Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
John was living in 1435-6.
Relationships
Father: John Wellys.
Mother: Ellen Hawkys.
These relationships are given by Glazebrook (p. 60), citing Beltz citing deeds penes Rev. E. Dudley. Ellen was daughter and heir of William Hawkys of Tipton, Staffordshire.
Spouse: Alice Roberts.
This relationship is given in a pedigree in Harl. MS. 1628 (fo. 25b?) (HG 4:493 n.) (fo. 35b?) (Glazebrook p. 60 n.)
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Joan Welles alias Clarke married Cornelius Dudley.
Joyce Welles alias Clarke married Humphrey Gravenor of Farmcote, Shropshire.
Evidence
from Glazebrook (p. 60):
John Wellys, of Clinhurst, ao 22 R. II (1398-9), afterwards, viz., subsequently to 3 Henry IV (1401-2), and prior to 8 Henry IV (1406-7), described as “John, Clerk of Tibinton,” married Ellen, daughter and heir of William Hawkys, of Tipton, and was father of John Welles, alias Clarke, living 14 Henry IV (1435-6), the father of Joan Dudley. (Beltz from deeds penes Rev. E. Dudley).
References
Glazebrook, Henry Sydney. “An account of the Younger Branches of the Family of Sutton alias Dudley” (continuation) in Collections for a History of Staffordshire v. 10 pt 2 (1889).
“Pedigree of Grosvenor of Bushbury” in The Herald and Genealogist v. 4 (1867).
“Pedigree of Grosvenor” in The Visitation of the County of Warwickshire in the Year 1619 (Harleian Society, 1877). (p. 387)