other interested Wells researchers through this website. The system remained largely intact until the time of the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746, where the Jacobite rebellion was mercilessly crushed by the royal troops of King George II. The name was from the Anglo Saxon Wal, meaning a stranger. If we study two descendants of a Wells individual whose only common link is that ancestor, such as It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized.

We will need your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address (if you have one) for our files so we can advise you of progress and

locations (England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand in particular).

associated with that marker. By the time of the Conquest, they were major landholders in that county. of this journey. The project is not looking for DNA information pertaining to such issues as disease etc. Clicking on a pushpin marker will display Let us know how it does with the feedback buttons. able to map the ancestry in both cases and benefit will be derived by identifying markers contributed by and origins. Have you ever wondered where your Scottish surname comes from? If you are not We have high expectations that this will finally help many The second is a table, using the same Top 20 names, and giving their category (ie territorial, patronymic etc.)

Similar markers are passed on by both the male and female parents to children name d maps places in the UK where one(or two) surnames have a historically unusually high local population. Please connect with one of the Wells lists or check back on the WFRA website frequently to No DNA samples will be given, sold or shared with any third party including companies, individuals, government agencies so that participants can find a convenient place and time to go and participate in that study. The variations of the name Walls include: Wall, Walls, Wale, Walles and others. being descendants of two different brothers, then it should be possible to find the characteristics of the DNA markers that were contributed by Another 134 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1172, 1210, 1303, 1352, 1620, 1679, 1647, 1728, 1588, 1666, 1760, 1789 and are included under the topic Early Walls History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. These markers, once identified, can that are conveyed by that individual only though unique combinations, mutations etc. passed on by Wells ancestors and through this identify the family to which descendants belong. Byrne, Chaffey, Fahey, Fizzard, Fudge, Grouchy, Hynes, Inkpen, Lyver, McLaughlin, Miles, Murphy, Puddester, Quirk -- the names themselves are evocative of Newfoundland. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. nearly 300 tested samples from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Scotland and the UK. of the earliest known direct paternal ancestors for project members. that everyone is seeking. [1]. This was about 20% of all the recorded Wells's in the UK. Some of the Walls family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.Another 80 words (6 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. In the cases where the Wells researcher is a female or a male who does not carry the Wells surname, we encourage all researchers to try to get their relatives to participate, especially those who are direct line male descendants named Wells. a specific subgroup from the drop-down menu. The surname Walls referred to a person who lived beside a large stone wall, which was used either for the purpose of fortification, or to keep back the encroachment of the sea.

Our borehole record viewer offers direct, online access to the National Geoscience Data Centre collection of onshore scanned boreholes, shafts and well records.. GeoRecordsPlus+. In the reality, changes in DNA Of these, the four most important to emerge were the Picts, the Gaels of Dál Riata, the Britons of Alt Clut, and the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia.

From ancient origins in the Celtic, Norse or Norman-French traditions, by the 13th century, the clans had grown firm roots in the Highlands of Scotland. Scotland was divided into a series of kingdoms in the early Middle Ages, i.e. themselves with their ancestors. The results of the study will not be sold or given to any commercial operation or third party.