[2] During his youth, the Welton brothers practiced rowing and regattas with their friend and neighbor Isaias White, who had also been born in Seville to English parents,[1][3] so despite being Spanish by birth, they all received a typically English education, thus being familiarized with the practice of football, so much so that in the late 1880s, they decided to create a football team made up of Seville residents.
[1][5] Some sources wrongly claim that the Welton brothers started for Sevilla in the first official football match in Spain, but it was only Enrique.
[7][8] Some sources state that it was Enrique,[8] others that it was Carlos,[1] but all agree that their mother, Josefa Niño, "upset with a blow they had given to his son, rushed onto the pitch chasing Garci with a fan in an attempt to hit him", which means that Huelva was also the birthplace of the first picturesque known assault on a football field.
[3] It was not until 1905, that the club was reactivated by José Luis Gallegos, who was helped to do so by White and Welton brothers, who were among the few of the original group who participated in the creation of both teams.
[2][3] In 1917, Carlos Welton bought the Capilla de los Marineros [es], a Catholic religious temple located in the Triana neighborhood, but 23 years later, on 8 October 1940, the Hermandad de la Esperanza de Triana ("Brotherhood of Hope of Triana") decided to buy it, and after negotiating a deal with HET's former leader José Sebastián y Bandarán, and having been "penetrated by the feelings that moved the brotherhood", Welton decided to sell it for a symbolic monetary amount far below its real market price of just 19,300 pesetas.