A Lace Guide for Makers and Collectors; With a Bibliography and Five-Language Nomenclature, Profusely Illus: With Halftone Plates and Key Designs. E-book. Formato PDF Gertrude Whiting   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Perhaps a word of explanation should be said about the twenty Trude Grounds. They are fancies Of the maker's imagination, thrown in for what ever they may be worth; perhaps out of pique, just to show that, rudimentary as they may be, America has at least the beginnings of an ability to originate her own lace.

Genealogy of the Wells Family: And Families Related. E-book. Formato PDF Gertrude W. Wells   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The Wells, or Welles family, in England, is of very ancient origin, clearly traceable back, it is claimed, to the time of the Norman conquest. About 1635 several families of that name (which was then sometimes spelled Wells, but oftener Welles,) emigrated from England to Massachusetts. Some of these families remained in the eastern part of that state, others went to Rhode Island, others to Hartford and other towns in Connecticut, and still others to Hatfield and Hadley, in the western part of Massachusetts; so that we find at a very early day - before 1660 - persons bearing that name in many towns of New England. It is probable that (1) Thomas Wells of Ipswich was the earliest emigrant of that name who settled in this country. He came as early as 1635, and, perhaps, a year earlier.