Wells Family History

</head> <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">   <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 > <tr> <td VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN="2" HEIGHT="95" BGCOLOR="#999999" BACKGROUND="048005f0ermwup.gif" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed"><b>Wells Family HistoryThe Family of Samuel Wells (1788-1863)</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="190" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"><b>A family history compiled by Len Wells<u><a href="history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family History">Family History</a><a href="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact ">Contact </a><a href="about.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About">About</a><a href="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Latest News">Latest News</a><a href="rellies.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Friends and Relatives">Friends and Relatives</a><a href="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links">Links</a><a href="biblio.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography">Bibliography</a></u></b> <br>  <br>  <br>  <br>  <br>  <br>  <p> </td> <td VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT="385" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"><img SRC="0678c8b0.gif" HSPACE=8 BORDER=0 height=139 width=140 align=RIGHT><b>Samuel Wells </b><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><font size=+0>was born in the Isle of Wight in 1788 and was tried and convicted of horse stealing at the Wiltshire Assizes on 9 March 1822. He was transported to Sydney on the <i>Surrey I</i> on its fourth voyage arriving on 4 March 1823. Wells was assigned  to work for Joseph Broadway of Appin (NSW). He subsequently met and married Catherine Geraty, a convict, on 28 February 1832. After their marriage Samuel and Catherine resided for a number of years on the property of Joseph Broadway.  They had eight children and of these four died in early childhood but of the remainder - <img SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" BORDER=0 height=16 width=24 align=BOTTOM></font></font></font>Ellen married Joseph Copeland (1854), <img SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" BORDER=0 height=16 width=24 align=BOTTOM>James Francis married Catherine Farrell (1857), <img SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" BORDER=0 height=16 width=24 align=BOTTOM>Samuel (Jnr) married Elizabeth Muldoon (1865) and <img SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" BORDER=0 height=16 width=24 align=BOTTOM>Martha married Jeremiah Pearson (1872).  <br>Please visit again soon as more information will be added progressively. (c) Len Wells, Port Macquarie 2001    <font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><font size=+0> </font></font></font> <u><a href="about.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About">About</a></u>   |   <u><a href="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Latest News">Latest News</a></u>   |   <u><a href="history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family History">Family History</a></u></td> </tr> </table> </body>