Born about in Ardcarne, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of James F Bell Esq
and Rosetta (Lancaster) Bell
Sister of
Sarah Bell, Elizabeth Harvey (Bell) Reeves, James Lancaster Bell, Johnny Bell, Thomas William Bell, Rosetta Bell, William David Bell, Letitia Bell, Trevor Bell, John Harvey Smith Bell and Alfred Bell
Wife of
William Dobbin
— married
12 Aug 1868 in Kilclooney, County Galway, Ireland
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Emily (Dobbin) Harding, Rosetta Evelyn Geraldine (Dobbin) Mills, Elizabeth Katherine (Dobbin) Barrett and Leonard George Dobbin
Died
at about age 40
in Verdon Hotel, Talbot Street, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Jan 2014
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Biography
Catherine Bell was born 1836. [1]
Catherine was James Bell's second daughter. [2]
She married William Dobbin in Galway in 1868. [3]
She probably met her husband William through their parents at "Bell and Dobbin Attorneys". [4]
They had one son and three daughters. [2]
They resided at Great Denmark Street, Dublin. [5]
Catherine died 1876, aged around 40, a year after the death of her husband William in 1875. Her mother Rosetta took in Lydia's four infant children. [5]
Sources
- ↑ Family tree by descendent Arthur Mills, typewritten around 1982.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912, page 183, http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/nbl/lh_nbl_show5.php?id=050591
- ↑ "Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGZR-YZ9 : accessed 7 February 2016), William Dobbin and Catherine Lydia Emily Bell, 12 Aug 1868; citing Kilclooney, Galway, Ireland, reference p7 ln91; FHL microfilm 101,533.
- ↑ "Notes Relating To The Bell Family Of Newry, Co Down - P.Cressle, 1912" http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.bell/3451.1.3.1.1.2/mb.ashx
Katherine Lydia Emily Bell (second daughter), married 12th August, 1868, William Dobbin, Clerk of the Crown for Co. Armagh, fifth son of Leonard Dobbin, of Wood Park, Co. Armagh, by Mary, his wife, fourth daughter of Rev. George Miller, D.D.,F.T.C.D., Rector of Derryvolan, Co. Fermanagh. Mrs [Katherine] Dobbin, died 16th June, 1876, aged _______ , having had by her husband (who died 27th August, 1875, aged 88) issue one son and three daughters.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Ireland Calendar of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GTM1-HWR?cc=1921305&wc=M6P3-4TL%3A213610501%2C213655401 : 22 May 2014), Calendar of Wills and Administrations > 1876 > image 106 of 409; Principal Probate Registry, Dublin.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Catherine by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Catherine:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Catherine by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Catherine:
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~12.50%
John Mills
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~6.25%
Philip (Mills) Broughton-Mills :
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