I made this blog just to store the snippets that I come across while researching the Weller surname.
I am trying to unravel the Sussex Surrey Kent and London Weller families.
Important towns include: Ifield, Cuckfield, Lewes, Chatham, Bloomsbury, Wandsworth, Croydon, Rusper, Ringmer, Glynde, Upchurch.
I am trying to confirm or enlarge upon family folk memory that remembers the large Weller family in Wandsworth (Battersea) making a living as whitesmiths and early gas installation pioneers - granted the freedom of the city of London and owning the land now known as Battersea park - the site of the famous funfair. The grandson died on HMS Princess Royal in the battle of Jutland in 1916 a civilian canteen assistant. The family also remembers that there was a friendship with Charles Dickens, and that one member was known as 'sam weller' - this maybe wishful thinking, but there was a Weller/Dickens connection in Christiana Weller - hard to find proof of a link though.
Apart from the usual genealogical research sources, I enjoy doing very broad searches on locations and incidentals, through various archives hoping to turn up some colour - I plan to post all the orphaned snippets here in the hope that they will be useful to someone.
Hi Interesting blog. I am researching Weller in Fletching Sussex where there were a few.
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