Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Book - Religious Book/Bilble, Oxford University Press, The Holy Bible, 1866
... The family joined Joseph's younger brother, William Walter Bell, to farm a massive 1,600-acre property called "Thornbury" at Brundah Creek in the Grenfell area. ...The family joined Joseph's younger brother, William Walter Bell, to farm a massive 1,600-acre property called "Thornbury" at Brundah Creek in the Grenfell area. ...
To understand the nature of your 1866 Oxford University Press (OUP) Bible, it helps to look at how Bibles were produced in the 19th century and the massive historical scale of the publisher. The context of the King James Version Bible is indicated by the standard phrase on the flyleaf: "Translated out of the Original Tongues... By His Majesty's Special Command." This work is a historical 1866 reprint of the original version published in 1611. This particular volume served as the family Bible for Joseph and Elizabeth Bell, documenting their family history through the births and deaths noted on its end papers.
Book, black hard cover with embossed pattern and gold test, metal locking clasp. King James Version of the Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1866.
Inscriptions on the loose endpaper list the marriage of Joseph and Elizabeth Bell in 1854 at St Paul's, Bristol, England, and their ten children born from 1856 to 1878.non-fictionTo understand the nature of your 1866 Oxford University Press (OUP) Bible, it helps to look at how Bibles were produced in the 19th century and the massive historical scale of the publisher. The context of the King James Version Bible is indicated by the standard phrase on the flyleaf: "Translated out of the Original Tongues... By His Majesty's Special Command." This work is a historical 1866 reprint of the original version published in 1611. This particular volume served as the family Bible for Joseph and Elizabeth Bell, documenting their family history through the births and deaths noted on its end papers.flagstaff hill, flagstaff hill maritime museum and village, warrnambool, maritime museum, maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck coast, holy bible, book, religious book, bell family, bell family bible, elizabeth bell, joseph bell, 1826, 1833, 1854, st paul's bristol
