[Index]
Isabella GREY (1859 - 1934)
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)
 Isabella GREY (1859 - 1934)

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William BELL (1855 - 1907)
 William GREY (1825 - 1884) John GREY (1794 - 1873) William GREY


Dorothy WALTON (1802 - 1882) William WALTON
Isabella BURROWS
Jane WILLIS (1833 - 1908) William WILLIS (1798 - 1880) John WILLIS (1743 - )
Elizabeth SPOTSWOOD (1761 - )
Mary (WILLIS) (1803 - 1867)



Isabella GREY
Isabella GREY Isabella GREY Isabella GREY
Isabella GREY Isabella GREY Isabella GREY Isabella GREY
b. 17 Jan 1859 at Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
m. 22 Nov 1881 William BELL (1855 - 1907) at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England
d. 12 Aug 1934 at Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia aged 75
Parents:
William GREY (1825 - 1884)
Jane WILLIS (1833 - 1908)
Siblings (10):
Elizabeth GREY (1855 - )
William GREY (1857 - 1914)
John (Jack) GREY (1861 - 1942)
Thomas William GREY (1863 - 1933)
Jane GREY (1865 - )
George Henry GREY (1867 - 1947)
Mary Anna GREY (1870 - 1894)
Charles GREY (1872 - 1873)
Charles GREY (1874 - )
Alice GREY (1879 - 1964)
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 Isabella GREY (1859 - 1934)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
17 Jan 1859 Isabella GREY was born Tynemouth, Northumberland, England Certificate
22 Nov 1881 22 Married William BELL (aged 26) Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England Note 1
1883 24 Immigration Townsville, Queensland, Australia
05 Jan 1884 24 Death of father William GREY (aged 58) Tynemouth, Northumberland, England Certificate
31 Mar 1885 26 Birth of son Joseph William BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Certificate
02 Jul 1887 28 Birth of son George Henry BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1887/005347
15 Sep 1890 31 Birth of daughter Alice Maud BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1890/007453
08 Jan 1893 33 Birth of daughter Ethel May BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1893/006083
22 Mar 1897 38 Birth of daughter Edith Isabella BELL Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia 1897/006130
03 Sep 1907 48 Death of husband William BELL (aged 52) Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Note 2
05 Aug 1908 49 Death of mother Jane WILLIS (aged 75) Tynemouth, Northumberland, England Certificate
09 Oct 1914 55 Death of daughter Alice Maud BELL (aged 24) Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Note 3
1922 63 Residence Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Electoral roll, Hodgekinson St
1934 75 Residence Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Electoral roll, Aland St
12 Aug 1934 75 Isabella GREY died Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Note 4
Note 1: Certificate, St John Parish Church
Note 2: Certificate
Lynd Hwy, Sect 17, Plot 20, No 3334, Anglican, near 3410
Note 3: 1914/002416
Lynd Hwy, Sect 17, Plot 30, No 4949, Anglican, beside 3334 William Bell
Note 4: copy of certificate
Lynd Hwy, Sect 5, Plot 264, No. 8389, Anglican, beside S116
Personal Notes:
GRAY or GREY spelt both ways - beware.

See William Grey (1825) notes for Isabella's census notes.

Born in Percy Square, Tynemouth. Name GREY

Marriage certificate shows living at Westgate Road. Name GREY?

1881 Census record shows her as unmarried 'domestic servant' in the house of Willian Gray (her father) at 45 Percy St, Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. (just before her marriage.)

Died in ambulance on way to hospital.

Post morteum carried out 12.8.1934

Death certificate says 50 years in Qld. So arrived Qld about 1884.

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.
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).
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