Publications
What's in a Name?, by J. R. Thomas, published March 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 1, article, pp.25-26) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/501165] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:William Rufus & Naomi Wells ninth child was born 3 April 1881 as Kate Selina. It was to be 63 years before she was known by that name.
A scrapheap challenge, by John Commins, published December 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 8, article, pp.376-377) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508992] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:A commemorative plaque found in a Horsham scrap yard for Warrick Walter Wells
Louisa: my feisty ancestor, by Rosie Ansell, published June 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 2, article, pp.104-107) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508969] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:I have a booklet, produced by one of the family history societies I belong to, consisting of various articles on the subject of 'My favourite ancestor'. It seems to me that my favourite ancestors are all women - feisty women who lived to a great age having successfully brought up a number of children. Of these I think that Louisa is my principal! favourite.
Louisa WELLS was born towards the middle of 1800 in Slaugham, the daughter of Moses WELLS. a shoemaker, and Jane RENVILL. The various WELLs families in Slaugham and the RENVILLs all seem to have been nonconformist so her ancestry has been difficult to trace. Somehow in early 1818 she came across William ANSELL the 19-year-old son of the miller at Warnham Mill near Horsham and they were married at St Nichol., Brighton on 18 May, with her father as a witness.
Louisa WELLS was born towards the middle of 1800 in Slaugham, the daughter of Moses WELLS. a shoemaker, and Jane RENVILL. The various WELLs families in Slaugham and the RENVILLs all seem to have been nonconformist so her ancestry has been difficult to trace. Somehow in early 1818 she came across William ANSELL the 19-year-old son of the miller at Warnham Mill near Horsham and they were married at St Nichol., Brighton on 18 May, with her father as a witness.
Jesse Wells: Two names and two wives!, by Beryl Truran, published December 2017 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 22 no. 8, article, pp.373-376) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860]