Husband Absalom Wells
Born: 3 Oct 1774 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
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Died: 13 Nov 1856
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Father: Charles Wells (1745-1815)
Mother: Michal Owings (1745-1783)
Marriage: 28 Jan 1798 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
Wife Helen Owings
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Research Notes (Husband)
Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. (Westminster, Maryland, 1989)
Research Notes (Wife)
Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. (Westminster, Maryland, 1989)
Notes (Marriage)
Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. (Westminster, Maryland, 1989)
Husband Henry Owings
AKA: Henry Owens
Born: 1696 - Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States
Christened:
Died: 1763-1764 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Buried:
Father: Captain Richard Owings (1658-1716)
Mother: Rachel Beale (Abt 1662-1729)
Father: Captain Richard Owings (1658-1716)
Mother: Rachel Roberts (1660-Bef 1690)
Marriage: 1718 - Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Wife Helen Stinchcombe
Born: 1700 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Christened:
Died: May 1784 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Buried: 1784 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Father: Nathaniel Stinchcomb [Jr.] ( - )
Mother: Hannah Randall (1713- )
Children
1 F Leah Owings
Born: 1735 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
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Died: 20 Jan 1815 - Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio, United States
Buried:
Spouse: Alexander Wells [Sr.] (1727-1753)
General Notes (Husband)
Research Notes (Husband)
When was he born?
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 has b. 1696, d. 1763/1764, son of Rachel Beale & Richard Owings.
Another source has b. abt 1692, d. June 1763 in Anne Arundel.
Source: FamilySearch.org AFN: GH3L-1G has b. 1696.
http://www.owingsstone.com/getperson.php?personID=I270&tree=owingsstone has b. abt 1692, placing him in same year as Lewis Owings.
From the book Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. (Westminster, Maryland, 1989), pp. 1-2:
"A List of Taxables in St. Thomas Parish in the Year 1763
The Tax List of 1763 for St. Thomas Parish was found by William N. Wilkins in 1959 in the Harford County Historical records on loan at the Maryland Historical Society. (Harford County was part of Baltimore County until 1773.) ... This 1763 tax ledger shows the names of the various parties against whom charges were made for apparent church and county support and other sundry charges... The notation 'run' meant that the person named had left before paying his full charges.
Soldiers Delight Hundred, 1763
[Among those listed are:]
Owings, Thomas
Owings, Joshua
Owings, Joshua Jr.
Owings, Stephen
Owings, Henry
Stinchcomb, John
Stinchcomb, Nathaniel
Wells, Thomas
Wells, John
Wells, Benjamin
Wells, Charles
From the book Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr., Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 89-105:
"TAXABLES IN ST. PAUL'S PARISH, BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN 1774
"This list of taxables is recorded in Reverend Ethan Allen's book entitled Historical Sketches of St. Paul's Parish in Baltimore County, Maryland which he compiled in 1855. A copy is available in the Maryland Historical Society Library in Baltimore...
"WESTMINSTER HUNDRED, 1774
"...*Col. John Dorsey,...William Richardson, carpenter, acct., Charles Ridgely, Jr. - 3,... Ridgely & Nicholson, acct., William Robinson - 0,...
"PATAPSCO UPPER HUNDRED IN 1774
"...Dorsey's Forge - 25,... *Edward Dorsey. ...Elizabeth Owings - 1, Henry Owings ('taken before') - 2, Meshack Owings - 5, Caleb Owings - 3,... *Joshua Owings of John. ... Charles Ridgely of William - 10,... Benjamin Wells, Jr. - 3,... *John Wells, ... *Captain Charles Wells,...
Research Notes (Wife)
FamilySearch.org AFN: GH3L-2M) has b. 1700.
http://www.fmoran.com/owens.html has b. 1718.
Husband John Owings
Born: Bet 1693 and 1694 - Anne Arundel, Maryland, [United States]
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Died: Oct 1765
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Father: Captain Richard Owings (1658-1716)
Mother: Rachel Beale (Abt 1662-1729)
Marriage: Abt 1726
Other Spouse: Asenath ( -1792)
Wife Hannah Stinchcomb
Born: Abt 1706
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Died: 22 Jan 1739
Buried:
Father: Nathaniel Stinchcomb [Jr.] ( - )
Mother: Hannah Randall (1713- )
Children
Research Notes (Husband)
What are his birth and death dates?
Source: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 has b. 15 Mar 1698. This would be so only if he was the twin brother of Robert Owings. It has d. 27 Aug 1721 in Hancock, Indiana.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:a41513&id=I0192 has b. 15 May 1698 (same date as Robert Owings in that source).
Source http://www.owingsstone.com/getperson.php?personID=I270&tree=owingsstone has b. abt 1694 in Anne Arundel.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 has b. ca. 1694/8, d. Oct 1765.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/southern/owings.html has d. Oct 1765. Was that a different John Owings?
Also http://www.owingsstone.com/getperson.php?personID=I270&tree=owingsstone
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=intellectkeep&id=I651 has b. 1693.
One of the above sources gives his death date as 27 Aug. 1721 in Hancock, Indiana.
Research Notes (Wife)
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/southern/owings.html has b. abt. 1706, d. 22 Jan 1739.
FamilySearch.org AFN: GH3L-2M) has b. 1700.
http://www.fmoran.com/owens.html has b. 1718.
Husband John Cockey Owings
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Father: Joshua Owings (1704-1785)
Mother: Mary Cockey (1716-1768)
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Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/southern/owings.html
Husband Joshua Owings
Born: 22 Mar 1740
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Father: Joshua Owings (1704-1785)
Mother: Mary Cockey (1716-1768)
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Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/southern/owings.html
Husband Alexander Wells [Sr.]
Born: 12 Mar 1727 - St. Pauls Church, Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
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Died: 12 Jul 1753 - Wellsburg, , West Virginia, United States
Buried:
Father: James Wells [Jr.] (1685-1771)
Mother: Ann Stevenson (1690-After 1773)
Marriage:
Wife Leah Owings
Born: 1735 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Christened:
Died: 20 Jan 1815 - Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio, United States
Buried:
Father: Henry Owings (1696-1763)
Mother: Helen Stinchcombe (1700-1784)
Children
1 M Nathaniel Wells
Born: 1 Apr 1761 or 1762 - Garrison Forest, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
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Died: 1789
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Spouse: Temperance Wells (1769-1830)
Marr: 1787 or 1788
2 M Alexander Wells [Jr.]
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3 F Michal Wells
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Research Notes (Husband)
FamilySearch.org AFN: LVJK-KB
Research Notes (Wife)
Husband Lewis Owings
Born: Abt 1692 - Anne Arundel, Maryland, [United States]
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Died: 27 Aug 1721
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Father: Captain Richard Owings (1658-1716)
Mother: Rachel Roberts (1660-Bef 1690)
Father: Captain Richard Owings (1658-1716)
Mother: Rachel Beale (Abt 1662-1729)
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http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 b. abt 1692, mother Rachel Beale.
http://www.owingsstone.com/getperson.php?personID=I270&tree=owingsstone has b. 1692, mother Rachel Robert.
Husband Thomas Worthington
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Wife Marcella Owings
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Father: Joshua Owings (1704-1785)
Mother: Mary Cockey (1716-1768)
Children
Research Notes (Husband)
http://www.sladegenealogy.net/us/md/WmSlade5gen.pdf
Research Notes (Wife)
http://www.sladegenealogy.net/us/md/WmSlade5gen.pdf
Husband Charles Wells
Born: 6 Apr 1745 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
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Died: 16 Apr 1815 - Sistersville, [Tyler Co.], West Virginia, United States
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Father: Benjamin Wells (1723-1795)
Mother: Temperance Butler (1726-1800)
Marriage: 27 Dec 1764 - St. Thomas Church, Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Other Spouse: Elizabeth Prather (1765-1845) - 24 Jul 1784
Wife Michal Owings
AKA: Owings Michel
Born: 12 Feb 1745 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Christened:
Died: 17 May 1783 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
Buried:
Father: Joshua Owings (1704-1785)
Mother: Mary Cockey (1716-1768)
Children
1 F Temperance Wells
Born: 1 Sep 1769 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
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Died: 23 Sep 1830 - Monroe Co., Ohio, United States
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Child-Par.Rel.: Father: Biological, Mother: Biological
Spouse: Nathaniel Wells (1761-1789)
Marr: 1787 or 1788
Spouse: Lt. Richard Talbott [V] (1753-1821)
Marr: 20 Jan 1790 - Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
2 F Rebecca Wells
Born: 19 Oct 1765
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Died: 28 Aug 1794
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3 M Joshua Wells
Born: 7 Nov 1767
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Died: 19 Feb 1800
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4 M Benedict Wells
Born: 19 Apr 1771 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
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Died:
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Spouse: Elizabeth Magruder ( - )
Spouse: Elizabeth Owings ( - )
5 M Absalom Wells
Born: 3 Oct 1774 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
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Died: 13 Nov 1856
Buried:
Spouse: Helen Owings ( - )
Marr: 28 Jan 1798 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
6 F Mary Wells
Born: 16 Sep 1776 - Brooke Co., West Virginia
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Died: 19 Aug 1849 - Brooke Co., West Virginia
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7 F Elizabeth Wells
Born: 27 Apr 1779 - Ohio Co., [West] Virginia, [United States]
Christened:
Died: 1817 - [Tyler Co]., West Virginia, United States
Buried:
Spouse: Morris Baker ( - )
Marr: Bet 1797 and 1798
Spouse: Jacob Weakley (1790-1850)
8 M Ephraim Wells
Born: 28 Apr 1781 - Ohio Co., [West] Virginia, [United States]
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Died: 24 Oct 1808 - Cairo, [Alexander], Illinois, United States
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9 F Michal Wells
Born: Mar 1783
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Died: 6 Jun 1802 - [Brooke Co.], West Virginia, United States
Buried:
Research Notes (Husband)
FamilySearch.org AFN: 1D11-GNM
Source: RootsWeb.com, William Akin, 7/25/2006:
Charles Wells (1745-1815)
Charles Wells, born 06 Apr 1745 son of Benjamin Wells and Temperance Butler, married 27 Dec 1764 Michal Owings who died on 17 May 1783, two months after the birth of her 10th child. He then married 24 Jul 1784 Elizabeth Prather, daughter of Charles Prather and Ruth Tannehill. They had 12 children making a total of 22 for Charles. The 20th was named "Twenty Wells" b: 23 Nov 1798 and was described in her father's will. (also mentioned below) as "a helpless child". His 3rd child, Temperance Wells b: 01 Sep 1769 m: 1) Nathaniel Wells (b: 01 Apr 1762) and thus formed one of the Big Wells-Little Wells family bonds. Nathaniel Wells was a son of Alexander Wells and Leah Owings.
Sistersville [West Virginia]
Charles Wells also had his ties with a town called Sistersville. The exact year that Charles Wells, the first settler of prominence, arrived in the area which is now called Sistersville, is not known. In 1800, he had surveyed a tract of 200 acres on the Ohio River. Charles Wells was a man of prominence, who was involved with the Virginia State Legislature between 1789 and 1810. Sometime around 1802, Wells left Wellsburg in a flatboat and floated down the Ohio River to settle one mile below where Sistersville now exists. In his cargo was the machinery for a horse mill which he established. He built a log cabin just south of where the Sistersville Golf Course is today.
On May 9, 1813, he acquired four hundred acres of land on which Sistersville and close residential area is located. Soon after the first court of Tyler county was held in his home, Charles Wells died in 1815. His grave has this inscription: "Charles Wells, born April 6, 1745; died April 6, 1815: aged 70 yrs. and ten days; a native of Baltimore County Maryland; immigrated to Ohio County, Virginia, 1776. He was a practical farmer and the father of twenty-two children, two wives, ten by the first and twelve by the second."
His will. provided for each living member of his family. In 1815, the Wells sisters, (Sarah and Delilah Wells Grier) laid out the town on the land which they had inherited. Sistersville hence got its name from the seventeenth and eighteenth children of Charles Wells. The town was incorporated Feb. 2, 1839, under the name Sistersville and in 1845, the municipal government was established.
Charles died April 16,1815 in Baltimore County, MD.
Charles Wells' Last Will
Tyler Co., W.VA.
Will Book 1, p. 8
Dec. 13, 1814
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN - I, Charles Wells of Tyler County in the state of Virginia do hereby
make this my Last Will and Testament in form, and manner following to wit - After my decease and the
payment of all my just debts and funeral charges I do desire the following. I do also leave to my said wife Elizabeth the Mansion House in which we now live with the farm thereto annexed (to wit)-
Beginning at the mouth of Wittens Run, thence with the wagon road leading to the Jug Handle Mill to the
upper corner of the Tanyard lot, thence with the Run to the back line, thence with the lines of the Survey
that includes said farm to the beginning; with all and singular the appurtenance thereunto belonging; with
the rents, issues, and profits thereof, during her continuance of Widowhood as aforesaid.
Item 2. To my son Charles P. Wells he being already provided for, it is my will that he have nothing of
my estate either real or personal, except whatever after my decease my said wife may gratuously give
him out of the part intrusted to her disposal.
Item 3. To my son Nicholas Wells, he being already provided for, it is my will that he have nothing more
of my estate either real or personal except whatever after my decease my said wife may gra,tuously give him of the part intrusted to her disposal.
Item 4. To my son Peregrine Wells I bequeath the two Tracts of Land I purchased from John and Ezekiel
Clemons lying on the Long Reach; one adjoining the lands of William Johnson and Thomas Cochran, and the other the Lands of William John
From the book Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr., Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 1-2:
"A List of Taxables in St. Thomas Parish in the Year 1763
The Tax List of 1763 for St. Thomas Parish was found by William N. Wilkins in 1959 in the Harford County Historical records on loan at the Maryland Historical Society. (Harford County was part of Baltimore County until 1773.) ... This 1763 tax ledger shows the names of the various parties against whom charges were made for apparent church and county support and other sundry charges... The notation 'run' meant that the person named had left before paying his full charges.
Soldiers Delight Hundred, 1763
[Among those listed are:]
Owings, Thomas
Owings, Joshua
Owings, Joshua Jr.
Owings, Stephen
Owings, Henry
Stinchcomb, John
Stinchcomb, Nathaniel
Wells, Thomas
Wells, John
Wells, Benjamin
Wells, Charles
From the book Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr., Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 16-23:
"INDEX TO AQUILA HALL'S ASSESSMENT LEDGER, 1762-1765
Aquila Hall was High Sheriff of Baltimore County and after Harford County separated from Baltimore County in 1773 he was appointed Colonel of Militia and one of the Lord Justices of the new county of Harford from 1774 to 1779. While serving as Sheriff of Baltimore County he compiled a tax assessment ledger of 145 pages which named 1,380 persons, their land tracts, and their assessments... Its index contains the following names...
"William Cockey,... Joshua Cockey,... Edward Cockey,... John Hammond Dorsey,... Caleb Dorsey, Bazil Dorsey, Edward Dorsey,... Caleb Dorsey,... Richard Dorsey,...John Dorsey,...Samuel Owings,... John Owings, Joshua Owings,... Sarah Owings,... Stephen Owings,... Samuel Owings,... Elijah Owings,... Henry Owings,... Christopher Randell,... John Ridgley,... Charles Ridgley, Jr.,... Capt. John Stinchcombe,... Nathan Stinchcombe,... Edmund Talbott, Thomas Talbott,... Philip Thomas,... Edward Talbott,... Samuel Underwood,... Benjamin Wells,... James Wells,... William Wells, James Wells, Jr.,... Charles Wells,... Elex Wells..."
From the book Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr., Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 27-41:
"JOPPA COURTHOUSE PETITION OF 1768
"The petitions for and against the removal of the county seat of Baltimore County from Joppa to Baltimore Town in 1768 are discussed at length in the Archives of Maryland, Vol. 61 (Appendix). Notices were posted in January, 1768 at the door of the courthouse in Joppa, at the church door of St. Paul's Parish, at the church door of St. Thomas' Parish, at the church door of St. John's Parish, at the church door of St. George's Parish, at the door of the chapel of St. George's Parish, at the door of the chapel of St. John's Parish, and at the house called St. Thomas' Chapel in St. Thomas' Parish, by Absalom Butler and sworn to before the Honorable Benjamin Rogers. Notices were printed in English and German. Tabulations indicate that 2,271 voted for the removal of the courthouse, and 901 voted against it. (It should be noted that some signatures are missing due to the disintegration of the paper, and there also appears to be some who signed more than once.) Five years later, Harford County separated from Baltimore County and set up its court house at Bush (Harford Town) in 1774 and at Bel Air in 1782.
"SIGNERS FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT TO BALTIMORE TOWN (1768)...
"...Thomas Cockey...Joshua Owings...Charles Ridgely... Samuel Owings... John Cockey... Benjamin Wells, Charles Wells... George Wells... Caleb Warfield, Nathaniel Stinchcomb... William Coale...Christopher Randall, Jr.... J. Cockey Owings... William Wells, Jr.... William Wells...Edward Talbott... Edward Cockey... Benjamin Talbott... Charles Ridgely (son William)... Elisha Dorsey... Alexander Wells, Nathaniel Owings...Nathaniel Stinchcomb, Sr....Lott Owings... Anthony Arnold... Richard Owings... William Cockey... John Talbott (son Edward)... Richard Owings... William Slade... Edward Talbot... Vachel Dorsey... Christopher Owings, Richard Owings... Edward Dorsey (son John)... Lancelott Dorsey, Charles Dorsey (son Nathan), Ely Dorsey... Henry Dorsey...Samuel Dorsey, Jr.... Joshua Owings, Jr.... Samuel Owings... John Wells... Thomas Owings... Henry Butler... George Dorsey...
"SIGNERS AGAINST THE REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY SEAT TO BALTIMORE TOWN (1768)...
Greenbury Dorsey, Jr....William Wells..."
From the book Inhabitants of Baltimore County 1763-1774 by Henry C. Peden, Jr., Westminster, Maryland, 1989, pp. 89-93:
"TAXABLES IN ST. PAUL'S PARISH, BALTIMORE COUNTY, IN 1774
"This list of taxables is recorded in Reverend Ethan Allen's book entitled Historical Sketches of St. Paul's Parish in Baltimore County, Maryland which he compiled in 1855. A copy is available in the Maryland Historical Society Library in Baltimore...
"BALTIMORE WEST HUNDRED
"James Marshall, drayman - 1,...Philip Thomas, bricklayer - 1,... Capt. Charles Wells - 1,...
"PATAPSCO UPPER HUNDRED IN 1774
"...Dorsey's Forge - 25,... *Edward Dorsey. ...Elizabeth Owings - 1, Henry Owings ('taken before') - 2, Meshack Owings - 5, Caleb Owings - 3,... *Joshua Owings of John. ... Charles Ridgely of William - 10,... Benjamin Wells, Jr. - 3,... *John Wells, ... *Captain Charles Wells,...
Research Notes (Wife)
FamilySearch.org AFN: QF4B-VW
and Compact Disc #99 Pin #236951
(Debbie Finelli)
Notes (Marriage)
Source: FamilySearch.org - St. Thomas Church, Baltimore
Husband
Born:
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Wife Rachel Owings
Born: 1694 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
Christened:
Died: May 1761 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, [United States]
Buried:
Father: Captain Richard Owings (1658-1716)
Mother: Rachel Beale (Abt 1662-1729)
Children
Research Notes (Wife)
May be the same person as Rachel Owings who has Rachel Roberts as her mother here.
Source: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 has b. 1694, d. May 1761 with mother as Rachel Beale.
Did Richard Owings have two daughters named Rachel? Did they have different mothers? Which one married John Wilmott, Jr.?