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Fingers crossed indeed that the tree owner in question has some helpful info………..please let us know how it pans out

I have just done a search and found the above tree containing Brenda so I have messaged them. The lady on ancestry only knows that James Alexander Demetrius m bell was born to his parents nothing else. Fingers crossed

ON THIS SITE

Brenda Constance Julia Bell 1946 Poona, Bombay, India... No M****

James Alexander Demetrius Bell 1919 Bangalore, Madras, I... No M****

The names of the owners of the GR and Ancestry trees are not at all similar, so it will be worth contacting the GR one, especially as she knows of Brenda's existence.

I looked and found both James and Brenda in a GR tree. It may of course be the same person who has her tree on Ancestry……….you will be able to determine if that’s the case as you must know the name of the one on Ancestry

I’ve just done a search for James Alexander demetrius and Daisy constance Nicholas and they don’t appear on any trees. I have found them on one on ancestry, I contacted the owner but all she knows is that James Alexander Demetrius was son of James C W Bell and Daisy that’s it nothing more .
There is a lady in the Uk who’s grandma is the Daughter of James C W Bell and Rosina Vowles they married in 1927, but she is unaware of James C W Bells life before this

Have you checked whether that has happened? ON HERE…………

Thank you for looking
I’m thinking other than somebody putting a family tree up with them in it I’ll never know.

Nor can I........................

The elder girl's birth is on FMP, but of course, everything changed in India in 1947

I doubt that anything will be online

I must be doing something wrong on FS .
I can't see the 1949 daughter at all!

The British Indian records pre 1947 are held in the British Library rather than the National Archives.

Thank you yesterday I found another daughter of James and Dorothea on Famiky search
Jamie Patricia Avril bell brn in 1949
It’s sad that James C W Bell came back to uk and left them behind. James C W remarried in uk and had other children but I don’t think his other children knew. I found the great grand daughter in uk when I asked her on ancestry about India she had no idea what I meant

Here's the marriage AG

First name(s) James Alexander Dewetrine
Bride's age 20
Last name Bell
Catalogue description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bombay, 1709-1948, :
Marriage year 1945
Archive reference N-3-174
Marriage date 1945
Folio number 232
Spouse's first name(s) Dorothea Patricia Mary
Entry number -
Spouse's last name Davis
Record set British India Office Marriages
Place Poona
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Presidency Bombay
Subcategory Parish Marriages
Country India
Collections from Great Britain, UK None
Groom's age 26

I can't find any sign of either James or Dorothea, nor of their daughter Brenda Constance Julia, on FIBIS.

(Which, incidentally, is a really fiddly website to search on!)

Clickable link to FIBIS site

https://www.fibis.org/

JAD Bell's baptism and marriage are on FMP, but can't see anything else about him

Aaaghhh!

In case anyone else can find JADB's marriage on FS (where I found it in 2020, bur can't now) or elsewhere, his wife's name was given as Dorothea Patricia May Davis, even though she was Mary Patricia Dorothy Davis at birth (baptism above).

Marriage was in 1945, in Poona, Bombay.

Lindsay posted a new thread yesterday and I advised her to add it to her previous request……..not realising that there were at least TWO.

The one I found was using keyword Demetrius…..not this one

Multiple postings cause confusion

ADDED

She has now deleted the thread on which all the info was held about the Indian branch of the family :-| :-| :-|

I see from the other thread that I found James A D's marriage on FamilySearch, and presumably the first child's birth -
but I can't find it on FS now.

James A D's wife's baptism - not helping this query, but just because I found it! -

Mary Patricia Dorothy Davis
Christening • United Kingdom, British India Office, Births and Baptisms, 1712-1965
Mary Patricia Dorothy Davis person details
Name Mary Patricia Dorothy Davis
Birth Date 19 Apr 1925
Father's Name Benjamin Arthur Davis
Father's Sex Male
Mother's Name Julia Edith
Mother's Sex Female
Event Type Baptism
Event Date 21 May 1925
Event Place Madras Presidency, India
Event Place (Original) Madras, India
Source Description Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Madras
Page Number 16
Series Number N-2-137

Lindsey's previous thread about the Bell family:

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1387072