Thomas Bell, Jr. - Those children are not his!

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7/5/2021 at 7:11 AM

They apparently belong(ed) to a Thomas Bell of York County (c1647-October 16, 1679), who lived on the WEST side of the Chesapeake Bay, and who was at some relatively recent time erroneously mash-merged with this one.

Thomas Bell Jr of Accomack/Northampton County had NO recorded children at all.

PS: His "grandparents" are probably fake - there are *very* few cases of offspring of titled persons among the colonists, and those few are mainly well documented.

Private User

7/5/2021 at 7:35 AM

Found three more-or-less matching children under ROBERT Bell and Mary Cutting, of Accomack/Northampton County.

http://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p667.htm#i66620

Children 1. Robert Bell b. c 1680, d. b 1710
2. William Bell+ b. c 1685, d. b 29 May 1744
3. Nathaniel Bell+ b. 1689, d. b 28 Jan 1745/46
4. Thomas Bell+ b. c 1695, d. b 31 Mar 1768

Robert was the brother of Thomas Bell Jr., and his children are already on Geni, properly under him. Robert Bell, Sr.

Now, what about the York County Thomas...?

Private User

7/8/2021 at 9:47 PM

Children moved and merged. Bogus "grandparents" removed (Sir Robert Bell and Lady Mary Chester had 10 children but none of them was a son named Thomas, see https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmem01wategoog/page/n160/mod... ).

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Thomas Bell, Jr. - Those children are not his!

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