Tour Scotland Video Janet Bell Memorial Window Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Janet Bell memorial stained glass window on visit to Old St Leonards Church on ancestry, genealogy history visit and trip to in Perth, Perthshire. To the glory of God and in memory of Janet Bell. " I am the light of the world "

As a man's name this surname is from the Old French " beu, bel " meaning " handsome ", which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isobel, a form of Elizabeth. Finally, it may be an Anglicized form of the Gaelic " MacGiolla Mhaoil ", " son of the servant of the devotee ". The surname dates back to the mid 12th Century. Early recordings include one Robert de la Belle in 1222 in London, England. Church recordings show the christening of Mary Bell, an infant, on August 13th 1541, at St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, and the marriage of Margarett Bell to Wylliam Traford on September 13th September 1551, at St. Mary's, Westminster, also in London. One Charles Bell, aged 23 yrs., a famine emigrant, sailed from Liverpool aboard the " Henry Clay ", bound for New York, America, on April 15th 1846.

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