Corps-Bell and related families

[James Corps]

Can anybody help with info relating to William Corps-Bell who married Bridget Peel in Longtown Cumberland   There are Corps-Bells in Scotland's People but there is a generation in between So I am assuming that there are traces of them in Cumberland Two families they married into are Sharpe and Walsh  but others elude me  Any6 help very welcome      Jim Corps

[CaroleW]

A timescale would be helpful please?

The above marriage was 1929 and is on freebmd so a copy of the marriage cert would give ages and respective fathers names

Have you looked on the 1911 census for them or checked for births on freebmd?

[CaroleW]

There is a Bridget Peel birth in Cumberland in 1908 on freebmd

[CaroleW]

William Corps Bell was born 12.2.1906 and died 1982 Carlisle

[CaroleW]

Freebmd shows 5 children born 1929-1938 - have you checked to see if any are still alive?

[CaroleW]

Possibility

Births March qtr 1906 
William Corps  Hunslet    9b   258

Marriages September qtr 1907
Sarah Ellen   Corps     Hunslet    9b   652 - Ernest Bell on same page

Per www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk    the marriage was at St Jude Potteryfield

[James Corps]

Thanks for replying CarolW    You are right That is the family  Born William Corps he took his mother's husband's name upon marriage  He did marry Bridget Peel after moving to Cumberland and I have details of his children  It is the link between him in Cumberland and the records on Scotland's People that I am trying to locate  There are births to a Corps-Bell mother so maybe an unmarried mother  there are records relating to a Noeline/Noelene Corps-Bell  (various spellings of Noeline) and an Australian death record relating to her  Only a name for a Corps-Bell child that links to to her will confirm identity  I was in contact with a relative of earlier Corps-Bell but William rarely showed up at family gatherings and contact was minimal almost to the point of non-existence If I could establish which Corps-Bell went to Scotland then the link would be complete.  Here's hoping

[CaroleW]

What records on SP?

Corps Bell seems to relate only to William born 1906 as none of his children have Corps as a middle name.  It is also clear it is not an everyday surname being made up of his mothers maiden name and her married name

Why do you think there is any connection?  Have you researched his mother to see if there is any connection to Scotland or the people you mention

[James Corps]

Corps wasn't a middle name as Carole supposes it is now the family name  I have since found the 'missing link' as I called it.   And yes I had researched his mother