William Gregory BELL

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. Greenock Telegraph 16 Dec 1905
William Gregory Bell, Straits Settlement, Civil Service, eldest son of` late Rev Robert Bell, Greenock, to Amy, daughter of late Stephen Read, Blackness, Linlithgow, at St John's, Cranstonhrill, Glasgow on 15th Dec 1905

1907-1916 Postmaster General Straits Settlements (Établissements du Détroit)
1928 arrived St Albans Vermont from England
1928 arrived Quebec 4 Nov 1928 age 51 (b Larkhall) from Liverpool on Calgaric

1940: Postmaster General, Glasgow at death of wife

Greenock Telegraph 31 Oct 1891
Mary Flora Allan, eldest daughter of Rev Robert Bell, to Neil Buchanan, Hurst, Neilson & Co., Motherwell, at Octavia Cottages, Greenock on 30th Oct 1891

Greenock Telegraph 16 Jan 1897
Rev Robert Bell, husband of Mina A., died at Hillend House, Greenock on 15th Jan 1897 age 54

Greenock Telegraph 6 May 1907
Mina Allan, widow of Rev Robert Bell, East Congregational, Greenock, died at her daughter's 3 Quarryhall Terrace, Hamilton on 5th May 1907 buried Greenock

these entries from Watt Library BMD index

William married Amelia 'Amy' READ, daughter of Stephen READ and Ann MANSELL, in 1905 in Anderston Glasgow SCT. (Amelia 'Amy' READ was born in 1877 in Stirling SCT and died on 21 Jan 1940 in Kelvingrove Glasgow SCT.)