Alice Welles

Alice Tomes

• Birth: before 1593 England
• Death: unknown Wethersfield Hartford County Connecticut, USA

Born to John & Ellen (Gunn) Tomes. Married Thomas Wells, future governer of Connecticut, in 7 July 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucester, England. Died 1640-1646 in Wethersfield CT.

Family

Spouse:

1. Thomas Welles (1590 - 1659)

Children:

1. Mary Welles Baldwin (1618 - 1647)*
2. Ann Welles Hawkins (1619 - 1680)*
3. John Welles (1622 - 1659)*
4. Thomas Wells (1625 - 1668)*
5. Samuel Wells (1628 - 1675)*
6. Sarah Welles Chester (1632 - 1698)*

• Calculated relationship

Burial: Unknown

Created by: Linda Mac Record added: Feb 24, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34157650

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Welles

Thomas Welles was born in Tiddington, Warwickshire, England around 1590, the son of Robert Welles and Alice [maiden name unknown] of Stourton, Whichford, County Warwick, England, born about 1543.[2][3] He married Alice Tomes on September 28, 1615 at St. Peter's Church, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. She was born around 1593 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire, England, the daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps. A brother of Alice Tomes, also named John Tomes like his father, was a faithful royalist who during the escape of Charles II sheltered him in his home on the night of 10 September 1651 when the king was a fugitive after the Battle of Worcester.
After the death of Alice, Welles married again about 1646 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. His second wife was Elizabeth (Deming) Foote,[4] who was a sister of John Deming[4] and the widow of Nathaniel Foote (who founded Wethersfield). Elizabeth had seven children by her previous marriage; there were no children from the second marriage.

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Married Thomas Welles 7 July 1615 in England. Some sites based on LDS files list her name as Elizabeth Hunt, which seems a mixup with her husband's mother.

Alice Tomes (daughter of John Tomes and Ellen Gunne)3129 was born Bef. 1593 in Long Marston, Gloucester, and died Bet. 1640 - 1646 in Wethersfield Hartford Co. CT..She married Thomas Welles on 1615 in England3130, son of Robert Welles and Alice.

More About Alice Tomes and Thomas Welles: Marriage: 1615, England.3130

Children of Alice Tomes and Thomas Welles are:

• +Anne Welles, b. 1619, Whichford, England, d. Oct 19, 1680, Farmington, Hartford Co. CT.

Origins

John Tomes and Ellen Gunne were married about 1586. Their children were born in Marston Sicca, Gloucestershire, which is now Long Marston, Warwickshire.

Children of Ellen Gunne and John Tomes:

1. Mary Tomes b abt 1588, d. Bef 1602, m William Kecke
2. Anne Tomes b abt 1588, m Clement Bushell
3. Joan Tomes b abt 1592, m William Bigges
4. Alice Tomes b abt 1593 m Thomas Welles

References

• “The Descendents of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut, 1590-1658, and His Wife, Alice Tomes.” Donna L. Siemiatkoski. Gateway Press, 1990 - Connecticut GoogleBooks “Gov. Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Conn. They had eight children. …”
• Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume 1, 2nd Edition (2013) Barbara Jean Mathews. Page 167 - 170. GoogleBooks
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tomes-1 cites
• Beers, Josephine W. “The Mother of Alice Tomes” in The American Genealogist vol. 56. (1980):228-229.
• Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. KING, CAROL TYLER. Our Second Boat Ship List. In Second Boat (Downeast Ancestry, Machias, ME), vol. 16:4 (Fall 1996), pp. 14-20. (p. 18). (Not sure of the validity of this source, as Alice would have been listed under her married name "Alice Welles" and not as "Alice Gunn Tomes". Verify.)
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Vol. 1, page 655
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, “Alleged Royal Ancestry of Alice (Tomes) Welles” in The American Genealogist vol. 28 (1952):164-167.
• Mathews, Barbara Jean. The Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut and his Wife Alice Tomes, vol. 1 3rd edition. (Wells Family Association, 2015).
• Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
• Welles, Lemuel A., The English Ancestry of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1926) Vol. 80, reprint Page 23
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34157650/alice-welles cites
• Anderson's Great Migration Study Project
• http://www.newenglandancestors.org Title: Ancestry of Alice Tomes, Wife of Gov Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume: 84, Page: 287-290 Abbrev: NEHGR: Ancestry of Alice (Tomes) Welles Author: Welles, Lemuel Aiken Publication: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1930