From 1950 Newspaper - Wellman Genealogy INfo
From the Monday, March 27, 1950 issue of the Loveland
Reporter Herald in Loveland, Colorado. I just found this
clipping today going through my husband's grandparents
stuff! I thought it might benefit someone.
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"Wellman Family History Traces to Early England"
John Benjamin Wellman, 558 East Ninth Street is owner of
and interesting genealogy, which tells of the origin of his
family in England from the time in which English surnames were derived from the occupation, personal characteristics, localities, etc., of the person.
The manner in which the Wellman family obtained it's name relates to the early time in which wells were regarded as sacred shrines, and keepers were assigned to their care. Thus John, the well-man, in course of time, became John Wellman, just as John the cooper, became John Cooper.
It was established that early members of the Welman family were located in the county of Somerset, and were well established before the reign of Queen Elzabeth (1558-1603). The first member of the family to come to the United States is believed to have been Thomas Welman, who was born 1620.
This ancestor emigrated to Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1640, and records show that he bough wild land at Lynn End, Mass. in 1653. When he died in 1672, among his possessions were found two Bibles printed in the the English language. And English Bible at that time cost something at that date, and few of even the wealthy famillies of those times thought of having more than one copy in his home. Thomas Wellman and his wife, Elzabeth, were for years members of the First Congregational Church in Reading, which was nearer to their home than the First Church of Lynn.
J.B. Wellman is a member of the eight generation since his ancestor settled at Lynn. His father was Henry Lewis Wellman, who married Electa Bennett at Dixon, Illinois, in 1864. They were among the earliest settlers in Boulder County, having taken upland along what is now the Arapahoe Street Road. J.B. Wellman was born east of Boulder, and until moving to Loveland about 35 years ago, had always lived in Boulder County, Colorado. Mr. Wellman came into possession of the Wellman family history in 1918. In addition to the valuable information regarding the family, there is also a coat of arms, which is described as Argent on a bend gules between two apples vert, three mullets or Crest-a demi-lion argent holding between his paws an apple as in the arms charged with a mullet or Motto-Dei providentia juvat.
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