BELL OF NETHER DENTON
The will of Margaret Bell, written in 1760 and proved in 1767, mentions many relatives and helps to clarify some of the connections of this family.[1]
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BELL
GEORGE BELL of Closegill, Nether Denton, Cumberland, yeoman, was buried on 24 February 1724/25 at Nether Denton.[2]
Children of George Bell:
i JANE BELL, bur 1 Aug 1703,
Brampton;[3] m ca
1689, ROBERT SNOWDON[4]
(see here).
ii THOMAS BELL.
iii JOHN BELL of Closegill,
Nether Denton, yeoman, b ca 1675, bur 11 Nov 1730, Nether Denton;[5] m ELIZABETH.[6]
iv WILLIAM BELL; m 26 Jan 1725/26,
Brampton, MARGARET FISH.[7]
v MARGARET BELL, b ca 1684, bur 8
Apr 1767, Nether Denton.[8]
[1] Cumbria Archives, PROB/1767/W35.
[2] Abstracts of Nether Denton parish registers; Cumbria Archives, PROB/1724/WINVX15. The dates of baptisms at Nether Denton suggest that there was more than one contemporary George Bell in the area.
[3]
Cumbria Archives, PROB/1703/AINVX44; England, Cumberland Parish Registers,
1538-1990 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KC4-WWDY).
[4]
See the discussion in the account of the Snowdon family.
The will of George Bell mentions “my Grand Child Elizabeth Snawdon”.
[5] Abstracts of Nether Denton parish registers; Index of all Names in Carlisle Consistory Court Wills, vol. 1, 1727-1778 (Cumbria Family History Society).
[6] Index of all Names in Carlisle Consistory Court Wills, vol. 1, 1727-1778 (Cumbria Family History Society). Perhaps Elizabeth Richardson who married John Bell on 19 Jun 1716 at Nether Denton. John Bell of Closegill was apparently married more than once as the will of his son James mentions “my Half Brother John Bell at the Lodges in the Parish of Nether Denton”. James’s will also mentions some Scaife relatives but their exact relationship is not immediately apparent.
[7] The 1760 will of Margaret Bell mentions her deceased brother William Bell and his children George, Mary and Ann. Children of these names with a father William Bell were baptised at Brampton between 1726 and 1729 and William Bell and Margaret Fish were married there in 1725/26: England Marriages, 1538–1973 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVMN-QL2); England, Cumbria, Parish Registers, 1538-1990 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H9QW-56ZM). One William Bell, late of the office of excise, was buried on 14 Aug 1752 at Nether Denton. It may be noted that George, son of Robert and Jane (Bell) Snowdon, was a collector of excise.