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1851 census... Name: Joseph Welling Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1811 Relation: Head Spouse's name: Eliza Gender: Male Where born: Edinborough, Scotland Civil parish: Paddington Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity County/Island: Middlesex Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Disability: View image Registration district: Kensington Sub-registration district: St John Paddington ED, institution, or vessel: 25 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 198 Household Members: Name Age Caroline Welling 8 Mo Charles Welling 12 Eliza Welling 39 Henry Welling 5 Joseph Welling 40 Walter Welling 3 William Welling 15 Georgina.

NEED TO FIND INFO ON JOSEPH HENRY WELLING BORN BEFORE1810 EDINBURGH SCOTLAND DIED 1876 MARYLEBONE MIDDLESEX ENGLAND.MARRIED ELIZA BEADLE.THANKS IN ADVANCE STEVE NEED INFO RE SCOTLAND

Welling is not a Scottish name and there are none in the Scotlandspeople database from 1583 to 1855. Perhaps the marriage cert can give a clue or else the DC of any of his children. I presume you have found him in the 1851, 1861, and 1871 Census where he seems to have migrated from being a Gentleman's Butler in Paddington (he has two census records in 1851) to a Messaging Jobber in Marylebone where his wife in 1861 is only 32 (she was 39 in 1851) and now comes from Hythe in Kent, not Wellington in Somerset, so maybe he married another Eliza. First two children are listed as born in Taunton so presumably he was working in the Somerset area when he met his wife. Perhaps his father was temporarily assigned to Edinburgh (army?) and spawned Joseph, perhaps illegitimately. Alternatively maybe he assumed the name Welling as being more accceptable as a butler's name than Mctavish or whatever his real name was! A bit of a mystery.

If he was the son of an English soldier or whatever there's a good chance he would not have been baptised in the Church of Scotland but rather in a non-conformist church favoured by the English military community. Births/baptisms from such churches are not recorded in the OPR records on Scotlandspeople so it may be necessary to locate the whereabouts of any registers etc.