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William BELL
(Abt 1781– )
Mary UNK
(Abt 1786 – )
William LANCASTER
(Abt 1787 – )
wife UNK
(Abt 1792 – )
Joseph BELL
(Abt 1817 – )
Sarah LANCASTER
(Abt 1821–1875)
Joseph BELL
(1853 –1895)

 

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1. Susan Ann SHAWYER

Joseph BELL 2 3 4 5 6
  • Born: 28 May 1853, Keswick, Cumberland, England 2 3
  • Christened: 5 June 1853, Keswick, Cumberland, England 6
  • Marriage (1): Susan Ann SHAWYER on 4 December 1873 in Portsea Island, Hampshire, England 1 2 3 4
  • Died: 10 July 1895, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England at age 42 2

bullet   Cause of his death was "blood poisoning" (infection) "as a result of an accident to his foot".2

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bullet  General Notes

At Portsea, Hampshire, Susan Ann Shawyer (21 June 1857--4Oct 1886) on December 4, 1873, married Joseph Bell (28 May 1853---10 July 1895), a naval gunner.  Five months after the  birth of her last child (a baby girl), Susan Ann (b. Shawyer) Bell died (29 years old) of typhoid fever lasting 21 days.  Once again a member of our families died of a gastrointestinal disease caused at this time by a poor understanding by doctors then of the part of germs in causing disease and by poor sanitation (sewage was allowed to leak into the public water supply).  Joseph Bell, still a gunner (R.M.A.), was at her side in the Eastney Barracks when Susan Ann died (4 Oct 1886).  She was buried at Portsmouth Cemetery on October 4, 1886.  The death of his wife presented Joseph Bell with a tragic problem of awesome proportions.  He did not have much income; he had no wife to take care of his children; and he had a job with the Royal Navy that took him out of port regularly for extended periods; his brothers had large families of their own and could not afford more mouths to feed.  Joseph solved this problem by baptizing his last three (as yet unbaptized) children and by dividing up his family.

Joseph Bell, finished his service in the Royal Marine Artillery on September 7, 1891 (he had enlisted as a gunner on January 27, 1870, in Liverpool) and began work on the docks at Liverpool.  Shortly thereafter he seems to have married a woman called hereafter "Mrs. A. Bell" (they had one baby together) whose mother was called "Mrs Roberts"  of Everton, Liverpool.

Joseph William seems then to have been reunited with his father for a short time.  But on July 10, 1895, Joseph Bell (42 years old) died in the Birkenhead Borough Hospital from "blood poisoning" (infection) "as a result of an accident to his foot" at the docks.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He worked as a Royal Navy gunner. 2 "became a gunner (Royal Marine Artillery) in the Royal Navy"
  • He appeared on the 1861 UK Census on 7 April 1861 in Keswick, Cumberland, England. 7

Sarah Bell         40
William Bell         13
Elizabeth Bell         10
Joseph Bell         7
George Bell         4

  • Fact: had to disband his family after the death of his wife, in October 1886.
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Joseph married Susan Ann SHAWYER, daughter of Richard SHAWYER and Susan Ann BURRIDGE, on 4 December 1873 in Portsea Island, Hampshire, England.1 2 3 4 (Susan Ann SHAWYER was born on 21 June 1857 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England,2 3 8 died on 4 October 1886 in Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 2 5 and was buried on 4 October 1886 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 2.). The cause of her death was typhoid fever lasting 21 days.2


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Ancestry.com, England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983.
  2. John B. Craven, “The Hainings and the Cravens: A Twentieth Century Family History” (mss. privately published in 1995, but it was a work in progress. John continued to update, add content, and re-write his manuscript up until his death in 2014.), Chapter 22 "The Bells and the Shawyers."
  3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. M062614 (Saint Marys, Portsea, Hampshire, England), 1856 –1875.
  4. Kirsty M. Haining.
  5. Personal knowledge of John Boyd Craven (1930 – 2014), family historian.
  6. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. C035591 (Keswick, Cumberland, England), 1839 –1877.
  7. Ancestry.com, 1861 Scotland Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006). Original data: Scotland. 1861 Scotland Census. Reels 1–150. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sarah Bell household, Keswick, Cumberland, England.
  8. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1881 England Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004. 1881 British Isles Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1881. Images © Crown copyright. Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England), Susan Bell household, Portsea, Hampshire, England.


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