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Hello - I'm a newbie at geneology and am looking for information. I am trying to sort out fact and fiction from my family history of the Joells in Bermuda. As with other surnames, my family also has oral history saying that everyone with the "Joell" spelling is related, and that the name was changed in Bermuda, adding an 'l' to aid pronunciation. A great-aunt did preliminary research in the 1970s, but was unable to get beyond Walter Ambrose Joell, born in the late 1870s or 1880s, and his mother Alice Joell who was born into slavery and freed - before that the family record is blank. The family 'history' suggests that Walter was 1/2 Spanish, which I find unlikely. Walter Joell emigrated to the US, married, and was survived by 10 children (according to the family).
I am just starting my search after checking the rootsgen/ bermuda site. I will also be traveling to Bermuda for the first time in a month or so. Does anyone have any leads or suggestions on where to go next? Are there any records of freed people of color before slavery ended in Bermuda?
Any help/advice is much appreciated!
Sue Lyons-Joell
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