Does anyone know anything about Riddell Robson Bell b 1875 d 1939? Actually I already know quite a bit about him: he was educated at a boarding school in Harrogate, became a farmer, changed his name to Humble in order to claim an inheritance, and was first fined and later banned for repeatedly drinking and driving (the Yorkshire Post talked about a 'rich man's failing'). He was married for the second time to Jane Gowland in 1910.
However, it is his first marriage that is my main interest. In 1901 he married Maria Gillie Atkins, a distant relative. While Bell was a wealthy farmer aged 26, she had been a maid on the farm and was merely 16. She was the daughter of a soldier (my great grandfather) and was born while he was serving in Dublin (ignore what the 1901 census says about her birth). Sometime between 1901 and 1910 she must have died as Riddell Robson Bell is described as a widower at the time of his second marriage.
The problem is I can't find any record of her death. There do not appear to have been any children. Her trail goes cold. Does anyone know how I might find out what happened to her?
