That's my ancestor you're talkin' about, pal--not the Wells's they're English/German mostly. My lowland Scots were reivers and were invited to seek opportunities in a more salubrious environment by their neighbors and local magistrate.

Upon arrival on the far shore, all that sexual repression from the C of Scotland burst in a wild fenzy of kilt-swinging copulation. If you look at the records, they had 4-7 adulthood-surviving children/generation. At that rate its surprising we don't ALL eat sheep stomachs stuffed with barley.

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