When John Wells was born on 1 June 1816, in Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Isaac Wells, was 34 and his mother, Dorcas Lee, was 28. He died on 3 May 1841, at the age of 24.
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Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
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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