Hello East Yorks List As a new arrival on the list I would like to declare an interest in the BELL family originally of Sculcoates. In particular, my wife's gx2 grandfather was one John Richard BELL, bap. Sculcoates 1806, son of Thomas & Sarah BELL. John was a Cunard Line Captain in the 1850's & 60's. He married a Christina BREMNER from Wick, Caithness. Among their children were: 1) James Richard BELL b. Wick 1841. He was en engineer on the Indian State Railways, and died in Kent in 1913. I know little more about him than that. 2) Thomas Alfred BELL b. Liverpool 1843. He married an Elizabeth HOWARD of Liverpool, became a JP and died in Liverpool in 1923. 3) Christina Sincliar BELL b. Liverpool 1845. She married Henry Griffin WATSON, a merchant, b. Constantinople circa 1849; and lived all her married life in Marseilles where she died in 1946. She is my wife's great grandmother. 4) Sarah Howard BELL, spinster b. Hull circa 1848, d.Liverpool 1926 5) Elizabeth Bremner BELL, spinster b. Hull 1850; d. Liverpool circa 1945. If anyone has any connections with this family I would be be delighted to hear. David Pike Lowestoft