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One of the surnames in my family tree is Bell. My maternal great grandmother was a Bell. I have her Bell line traced back to the early 1700's in Scotland around Edinburgh.
It is said the Bells were border reivers. They lived along the border between Scotland and England. They would rustle the english cattle and reak havock on the the english who bordered them to the south. The english gathered arms against them and eventually drove most of them from Scotland. Many,first went to Ireland before coming to the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.
Above is the Bell Tartan. X.
Well, I'll be darned. I have Bell's in my family, too. Mine settled in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, but eventually several branched off elsewhere. Don't know where they orignated from.
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I have traced my Bell line back from Missouri to Kentucky to Ireland to Scotland. Scottish surnames in my tree: White, Craig, Bell, Saunders, Moore, Spalding. Irish surnames: Hickey, Bowles, Hayden, Harmon. Welsh surnames: Hayden, Howell, Gough. X.
ReplyDeleteMy Irish surname is Keating. Haven't been able to trace anything past my grandmother, Alice Keating. I have Pollards from Cornwall. Dickerson, Prescott, Leighton, Holmes, Hazel, Harmer from England. McCormick from Scotland...and Hoffman from Germany...Dehart, Stibbs, Stuyvensant, Van Pelt from the Netherlands. Got some Native American blood in me, too. I've sure got quite a mixture, don't I?
ReplyDeleteI am a MacLeod on one side and a Morrison on the other -- Scottish Isles of Skye and Lewis.
ReplyDeleteMixed races here, with the English and Irish going back only to my great grand parents. I'm not sure which generation came over on the boat. My mother's birth Japanese certificate is about 20 pages long (no kidding) documenting her genealogy. Talk about family ties.
ReplyDeleteI have a good friend who's name is Bell. I'll pas your blog link along to her. Happy Robbie Burns day!
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