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Hi! Thank you so much for replying. I have visited the grave of Mary Ann, wife of Thomas son of William Wellstead. This Ann dies earlier, making Mary Ann Leach the one still alive in 1891 renting two rooms with a family in hedge end. I will try to find her grave.


I am looking for the cause of death for her daughter Ellen (or Ellen Ann on some census records). She moved in with a Walter Leach (can’t see him on the family tree but it would be a huge coincidence if he isn’t a relative) who is running a school, like Ellen Ann’s mum Mary. Ellen is a servant, possibly employed to look after Walter’s very young child.

Ellen returns home to the Wellstead’s on the 1861 census but she seems to die very soon after, age 29. I can’t see a marriage record. Hugh Wellstead took me a long time to trace but I found his death in Aden, Bombay, a member of the British Army. Phinehas Wellstead is a mystery.

Did you say you were family? I am not, but I am living on Wellstead Way (named after them) and in close proximity to the now grade 2 where Mary lived and held her school.

Oh thanks, I can see another Edward and Elizabeth as possible parents, also nearby. It’s so hard to tell!

There is such a wide Weller family in this area at the time. I was holding out hopes I’ll link in with one of the other larger trees already researched and find some relatives.

Thanks for the reply

Wonderful, thank you. Got my S’s mixed up with the counties.

Hi all, I am just starting my family history journey and am delighted to see such rich histories already compiled on the Wellers of Kent/Sussex. What I do not know is whether we fit into that picture at all.

I am tracing predecessors upwards of Moses Weller (1838-1926). I believe parents were Edward Weller (1797-1859) and Elizabeth Macintosh (1808-1867). That’s about as far as I can go with any clarity. All from the Hollington area of Hastings, Sussex. Lots baptised and married in the Church in the Woods (which I can’t wait to visit).

If anyone has any links to these families, or histories that would be of value I would really appreciate your knowledge. Hoping to find the link to some of the established Weller family trees and find our place. We are the descendants of Moses Weller.

Hi all, I am just starting my family history journey and am delighted to see such rich histories already compiled on the Wellers of Kent/Sussex. What I do not know if whether we fit into that picture at all.

I am tracing ancestors of Moses Weller (1838-1926). I believe parents were Edward Weller (1797-1859) and Elizabeth Macintosh (1808-1867). That’s about as far as I can go with any clarity. All from the Hollington area of Hastings, Sussex. Lots baptised and married in the Church in the Woods (which I can’t wait to visit).

If anyone has any links to these families, or histories that would be of value I would really appreciate your knowledge. Hoping to find the link to some of the established Weller family trees and find our place.