Sir Robert Bell, Kt.

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Robert Bell, Kt.

Also Known As: "Robert Bell Knight"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Beaupre Hall, Outwell, Norfolk, England
Death: October 31, 1639 (50-51)
Outwell, Norfolk, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir Edmund Bell, Kt.; Anne Bell and Lady Anne OSBORNE
Husband of Alice Bell and Mary Mary Bell, (NB)
Father of Lt. Col. Thomas Bell, Sr.; Edmund Bell, Esq.; Philip Bell and Beaupre Bell
Brother of Philip Bell, II, Esq., of Wallington; Henry Bell; Frances Finch; Peter Bell; Sinolphus Bell and 4 others
Half brother of Dorothy Bell; Anne Bell; Beaupre Bell and Elizabeth Bell

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About Sir Robert Bell, Kt.

Married Mary, daughter of Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., and they had 10 children:

1. Edmund Bell, Esq., of Beaupré Hall (died 1666 unmarried)

2. Robert Bell (died 1640)

3. Mary (died unmarried 1646)

4. Henry (died young)

5. Beaupré (died young)

6. Francis Bell, Esq. (survived father and older brothers to inherit, m. Dorothy Oxburgh, descendants)

7. Sinolphus (died young)

8. Elizabeth (died young)

9. Anthony (died young)

10. Philip, of Wallington, Governor of Barbadoes (d.s.p. March 1677-8, no wife cited)

NO. SON. THOMAS.

https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmem01wategoog/page/n160/mod...


Information on Robert Bell is sketchy. It is now thought that he never came to the New World, but that his son Thomas did in 1635.

A Robert Bell Jr. is listed as holding 37 acres in Virginia in 1618 and as among the "Names of Adventures that Dislike Ye P'nt Proceedings of Buziness in Ye Virg. and S. Ilands Companyes" in 1623. He is also named in the "List of Persons Fit to be Governor and Deputy Governor of Virginia & Somer Islands Companies" in April 1624. This may or may not be this Robert Bell (but is certainly not a son).

In 1624, Robert Bell was appointed by James I as one of fifty-two Commissioners to determine the form and structure of a new government for Virginia as a Royal Colony. The government structure devised by the Commission replaced the Virginia Company of London as the governing authority in the
settlements.

https://espl-genealogy.org/MilesFiles/site/p1219.htm#i121818 (use with care, as not all information may be accurate).

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Sir Robert Bell, Kt.'s Timeline

1588
1588
Beaupre Hall, Outwell, Norfolk, England
1617
1617
Gravesend, Kent, England
1625
October 29, 1625
Beaupre Hall, Outwell, Norfolk, England
1639
October 31, 1639
Age 51
Outwell, Norfolk, England
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