The Bell Family
Amanda Bell
Born: March 1949 in Sudan.
Farther: Sir Gawain Westray Bell (1909-1995)
Mother: Silvia Cromwell-Clyne (b. 1920)
Cressida Bell
Born: March 1954 in Khartoum.
Farther: Sir Gawain Westray Bell (1909-1995)
Mother: Silvia Cromwell-Clyne (b. 1920)
Gawain Murdoch Bell
Born: 1877
Died: 1917
Father: William Bell
Mother: Jane Westray
Occupation: Mathmatical scholar at Cambridge. Taught at Winchester, wrote several books on Mathematics. Was a Major in the Hampshire Regiment. won the DSO and was fatally wounded at Ypes in July 1917.
Link to memorial of Major Gawain Bell DSO
Sir Gawain Westray Bell KCMG CBE
Silvia and Gawain Bell and the United States naval commander in the Gulf, Kuwait
Born: 21/1/1909 in Cape Town.
Died: 26/7/1995
Farther: William Westray Bell
Mother: Miss Kisch
Married: Silvia Cromwell-Clyne (b. 1920) on 22/1/1945. Her father was Major Adrian Cromwell-Clyne. Her brother Christopher was a pilot in the RAF and died in 1942.
Children: Peta (1946), Amanda (1949) and Cressida (1954)
Occupation: Attended Hartford College Oxford Colonial Administrator. Secretary of State to the Sudanese Government. Governor of Nigeria. British Political agent to Kuwait 1955-1957
Link to obituaries of Sir Gawain Westray Bell
Gertrude Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: William Bell
Mother: Jane Westray
Married: none
Occupation: Teacher at the Ladies College, Cheltenham
James Foyster Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: William Bell
Mother: Jane Westray
Occupation: Farmer - went to the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. Emigrated to South Africa to farm near Standerton. After service with the South African Horse Regiment in WW1, he bought a farm at Shilton, Oxfordshire
John Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown
Married: unknown
Children: William Bell
Mary Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: William Bell
Mother: Jane Westray
Married: none
Occupation: Teacher at the Ladies College, Cheltenham, went on to lecture Physics at the Royal College of Science. Lived at Kencot, Oxfordshire, kept house for Gawain
Peta Bell
Born: March 1946 in England.
Farther: Sir Gawain Westray Bell (1909-1995)
Mother: Silvia Cromwell-Clyne (b. 1920)
Tiffin Bell
Born: 1800
Died: unknown
Father: William Bell
Mother: Martha Tiffin (1773)
Married: Jane Mordy in 1835
Children: William Bell
Occupation: Sailmaker
William Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: John Bell
Mother: unknown
Married: Martha Tiffin (1773) in 1797 [her father was William Tiffin]
Children: Tiffin Bell
Occupation: Master of two briggs in Whitehaven
William Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: Tiffin Bell (1800)
Mother: Jane Mordy
First Marriage: Jane Westray (1843)
Children: Mary Bell, Gertrude Bell, Winifred Marion Bell, William Westray Bell, Gawain Murdoch Bell (1877- 1917), James Foyster Bell
Second Marriage: Sybela Wilson (b. 1849). It was her second marriage, her first was to Mr Coultard and had children David and John. Sybela's mother was Sarah (1815) and she had a sister Elizabeth (1855)
Occupation: Commercial Chemist
Link to the Other Westray Family 1
William Westray Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: William Bell
Mother: Jane Westray
Married: Miss Kisch (1881-971) in Cape Town. Of mixed English & Austrian descent. Her Father was Tiberias Kisch who abandoned her mother and the three children in South Africa just after her birth
Children: Gawain Westray Bell (1909-1995)
Occupation: Taken into the New Zealand Shipping Co by J B Westray. Sent to Basrah in 1898-1899. Got malaria and dysentery. Moved to South Africa. Established W. Westray Bell & Co. importers of timber, and shipping agents of the New Zealand Shipping Co.
Winifred Bell
Born: unknown
Died: unknown
Father: William Bell
Mother: Jane Westray
Married: William Henry Tomkins on the 9/9/1872in Manchester Cathedral
Occupation: Teacher at the Ladies College, Cheltenham
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