The 1911 Census has a Thomas Bell, marine engineer, living at 155 Fountains Road, Kirkdale, who was born in 1857 in Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is described as a widower living with three daughters and four sons, Isabella (26), Maggie (25), Janet (22), Thomas (20), Robert (18), George (14) and Andrew Finnie (12). The 1901 Census has him at 23 Tetlow Street, Kirkdale, living with his wife Janet and the same seven children plus another daughter Mirren, then aged 6. According to this census he was born in Baldernock (now in East Dumbartonshire) and his wife was from Stevenston in Ayrshire. Could be him?
