When Joseph Alma Bell was born on 6 October 1846, in Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, his father, John Watson Bell I, Member of the 1854 Pioneer Company, was 41 and his mother, Ann Berrick Fish , Member of the 1854 Pioneer Company, was 34. He lived in Mona, Juab, Utah, United States in 1880 and Montezuma, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died in 1922, at the age of 76.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
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English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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