Sybella (Bell) Graham (1570 - 1630)

Born 1570 in Blackethouse Largo, Fife, Scotland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1630 at about age 60 in Largo, Fife, Scotland

Biography

Birth

Sibel was born in 1570. ^[1]

Parentage

Sybil Bell was the daughter of William Bell of Blackethouse and Elizabeth Bowmont^[2]

Marriage to Fergus Graham

According to Stirnet, she married Fergus Graham of Plomp. whose second son Sir Richard was of Esk, Netherby and Norton Conyers.^[3]

Alternatively, she married Walter Graham of Netherby ^[4]

Walter Graham of Netherby was born 1555 at Netherby, Carlisle, Cumberland, England, and died after 1596. ^[4] Alternatively, he died after 1606 in Ireland.

Walter Graham was the son of Richard Graham, b. in Esk, Cumberland, England.

Walter Graham, son of Richie Graham , was born in 1555 in Netherby, Cumberland, England. The whole Sept of the Grahams, under their chief Walter, the gude man of Netherby, was exported to Ireland.

The reason stated was because they had been troublesome on the Scottish border. They were transported from the port at Workington, County Cumberland, England to Roscommon, Ireland, which is south of the three counties mentioned for the Nethery family.

The Sept at this time consisted of 124 persons, nearly all bearing the surname of Graeme or Graham.

The Anglo-Irish and other Genealogies page 231 states "In 1606 the descendants of Richard of Netherby were banished to Ireland. Their land was forfeited, and was sold in 1629 to Richard Graham, second son of Richard Graham, of Plomp. [1]

Death

Sibel Bell died in 1630. ^[1]

Sybil was born about 1601. She is the daughter of William Bell and Elizabeth Bowmont.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Entered by Jonathon Dale Walter Myers, Jun 11, 2013
2. ↑ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 331
3. ↑ Clan MacFarlane Genealogy. http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I14756&tree=CC. Accessed September 4, 2016.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Graham12. Cited by http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I14756&tree=CC. Accessed September 4, 2016

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Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Jonathon Dale Walter Myers for starting profile Bell-6259. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Jonathon Dale Walter and others.
• Profile Bell-16701 was created by Gene Adkins Jr. on 9 Feb 2017