Two women called Bell on Good Hope
Two children on the Good Hope estate are listed to a mother called Bell: a daughter called Fanny (b. 1815) and a son called January (b. 20th of September 1818, d. 27th of November 1818).*
Two women called Bell were included in the 1817 slave register for this estate. One was born in Africa in about 1783 and the other in Jamaica in about 1786.
The death of a woman Bell who was born in Jamaica was registered in the 1820 return as having occurred on the 10th of December 1817, at the age of 31 and a half. The death of 'Bell Ebo' was recorded in the 1823 return, and her age at death was estimated at 38.
This means that it must have been the Bell born in Africa who gave birth to January in 1818. Fanny could have been the daughter of either woman.
* The 1820 return is the only one that gives precise dates for births and deaths.
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