When David I Wells was born on 1 June 1858, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Erastus Wells, was 30 and his mother, Mercy Kendall, was 26. He married Ida May Damon in 1884, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Spring Creek, Spring Creek Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died in 1936, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in David Curtis Cemetery, Columbus, Columbus Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
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