Re: Covenanter--persecuted Prespyterian Wellwoods-Scotland
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Re: Covenanter--persecuted Prespyterian Wellwoods-Scotland
James Wellwood 3/30/04
Hi George,I am interested!
I am a direct descendant of Dr James Wellwood (b.1653, d. 1727) by way of his daughter, Mary Wellwood, and even bear his name (as a "Christian name", as have some men in all generations since the "Glorious Revolution".
Do you have any details of how he was connected to other Wellwood families in Scotland during the 17th C.?Both Henry Wellwood and Robert Wellwood figure in the strife surroundingthe Hill-O'Beath area and Dunferline, in the 1680s.Dr Wellwood spent some time as an exile in Holland and returned to Britain under William And Mary as a physician, court writer, journalist and Whig polemist.