Researching James Wellington
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1411 people with the Wellington surname? In that year Wellington was ranked number 2237 for popularity in the UK. |
The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of James Wellington on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for James Wellington and the Wellington Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 1802 people with the Wellington surname in the UK? Wellington is now ranked number 2470 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Wellington surname in the USA? Wellington is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called James Wellington
James Booker Blakemore Wellington
James Booker Blakemore Wellington aka J. B. B. Wellington (1858 Lansdown – 1939 Elstree) was an English photographer.
Wellington originally trained as an architectural draughtsman. In the 1880s, however, an association with George Eastman in New York, drew him into the world of photography. Wellington was regarded as a pictorial photographer of note, while his work was clearly inspired by the paintings of John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. He was invited to be a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood in 1892, and was a regular judge on the selection and hanging committee of exhibitions held by the Photographic Society of Great Britain. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Photographic Society.
Back in England he became a manager of Kodak's factory in Wealdstone and was responsible for a number of practical formulas for improving emulsions and developers, one being a negative intensifier containing silver nitrate, ammonium thiocyanate and sodium thiosulphate, and another being dry-collodion plates with improved sensitivity. Around 1895 he and his brother-in-law H. H. Ward set up a photographic paper manufacturing company, Wellington & Ward. The firm later extended into plates and film manufacture. In July 1922 the company acquired Leto Photo Materials (1905) Ltd, and in 1929 was taken over by Ilford Ltd.. Before this Wellington had worked for Elliott & Fry of Chipping Barnet.
A collection of medals and photographs belonging to a descendant of Wellington was featured on BBC1's Antiques Roadshow programme on 20 February 2011.
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