[Bell Historians] Fw: Bell

Thu Nov 14 21:19:33 GMT 2019

Very many thanks for this information and for giving my posting your attention.
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Bryan McCahey

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    On Thursday, 14 November 2019, 18:29:34 GMT, La Greenall laalaagrr at googlemail.com [bellhistorians] <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> wrote:  

 For what it's worth:

 In 1797, a Wm. BRAKELL served as one of two bailiffs under Preston's Mayor..

 One or more "Mr. William BRAKELL"s served on the jury at the Preston Court Leet in 1795, 1802, 1803, 1806, and no doubt in other years as well. However, he wasn't on the jury during the session held on 27 Oct 1808, when the court recorded the following:

"We present William Brakell of the borough aforesaid brazier for having in his possession two weights deficient in weight. Forfeited."

 [http://www.wyrearchaeology.org.uk/mw/index.php?title=1808]

 On the other hand, a deed at the National Archives records that a William Hutton of Preston took out a £4000 mortgage in 1809 with "William Brakell of Preston, gent. of Hyde Hall, Denton".
[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/b473725a-68f6-496b-bf31-384fd01c323e]

 The problem is that I can't corroborate this. It seems that a John Gould held Hyde Hall from 1806 for many years - see http://www.pittdixon.go-plus.net/denton/hyde-hall.htm.

 I suggest that this might be enough to make the W Brakell on the bell more likely a donor than a founder. I dare say a brazier probably couldn't cast a bell - but he might know of one who would welcome a cheap supply of metal!

 In 1833, the ship Lloyds transported 200 convicts to NSW; among them was a William Brakell who had been convicted at the Lancaster Quarter Session. (No further info in this source; Lancaster is a long way from Preston but it is also the county town.)
 [https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/lloyds/1833]

 A more general search shows that the surname Brakell occurred in various place in Lancashire at that time, especially it seems in Preston and its vicinity. A few also occur in Cumbria, but it is clearly a Lancs name even today [scroll down to the map at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=brakell]. However it is extremely rare; there are supposedly 47 Brakells in England.

 There is a Dutch surname "van Brakell" or Brakel, but Brakell appears to be English:

Brakell Surname Definition: (English) Dweller at the Bushy Slope or Corner [Middle English brake, a bush, thicket = Low German brake + Middle English hale, Old English h(e)al(h]

 Some spelling variants do exist, including Brakle, Breakell and Breckell.

 Lawrence Greenall

 [My surname is just as Lancs as Brakell, even today being very rare outside of Lancs, though not as rare as Brakell. My 4xgrt grandfather Rev. Thomas Greenall, minster of Bethesda Street Congregational Chapel in Burnley, retired to Preston for the fresh sea air in the 1840s; his son Thomas junior married Anne Patterson, a daughter of an Edinburgh solicitor, at Preston in 1851. Their son William Patterson Greenall brought the name down south in the 1870s.]

 On 14/11/2019 15:48, 'George Dawson' georgebellringer at gmail.com [bellhistorians] wrote:

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W Brakell, Preston 1807 bell
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It was rehung by Taylors in 2007, the inscription reads W BRAKELL PRESTON  1807

Possibly a local founder or donor.

The canons are unusually large for a small bell

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