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Biography
George was born in autumn 1863, the first child of George Bellamy and Eliza Thiele.[1] Sister Edith was added to the family while they remained in Bermuda. Father George, an assistant surgeon with the Royal Navy, was in spring 1865 posted to HMS Cumberland in port at Sheerness, Kent, where brother Arthur was born. The group of five then relocated to Vancouver Island when in spring 1866 father George was attached to HMS Sutlej and assigned duties at the naval hospital at Esquimalt.

While at Esquimalt, brother Hugh and sisters Gertrude and Alice were added to the family. Brother Francis arrived as his parents separated, with father George returning to England and passing away in 1875. The 1881 Canada census also included half-brother Edward in the family.[2]

George went to England some time before 1891, where the census found him living in the North London suburb of Islington.[3] At age 28 in autumn 1892, George married 19-year-old Susannah Clare at nearby Shoreditch.[4] Returning to Victoria, evidently a dalliance in the restaurant business did not bear fruit,[5] and George followed his close siblings to the mining boom town of Leadville, Colorado by 1896. Sisters Helen and Alice married there, but George's marriage did not last, as Susannah was found living Victoria, BC without her husband by 1901, and went on to marry George's brother Francis in 1908.

George was listed in the 1900 US census still living in Leadville.[6] Starting in 1901 George moved around, including stops in Seattle and Salt Lake City, but returned to Leadville in summer 1906.[7] In spring 1911 he was arrested for selling illegal Mexican lottery tickets.[8]

A notice in autumn 1922 indicated George was critically ill,[9] and he passed away shortly thereafter:

No word had been received by the Moynahan-O'Malia company which has charge of funeral arrangements for the late George Bellamy from a sister of the decedent in Victoria, British Columbia, yesterday, and the time of services had not been set. Mr. Bellamy's sister is said to be the sole survivor of his immediate family. George Bellamy, who observed his fifty-ninth birthday recently, was for more than twenty years one of the 'characters' of Leadville. Well educated and widely traveled, Bellamy nevertheless knew little of the meaning of 'success'. His nearest approach to independence was made in the hotel business in Victoria, but his failure there was also the most marked of his career. Bellamy's early life yielded many promises. He was a native of the Bermudas and the son of a surgeon in the British [Navy]. He was a cosmopolitan when, as a youth, he entered Oxford university, where, he studied during the history-making '80's. During his school days his home was in London. After leaving Oxford, Mr. Bellamy sailed for North America and mad his way westward to Vancouver and later Victoria. In the latter city he ventured in the hotel business and met with failure. He came to Leadville from Victoria more than twenty years ago. He was for a number of years a bookkeeper in the insurance office of the late Dan Healy at 102 East Fifth Street. In this capacity he lived comfortably, but after the death of Mr. Healy he never fared well. He spent part of his time keeping books for different firms of the city and took whatever odd jobs was offered him. Efforts to obtain steady positions in local mines and smelters were unavailing, because of his physical inability to retain them. As are many men who lack the endurance demanded by work of this kind, however, Mr. Bellamy had a great reserve of another type. He was a hiker of more than local reputation and is said to have made one walk to the Pacific coast and back to Leadville. As evidence of his loyalty to friends was his walk from Buena Vista to Leadville - a distance of 38 miles - on the occasion of Mr. Healy's death, about ten years ago. He was a member of St. George's Episcopal church of Leadville. His death came at 10 o'clock Sunday [Nov 26] morning at the county hospital as a result of an attach of pneumonia sustained while nursing S. Clark Lyon, another eccentric who died but a few days before, during his fatal illness. Lyon and Bellamy were of a type - educated but unblessed with faculty of making money - and were close friends.[10]
George William Bellamy was buried in Evergreen Cemetery on December 2, 1922, age 59.[11][12]

Research Notes
It appears unlikely that George graduated from Oxford University. Evidence of attendance has yet to be uncovered.

Sources
1. (birth notice) Bermuda Royal Gazette, November 3, 1863, page 3, https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/BermudaNP02/id/13094/rec/1
2. Canada Census 1881, British Columbia, District No. 190, S. District D Victoria City, page 7, lines 9-17, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=census&id=18317371&lang=eng
3. FamilySearch Record: Q7TN-2MM
4. (marriage) Free UK Genealogy CIO, https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=kcXVOxpg0S94Vqfo5gDsuQ&scan=1
5. "Mr C. R. Browne has acquired an interest with Mr. Geo. Bellamy in the Wilson restaurant...", Victoria Daily Colonist, January 7, 1893, page 5, https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist18930107uvic/page/n4/mode/1up
6. FamilySearch Record: MQM8-NVF
7. Leadville Herald Democrat, August 19, 1906, page 10
8. Leadville Herald Democrat, April 30, 1911, page 5
9. "Relative Critically Ill", Victoria Daily Times, November 24, 1922, page 9, https://archive.org/details/victoriadailytimes19221124/page/n8/mode/1up
10. "George Bellamy", Leadville Herald Democrat, November 28, 1922, page 6, https://tinyurl.com/4e6tkt4a
11. https://lakecountypubliclibrary.org/localhistory/cemeteryrecords
12. Find A Grave: Memorial #260714588