Rebecca Wells

Brief Life History of Rebecca

Rebecca Wells was born in 1445, in Ireland. She had at least 1 son with James L. O'Donnagain. She died before 1565, in her hometown.

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James L. O'Donnagain
1440–1560
Rebecca Wells
1445–1565
Sir Patrick O'DONNAGAIN
1465–1528

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1547

Henry VIII dies, succeeded by the boy king Edward VI. England and Ireland were ruled by the senior nobility of England.

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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