References:

E Jerningham Wakefield . Adventure in New Zealand, details events in Wellington and Wanganui.

Louis Ward. Early Wellington, repeats the Wellington details.

TW Downes. Old Whanganui, gives more detail on Wanganui events.

JNW Newport. Footprints, mentions Golden Downs and Belgrove.

Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Vol 5. Nelson Marlborough. West Coast. 1906 articles on James Bell Jnr and Elizabeth Bell.

RCJ Stone, Young Logan Campbell, discusses Scottish immigration to Australia and relates Campbell's move to New Zealand.

Nelson Provincial Museum has records of death notices, jury lists, electoral rolls, cemetery records. 1849 Census, 1882 Return of Freeholders.

Nelson Lands and Deed Office has landholding records.

Family papers, including Elizabeth Bell's diary and sundry letters from the 1840s to the 1880s and later letters with reminiscences were collected by the late Christian Bell who used them to comprise a private account of the family history.

Jean Williams took over all this material and produced a booklet. The Bell Family Affair, containing a family tree and history, and a history article in the Nelson Evening Mail , 19 May 1984. This material is now with the present writer.