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AmericaThe Wellham name spread to America, and can be traced back as early as 1780, to a wedding in an Indian Church in Fort Lock, New York Province, between Thomas Wellham and Sarah Richardson. Today the name appears to have spread to all parts of the United States of America. If anyone can give more information please contact us. |
Indian Castle Church, built in 1769 |
AustraliaThe Wellham name arrived in Australia during the late1800s, if anyone can give more information please contact the e-mail number. In Australia, like in all other parts of the world, the Wellhams have settled in and made themselves known, by naming areas or roads after their name, or by the name becoming famous. The name has also spread out to many parts of Australia. IndiaThe Wellham name can also be traced to India, through place names. I am not sure how they might have arrived in India, possibly through the Regiments based in that area. I am told the Essex Regiment were based in the Punjab region of India, bordering Pakistan and the Himalayas. This is where the place names can be found. I have found individuals Christening records in the Bengal region during 1879, and from the same family in 1883 in Sialkote, Punjab region, now just inside Pakistan. Other connectionsIt is interesting, when reading the family tree, to discover a Henry Wellham living in Yorkshire, not long before George Wellham, son of Thomas Wellham arrives in Yorkshire. Henry was on the 1901 Census form as being born in India in 1879. His parents were Joseph and Theresa Wellham. In the 1881 Census there was a Joseph Wellham, born 1839 in Little Wakering, Essex, England. Husband of Louisa Wellham, born in 1852 in Prittlewell, Essex, England. They had a son John Wellham born 1869 in North Shoebury, Essex, England. John could possibly have been the younger brother, or cousin, of Joseph Wellham, recorded in India in 1879 &1883. This assumption is based on, as in many other cases of the Wellham history, the father naming his first born son, after himself or his brother. There is another Christian name link to a Charles Joseph Wellham, who a decade before that time in 1870, was getting married in Queensland, Australia, he died in 1938. It is also interesting to discover, whilst searching the family name, that the Wellham name can be found in Norfolk, England, Norfolk, Virginia, USA and in Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean. The Wellham family name can also now be found in the Shetlands, the Isle of Man, Canada and New Zealand. Christian namesThe
most common Wellham family Christian names in the 15th
to 18th Centuries was Thomas, whereas the 18th &
20th Centuries are (from the 1901 Census in Essex)
George 8 persons, Thomas 4, Joseph 2, John 3, William or
Wilhelmina 2, Margaret 3, Mary 3, Henry or Henrietta 5,
Kate or Kathleen 3, Florence or Flory 3, Francis or
Frank 4, Frederick 2, Emma or Emily 5, Ernest 2,
Elizabeth 3, Ellen 3, Annie, Anne or Ann 4, Arthur 4,
Ada 3, Alfred 3 and Alice 2. The name George has been
passed through to the present day since the birth King
George 1. I would imagine pre-agricultural revolution,
all Christian names would have been passed down in
hamlets where the Wellham’s lived in England. Where the
name Thomas was once prominent in the family tree, the
first son born names were later influenced by King
George I - VI from 1714. The name Margaret Welham has
been popular since the 1200’s as wife of William de
Welham, through to the present day with Margaret Wellham
great Aunt of Jamie and Luke Wellham. In association with...Surnames associated to the Wellham name through marriage are Firth, Mawson, Playdon and Bullock. Through Playdon by marriage are Rollings, Farr, Clarke. Through Bullock by marriage are Dallow, Saunders, Dunkley and Harmer. |
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