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Matthew Bell, Sr.

Also Known As: "Mathew Ball l"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kirkconnell, on River Nith, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Death: 1693 (38-47)
Ballymoney, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Immediate Family:

Husband of wife of Matthew Bell
Father of John Bell and Matthew Bell, Jr.

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About Matthew Bell, Sr.

Biography

“The Bell family in America being an account of the founders and first colonial families, an official list of the heads of families of the name resident in the United States in 1790 and a bibliography" page 16-17. Archive.Org

Matthew Bell was born in Kirk Connell, on the river Nith in the northwestern part of Dumfrishire, Scotland. He emigrated to the northern part of Ireland in the latter part of the seventeenth century and was in the city of Londonderry when that place was besieged in 1689. He had two sons, Matthew and John, and perhaps other children.


Family

Descendants of Matthew Bell

https://www.thetintypeshop.com/family/Douglas/Surnames/AtoC/BE/Bell...

Generation No. 1

1. MATTHEW1 BELL1 was born 1681 in Colerain, Londonderry, Ireland1.

Child of MATTHEW BELL is:

2. i. MATHEW2 BELL, b. 1677, Colerain, Londonderry, Ireland; d. 1722, Cumberland, PA, USA. He married UNKNOWN UNKNOWN1.

References

  • Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volume 1 . By John Woolf Jordan. Page 252. GoogleBooks
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Matthew Bell, Sr.'s Timeline

1650
1650
Kirkconnell, on River Nith, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
1677
1677
Colerain, Londonderry, Ireland
1679
1679
Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland
1693
1693
Age 43
Ballymoney, Antrim, Northern Ireland
1922
November 28, 1922
Age 43
1994
July 22, 1994
Age 43