Bell family papers
Primary maker
1. Bell family
2. Alexander Bell
3. Alexander Bell
4. Peter Bell
5. Peter Bell
6. Peter Bell
7. Peter Bell
8. Trustees of Alexander Bell Trust
9. Trustees of Agnes Bell or Sconce Trust
10. Trustees of Alexander Bell's Marriage Contract Trust
Production date
1656-1921
Description
Progression of title of property in Randygate (Kerse Lane). Executry papers; papers re compensation claim against Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway Co for severance (Court of Session jury trial); detailed invoices William Booth, Nurseryman and Peter Booth; breach of promise action, Miss C Dawson; papers relating to fitting out of Peter Bell (grandson) for school at Blackheath in 1851;
Receipts for dividends from Falkirk Union Bank sequestration, 1818-1824;
Writs and debts;
Details of claims paid by Peter (senior);
Papers relating to debts of Dallas family;
North Newton titles (1777-1830);
Will, probate and inventories of Peter senior;
Doctors accounts of family including correspondence;
Estate papers of Peter junior;
bank of England stock;
Details of Royalties from Grangemouth Coal Co, from North Newton; vouchers; correspondence from Mrs Bell about properties; correspondence re Miss Agnes Bell; correspondence re Alex Bell (son of Alexander Bell and grandson of Peter Bell) re education, board on a farm and seagoing training ; correspondence re Peter Bell, board and training at Edenmouth, Kelso and hobby of fishing;
Papers re Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway;
Papers re sgare dealing; estate of Alexander Bell; accounts between trustees and R & A; accounts of Mrs Bell with trustees, accounts of Bell & Co, Tea Merchants;
7 Architects' drawings (including garden lay out plan) for Bellmount for Peter Bell Esq 1831;
Copy of the 1832 Parliamentary map of Falkirk with Bellmount boundaries shown;
Plan of the Bellmount part of the Stirlingshire Midland Junction;
Papers dealing with the administration of Mrs Agnes Bell-Sconce's Trust including the sale of her London house and furniture;
Marriage Contract Trust between Gideon Colquhoun Sconce (of the former Indian Navy) and Miss Agnes Bell;
The executry papers of Mrs Isabella Bell (wife of Alexander);
Marriage contract Trust papers;
Inventory of the titles of North Newton and Kerse Lane properties;
Reports on the Plumbing of Bellmount;
Correspondence and minutes about Alex Bell's Trustees and Mrs I Bell's family;
Bellmount Cartulary, Peter Bell's Trust (eldest son of Alexander) 1865 onwards, Alexander Bell's Trust 2 volumes a & b 1843 onwards (otherwise known as Bellmount Trust), Sconce's M.C. Trust 1866 onwards;
Papers relating to the death of Peter Bell IV in 1865;
Alexander Bell II's Marriage Contract Trust including curling bond leases (Falkirk Curling Club)
Object detail
The first client was Peter Bell (1), gardener and tea dealer in Falkirk, who became a man of substance accumulating heritable property towards Kerse Road (Randygate). His son, Peter Bell (2) was a tea merchant and the sole partner of Peter Bell and Co, and died on 16 April 1828. He had three sons: Peter Bell (3) who died intestate on 4 June 1833, James Bell who died intestate on 18 February 1834 and Alexander Bell (1), who died on 2 November 1842.
Alexander Bell (1) married Isabella Campbell Clark in 1835. The marriage trust included land and property in North Newton, Bothkennar and Kerse Lane, Falkirk. It also included at a later date lands at Gilandersland, Muiravonside. The property at Kerse Lane was sold in 1923 to Falkirk Burgh who in turn sold part to the GPO. Alexander also paid an annuity to Miss Christian Dawson following a Breach of Promise Action after his marriage in 1835. Alexander died only seven years after his marriage and he left a Trust settlement for his three children, who were Peter Bell (4), Agnes Bell, and Alexander Bell (2).
Peter Bell (4) died in 1865. Agnes Bell married the son of Sheriff Substitute Sconce who was a tenant of Bellmount. She died in 1921. Alexander Bell (2), died in 1926. He was an inmate of the Asylum for the Insane, Toronto, Canada in 1921.
Alexander (2)’s son was Peter Bell (5) who died in 1944. Peter Bell (5)'s Trust was wound up in 1957 when his wife, Margaret died. Their nephew, Peter Bell, died in 1943 and his widow is believed to have died in 1956.
This was the end of Russel & Aitken's dealings with the Bell family of Bellmount.
The architect for the drawings of Bellmount was David Rhind, Edinburgh. Bellmount was leased to successive Sheriff Substitutes in Falkirk (including Sheriff Substitute Sconce) after the death of Peter Bell (IV?).
Catalogues for clients of Russel & Aitken are being added regularly to our website. http://www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/heritage/archives/finding-aids/russel-aitken.aspx
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