Brief Life History of James Morten
When James Morten Wells was born on 6 July 1939, in Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, his father, Lewis Oswald Wells, was 32 and his mother, Sybil Ada Mortensen, was 35. He died on 25 April 1940, at the age of 0.
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1906–1970 Male
1903–1976 Female
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1939–1940 Male
Name Meaning
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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