When Grace Ellen Wells was born about 1883, in Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Wells, was 33 and her mother, Ellen Howard, was 33. She lived in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years.
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Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
The Whitehall Mystery has some ties to Jack the Ripper, the victim was female and had been dismembered. The arms were found first; the headless torso to which they belonged was found a month later. The rest of the body was never discovered and the mystery was never solved.
Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
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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