Rollings family
tree
Origins of the
name
The Rollings name can be traced back to
the 1600s, in Lancashire. In the 1700s it is found in Shropshire, Berkshire and
Northamptonshire. In the 1800s it is found in just about every county in
England.
Famous family
There are many Rollings to be found on the
WW1 Roll of Honours in many places, for example, a Thomas Rollings born
1885, son of Charles Rollings from Marbourne, Huntingtonshire, was in the
62nd Battalion Machine Gun corps. He fought in Flanders and
France and died in July 1918, age 33 south of Rheims.
A William Rollings can be found on
a list of paying £10.00 voters in 1834. Today the Rollings can be found
in all types of occupations, in most industries. Micheal Rollings is the
candidate in Tewkesbury for the UKIP, Susan Rollings is an auther of
children's books, the list goes on and on.
The name today
The link to the Wellham family is through the
descendants of Thomas Arnold Rollings born 1856 in Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia. He was a Carpet Weaver in Kidderminster at the time of the
1901 Census, living at 51 Coventry Street, Kidderminster.
There were many Rollings in the area at
that time, they generally worked in the carpet industry, or with the railways.
Thomas married Mary Anne. They had nine children by the 1901 census. They were,
Alice Anne, Beatrice Maria, Robert William, Emmeline, Susan, Thomas Himrod,
Arthur, George and Sidney.
Thomas Himrod, married Letitia (Lellie) Farr b 1899
from Droitwich. They moved together to Worcester. I, Simon Wellham, can remember visiting her
in the Hill Street, St Martins Gate area of Worcester as a child, in the
late 1960s.
Thomas and Letittia had five daughters.
Annie, who married Albert Rencher. Alice, who married Cyril Hemmings. Mary, who
married Donald Berrows (Malvern) Winnefred. Florence May (Maisie), who married
Reginald
Playdon.
Florence and Reginald Playdon had six
children: Thelma Anne,
who married George Brian Wellham.
They had four children. Pat, who married Jim Nolan. They had two sons, Paul and
John. Tony, who married Sue Jones. They had two sons, Mark and Alan. Maureen,
who married Ron Cook. They had two sons, Paul and Jason. Re-married Fred Stock
and had Maxine. Re-married Vernon Williams. Mary, who married David Taylor.
They had a son, Steven. Re-married Jim Croighton. Carol, who married Dennis
Stock. They had two sons, Richard and Andrew.
Thelma and George Wellham's four children
were, Sarah, Simon, Nicholas and Nigel. Simon
Wellham married Diane
Bullock and had two sons, Jamie George William Wellham and Luke George
Brian Wellham. |
