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Hello and welcome to The Bethell's web site this is for the furtherance of genealogical research and the history of the Bethell family
Our MissionTo research and link as many families in the worldwide Bethell family and promote mutual cooperation through out the world wide community of Bethell researchers, to share freely our research and history.
HistoryThanks to Dr David Bethel who has researched in depth the Bethell family history and traced it back to the North Wales King ,King Ithel of 775 ad and there some 17 derivatives of the family name Ithel Bithel Bythel Bethel Bethell Abethel Abethell. from Dr David's research we know the fortunes of the Bethell's over many centuries and the spread of the family from the most senior Lords and Ladies to the humblest farm worker the family has always had a strong link to military service and from Dr David's Book An Industrious People we have births and deaths around the world from the settlement of Australia to the modern soldiers sailors and airmen of the 20Th Century and the record's of the birth's in places like Aden Singapore, there references to my family who were farm workers in the villages of Hope under Dinmore, Bodenham, Wellington and the Leominster area of Herefordshire after leaving the land in the late 1800's the family became brewers working for the Hereford brewery and one was colour Sergeant of the Hereford regiment. The last known Bethell to leave the village of Hope-under-Dinmore is alive and living in Hereford and I am looking for her, to conclude over 300 years of history in the village. ( After 4 years of searching, Alas she has declined to take part and the link is now closed). Alas after searching and some indirect contact the lady decided she did not wish to be part of our research so I will have to add as much as I can in the future. January 2006 It is my sad duty to inform all the web site visitors of the sad death of Dr David Bethel He died in mid December 2005 after a long illness. This information was passed to me by his Daughter Ruth, He was a great inspiration and his work will live on in his book. February 2006 Ms Ruth Bethel has informed me that an exhibition of Dr David's art work will be on display at an art gallery in Bristol this will be updated as soon as I have more information. Limited edition prints will be available. Watch this space for further details. Dr David's Art Here now, see the header link. John B
06/01/07 New for 2007 research by Jonathan Bethell who is a coach driver and conducts battlefield tours for Galloway coaches. While the tour party are off doing their own thing, he spend some of his time looking for Bethells for this new project however you could just go to the war graves commission site. see the above link to the new page.
22/08/08 22/08/08 Mark Bithell has launched his own web site www.backtothepast2008.co.uk and if anyone has a bithell link please let him know and please have a look at his site we all need as many hits as possible. thanks John B
New for 2009 I have reformatted the Personal links page to allow greater input from you and a bigger area for your history search to help you make more contacts, best wishes for the new year hope you all had a good Christmas. Please contact me by email or post please to participate in the research and family links to others you may offer your family tree or other contact information if you wish to use this facility . The use of this site is free for all for non commercial purposes. If you wish to contribute to the site and seek help from others please help me do this quickly by following the next steps. Please follow the next instructions: Look at the personal links page and create a piece to be published on this page giving background information and what you want to achieve ( please contact me or need help) there is loads of space so don't be shy in giving info or asking for help that is what we all want, and we all want to make links to other tree's. Secondly when completed send it to me in an email and I can upload it to the site. However you must add in your e mail a line to cover the regulations of the data protection act example( please find included/attached details of my family history to be published on your web site).
Thanks for your help and support over the past years and hope to keep going for many years to come.
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