Hi! Thank you so much for replying. I have visited the grave of Mary Ann, wife of Thomas son of William Wellstead. This Ann dies earlier, making Mary Ann Leach the one still alive in 1891 renting two rooms with a family in hedge end. I will try to find her grave.
I am looking for the cause of death for her daughter Ellen (or Ellen Ann on some census records). She moved in with a Walter Leach (can’t see him on the family tree but it would be a huge coincidence if he isn’t a relative) who is running a school, like Ellen Ann’s mum Mary. Ellen is a servant, possibly employed to look after Walter’s very young child.
Ellen returns home to the Wellstead’s on the 1861 census but she seems to die very soon after, age 29. I can’t see a marriage record. Hugh Wellstead took me a long time to trace but I found his death in Aden, Bombay, a member of the British Army. Phinehas Wellstead is a mystery.
Did you say you were family? I am not, but I am living on Wellstead Way (named after them) and in close proximity to the now grade 2 where Mary lived and held her school.
