August 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[cep]

Margaret's husband John Bell's family, I guess from his age , birthplace and his mother's name.

1861 at Hartleyburn, Halton Lee Gate:
John Bell 43 coal miner
Barbara wife 44
Jane dau 14 dressmaker
William son 12 coal miner
Mary Ann dau 9
Margaret dau 7
John son 4 all born Haltwhistle

John's wife is Barbara Teasdale.

Supported by BMD and IGI.

She should be easy (easier ?) to trace.


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[cep]

We are close to Scotland.
Can someone remind us of the naming tradition?

We may have "Lucy" skipping a generation.


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[JAP]

I've given up on this challenge already

All these Bells are giving me a headache
Jan

"...   the tintinnabulation ...
From the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells,
Bells, Bells, Bells-
...   the swinging and the ringing
Of the Bells, Bells, Bells,
Of the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells,
Bells, Bells, Bells-
...
Oh, the Bells, Bells, Bells!
...  the Bells-
...  the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells,
Bells, Bells, Bells-
...   the throbbing of the Bells-
...  the Bells, Bells, Bells-
...  the sobbing of the Bells;
...  the rolling of the Bells-
...   the Bells, Bells, Bells:
...  the tolling of the Bells,
...  the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells-
Bells, Bells, Bells-
...   the moaning and the groaning of the Bells."

With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nmoreira/poetry/poe.html

Sorry

[Joanna Tolhurst]

on the IGI - there is a Jane Bell christened at Presbyterian NC Haltwhistle Northumberland.

The birthdate is listed as June 15 1857, christened on JUly 16 1857, parenst listed as Philip Bell and Mary.

Thought this was worth a look.  

Tom

A lookup in the Haltwhistle 1851 census index has given:
Folio 214
Hannah 93
Philip 40
Mary 42
William 16
Thomas 63
Helen 46

The index doesn't give anything else unfortunately.
If Philip and Mary were together it may account for the Jane baptised in Haltwhistle 1857.  Bell is such a common name, but could it be possible that Philip remarried; Margaret was quite a bit younger than Philip.  Its possibly odd that we haven't got a son of Philip and Margaret called Philip, all their children called one of their sons Philip.  Was their a Philip by a previous marriage?

[Lloydy]

I think the technical term is Tinitus(?) - ringing in the ears

Oh yes, of course it is Al

"... the tintinnabulation ...
From the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells,
Bells, Bells, Bells-
... the swinging and the ringing
Of the Bells, Bells, Bells,
Of the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells,
Bells, Bells, Bells-
...
Oh, the Bells, Bells, Bells!
... the Bells-
... the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells,
Bells, Bells, Bells-
... the throbbing of the Bells-
... the Bells, Bells, Bells-
... the sobbing of the Bells;
... the rolling of the Bells-
... the Bells, Bells, Bells:
... the tolling of the Bells,
... the Bells, Bells, Bells, Bells-
Bells, Bells, Bells-
... the moaning and the groaning of the Bells."

STOP! STOP! STOP! Enough of the Bells

Anyway, now back to the serious matter of the August Challenge............................


Jan

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Re the 1851 list from Haltwhistle: There is though a Philip Bell age 50 widower in Haltwhistle in 1861.

[Paul E]

Project got a little out of hand.

cep, you're clearly not a person who likes half measures!

Wonder if these Bells had any prior link to whisky?

cheers

Paul

[cep]

Re the 1851 list from Haltwhistle: There is though a Philip Bell age 50 widower in Haltwhistle in 1861.

If you have access to 1851, I would like to know parents of the farming Bells, please.

1861 Melkridge RG9 3867 16 p7
[Melkridge is just East of Haltwhistle]

Horse Close
John Fairlamb, head, unm, 26, Farmer 40 ac, b. Haltwhistle
Jane Fairlamb, sister, unm, 28, Housekeeper, b. Haltwhistle
Mary Fairlamb, sister, unm, 23, Dressmaker, b. Haltwhistle
Jane Bell, neice,   13, Domestic Serv, b. Haltwhistle

Next door:

Vicars Allotment
Robert Bell jnr, head, unm, 24, Farmer, b. Haltwhistle
Philip Bell, brother, unm, 21, Farmer, b. Haltwhistle
William Bell, brother, unm, 17, Scholar, b. Haltwhistle
Sarah Bell, sister, unm, 19, Farmers dau, b. Haltwhistle
Margaret Garner, sister, mar, Doctors wife, b. Haltwhistle
Harriet M Garner, neice,   9, Scholar, b. Haltwhistle
Robert Garner, nephew,   6, Scholar, b. Haltwhistle


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[cep]

We are connected somehow to this lot:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/j.d.little/family/Hudspith.html


Someone please follow up, I am busy with the farmers in Melkridge.



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