Hello Ben, I'm not sure if that Duncan is the one under discussion. Ida may know. Do you know the names of some of the other Bells buried in the grave yard it may help to identify the family. I am particularly interested in the McGilvrays though. Also there wasn't any McIntyres buried there was there? Kind regards Jan Peasnell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Tinck" <mcchomestead@yahoo.ca> To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Bell Family - Ardalanish > Jan > > I live on our McCormick homestead near the Rocky Community, just north > of Durham Ontario, where many of our Mull people settled. > > In our Rocky Pioneer Cemetary where a good amount of our McCormicks > are buried, I have noticed a family of Bells buried there. IS THE Duncan > Bell that passed on in 1842 who IS also buried in the Rocky Pioneer > Cemetary, your Duncan Bell? He was one of the first settlers in the Rocky > Community about 1841, and then passed away there in 1842. > > At that time the person who owned the land that the Rocky Pioneer > Cemetary is on, granted the small acreage to the community for an official > cemetary in 1859. HOWEVER, people were buried there with the permission > of the free land grant holder, including this Duncan Bell and one or two > other early pioneers in the very early 1840's. > > On July 12, 1849 Duncan McGilivray took the Crown Patent to Lot 14 > Division 1. In January 1859 a one acre lot was sold to John Thomas Boyd > for 5 pounds.This was the location of the Burns Presbyterian Church(the > first church was log and the one standing now is field stone built in > 1878) and cemetary. > > It is interesting to note that John McGilivray took the Crown Patent > for Lot 13 Division 3 on May 20 1856. The same year as the log church was > built on the next lot down. There are a couple of John McGilivrays buried > there as well. > > **IN OUR SEARCHING Ralph Clark(one of the authors of the Bentinck > Book)and I have documented the pioneer grave plots in the Rocky Cemetary. > We have seen a copy of the original and a copy of a more recent map of the > pioneer grave plot maps of the Rocky Pioneer Cemetary. We have found > surnames on those OLD grave plot maps that DO NOT have gravestones now. > FOR SOME REASON the gravestones may not have been there. THERE ARE some > pioneer names of Mull people that family members OF TODAY may not know > that their ancestors are buried there, due to lack of gravestones or lack > of knowledge of their family histories. > > Sandy > > > > > Merle & Ida King <m_iking@telusplanet.net> wrote: > Hi Jan > > This is where things get interesting :-) Hopefully you can follow this. > I can give you more details later. > > What I have on the Malcolm Bell & Christina McLeod family is their > daughters; > Janet b abt 1780 m Neil McDonald > Margaret b abt 1786 m John McGilvra > I'd be interested in anything you have on Flora as I probably have her > in my db just not connected to Malcolm & Christina > > In my db I have the following Bell families with connections to Ardlanish > **Mary b abt 1771-1776 in Ardalanish in Duncan Bell (& Flora McLean) > h/h 1841 > Duncan abt 1782 who m's Flora McLean > Christina abt 1794 who m's John McMillan > ****Susan Bell abt 1801 who m's Archibald Cameron they came to Bentinck > twp., Grey Co., Ont > > ** I think this Mary 1771/1776 came to Glenelg, Grey Co. Ont in 1851 > Mary aged 80 is found with the following Bell children Dugald 30, John > 26, Neil 21, Malcolm 19, & Archibald 13. These would all fit the > pattern for Duncan & Flora's children As I think Flora died before 1841 > > ****This Archibald Cameron was b abt 1793 in Knocknafenaig and may > possibly be a brother of my Alexander :-\ > must run > Ida > > Janice Peasnell wrote: > >>Hello Ida, >> >>Is your Duncan Bell (father of Neil) from Ardalanish related to the three >>sisters Janet, Flora and Margaret (Peggy) Bell from Ardalanish, children >>of >>Malolm Bell and Christina McLeod all born in the 1780s? If so have you any >>more information on this family. >> >>Kind regards >> >>Jan Peasnell >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > The best gets better. See why everyone is raving about the All-new Yahoo! > Mail. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >