Hutchinson Royes Bell

1841 - 1886  (45 years)

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• Name	Hutchinson Royes Bell
  Known as	Royes
  Born	1841	Sydney, NSW, Australia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Migration/Travel	Aft 1847	Islington, London, England
  Census	30 Mar 1851	5 Red St, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
  age 9, scholar at home
  	Census Channel Islands 1851 - Bell Name Age R'ship Status Occupation Born Notes Address: 5 Red St, St Heliers, Jersey Emily Bell 32 head widow   England Emily ditto 11 daughter u scholar at home Australia   Hutchinson ditto 9 son ditto ditto Australia Mark ditto 7 ditto ditto ditto Australia John ditto 5 ditto ditto ditto Australia Ann ditto 3 daur ditto   Australia Betsy Ingram 24 serv mar house servant Jersey, St Heliers Martha Couley 20? serv   ditto England
  Census	7 Apr 1861	17 Endsleigh St, St Pancras, London, England
  student Kings College, aged 19
  	Census England 1861 - Bell Name R'ship Condition Age Rank, Profession or Occupation Where Born Notes Address: 17 Endsleigh St, St Pancras Emily Bell head Widow 42 Landed Proprietor Middlesex, London Hutchinson Bell Son un 19 Student Kings College Sydney, Australia Emily Elizabeth Bell Daughter un 21   Sydney, Australia   John H. Bell Son un 15 Scholar Sydney, Australia Anne M. Bell Daughter un 13 Scholar Sydney, Australia Ellen Turner Niece un 12 Scholar St Helier, Jersey Frederick Williams Visitor un 25 Student ... College ... Liverpool, Lancashire Anne Dabom Serv un 32 General Serv Guildford, Surrey Francis[?] Middleton Serv un 25   do    do Shoreham, Norfolk Mary Finch Serv un 22   do    do Hampton Wick, Surrey
  Census	2 Apr 1871	44 Harley St, Marylebone, London, England
  age 29, surgeon and landowner - birthplace transcribed as Sidney, Wales!
  Census	3 Apr 1881	44 Harley St, Marylebone, London, England
  aged 39, surgeon
  Occupation	surgeon
  Died	Jun 1886	Elham, Kent, England   [2, 3]
  	near Folkestone, whilst on holidays - survived by all four siblings
  		Obituary for Hutchinson Royes Bell in The British Medical Journal [Open in separate window or tab for readable view]
  Buried	18 Jun 1886	Fulham Road, Kensington, London, England   [3]
  	Brompton Cemetery also known as West London Cemetery
  Probate	31 Jul 1886	London, England
  BELL Hutchinson Royes. Personal Estate £12,934 16s 5d. 31 July. The Will of Hutchinson Royes Bell formerly of 44 Harley-street but late of 12 Queen-Anne-street Cavendish-square both in the County of Middlesex Surgeon who died 15 June 1886 at Folkestone in the County of Kent was proved at the Principal Registry by John Hougham Bell of Downside Ventnor in the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton M.D. the Brother the surviving Executor.
  Notes	King's College Hospital Archives list [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/6/822.htm] has: Bell | Hutchinson Royes | 1842-1886 | assistant surgeon. According to information re: his brother Mark the family left Australia for England when Mark was an infant - after 1847 when his father died and his youngest sister was born. They are in the Channel Islands census for 1851. Several sources refer to him having never married and living with his two sisters. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia library http://www.collphyphil.org/FIND_AID/hist/histja1.htm contains reference to correspondence by a John Asshurst jr to H Royes Bell of London, England on 27 Nov 1884. A Dr John Royes Bell is quoted in No. 11 in The Physicians’ And Students’ Ready Reference Series: History Of Circumcision From The Earliest Times To The Present as having written an entry in The International Encyclopedia of Surgery (Asshurst, Philadelphia: 1886). Is this an indication of confusion about the names or did John and Hutchinson Royes (known as Royes) Bell combine to contribute the article? He is referred to frequently in Yseult Bridges book on the death of Charles Bravo (his cousin) James Ruddick comments that Charles Turner Bravo and Royes Bell played together as boys in St Anns Jamaica. This is not impossible but there is no evidence for this and Ruddick does not supply any. If it were the case, then presumably his mother Emily and family had visited her brother Charles after the 1851 Census and before Charles and Royes would no longer be termed "boys" - perhaps 1852-55. Ruddick also says that Royes was just a year older than Charles - all the data says that he was 3-4 years older. [4, 5] See http://www.kingscollections.org/victorianlives/a-c/bell-hutchinson-royes
  Person ID	I3479	Roy~Royes | Hogan, Hougham, Jamaican Royes, Mordaunt, Royes, Russell
  Last Modified	22 May 2017

  
  

  Father	Hutchinson Bell           b. Bef 25 Aug 1793, Leconfield, Yorkshire, England           d. 20 Feb 1847, Sydney, NSW, Australia  (Age ~ 53 years)
  Mother	Emily Royes           b. 3 Aug 1817, St Botolph without Aldersgate, London, England           d. 25 Nov 1875, Marylebone, London, England  (Age 58 years)
  Married	3 Feb 1838	St James Church of England, Sydney, NSW, Australia   [6, 7]
  	Emily is married within two weeks of arriving in Sydney. She must have know Hutchinson previously or perhaps they met on the journey.
  Overviews		1817 ROYES-BELL Emily Emily Royes married Hutchinson Bell in Sydney in 1838 but returned to England with her children after her husband died. She subsequently married Henry Smith in London.
  Family ID	F835	Family Group  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1841 - Sydney, NSW, Australia Migration/Travel - Aft 1847 - Islington, London, England Census - age 9, scholar at home - 30 Mar 1851 - 5 Red St, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands Census - student Kings College, aged 19 - 7 Apr 1861 - 17 Endsleigh St, St Pancras, London, England Census - age 29, surgeon and landowner - birthplace transcribed as Sidney, Wales! - 2 Apr 1871 - 44 Harley St, Marylebone, London, England Census - aged 39, surgeon - 3 Apr 1881 - 44 Harley St, Marylebone, London, England Died - Jun 1886 - Elham, Kent, England Buried - 18 Jun 1886 - Fulham Road, Kensington, London, England Probate - BELL Hutchinson Royes. Personal Estate £12,934 16s 5d. 31 July. The Will of Hutchinson Royes Bell formerly of 44 Harley-street but late of 12 Queen-Anne-street Cavendish-square both in the County of Middlesex Surgeon who died 15 June 1886 at Folkestone in the County of Kent was proved at the Principal Registry by John Hougham Bell of Downside Ventnor in the Isle of Wight in the County of Southampton M.D. the Brother the surviving Executor. - 31 Jul 1886 - London, England  = Link to Google Earth
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  Documents		Newspaper extracts relating to the Charles Bravo poisoning case
  		A skillful feat Evening Post, 25 Nov 1876

  
  

• Sources

  [S306] Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922  (Ancestry.com), NSW V1841533 25A Sydney. [S29] England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes  District: Elham Vol 2a Page 570. [S53] Hutchinson Royes Bell  (British Medical Journal). [S26] Yseult Bridges, How Charles Bravo Died  (Jarrolds, London: 1956). [S49] James Ruddick, Death at the Priory  (New York: Grove Press, 2001), p 76. [S45] NSW Pioneers Register Marriage  vol ref v18381626 22. [S47] Sydney Morning Herald  8 Feb 1838.