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V Lydia Bell

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1881 personal census, Colchester South Twp, Essex Co., ON, LDS Can 1881 census household record:
Shay James, M, Married, 33, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Regular Baptist, Farmer;
Lydia, F, Married, 30, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Church of England;
Allen, M, 4, born Ont, origin: Scottish, Regular Baptist;
Margaret, F, Widowed, 67, born Scotland, Regular Baptist.

1901 personal census, Malden Twp, Essex Co., ON, J3-5:
Shay A. James, M, Married, 4 July 1848, 52, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Ch of Eng, R Farmer;
Lydia, F, wife, Married, 4 March 1811[sic], 49, born Ont, origin: Scotch, Can, Ch of Eng.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 573-574:
James Shay, one of the prominent men of Amherstburg, County of Essex, is descended from Irish and Scotch parentage.
      Timothy Shay, his grandfather, was born in Ireland about 1780, and was a sailor all his life. As early as 1810 he emigrated to the County of Essex, purchasing 200 acres in Colchester South, on Lake Erie, where he died about 1858.
      John Shay, son of Timothy, was born in Colchester South, in 1812. In 1842 he married Margaret Rae, daughter of James Rae, of Scotch extraction... Their children were: ... James...
      James Shay was born on the old homestead in Colchester South July 4, 1848, and there grew to manhood. He followed farming in Colchester, and became owner of the old homestead of 200 acres. In 1890 Mr. Shay sold his fine farm, and settled in Amherstburg, where he is now enjoying the fruits of his many years of unremitting labor. On June 5, 1876, he married Miss Lydia Bell, and their one son, Allen, born in 1877, is one of the most thoroughly accomplished musicians in Western Ontario, having studied music in Detroit, where for some time he was connected with the leading musical schools, and has since been musical director of leading opera troops in the United States. Mr. Shay is a consistent member of the Church of England, as was also his wife. Politically he is a Liberal, although he has never taken an active part in public affairs. Fraternally he belongs to the A.O.U.W. and the K. of P. Mrs. Shay died Dec. 8, 1902 and was buried in Amherstburg.
      James Bell, the father of Mrs. Shay, was born in Scotland in 1806, and came to the County of Essex in 1833. He was a finely educated man, being a graduate of the Glasgow University. During the time in which he was a student he also acted as a teacher in the university, and after locating in the County of Essex, he was a successful teacher in Amherstburg, as well as in Toronto, and was finally made superintendent of schools at South Essex, being succeeded by the present incumbent, Dr. Maxwell, of Windsor. While he devoted his entire life to school work, he also owned a fine farm in Colchester South, where he died in 1891, aged eighty-five years. His wife, Mary Noble, was a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Ross) Noble, and was born in Scotland in 1819; she died in 1901, the mother of the following children: Margaret, deceased; David, deceased; James, who died at the age of twenty-eight years; Miss Eliza; Charles, of Colchester South; James, of Windsor; Mrs. Shay; Frank, of Colchester South; Fred a graduate of the Toronto University, now a teacher in the Windsor Collegiate Institute; George, deceased; and Maria, deceased.
      James Bell was a son of James Bell, Sr., who was born in Scotland, and there married and died. His children were Nicholas, Elizabeth, Lydia and James.

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James Bell 1806-1891   Mary Noble 1819-1901
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Lydia Bell 1851-1902