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Bell of Newcastle
Family tree: Martha Jackson Bell ancestors
The Bells were watermen and knew the Tyne well. Evidently (according to Peter Carter in 2000), the
watermen on the Tyne thought themselves a cut above other workers and stood aloof in their own
trades union. It is likely that they transported coal in their wherry-boats from the loading
stations (called coal staithes) that lined the Tyne down river to collier brigs, who would then
transport coals from Newcastle all down the east coast of
England.
Lancelot Bell (born in 1852) married Jane Elizabeth Richardson in 1890 in Nelson Street Methodist
Chapel in Newcastle.
Lancelot’s father (b 1810) married Mary from Dunster. As a widowed retired shipwright in 1881, this
Lancelot lived with his daughter Jane, her husband Joseph Kendrey (a bottle maker) and their seven
children ranging in age from six to 26. Their son Joseph was a photography traveller.
The next generation Lancelot, born to Isaac Bell and Elizabeth nee Lambert in 1779 in Stannington
near Cramlington, married Jane Mann in 1802 in All Saints Church, Newcastle.
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