami County, OH) ~ WELLS (Miami & Dayton, OH) ~ WHITLEY (NC) ~ WILCOXEN (OH & OK) ~ WRIGHT (Miami County, OH) Links: Pamela WELLS nee ROBERSON & Paul R. WELLS Family Website of Dayton, Montgomery County, OH http://www2.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=wellsp&view=9&rand=249893888

Following up on Mary Beth, Cindy, and Orin's remarks on getting the best results from the census: Regarding the spelling (misspelling?) of names in the census: In 1934 we lived for a year in a rented house on a certain street in my home town. I wanted to include a more detailed account of those days in the memoires I am preparing for my children, but needed the correct address for that house. I knew the house had belonged to a man named "Grimshaw," and I also knew his first name and his wife's name. So I searched for Grimshaw in the 1930 census for that small town with absolutely no luck. But then I remembered living next door to us on that street a playmate whose last name was "Courtway." A search on "Courtway" turned up the next-door-neighbor in 1930 whose surname was given as "Gremilion" not "Grimshaw," but the two given names were correct. In this way I was able to ascertain the correct address for my childhood residence. The handwriting of the census taker was so terrible that it was easy to see how a recorder got "Gremilion" out of "Grimshaw," but if it hadn't been for that extra "Courtway" clue I never would have been successful. A search by Soundex turned up 100-plus names but never "Gremilion." So I guess what I am trying to say is "get creative in your search of the census and leave no tern unstoned." (Searching for my Harriet Townsend WELLS Trumbull and her brother Robert WELLS - NY, Ohio, and Kansas. 1798-1870) Cheers, Elizabeth Engle

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, DeCamp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4322.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I think this HAS to be the William Wells/Sarah DeCamp and their son Christopher C. Wells who married Malvina. I am in contact with a descendent of this family who has more information and a descendent of Christopher Wells but last I know the latter was in poor health. There is another that I have lost contact with. I can put you in contact with the Descendent of William through another son Benjamin Wells b: 22 Mar 1849 Zanesville, OH m: Julia Ann Colvin. Contact me off the list and I will give you contact information.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4436.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Are you the Wells family member looking for relatives of Francis Daniel Minter born Greenwich 1860?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/SCWBAIB/4442 Message Board Post: See: http://www.wells-genealogy.com/wells.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4322.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: The Christopher C. Wells I am related to was born abt. 1841 in Ohio according census records. Where in Ohio I have no idea at this time. He married Nancy but in all the census records she went by Melvina/Malvina. He died Dec. 1, 1924 in Warren County Illinois. I do know that he served in the Civil War due to the marker at the cemetery. He and Melvina lived most of their married life in and around McDonough County Illinois. The reason I was thinking he maybe the son of William and Sarah was a 1860 census record from Bethal Township, McDonough County, Illinois. This is the first listing for a Christopher C. Wells that goes with some of my finding so far. My Christophers paper work from the civil war stated that he lived in Bethel. But as we all know families were known to keep using the same names over and over and making it harder on us to follow them back in time. Any info you may have would be greatly appreciated. Sandra

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4441 Message Board Post: Looking for info On Johnny Bervell (or Bervel) Wells. Went by J.B. Born: abt April 1901 Died: abt May 1970. Married Gladys Cozart. Any info would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells. Coleman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4440 Message Board Post: Am looking for birth/death dates for Benjamin F. Wells and Mary A. Coleman of Union Co Mississippi. They had sons Pickens, Drayton and Richardson Wells all born in South Carolina and living unmarried with their parents in 1870 and 1880 in Union Co Mississippi. Have not been able to trace them after 1880 in census but believe that they must have remained in Union Co Mississippi. Will welcome any additional information on this family.

i don't have a benjamin wells in my records --- bhrowland@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wells. Coleman > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4440 > > Message Board Post: > > Am looking for birth/death dates for Benjamin F. > Wells and Mary A. Coleman of Union Co Mississippi. > They had sons Pickens, Drayton and Richardson Wells > all born in South Carolina and living unmarried with > their parents in 1870 and 1880 in Union Co > Mississippi. > > Have not been able to trace them after 1880 in > census but believe that they must have remained in > Union Co Mississippi. > > Will welcome any additional information on this > family. > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > To contact Listowner, > Send email to: > dwells@zekes.com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Hi All, I just read about this link today and thought I would pass it along..... Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1744-2005 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/index.html If you scroll down to Biographies and under Wachter to Wythe you will find 8 Wells. Alfred Wells b. 5-27-1814 Dagsbora, Sussex, DE d. 7-18-1867 Ithaca, NY Daniel Wells Jr. b. 7-16-1808 W. Waterbille, ME d. 3-18-1902 Milwaukee, WI Erastus Wells b. 12-2-1823 Sackets Harbor, Jefferson, NY d. 10-2-1893 St. Louis, MO Guilford Wells b. 2-14-1840 Conesus Center, Livingston, NY d. 3-21-1909 Santa Monica, CA John Wells b. 7-1-1817 Johnstown, Fulton, NY d. 5-30-1877 Johnstown, Fulton, NY John Sullivan Wells b. 10-8-1803 Durham, Stafford, NH d. 8-1-1860 Exeter, NH Owen Augustine Wells b. 2-4-1844 Catskill, Greene, NY d. 1-29-1935 William Hill Wells b. 1-7-1769 Burlington, NJ d. 3-11-1829 Dagsboro, Sussex, DE I hope this helps some of you out. Marta

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4322.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Sandra, Do you have any specific dates on William, Sarah and Christopher C. Wells? I am thinking this may be the William Rossman Wells b: 20 Oct 1820 Maryland m: Sarah DeCamp. They had a son Christopher Columbus Wells b: Cir 1841. But I am not aware they lived in either Ross or Licking Counties - rather in Coshocton and Muskingum counties. And Christopher married a woman named Malvina. So it probably is a different family. The connections to Licking and Ross counties leads me to suspect it may be a branch of the "Little Wells" family. You might want to post this query on the little-wells list on Roots web. I am unaware of a Christopher C. Wells in that family, but others may.

Barbara, I am guessing you are new to the Wells list. Welcome to the Wells list. We need to give out this information every once in a while for the new subscribers. When you respond to messages that start out "This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list." You will need to click on the link back to the Ancestry.com message board or the individual who originally posted the message will not see your response. When you do so, your response will be reflected back to this list so we will all still see the responde. Also you will receive a lot of questions posted to the Wells list. They are broadcast to every subscriber not to you specifically so you need not respond to them if you have no information. There are possibly 400 subscribers - I am not aware of the current number. We don't expect everyone will have answers to questions posted. In fact sometimes no one has any answer. But the question will go into the list archives and be indexed on the Wells Family Research Association web site (http://wells.org) for others to find in the future. At 08:56 AM 3/13/2006, Elkins Barbara wrote: >I have a William Wells and Sarah but I don't have any >Christopher. Sorry > >--- sandesue@yahoo.com wrote: > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > > this mailing list. > > > > Surnames: Wells > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4322.1.1.2 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > I am looking for information on Christopher C Wells. > > I believe his father is William Wells and mother is > > Sarah but have no proof as of now. Christopher > > married Nancy Melvina Howe and had my great > > grandmother Bessie Leone Wells. Does any of this > > information sound familiar to you? > > > > Sandra > > > > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this list > > send the command "unsubscribe" > > to WELLS-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode > > or WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode > > > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > >==== WELLS Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list >send the command "unsubscribe" >to WELLS-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode >or WELLS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <OrinWells@wells.org> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb

Sorry I have no roger I would like to find more info --- donalitt@sbcglobal.net wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: WELLS, GAINEY, CHAVIS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SCWBAIB/4439 > > Message Board Post: > > Have been searching past several years for > Caroline/Carolyn GAINEY and descedants. Just learned > she md Roger WELLS prior to 1948, possibly in NC > and they had at least 3 children. Would love to > connect and share info with "cousins" . > Thanks in advance. > donna > donalitt@sbcglobal.net > > > ==== WELLS Mailing List ==== > Please Support > Rootsweb > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com