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WELLS, John (1761-1848), of 24 Lombard Street, London and Bickley Hall, Bromley, Kent
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1761, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of William Wells (d. 1805), shipbuilder, of Deptford and Susanna, da. of James Neave of London and Walthamstow, Essex.
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m. 3 Sept. 1796, Esther Puget of Wickham,13s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (at least 2 d.v.p.). d. 22 Nov. 1848.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Kent 1812-13.
Biography
Wells came from a family of shipwrights which had been established in business at Deptford since the seventeenth century.
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His grandfather, Abraham Wells, who was in partnership with a Mr. Brunsdon, died in 1752. His two sons purchased the Howland Great Dock from the 4th duke of Bedford in 1763 and constructed many ships for the East India Company and the navy.
The elder, John, rebuilt Bickley Hall and died, ‘an eminent shipbuilder’, in June 1794. The younger, William, lived at the family home of Canister House, Chislehurst, acquired Holmewood, Huntingdonshire,