[Index]
William BELL (1855 - 1907)
miner, mine clerk?, clerk in England
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Joseph William BELL (1885 - 1948)
George Henry BELL (1887 - 1955)
Alice Maud BELL (1890 - 1914)
Ethel May BELL (1893 - 1980)
Edith Isabella BELL (1897 - 1951)
William BELL (1855 - 1907)

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Isabella GREY (1859 - 1934)
Joseph BELL (1825 - 1884) John BELL (1795 - 1868) male BELL
Jane BELL (1770 - )
Hannah WARDALE (1804 - 1863) Joseph WARDALE (1781 - 1840)
Mary Ann WISEMAN (1775 - 1831)
Margaret RIDLEY (1825 - 1902) William RIDLEY (1770 - 1847) John RIDLEY (1730 - )
Isabel RUTTER ( - 1790)
Hanna ROWELL (1771 - 1850)



Isabella GREY

Isabella GREY
b. 10 May 1855 at Knaresdale, Northumberland, England
m. 22 Nov 1881 Isabella GREY (1859 - 1934) at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England
d. 03 Sep 1907 at Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia aged 52
Cause of Death:
heart failure
Parents:
Joseph BELL (1825 - 1884)
Margaret RIDLEY (1825 - 1902)
Siblings (6):
John BELL (1848 - 1851)
Thomas BELL (1850 - )
Joseph BELL (1856 - )
Hannah BELL (1858 - )
Edward BELL (1861 - 1884)
John Henry BELL (1864 - )
Children (5):
Joseph William BELL (1885 - 1948)
George Henry BELL (1887 - 1955)
Alice Maud BELL (1890 - 1914)
Ethel May BELL (1893 - 1980)
Edith Isabella BELL (1897 - 1951)
Grandchildren (9):
William Alan BELL (1911 - 1977), Dulcie Honora BELL (1913 - 1983), Marjorie Alice BELL (1916 - ), William Edward BELL (1919 - 2000), Gordon Henry BELL (1921 - ), John Frederick (Jack) BELL (1925 - 2004), Robert Simpson BELL (1927 - ), Lilly BELL
Events in William BELL (1855 - 1907)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
10 May 1855 William BELL was born Knaresdale, Northumberland, England
22 Nov 1881 26 Married Isabella GREY (aged 22) Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England Note 1
1883 28 Immigration Townsville, Queensland, Australia
21 Nov 1884 29 Death of father Joseph BELL (aged 59) Knaresdale, Northumberland, England Certificate
31 Mar 1885 29 Birth of son Joseph William BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Certificate
02 Jul 1887 32 Birth of son George Henry BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1887/005347
15 Sep 1890 35 Birth of daughter Alice Maud BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1890/007453
08 Jan 1893 37 Birth of daughter Ethel May BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1893/006083
22 Mar 1897 41 Birth of daughter Edith Isabella BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1897/006130
03 Jan 1902 46 Death of mother Margaret RIDLEY (aged 77) Knaresdale, Northumberland, England
03 Sep 1907 52 William BELL died Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Note 2
Note 1: Certificate, St John Parish Church
Note 2: Certificate
Lynd Hwy, Sect 17, Plot 20, No 3334, Anglican, near 3410
Personal Notes:
Joseph William's birth and death certificate gives William's occupation as 'miner'.

Marriage certificate shows living at Westgate Road

Death certificate says 23 years in Qld. So, came to Qld in about 1884.

Religion:Presbyterian.

1882/3 passenger list for 'Oban Bay' shows William (aged 30) and Isabella (aged 24) Bell with 'Free' passage.

Qld Passenger lists (http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps@iinet.net.au/shipping/mig-qld3.htm) shows:
OBAN BAY Arrived 19 07 1883 in Townsville departed Glasgow 20 03 1883 fiche PL M1699 (imm/178)

Lived Hodgkinson Street, Chaters Towers

Note: William and Isabella lived in a tent for a while before they got themselves organised into a mine cottage. They had five children. He had a brother who went to Toronto and another who was with the railways in Stockton.

Charters Towers council rate book (Qld Archive 06-08-2003) has a William Bell in Mexican St in 1904.

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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