The Lost Children

The marriage of Joseph Welding and Rachel Hardman produced a vast descendant tree, and I've not been able to research everyone from just this one couple.

I'm going to move forward in time for several posts, to my fathers siblings, so in review I'd like to list the Weldons from Joseph and Rachels descendant tree.

William Hardman, born abt 1884. "Billy Weldon"
Arthur Sandiland Weldon. My grandfather. born April 25th, 1886
Richard Weldon. born December 30th, 1888
Amy Gertrude Weldon, born abt Sept 1890.
John Weldon, born abt 1893
Ellen Weldon, born abt 1894
Jane Weldon, born abt 1896
Rachel Weldon, born September 28th, 1899
Joseph Weldon, born abt 1901
Alice Weldon, born abt 1903
Frank Weldon, born abt 1906

That is 11 children, but the full story would have to include several other young Weldons that did not survive, I know of two, an Alice and a Thomas, which makes 13, but other information indicates that Frank Weldon was the youngest of fifteen children.

Inconclusive research shows that a Joseph Thomas Weldon, born abt Sept 1890, died before March 1892 and a Thomas Welding, born abt March 1898, died abt March 1899. There's an Alice Welding that was born abt December 1887, died March 1888

In time, with paperwork, facts can be verified, but for now, the identity of the lost children will remain a mystery.