Members of the Bell family reunite for book launch

By Emma Maslin
Updated October 27 2016 - 12:07pm, first published October 24 2016 - 12:42pm

Late last month, descendants of William James Sedgbeer Bell and his father, William Walter Bell, gathered in Grenfell and West Wyalong to celebrate the launch of a short history of the family who settled after arriving from England in 1860. James Bell’s great grandson, Tom Reeve, spent over a decade researching and penning the short history, and enjoyed the launch and its opportunity to meet more descendants, solve mysteries and uncover more information on the pioneers of the Grenfell, West Wyalong and Monteagle districts. For example, he was able to uncover the location of Walter Bell’s Grenfell butchery, which was at the side of Bell’s Bakery in Burrangong Street. “We saw that it had been incorporated into the bakery building, with the upstairs balcony extended,” he said. “We were very pleased to find out that the Grenfell Museum had recently found a photo of the 1887 brick church on Thornbury showing a wedding from over 100 years ago.”

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