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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Jonathan Bell - Rangiora, Canterbury
« on: Friday 15 July 11 04:39 BST (UK) »
Hi Mensor,
Sorry to take so long but I did think one of my sisters in law might be getting in touch. However, today I received a package from Canada with a heap of info on both sides of the family and in reference to your posts above, one page is devoted to the Bells going back to the marriage of Jonathan Bell and Elizabeth Lowe. This shows 5 children to them, William married Ann Harvey, Ann m. John Smith, Jonathan m. Eliza Deal (14 children), Lucy m. Edmund Land, Elizabeth m. ? Brady (9 children inc. twins). So we are on the same family.
In my wife's line, Jonathan and Eliza , had Cyril Edwin Bell, my wife's grandfather, he married Maude Jones, and they had one son, Noel Herbert Cyril, my late father in law. Cyril was badly wounded and gassed in France in WW1 but came home thank goodness although his quality of life was diminished.
There is another page showing Jonathan's father Jonathan (1769) with two sisters Priscilla (1751-1832) and Catherine, and their parents Catherine Barclay m. David Bell of Stamford and in brackets, maybe Daniel Bell of Tottenham. This latter page is in the handwriting of my late father in law and I can work it back to being written in either 1964 or 65, just before I came into the family. I hope all this makes sense. I am just coming to grips with it. Cheers.
Sorry to take so long but I did think one of my sisters in law might be getting in touch. However, today I received a package from Canada with a heap of info on both sides of the family and in reference to your posts above, one page is devoted to the Bells going back to the marriage of Jonathan Bell and Elizabeth Lowe. This shows 5 children to them, William married Ann Harvey, Ann m. John Smith, Jonathan m. Eliza Deal (14 children), Lucy m. Edmund Land, Elizabeth m. ? Brady (9 children inc. twins). So we are on the same family.
In my wife's line, Jonathan and Eliza , had Cyril Edwin Bell, my wife's grandfather, he married Maude Jones, and they had one son, Noel Herbert Cyril, my late father in law. Cyril was badly wounded and gassed in France in WW1 but came home thank goodness although his quality of life was diminished.
There is another page showing Jonathan's father Jonathan (1769) with two sisters Priscilla (1751-1832) and Catherine, and their parents Catherine Barclay m. David Bell of Stamford and in brackets, maybe Daniel Bell of Tottenham. This latter page is in the handwriting of my late father in law and I can work it back to being written in either 1964 or 65, just before I came into the family. I hope all this makes sense. I am just coming to grips with it. Cheers.