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Northumberland / Re: Foreman Shillbottle-Felton-Brainshough
« on: Monday 03 July 17 06:27 BST (UK) »
Hi.
If you're still there, thank you for sharing the information re Jane Foreman. I read this with interest while trying to fill some gaps and reconcile some confounding information. A photo presumably of Jane Foreman Bell is posted in ancestry.com, and I was curious to find that is her or most likely her.
Elenor's post with the transcribed inscription seems to make sense, so thank you.
I am a Bell, descended from Robert Bell and Jane Foreman Bell. Their son Joseph Bell was my gg-grandfather. Most of my Bell relatives first cousins and their families are in western Washington state, where my grandparents settled early last century. I have a cabinet he made, handed down through the family and a cousin has a desk and chair also made by him. My g-grandfather Dr. Robert Bell, from Alnwick, brought it to America with him when he immigrated to Boston, MA in 1851, as presented on my grandfather's 1916 U.S. passport application. I did not know my family's Alnwick connection until after I returned from a backpacking trip through the UK years ago, and my grandfather asked after I returned if I had gone to Alnwick, and then he proceeded to tell me that some of my gg-grandfather's cabinetry and wood work is in one of the church's there. I don't know which one.
Except for William Foreman, Jane's father, it seems there is little verifiable information for Jane Foreman's family, but I see that the last discussion ended sometime in 2014. Any luck in finding more information since?
Anyhow, thank you for the information. --Denise
If you're still there, thank you for sharing the information re Jane Foreman. I read this with interest while trying to fill some gaps and reconcile some confounding information. A photo presumably of Jane Foreman Bell is posted in ancestry.com, and I was curious to find that is her or most likely her.
Elenor's post with the transcribed inscription seems to make sense, so thank you.
I am a Bell, descended from Robert Bell and Jane Foreman Bell. Their son Joseph Bell was my gg-grandfather. Most of my Bell relatives first cousins and their families are in western Washington state, where my grandparents settled early last century. I have a cabinet he made, handed down through the family and a cousin has a desk and chair also made by him. My g-grandfather Dr. Robert Bell, from Alnwick, brought it to America with him when he immigrated to Boston, MA in 1851, as presented on my grandfather's 1916 U.S. passport application. I did not know my family's Alnwick connection until after I returned from a backpacking trip through the UK years ago, and my grandfather asked after I returned if I had gone to Alnwick, and then he proceeded to tell me that some of my gg-grandfather's cabinetry and wood work is in one of the church's there. I don't know which one.
Except for William Foreman, Jane's father, it seems there is little verifiable information for Jane Foreman's family, but I see that the last discussion ended sometime in 2014. Any luck in finding more information since?
Anyhow, thank you for the information. --Denise