BELL, Charles (Grimwade p.357)

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Goldworkers List (Section VII).

He may have been born in December 1791.
A baptism in 1792 of a Charles Bell with that date of birth is recorded in the register at St Edmund King & Martyr, Lombard Street. His father's name was John.
Indentures in 1806 show Charles Bell, whose father was John of Shoreditch, was apprenticed to Thomas Mayfield a jeweller of Staining Lane (Grimwade p.382).
He entered a maker’s mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1815 as a goldworker at 5 Albion Buildings, Bartholomew Close, Clerkenwell.
A marriage is recorded in 1815 at St Botolph, Aldersgate between a Charles Bell and Mary Marshall; both were of that parish.
There is a christening record dated 1819 at St Botolph, Aldersgate for a child of Charles Bell jeweller of Aldersgate Street and his wife Mary and another at the same church in 1820 in which Charles Bell jeweller and his wife Mary are shown at King Street. Christening records 1822-31 at St James, Clerkenwell for a further four of their children continue to show the father as a jeweller at King Street.
His address was changed to King Street in the Goldsmith Hall records in 1829.
A christening record dated 1837 at the same church shows the parents’ address as Compton Street. The Goldsmith Hall records for him had been changed to that address in 1832.
The 1841 UK Census for Compton Street records him as a jeweller.
He possibly died in 1848. There is a burial record at All Souls, Kensal Green Cemetery dated July 1848 for a Charles Bell aged 56 years late of Dufours Place, Broad Street. His wife Mary is recorded in the 1851 UK census as a widow and a milliner living with two daughters at 38 Stanhope Street, St Pancras.