Sue Mackay's transcription included: Notice to Creditors Graham's Town, 14th March 1844 In the Insolvent Estate of E.R. BELL, of Fort Beaufort, in the District of Albany, Shopkeeper As far as I know my 2nd Great-Great-Uncle Edward Russell Bell was alive and living in or near Graham's Town in 1844 (he died on 6th August 1869). So, does this notice simply indicate that the poor chap was bankrupt in 1844, or that there was another E. R. Bell infesting those parts in 1844? Don Montague whose mother was a Bell

Hello Don Montague, Thursday, November 7, 2013, 9:55:35 AM, you wrote: RO> Sue Mackay's transcription included: RO> Notice to Creditors RO> Graham's Town, 14th March 1844 RO> In the Insolvent Estate of E.R. BELL, of Fort Beaufort, in the RO> District of Albany, Shopkeeper Insolvent estates are the financial accounts of bankruptcy procedings - of living people. Bankruptcies, judging from the NAIRS online index, were very common in the 19th Century Cape. All the best, Richard -- Richard Ball, Norfolk, England http://www.ballfamilyrecords.co.uk [email protected]