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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)
William BELL
(1847 –1926)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Isabella EDMONDSON

2. Alice UNK

William BELL 1 2
  • Born: 10 July 1847, Whitehaven, Cumberland, England 1
  • Marriage (1): Isabella EDMONDSON on 24 September 1870 in Bolton Le Sands, Lancaster, Lancashire, England 1 2
  • Marriage (2): Alice UNK 2
  • Died: 28 February 1926, Lancaster, Lancashire, England at age 78 1

bullet   Cause of his death was nephritis and uremia.1

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bullet  General Notes

William Bell was born in Whitehaven, became a fellmonger (a man who bought and traded hides), and died (79 years old) in Lancaster of nephritis and uremia.  At the death (1886) of his brother Joseph's wife, Susan Ann (b. Shawyer) Bell, William Bell took in his brother's son, Richard George ("George") Bell, to train him as a fellmonger.  William Bell married twice.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He has conflicting birth information of Abt 1847 and Keswick, Cumberland, England. 3
  • He appeared on the 1851 UK Census on 30 March 1851 in Keswick, Cumberland, England. 3

Joseph Bell       31
Sarah Bell       31
Mary Bell        8
William Bell       3
Betsey Bell       10 Mo

  • He worked as a tanner on 7 April 1861 in Keswick, Crosthwaite, Cumberland, England. 4
  • He appeared on the 1861 UK Census on 7 April 1861 in Keswick, Cumberland, England. 4

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


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William married Isabella EDMONDSON on 24 September 1870 in Bolton Le Sands, Lancaster, Lancashire, England.1 2 (Isabella EDMONDSON was born in 1847 in Bolton Le Sands, Lancaster, Lancashire, England and died about 1890 in prob Lancashire, England.)


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William next married Alice UNK.2 (Alice UNK was born about 1860 in prob Cumberland, England 5 and died after 1926 1.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. 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."
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Original data: Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England), Joseph Bell household, Keswick, Cumberland, England.
  4. 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.
  5. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.


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