Children of William and Jane Bird Kellett

To the best of our knowledge, William and Jane only had three children. A son, known only by a reference to his returning from a sea voyage and leaving again, never to be seen again. Ellen Kellett, christened in Leyland, Lancashire, England, on 23 May 1794. She married Joseph Seddon in Leyland on 07 Feb 1814. I don't know who raised her, or why Mary and Thomas never spoke of her. Perhaps Mary never knew about her. The third child was our Mary Kellett (married to gggGrandfather Thomas Stubbs), Christened in Leyland on 04 May 1798. She was born 14 April 1798, but Jane's OUR MOTHER letter states that Mary told her daughter that she was born in the village of Shap in Westmorland (near Appleby, where she was raised). Mary was fostered to Thomas & Hannah Farrer in Appleby, but there's no doubt that she was Christened in Leyland. That's one of the stumbling blocks in this story. Both Ellen and Mary were Christened as children of Jane Kellett. No mention of William. Another dead end, for now.