Abstract
The popularity with which the Wells Family story has been greeted has been most gratifying and also somewhat surprising to me. I have been delighted to have received a number of emails from my distant kinsmen about it and, in some cases, to have been invited to work with them in filling in a few details in tracing their own direct family lines.
I undertook the preparation of this second edition of 30 Generations of Wells’ in part to add additional details of the story that I have learned about since researching the first edition and in part to fill in a few more geographical details concerning the locations of the various important places in England that are important parts of the story. This second edition adds an appendix at the end providing nine additional maps so readers can more easily locate places in England and Pennsylvania that are important in telling the story of the family. It also adds historical annotations relevant to various aspects of the family’s story including more information about the Wells migration from Little Haywood, Staffordshire, to Bradfield, Berkshire, England.
Finally, the appendix includes additional information on the children and grandchildren of Henry Wells of Bucks Co. PA. These additions change none of the essence of the Wells Family story from the first edition. They merely add a bit more color to it by providing contexts of our relationships with our English homeland. The new appendix begins on page 73 of the manuscript.