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Re: Wells- Travellers Somerset/Dorset/Hampshire
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 13 November 10 21:36 GMT (UK) »
hmm yes its hard when things don't add up or you cannot find documents ,but keep going something will turn up
I do know Wells surname can be found as Wills  Welles sometimes
Yes I did look in Cornwall records no Henry found there so if he was born there not bapt there for sure, but don't discount he might have been in Cornwall my own family
Wells although from Dorset were in Cornwall 1851 that being Ganey* Jane * Wells with husband Thomas Jefferies, you never know could a link ?

As you know when any census was taken they did not always write correct info it was dependant of who told them and how it sounded and birth dates vary so much
so its possible Ann could be Keziah maybe she preferred that name or who ever did census could not spell its a possiblitlity

Would be interesting to know about the Frome marriage though could it be them I wonder?

Just realise if you think Henry is child of George Wells & Elizabeth Smith that is part of my family line , will check my notes see if I can figure anything
TENETT BUCKLAND & PLATO BUCKLAND ( MY LINEAGE)
  Buckland Smith James Stanley Lovell Loveridge Lee Cooper Penfold/Pinfold Orchard Boswell Broadway Wells
 
AREAS OF INTEREST CORNWALL DEVON

USA   Worton Stanley Joles Cooper  Jeffrey Small
 all English lines of Roms who are found in America

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Re: Wells- Travellers Somerset/Dorset/Hampshire
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 14 November 10 16:57 GMT (UK) »
Hi Tiggi,
Thanks again for your help. We have a family Jefferis,based in Fordingbridge. Jesse James Jefferis married Emily Wells.Is there any connection here?
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Re: Wells- Travellers Somerset/Dorset/Hampshire
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 17 November 10 16:49 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Only Jesse James Jefferis I can find is this :
Jesse James Jefferis b 1845 Jan/Feb/Mar Hampshire/Wiltshire 8 183

Marriage: 13th Feb 1870 Fordingbridge Hampshire
 Jesse James Jefferis - father William Jefferis
Priscilla Smith aged 19 - father Henry Smith


They had a son William Jefferis bapt 4th Sept 1870 Fordingbridge Hampshire

I am wondering here is Priscilla Smith the one in this census which would make her your Henry 's sister?

1861 Census Frome Somerset
Henry Wells 31 b 1830 Blandford Dorset - Cutler/Grinder
Ann.............32 b 1829 Timsbury
Henry..........12 b 1849 Penzance Cornwall
Presilla.........9 b 1852 Paulton
Emily.............7 b 1854 Timsbury
TENETT BUCKLAND & PLATO BUCKLAND ( MY LINEAGE)
  Buckland Smith James Stanley Lovell Loveridge Lee Cooper Penfold/Pinfold Orchard Boswell Broadway Wells
 
AREAS OF INTEREST CORNWALL DEVON

USA   Worton Stanley Joles Cooper  Jeffrey Small
 all English lines of Roms who are found in America

UK Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk