(1702 - 70), s. of 3rd B. Bellew [I] of Duleek, co. Louth; suc. fa. 1715 as 4th B.; m. 1 1731 at Lucca Ldy. Anne Maxwell (d. 1735), dau. of 5th E. of Nithsdale [S], 2 1737 Mary Fitzgerald (d. 1742), wid. of Sir Valentine Browne, 3 1749 Ldy. Henrietta Lee (d. 1752), dau. of 2nd E. of Lichfield.
1731 - 3 [Lyons summer 1731] Lucca (by 13 Sep. 1731), Leghorn (by 26 Sep.), Pistoia, Florence (Feb. 1732), Rome (Feb. 1732 - 1733), Florence (Sep. - early Oct.), Bologna (Oct.)
1754 Turin (May)
Lord Bellew was in Lyons in the summer of 1731,1 and on 13 September in Lucca he was married by a Jesuit priest, Richardson, to Lady Anne Maxwell, daughter of the Jacobite 5th Earl of Nithsdale (who was then travelling under the assumed name of Brown).2 They travelled to Leghorn, arriving by 26 September,2 and from there to Pistoia, where they lived in a palace for some time before going on to Florence and Rome in February 1732.3 In Rome they were listed at Easter 1732 and 1733 as living in the Via di San Sebastianello, near the Piazza di Spagna.4 A Mrs Lindsay, who spent eight years in Italy, was then living with them, attending Lady Bellew.5 Their daughter, Mary Frances, was born in 1732 and Joseph Spence met 'Lady Bellieu, Lady Ann, Lady Frances' between May and June that year.6 By the end of September, Lord and Lady Bellew were in Florence with David Nairne, the Pretender's treasurer, who was travelling secretly with them to England; they had departed for Bologna by 3 October.7
After the death of his third wife, Bellew visited Italy again in the company of his daughter. They passed through Turin with a Mr Butler at the end of May 1754.8
1. Spence Letters, 56n1. 2. SP 98/26 (Skinner, 26 Sep. 1731). 3. SP 98/32, ff.285, 344 (Walton, 20 Oct. 1731, 23 Feb. 1732). SP 98/33 (Colman, Feb. 1732). 4. AVR SA, S.Lorenzo in Lucina. 5. Pococke letters MSS, f.29 (23 May 1736). 6. Spence Letters, 419. 7. SP 98/32, ff.575, 578 (Walton, 27 Sep., 3 Oct. 1733). 8. SP 105/310, f.334 (Charles, 29 May 1754).