Personal information about Mary Bell

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Burial Information

Name on burial register:
   Mary Bell
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Age at death:
   83
Date of burial:
   07 March 1906
Abode at death:
(according to burial register)
   Cheap Street , Newbury
Burial register information:
  
Book number: 1899
Page number: 117
Record number: 8129
Official at burial:
   E H Titchmarsh
     
Source of information:
  Burial Register
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Memorial Details

  MARY BELL
  03 March 1906
  84
  Female
   
  Headstone.
  Sandstone Engraved
   
  Headstone: In Memory of / William son of / Robert and Mary Bell / who died 22nd. June, 1862 / aged 11years. / Also of / Elizabeth Barbara, their daughter, / who died 31st. March 1869 / aged 4 years & 6 months. / Also of their three sons / Robert Johnstone / who died 27th April 1887 / aged 29 years, / Alfred, / who died 18th. Jany. 1890 / aged 27 years, / James / who died 23rd. March, 1891 / aged 35 years. / Also of Mary, the beloved wife of / Robert Bell / who fell asleep March 3rd. 1906 / in the 84th. year of her age. / Robert Bell / who died on January 30th. 1915 / in the 89th year of his age. //
   
  Very good but two patches of blistering of face obliterating MI. Lichen cover on sides of MI
  P(D)7
    Robert Bell was born in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He married in 1850 Mary, daughter of William Chubb, Hairdresser of Speen who took in Mary's cousin, Henry Gore, later to become the famous Victorian painter, when his father died. Robert & Mary first lived in Luton, Beds. where they had their eldest child William & where his occupation was as a Tea Dealer like his brother James. By 1861 they had moved to 1, Cheap St, Newbury and they were running a Drapery. He soon moved to 31, Cheap St (next to Plenty's Marine Engineering), & carried on in his trade as Draper & Tailor until he retired by 1911. In his later years, after his wife died, Robert moved to 5, Craven St (now Road) by 1911 where he died. The couple had 6 sons and a daughter with two dying in their childhood and 3 boys dying as young men (see below). Only Walter Henry, Architect & Surveyor, & John McNay Bell, Draper, outlived him. Other Bell relatives, William Chubb and Henry Gore are all buried in NRC. Their granddaughter, Elsie, daughter of Walter, is buried in the neighbouring grave, P(D)8 after a tragic death. Sources: NRC Bur Recd; Ancestry records.
   
  02 May 2021
  EAC
 
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Other people list on this memorial

WILLIAM BELL
ELIZABETH BARBARA BELL
ROBERT JOHNSTONE BELL
ALFRED BELL
JAMES BELL

 

 

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

Mary Bell
Article source:    Newbury Weekly News
Date of source:    08 March 1906
Copyright:    © Newbury Weekly News

Transcription:

 

MARY BELL

 

THE LATE MRS. BELL

 

The funeral took place yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon of the late Mrs. Mary Bell, wife of Mr. Robert Bell, of the Market Place, whose death took place on Saturday in her 84th year.

 

The ceremony at the Cemetery was conducted by the Rev. E.H. Titchmarsh, pastor of the Congregational Church.

 

The mourners were Mr. R. Bell, Mr.J.M. Bell, and Mr. W.H. Bell (sons), Mrs. J.M. and Mrs. W.H. Bell (daughters-in-law), Mr. W.H. Gore (nephew).

 

Floral offerings were contributed by the children, grandchildren, and other relatives.

 

The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs. Penford and Son.

 

Mrs Bell's great age linked her with a generation that has almost passed away. She was a daughter of the late Mr. Chubb, who, and his father before him carried on a hairdresser's business opposite the celebrated “Pelican” in the stirring days of the coaches, when Speenhamland was the busy end of the town. Mrs. Bell retained a vivid recollection of the animated scenes witnessed daily in the “Hamlet” in her girlhood days.

 

Newbury Weekly News 8 March 1906

 

Mrs. P. p. 170 P (D) 7

 

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