The following is an HTML replica of two typewriter pages stored in my great-grandmother Bertha Hunt Wells' records. It appears to be a tracing of the Wells family name as far back as possible. I have attempted to replicate it as closely as possible, including strike-outs and irregular spacings. I have added the bold to the name of each my Wells ancestors, to make the progression easier to trace.
The original paper has a number of small hand-written notes on it, none of which I've attempted to add here. Mostly, they point out each direct ancestor and whether they are grandfather, great grandfather, great great grandfather, etc. The notes on the second page include extra wedding dates and death dates, and a few side-notes, but I couldn't read them reliably enough to want to write them down.
This record of the Wells name spans 15 generations and over 400 years.
Wells Family Tree
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(1) Thomas Wells of Colchester,County Essex, England
(2) Hugh Wells born 1590,Colchester,England, married Frances Belcher
(3) Thomas Wells born in Connecticut 1620, married Mary Beardsley 1651
died at moved to Hadley,Mass. 1659 born 1621 died 1691
died 1676.
1697
(4) Jonathan Wells born 1658 married (1) Hepsibah Colton,di ed
Boy hero of Turner's Falls fight, (2)Mrs.Sarah Strong Barnard
died1739
(5) Jonathan Wells born1684 married (1) Rebecca Barbard
died 1735 (2) Mary Hoyt
Children
Jonathan Wells born 1724 died 1750
David " " 1726 " 1800......(two wives)
Mary " " 1728 " 1779
Samuel " " 1730 "
Olein " " 1732 " 1754
Rebecca " " 1734 " 1750
John " " 1735
(6) John Wells born 1735 married Lucy---
Children
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Elisha Wells born 1759 died
Martha " " 1760 "
Jonathan " " 1762
John " " 1764 died 1835 (married Sarah Warner)
Reuben " " 1766 "
Reuben " " 1767
Lucy " " 1769
Phineas " " 1771
Elisha " " 1773
Martha " " 1776
1827
(7) John Wells born 1764 died 1835, married Sarah Warner,born 1764 died
Captain in war of 1812,lived in daughter of Capt.Jonathan Warner
Rutland,Mass. later moved to who fought in the Revolution
Williamsburg.
Children
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John Wells born Jan.6"1793,died 1858 (married Eliza Graves)
Lucinda " "*** ?
Panthea " " May 24" 1798
Rowena " " May 7"1801,died 1858
Sarah " " Nov.10"1803
Corintha " " Sept.28" ? died May 12",1865 Married L.L.James
Mary " " ?
(8) John Wells born 1793,died 1858, married Eliza Graves of Hatfield,Mass
daughter of Capt. Solomon Graves
who was son of Perez Graves captain
in Revolutionary war.
Children of John Wells and Eliza Graves
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Alma Wells born ? died ? married Lemuel Baker
Alexis Wells " 1829" April 1908 married Lydia Willcutt
Janet " " 1831" 1850
Mary Ann " " 1837" 1919 married Alvah Stebbins
Sarah Esther " 1837" 1922 " Henry Bisbee(parent's of father Wells
William Graves Wells born 1825 died 1876 cousin Nettie Bisbee who
he married Mari Willcutt a sister of sent him this copy)
father Wells mother.
(9)Alexis Wells born 1829or 30,died 1908 at Commington,Mass.
married M Lydia Willcutt
Children
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Henry Gardiner Wells,born Sept 4"1854 died in Phila,Pa. 1936 13"1857
Charles Alexis " born July1856(married Ida May Crosby,born March 13218
married Minnie Whitney died in Phila. August 1948
Thomas Meekins Wells born Dec 22"1857
married Mary-Elizabeth Porter
Mari Jeanette born & died
Mari Jeanette Wells born Dec 13"1861 died 1924 married Joseph Bates
James Foster Wells born AUG 1"1864 married Carrie Elsa Kingsley
William G. Wells born Oct. 20"1866 married Catherine Murphy MacDonald
George Wells born? died about 1916 of Nova Scotia
(10) Henry Gardiner Wells born Sept 4"1854 died 1936 married Ida M. Crosby
Children
--------------- Alaska
George Marks Wells born Oct. 12" 1878 died July 20" 1932 at Ketchikan
married Bertha Hunt
Harold Gardiner Wells born 1884 married Nina eccles
Lena May June 23" 1889 married Harold Monroe Fiske
twins girl and boy died aged one year
Jan.20"1903 Alaska
(11) George Marks Wells born 1878 married Bertha E Hunt at Ketchikan
daughter of ForestJ.Hunt who served
two terms in A laska Senate,President
of Senate one term,and Harriet E.Hunt
Children first Republican National Committee-
-------------- woman from Alaska,one of founders of
Ketchikan Public Library.
Doris Evelyn Wells born
Nov. 6"1903 at Ketchikan Alaska
Elmer Henry Wells born Dec.13"1903 at Tacoma Wash
Doris Evelynmarried Charles L. Cloudy at Ketchikan Alaska Feb. 1923
1948
Children,Charles L.Cloudy born May 26"1924 married Marjorie Piehl Aug.198
Evelyn Elaine " born July 25"1925 married Kedrick C.Hannah " 1947
Joan Adele Cloudy born May 21"1927
George Anthony Cloudy Born July 22"1934
(12) Elmer Henry Wells born Dec.13"1914 married Edith Nurmi Dec 8"1941
Children
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George Marks Wells born Dec.5" 1942
That's the end of the original two pages. Following is the next generation leading to me.
(13) George Marks Wells married Nikki Cole (b. Sept.20" 1944) on July 25" 1966
Children (all born in Las Vegas, Nev.)
Adam Benjamin Wells born Dec.1" 1972
Kevin Marks " " Oct.12"1977
Aaron Gregory " " Jul.17"1980
Adam Wells married Jocelyn Paige Kelly (b. Kelly Paige Holmstrom on Nov.11" 1972) on Aug.4" 2001.
Kevin Wells and Koryn Reese MacDonald (b. Jul. 1975) gave birth to Kamryn Mackenzie Wells on Dec.6" 2002 in Tucson, Ariz.