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Orphan Number: 5567

Orphan: Charles Edward WELLS
Mother: ROBBINS, Mary
Father: WELLS, Edward
Mother's ship: D Northumberland
Father's ship:
Age when admitted: 4yrs 11mths
Date admitted: 28 Sep 1859
Date discharged: 29 Feb 1860
Institutions(s): Queens Orphan School
Discharged to: father, now free
Remarks: father in Victoria
References:SWD6, 26/2, 27

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We do not know much about the rest of Charles' life.  We do know that he married Margaret Allen on 11th August 1880, and had a daughter, Grace Maria Wells (1890), who married Clifford Ethelberg Ivo Wallis.



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