Mary Adeline Bell

Mrs. Mary Adeline Bell lived at No. 3 for about five years, between 1933 and 1938.¹ She was the widow of Robert Charles Bell, an elocution teacher, who died at the age of 58 on 08 January 1931.² She was born Mary Adeline Jackson at Hightown, Middlewich, Cheshire on 17 May 1879,³ daughter of John Fletcher Jackson, printer and stationer, and Mary Jane Sant.⁴ She was still living with her parents in Middlewich in 1901,⁵ and in 1911 she was a nursing sister in Chester.⁶

Mary Adeline Jackson married Robert Charles Bell at the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh on 01 June 1914.⁷ She died, aged 81 years, at Queensberry House hospital on 30 December 1960.⁸

1. PO Directories 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38.
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5. Census records. England. Middlewich, Cheshire. 31 March 1901. JACKSON, John F. (Head). England Census RG13/3345/49, p. 23. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 08 July 2021.
6. Census records. England. Chester, Cheshire. 02 April 1911. Hospital. RG14/21900, p. 1. https://ancestry.co.uk: accessed 08 July 2021.
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