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Whoops - tapped wrong key and didn't finish sentence.   so to continue.....
Now I know where John Henry Bell's resting place is.....thank you.

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Many thanks to all who have got involved in my question regarding Harehills and Beckett Street Cemeteries......now

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Morning All
Trying to establish if a John Henry Bell who died in 1921 is really interred in a Guinea Grave.
Been in touch with Friends of Beckett Street cemetery in Leeds but there is no record of him even though family anecdotes for decades said that he was in that cemetery.
So is it possible that he is in Harehills Cemetery, Leeds ?  But do they have Guinea Graves ???

One other possibility that strikes me is that John Henry Bell had a son who died age 9 in 1897....now he for certain is in Beckett Street Cemetery......perhaps he is the one in the Guinea Grave and the family stories have been confused ?
Thanks for any help.
 

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Cork / Re: Bridget Foley - date/year of birth
« on: Sunday 13 May 18 22:46 BST (UK)  »
Found something which to me is odd...but maybe not to you.
Was looking through familysearch site and found marriage for Bridget Foley and James Bell on 28 March 1859 but one is in St. Anne's which is what we know but the other is in St Luke's ( would this be Bridget's birth parish perhaps ?). Odd that do you think ?

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Cork / Re: Bridget Foley - date/year of birth
« on: Wednesday 09 May 18 19:29 BST (UK)  »
myluck! - your theory may prove true.
James Bell ( 1822 - Carlisle ) his father was indeed called James ( his mother called Isabella.)
So following this logic that would mean then if Bridget's daughter was called Mary then Bridget's mother was called Mary too.
So what I am looking for is a Bridget Foley with birth parents called a William Foley and a Mary
( somebody ).

It is interesting for me to note that James & Bridget Bell went on to have a few more children - two boys and two girls.
Girl called Bella ( namesake of James' mother Isabella ? )
Boy called William ( namesake of Bridget's father William ? )
Wadja think ?

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Cork / Re: Bridget Foley - date/year of birth
« on: Tuesday 08 May 18 20:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the info. myluck!
Children of Bridget Foley and James Bell -

James Bell - bapt. 24 April 1859...........Sponsers - William Barry and Mary Barry
Mary Bell - bapt. 15 Dec 1860..............Sponsers - Margaret ? Barry

Doubtful this will make much difference in the search unless they are relatives ( maybe Bridget's mother was a Barry ? )

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Cork / Re: Bridget Foley - date/year of birth
« on: Monday 07 May 18 16:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank you myluck
Oddly enough I am just wading through the parishes reference that hallmark sent to me.
Found the baptism of Bridget Foley's ( married name BELL ) two kids who were born in Cork 1859 and 1860.
Their parish was St Patricks.
If I am looking for birth / baptism of Bridget Foley, is it likely that she would have married in the same parish as her birth ?
She was married to James Bell in 1859 in St. Anne, Shandon, Cork.
So could maybe she be found in that parish ?

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Cork / Re: Bridget Foley - date/year of birth
« on: Friday 04 May 18 16:14 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for this hallmark
I had already checked through  the first reference but will now wile away a few hours checking through handwritten documents on the second one.
If I find what I am looking for I will post on RootChat - thank you.

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Cork / Bridget Foley - date/year of birth
« on: Friday 04 May 18 13:49 BST (UK)  »
Have been trying to find the date of birth of one of my wife's ancestors called BRIDGET FOLEY
She got married on 28 March 1859 to a James Bell ( soldier ) at St. Anne, Shandon, Cork.
Been looking through various census for England / Wales as when he had left Regular Army he was posted to West Suffoulk Militia in Bury St. Edmunds.
So later they again moved together to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales where they ended there days.
Trouble is persons ages in the Census are sometimes way out either through the enumerator estimating things or the actual person giving erroneous birth dates.
For instance - Bury St. Edmunds 1861 - her age is 24 ( yob - 1837 )
                           Merthyr Tydfil 1881 - her age 50 ( yob - 1831 )
                              "    "      "    1891 - her age 60 ( yob 1831 )
                              "    "      "    1901 - she still 60  ( yob 1841 )
Can someone please, please, please put me out of my misery and find her real age when she got married ( which was a Civil Registration )
Oddly James Bell her husband is listed as a Protestant on birth details of their children but they are baptised Roman Catholic.
Does that mean the mother Bridget was Roman Catholic ?
In case anyone actually finds real birth details - Census info. states she was born in Cork.
And Bridget Foley's father was called William Foley.
Thanks again for any help with this one
Melchizadeck

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