ID: I12325
Name: Edmund Bell
Prefix: Sir
Sex: M
Birth: 7 APR 1562 in Beaupre Hall, Outwell, Norfolk
Death: DEC 1607
Note: From burial date
Burial: 22 DEC 1607 Southacre, Norfolk
Occupation: MP for Aldeburgh 1586
Education: Pembroke College, Cambridge
CHIL: 19
Note: His children were: Robert (Captain) Philip: Governor of Bermuda 1626-29; Governor of Rhode Island and Barbadoes. He was one of the company of Puritans in Holland with Endicott and Davenport. Henry Peter --- Will made 22 Dec 1607. Proved 9 Feb 1608. (Copy in Norfolk Record Office) --- Edmund Bell is known to have been married thrice. Edmund Bell's first wife by whom he had most of his children, was Anne Osborne, daughter of Peter Osborne, esq, Treasurer's Remembrancer in the Exchequer by his wife Anne Blythe. This Anne was dead *by but not in* 1604, and then we briefly catch a fleeting glimpse of Edmund's second wife by whom a son Richard Bell bap 9 Jun 1605 at Outwell. This second wife is buried 18 Jun 1605. His third wife Muriel Knyvett, daughter of Thomas Knyvett, the 4th Lord Berners de jure (by Muriel Parry) was living in 1608 as Edmund Bell's widow. (Will Johnson)
_UID: 24502C797C5646E1A2A5C35F0AFB81ADAE6C
Change Date: 13 OCT 2010
Father: Robert Bell b: 1539
Mother: Dorothy Beaupre b: 1538 in Beaupre Hall, Outwell, Norfolk
Marriage 1
Anne Osborn b: 1563
- Married:
ABT 1592
in Norfolk
Children
Frances Bell b: ABT 1594 in South Acre, Norfolk Marriage 2
Muriel Knyvett b: 2 SEP 1581 | |