Ancestry of
Henry Wells

Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.

Thomas Welles

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Henry Wells — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • Robert Welles 
  • Mother:
  • Alice -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1590 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jan 1659 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Alice Tomes
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 5 Jul 1615 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Welles

  Anne Welles

  John Welles

  Samuel Welles

  Thomas Welles (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Sarah Welles

  • Notes: 

  • Colonial Governor of Connecticut

    Some sources state that Thomas Welles had a wife name Elizabeth Hunt, but this appears to be incorrect.

• Additional marriages for Thomas Welles

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Deming
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1646

• Sources for Thomas Welles

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  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1926, Vol. 80, pp. 279-305, 446-447.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 205.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, pp. 28-31.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1983, Vol. 59, p. 35.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 364.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 137, 288-292, 399.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 542.
  • ⁹ Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 12-13.
  • ¹⁰ Bidwell, Edwin M., Genealogy of the First Seven Generations of the Bidwell Family in America, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1884), 32.
  • ¹¹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2003, Vol. 36, p. 384.
  • ¹² Foote, Abram W., Foote Family Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his Descendants, Vol. 1, Rutland, Vermont: Marble City Press - The Tuttle Company (1907), 17, 21.
  • ¹³ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 106, 112-113.
  • ¹⁴ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 5.
  • ¹⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 780-787, 802.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 222.
  • ¹⁷ Welles, Albert, History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy: With the Derivation From Their Progenitors of . . ., New York: Albert Welles (1876), 98-109.
  • ¹⁸ Wikipedia, "Thomas Welles", (accessed 05/10/2013).