Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameMatthew Banes
Birthabt 1650, Wyersdale, Lancashire, England
Death1687, at Sea
FatherWilliam Bean (~1624-)
MotherDeborah
Misc. Notes
With their four children - 3 sons and one daughter, they determined in 1687 to come to North America and settle in the Quaker Colony of Pennsylvania. They took passage on THE CHESTER. In mid-Atlantic disease broke out aboard ship and both Matthew and his wife, Margaret, with two of their sons Thomas and Timothy, died and were buried at Sea. The two surviving children, William and Eleanor, were made Wards of the other families (see Records of Orphans Court, Chester Co, PA 16 Jan 1688). Eleanor (d. 1745) was raised by the John Simcocks family, and William became a ward of John Stedman, both Quaker families living near Philadelphia.
Spouses
Birth7 Sep 1648, Bradley, Lancashire, England
Death1687, Wyersdale, Lancashire, England
Misc. Notes
daughter of William Hatton of Bradley.
Marriage22 Dec 1672, Lancashire, England
Marr MemoLancaster Monthly (Quaker) Meeting
ChildrenElinor (1677-1745)
 William (1681-<1729)
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