Jane suggested: >The Royal Household Archives? Hmmm. How do I stick my nose into these? I'd like to know more about my 2C3R than Boase tells me: BELL, DOYNE COURTENAY (son of a wine merchant). b. Gower Street, London, 1830; educ. King's College School, London and at Brunswick; selected by Prince Albert to assist in correspondence connected with the privy purse, Permanent Secretary to H.M.'s Privy Purse 1876 to death; sec. to committee for erecting memorial to prince consort in Hyde park 1862; a great authority upon historical portraiture; F.S.A. 1876; author of "The Albert memorial: a descriptive and illustrative account of the national monument at Kensington 1873"; "Notices of the historic persons buried in the chapel of St. Peter ad vincula in the Tower of London; with account of discovery of supposed remains of Anne Boleyn 1877." d. Lower Grosvenor place, London 26 March 1888; buried Norwood cemetery. [Sources] Proc. of Soc. of Antiq., vol xii, page 140 (1888); Times 16 Apr. 1888 p.12." He appears in the 1881 Census as a widower, and what I'd REALLY like to know is whom he married & whether they had any descendants . . . Don Montague whose mother was a BELL ********************* PS Have also found an Obit in The Times, and that he was living as a widower at the Royal Mews, St George Hanover Square, London, Middx, England, at the 1881 Census. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/335 - Release Date: 09/05/2006