Homepage A Brief Early History What is the "Baltimore Hundred" & Where is Horntown? Druze Ancestry WILLIAM JAMES WELBURN CATHARINE A. WELBURN-BAYLIS-LOW HANNAH WELBURN-CONQUEST MARY ELLEN WELBURN-HOPKINS NANCY JANE WELBURN-OLIVER SENA ANN WELBURN-TYRE THOMAS ROBINSON WELBURN JAMES WELBURN MARIA ELEXINE WELBURN-WILLIAMS-SMITH MARTHA ELIZABETH WELBURN-WELDON SARAH M. WELBURN-SHORT ALICE ANITA WELBURN-RICKARDS ISAAC ALFRED WELBURN JOSHUA LONDON WELBURN Notable Kin Our American Family episode Authors 2008 Reunion Recap 2010 Reunion Recap 2012 Reunion Recap 2014 Reunion Recap 2016 Reunion Recap Reunion Slideshows 2008 to 2012 Reunion Albums 2014 to 2016 William - early documents Nancy's Descendants' Photos

William James Welburn - early documentation

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1) 1850 Census of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, DE - William with his parents

2) 1857 Marriage Record in Sussex County, DE - William to Hetty Melvin

3) 1863 Civil War Draft in Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, DE - William

4) 1865 Compiled Military Service Record Card of 29th U.S. Colored Infantry 

5) 1865 Register of Deaths of Volunteers - William

6) Civil War Widow & Dependents Pension Application - list of William's children *NOTE: Hetty is not Hester's child.

7) 1870 Census of Philadelphia, PA - William's wife Hester and daughter Maria

8) 1870 Census of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, DE - Hetty with stepaunt

9) 1880 Census of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, DE - Hester with her kids

10) 1880 Census of Philadelphia, PA - Mary Welburn Medford & family

11) 1880 Census of Baltimore Hundred, Sussex County, DE - Hetty Miller & family

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1) Census of Sussex County, 1850 - William with his parents

2) Marriages performed by Rev. Lemuel Hall, 1856 & 1857

3) Civil War Draft Registration of Delaware, 1863

4) Compiled Military Service Record Description Card, 1865

5) Register of Soldier Deaths, 1865

6) Civil War pension application list of William's children

7) Census of Philadelphia, PA - 1870 at 1003 Race Street

8) Census of Sussex County, 1870 - Hetty with step-aunt

9) Census of Sussex County, 1880 - Hester with her kids

10) Census of Philadelphia, 1880 - Mary Medford & family

11) Census of Sussex County, 1880 - Hetty Miller and family