Gideon William Bell of Fourtoun, WS

GIDEON WILLIAM BELL OF FORTOUN, WS

is the son of William Bell, Farmer, Swintonhill, Berwickshire, Scotland [History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet] https://archive.org/stream/historyofsociety00socirich#page/14/mode/2up He was born on 14 August 1805 and his baptism was registered at Crailing in Roxburghshire, Scotland [Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950, index, FamilySearch] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XY7D-861

Writer to the Signet

Apprentice to William Scott and Gilbert Laurie Finlay, he became a member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet on 30 June 1831 [History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet] https://archive.org/stream/historyofsociety00socirich#page/14/mode/2up

Marriage

Gideon William Bell of Fortoun married Barbara Leonora Dirom on 10 October 1855 [The Genealogy of the Dirom Family: Kittybrewster.com] http://www.kittybrewster.com/ancestry/dirom.htm

Children

(1) Madeline Leonora Bell

(2) Violet Joanna Bell

(3) William Scott Bell

(4) Susan Barbara Bell

(5) Elizabeth Alice Bell

(6) Alexander Dirom Bell

(7) Leonora Anne Bell

(8) Robert Scott Bell