Brief Life History of Sheena Dorothy Mary
When Sheena Dorothy Mary Bell was born on 27 May 1921, her father, Harland Shinglewood Bell, was 40 and her mother, Dorothy Hilda McBean, was 27. She died on 29 January 1995, in South Africa, at the age of 73, and was buried in Walmer, Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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Sources (4)
- Bunty Gibbings, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sheena Dorothy Mary Gibbings in entry for Susan Jane Gibbings, "South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004"
- Sheena Dorothy Mary Bill, "South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004"
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World Events (8)
1922
Communist Party of South Africa established (after 1953, the South African Communist Party).
1923
Natives Urban Areas Act authorizes segregation in urban areas. South African Indian Congress established. South African Native National Congress becomes African National Congress (ANC).
1949
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.
Name Meaning
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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