Category: Family

  Brenda Bayliss, who posted a comment on Verdict, has proved to be a diligent and accurate genealogist of the Hill family, from whom her husband is descended. It was rather remarkable that she tracked me down through this website which hitherto has only mentioned Bellew family history.

Mr Justice Chamberlain then told the jury that the present prosecution was the most unfounded and unsupported of any that had ever appeared. That there was not a tittle of evidence to support it; that on the contrary the very evidence produced by the Crown, proved the very reverse of the charge brought forward.

Mr Dobbs then on behalf of the traverser declared he hardly knew what he ought to say, after such a prosecution, acquittal was out of the question, for conviction was impossible. But in such a business it was necessary to say something that might go along with that acquittal, to satisfy the public of the… Continue reading Indictment IV

Mr William Bellew continues his Cross Examination of John Ruxton, of Dunleer, second Witness for the Crown: –

John Ruxton, of Dunleer, second Witness for the Crown, produced and sworn, examined as follows by Mr Saurin: –

Dundalk Spring Assizes, 1794. On Saturday , April 19th, the following Trial came on before the Honourable Justice Chamberlain: – The King against Francis Bellew Esq.

In the last post John Bellew died in 1679. His widow, Mary nee Dillon, built a fine chapel in the woods above Barmeath where members of our family are still commemorated and interred. He had two sons and a daughter: Patrick, Christopher and Mary. We need only concern ourselves with the eldest son.