Robert Bell

Partner in the Demerara firm of Cornfoot, Bell (q.v.), in which capacity he was awarded compensation with his partner David Cornfoot (q.v.) for Belle Plaine, and identified as 'residing in England' in another award in British Guiana as trustee.

1. Feb. 4th [1841] [Death of] Robert Bell of Demerara at Stickworth I[isle of] W[ight] aged 60.

2. Will of Robert Bell of Stickworth Isle of Wight proved 18/03/1841. His executors were his wife Mary Halson, David Cornfoot of Petersham Lodge, his wife's nephew Charles Halson wine merchant of South Street, Finsbury and the latter's son Charles Augustus Halson. He left his estate to his wife for life subject to legacies of: £1500 to his niece Henrietta daughter of James Halson deceased; £200 to her brother John; £2000 to Eliza Halson sister of Charles Halson; £5000 to Charles Augustus Halson; £1000 to the latter's sister, Robert Bell's god-daughter Mary Halson; £5000 in trust, the income from which was to be paid to Mary the wife of James Earl of Butcher [?] Hill in the Isle of Ely, and the principal to be divided among her children at her death; an annuity, after the death of the survivor of Robert Bell and his wife, of £100 p.a. to Augustus Halson brother of Charles Halson, at present of Bradford in Upper Canada, or £2000 to Augustus Halson's children if he died before the survivor. There is no reference to property in British Guiana.

T71/886 British Guiana claim no. 1311. T71/887 British Guiana claim no. 2323 (Belle Plaine).

1. Gentleman's Magazine Vols. 169-170 (1841) p. 332.

2. PROB 11/1942/120.