When Russell Wells was born about 1794, in St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont, United States, his father, Ezekiel Wells Sr., was 30 and his mother, Elisabeth Brown, was 24. He married Elizabeth Hopwood Sutton on 7 December 1820, in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. He lived in Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States in 1830 and Monroe Township, Holmes, Ohio, United States in 1840. He died in 1885, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 92.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMarried: Elizabeth Sutton Wells. December 14, 1820, Sandusky, Ohio. (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54582561/russell-wells)
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