In the year 1830, Captain William Bell, son of Bejamin Bell and Elizabeth Dob, 
sold his commission in the army and with his wife Anna, daughter of Arthur 
Graham, left Northern Ireland with their five sons and two daughters, and 
sailed to Canada to seek a new home. They landed in Saint John NB, and made 
their way north via the St. John River to Woodstock, York county. They settled 
on a 200 acre farm on the north side of the Meduxnekeag River near Jackson 
Falls. Records show that the land was part of an original grant to a Richard 
Fitzpatrick. They had seven children: Benjamin, Thomas, William, Mary, 
Elizabeth, Arthur and Alexander. William and Anna Bell are buried side by side 
on the north of the Lower church beneath shading elms. 

This website has been made possible by my friend Art Fors, whose hobby is 
genealogy. I asked him if he could help find the father of my grandfather, 
Robert Bell, and this website is the result. Over 1300 names are now in the 
database. All kinds of branches in the family tree are represented for your 
discovery. The tree is centred on Robert Bell, and reaches back as far as the 
1700s and for some branches even earlier. There are currently four or five 
generations identified since Robert and that is where a lot of the more recent 
work on the website has taken place. While we are uncertain of Robert Bell's 
father, we currently speculate that he was Robert II as shown. Robert II was 
the son of Alexander Bell who was the son of William and Anna who came to 
Canada in 1830 as described above.

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