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Joseph BELL
(Abt 1817 – )
Sarah LANCASTER
(Abt 1821–1875)
Richard SHAWYER
(Abt 1827 – )
Susan Ann BURRIDGE
(Abt 1832 – )
Joseph BELL
(1853 –1895)
Susan Ann SHAWYER
(1857 –1886)
Richard George BELL
(1879 –1914)

 

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1. Hannah Bland TOWNLEY

Richard George BELL 1 2 3 4
  • Born: 3 November 1879, Portsea Island, Hampshire, England 1 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Hannah Bland TOWNLEY on 4 December 1901 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England 1
  • Died: 28 April 1914, Punta Arenas, Chile at age 34

bullet   Cause of his death was killed in an accident with factory machinery.

bullet   Another name for Richard was George BELL.

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bullet  General Notes

Richard George ("George") Bell (3 Nov 1879--28 April 1914) was born at 5 Highland Street, Eastney, England, and was the second oldest child of his parents.  At the death of his mother (1886), he was seven years old and was eventually sent to live with his Uncle William Bell, where he learned the trade of a fellmonger.  His trade took him to the Lake District to Wales and to Ireland.  He married Hannah Bland Townley (7 June 1879--24 Sept 1959) who was born in Lancaster.  Like his father, George married on December 4 (but in 1901 instead of 1873) in Lancaster, Cumberland.  Eventually George Bell took a job in Punta Arenas far in the south of Chile as the manager of a factory.  Shortly after the birth of his last child and youngest son, Eddie Bell, he died (35 years old) as the result of an industrial accident at the factory.  There were dark suspicions of foul play, but nothing was proved.  His wife Hannah took her four children back to Britain and made a home in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.  There she became a Seventh-day Adventist and raised her children accordingly.  George and Hannah Bell had four children:  Dorothy Bell, George Richard ("George") Bell, Irene Bell, and William Edward ("Eddie") Bell.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He worked as a fellmonger (trader in animal hides), then ran factory in Punta Arena, Chile.
  • Nickname: George.
  • He appeared on the 1881 UK Census on 3 April 1881 in Portsea, Hampshire, England. 6
  • Fact: was apprenticed to his uncle, a fellmonger in the Lake District, in October 1886. 5

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Richard married Hannah Bland TOWNLEY on 4 December 1901 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.1 (Hannah Bland TOWNLEY was born on 7 June 1879 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England 1 4 5 and died on 24 September 1959 in prob Wales 1 5.)


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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. 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.), ch 3, p 29.
  4. Ancestry.com, England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983.
  5. Personal knowledge of John Boyd Craven (1930 – 2014), family historian.
  6. 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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