Unknown

David Wells

Partnership (1): Elizabeth Utting

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(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• General Comment. Biddy Matthews (Gladys Beryl Utton [74]) found the answer. She sent Mary E Utting [] a copy from Suffolk Record Office of something known as a Bastardy Maintenance Order, in which Elizabeth said William's father was a David Wells. (By the way, they spell her name Hutton, in this.) David, a shoemaker, is to pay three shillings and four pence for the lying-in of this child and eight shillings for the cost of this order. Then he is to pay the churchwardens and overseers of the poor one shilling and eight pence weekly to cover costs for this child.

The child Mary mentioned in the census also turns out to be Elizabeth's offspring. I have not made an effort to check her father's name. But I have a newspaper clipping that is an obituary of one of Mary's sons, who died in Plattsburgh, New York, USA. It tells how his mother, a widow of Daniel Funnell, came to America to be with her brother, William Wells Utting.

• Web Based Info. http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?utting::10.htmll

This is not 100% sure. See the above web page.

David had a relationship with Elizabeth Utting, daughter of Lewis Utting and Ann London. (Elizabeth Utting was born about 1799 in Great Glemham, Suffolk, England and was christened on 12 May 1799.)

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Caveat:- Throughout the project UK GRO birth, marriage and death index data appears. The GRO data appears in Quarters. Q1 = January, February and March, Q2 = April, May, June , Q3 = July, August and September and Q4 = October, November and December. Similarly, Mar Q = January, February and March, Jun Q = April, May, June , Sep Q = July, August and September and Dec Q = October, November and December. Where these dates occur, they represent the date of Registration of the event rather than the date of the actual event. Logically, registration occurs AFTER the event. In some cases this may be days or months or even years after the event. The important thing is that the event was recorded and a copy of the document of registration could be obtained if necessary. This also applies to South African NAAIRS records.

Similarly, the UK system is confusing to the uninitiated because registration districts can span several counties. Accordingly GRO locations may not record the true location of the event. They do record where the record is actually kept or recorded.

Caveat #2:- I have used URL's throughout the website as sources. The URLs are often from paid subscription sites so you may not be able to access them without an account. Inevitably there are broken URL's. I have been to every URL recorded here and at the time they were operational. In this regard, the Ancestry24 records are a problem. There are numerous references in the South African data citing Ancestry24 records. Unfortunately Ancestry24 has closed down and these records are no longer available on line.

The early South African records on this site would not have been as good as they are without the work done by Delia Robertson. Where there are website addresses containing http://www.e-family.co.za... I record the citation should read Robertson, Delia. The First Fifty Years Project. This website can be found at First Fifty Years