i will check my scotish record data base and see what i can find RAY On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:43:41 -0800 dennis <dennis@cafe.net> writes: >Hi Folks: > >Sent this note out to the rootsweb calverts a day or two ago, and >thought I'd better stay in touch with the Bealls as well, though I've >seen almost no traffic here since the New Year. > > >For some time now, I've been trying to work out the relationship >between > >one of my ancestors, Col. Ninian Beall (Bell) of Maryland, and the >Calverts (Lords Baltimore etc.) who employed him as an Indian fighter >and military leader in the last half of the 17th century. Those of you >who have looked into Ninian's ancestry probably know he was born in >Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland in 1625, the eldest son of Dr. James Bell >and a mysterious woman named Anne Maria Calvert. Anne does not pop up >in > >any Scottish records I've been able to find so far. At first I >suspected > >she may have been born into the Calvert family in Yorkshire or >Northumberland -- an immigrant to Scotland. But then I started reading >about the Calverts and discovered there was at least one branch of the >family in Scotland that had been there for some time before Anne's >birth, circa 1600, though nobody seemed to have anything on the >Scottish > >Calverts. I went hunting on Origins and turned up the following >Calverts > >-- the earliest listed in the Scottish records, and all of them in >Fife: > >Calverts in Fife, Scotland > >Georg Calvert - (born ca. 1615 died ?) married Barbara Walker ca. >1636. > His Wife: Barbara Walker (born ca 1620 died ?) > Their Children: > 1. Son - James Calvert (christened Dec. 14, 1638 >Anstruther Wester parish, died ?) > >---------- > >Thomas Calvert (born ca. 1700 died ?) married Margaret Carmichael Nov. >28, 1728 St. Andrews & St. Leonards parish. > His Wife: Margaret Carmichael (born can 1705 died ?) > Their Children: > 1. Son - Thomas Calvert (christened Sept. 21, 1729 St. >Andrews & St. Leonards parish died ?) > 2. Daughter - Margaret Calvert (christened May 9, 1731 >St. Andrews & St. Leonards parish died ?) > >Alexander Calvert - (born ca. 1705 died ?) Married Margaret Hutcheon >ca. > >1729. > His wife: Margaret Hutcheon (born ca. 1710 died ?) > Their Children: > 1. Son - William Calvert (christened Jan. 1, 1731 St. >Andrews & St. Leonards parish, died ? > >----- > > >Anstruther Wester and St. Andrews are both within a few miles of Lower >Largo, so it makes sense to conclude that Anne Maria Calvert is from >one > >of these Calvert families. I also suspect that they retained their >Catholicism despite the Church of Scotland Reformation onslaught, >which >began in 1559. That would explain why Anne is missing from the Church >of > >Scotland Old Parish Registers, along with most of her family. The >above >list of Calverts are probably Church of Scotland Protestant converts. >All of this might also explain why Ninian was named after Scotland's >earliest Catholic saint rather than his grandfather, Alexander Bell, >as >was the Scottish naming custom for eldest sons. A family falling out >over Anne's religion between James and his own father Alexander? >Ninian >is the only one of thousands of Bell males born in Fife over the >centuries given that first name, at least from 1559 through to 1897. > >I'm wondering if anybody else out there has looked into the Scottish >Calverts, their relationship to the Lords Baltimore, and to Col. >Ninian >Beall. I'll take all the info I can get, with thanks. > >Dennis Bell (of the Largo, Fife Bells) >Burnaby, B.C. Canada > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]