Keith Wilson (2009)
Mathew Wilson 1726-1802
George Wilson 1758-1830
Mathew Wilson 1790-1873
George Wilson 1818-1903
William Wilson 1855-1941

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The final strand of this account takes us back to Alne and Tollerton. In the section about the so-called ‘other Wilsons’ Thomas Wilson married Hannah Bell of Tollerton. Hannah was born on 5^th February 1800 and baptised on 11^th February. According to the baptismal entry, she was ‘the daughter of William Bell of Tollerton wheelwright by Mary his wife – daughter of Wm. Hill Huby farmer by Mary his wife.’ Baptismal entries vary, from parish to parish, in the details written down, and this one was one of the more detailed entries, giving quite an amount of genealogical information.

Hannah was married to Thomas on 4^th April 1826, at the church in Alne. Her parents were William and Mary, married on 12^th October 1795 in Sutton on the Forest: ‘William Bell of this parish carpenter and Mary Hill of this parish spinster were married in this church by banns this twelfth day of October 1795’. Witnesses were Thomas Field, Rachel Bolton and George Bell.

Hannah’s father, William Bell, was christened in Sutton on Forest on 31^st August 1773. His parents were Thomas and Esther, nee Richardson. The next recorded event in his life was his marriage to Mary, and their first child, John, was christened in Alne on 20^th February 1797. Hannah’s birth followed in 1800, and they went on to have five more children. These were:  Mary, b. 11^th February 1803, christened on 20^th Feb., William, b. 30^th January 1808, chr. on 12^th Feb., Esther, b. 16^th October 1810, chr. 25^th Oct., John, christened on 24^th February 1814, and Mark, christened on 15^th February 1816. All, or most, of the children were born in Tollerton.

The 1841 census finds William and Mary living in Tollerton, William now aged 68, his occupation given as a carpenter. Mary was also 68.

The more detailed 1851 census, also for Tollerton, describes William, 77, as a master carpenter employing 3 men. According to this census he was born in Huby. Mary, his wife, now 78, was born in Marton Lordship. Also in the house were William, their son, aged 43, a carpenter, Mary, their daughter-in-law, aged 45, born in Smeeton, Maryanne, their grand-daughter, aged 13, and George, their grandson, aged 9. Completing the household were Thomas Richardson, aged 21, a journeyman carpenter, and George Mennell, 16, an apprentice. Thomas could well have been a relation, given that William’s mother was Esther Richardson.

William was buried in Alne on 5^th September 1851. He was 78 year’s old. Mary died at the age of 84, and was buried in Alne on 31^st March 1857.