When Elizabeth Wells was born on 4 August 1846, in Franklin, Illinois, United States, her father, George Wells, was 34 and her mother, Martha Jane Robinson, was 24. She married Jackson Mannering on 2 November 1865, in Franklin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Six Mile Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1920, at the age of 74.
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English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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