Exciting stuff people! Although photography may have missed my family when they lived in Kirklinton, well, you never know and if ANYONE has ANY history regarding the BELL family or CHAMBERS or BATY? please please please let me know! I too have photographs of the BELLS in Carlise and sometimes there is enough of a family feature resemblance to help put two and two together.
My great great Grandfather was William Bell born approx, 1807 at Moat Hill, Kirklinton, his sister was Jane and she may have been born in/at Arthuret. I do not know who his family was, farmers, yes, millwrights possibly as well. He married a JANE CHAMBERS and they moved to Carlisle where he developed the Carr's Tablewater Biscuits mill, and in later life to Stockport where his son Henry, my Great Grandfather lived as a Millwright as well.
Below is an excerpt of his obituary:
The death occurred on Monday at the ripe old age of 92 of Mr. William BELL, formerly millwright in this city, but latterly living in retirement with his son in Lorne Street. Mr. Bell, whose figure was familiar to almost everybody in the city, was able to go about until just before his death. He was the son of a farmer and was born at Moat Hill, Kirklinton in 1806. He received what was in those days a liberal education and during the stirring times of his youth he used to go from farmhouse to farmhouse reading the news of the wars, his recollections of which, and especially of Waterloo, furnished the theme of many an interesting conversation in his latter days.
He served his apprenticeship as a millwright with James MILLICAN, of Lowther Street, whose premises were on the site of Bank Street...
THANKS SO VERY MUCH, I AM AT A STANDSTILL WITH THE BELLS, Sue
