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Dumfriesshire / the "bloody" Bells from middlebie
« on: Sunday 03 January 10 17:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi
have only just joined this site and have no dates or other info to hand right now but was curious to see if there are any people out there looking into this family.
my father is Francis Bell, as were his grandfather and great grandfather. his great grandfather married sarah, and he was from middlebie in dumfries - could he have been from somewhere called the heights, or high heights? a farm anyway. he moved to caldbeck in cumberland, where his son and great grandson were born (william Edward and his brother john.) my grandfather william edward married jane and they lived in carlisle where my father was born.
the original francis who moved to caldbeck has a headstone in st kentigern's church with the three bells crest on it. when the church decided to move the old headstones to make more room in the churchyard, his was left were it was as it is an historical momunent apparently - which is where we learnt from the vicar that they were known locally as the bloody bells, it wasn't just me being rude.
i can supply some dates etc for this francis, when i look them up. my father also has some dates in a family bible. we have visited middlebie churchyard, but there are so many graves there with family names on (robert, john, francis, william, sarah, mary and hannah) that we gave up and went home. one day i was gonna do something a bit more positive - guess today's the day!
have only just joined this site and have no dates or other info to hand right now but was curious to see if there are any people out there looking into this family.
my father is Francis Bell, as were his grandfather and great grandfather. his great grandfather married sarah, and he was from middlebie in dumfries - could he have been from somewhere called the heights, or high heights? a farm anyway. he moved to caldbeck in cumberland, where his son and great grandson were born (william Edward and his brother john.) my grandfather william edward married jane and they lived in carlisle where my father was born.
the original francis who moved to caldbeck has a headstone in st kentigern's church with the three bells crest on it. when the church decided to move the old headstones to make more room in the churchyard, his was left were it was as it is an historical momunent apparently - which is where we learnt from the vicar that they were known locally as the bloody bells, it wasn't just me being rude.
i can supply some dates etc for this francis, when i look them up. my father also has some dates in a family bible. we have visited middlebie churchyard, but there are so many graves there with family names on (robert, john, francis, william, sarah, mary and hannah) that we gave up and went home. one day i was gonna do something a bit more positive - guess today's the day!