[1] On 14 June 1859 in Newcastle he married Mary Ann Burn, from Crookhill, who was about 16 years old,[nb 5] and they had six children, including Robert Eusebius Beall, who took over the business when his father died, and ran it until his own death in 1909.

[15][16] Ward's Directory indicates that Beall's business originated as Walker & Emley, a firm of masons, smiths and ironfounders, which operated at 42–44 Westgate Road, Newcastle, and at the Neville Steam Marble and Granite Works at Gateshead.

[18] Another source suggests that ironmonger and ironfounder Henry Walker joined with Emley and Beall by 1876, and left the partnership in 1885.

[20] Whatever the nature of the partnership, Beall was running the monumental masonry and sculpture company in Newcastle upon Tyne by 1861, when he was 25 years old.

[22][23] One of Beall's apprentices was John Rogers,[nb 9][24][25] who was employed by the firm for fifty-five years, and executed the twenty-five stone heads on Worswick Chambers, Newcastle, in 1891.

[31] However, some newspapers said that the premium for the original design competition for the drinking fountain was awarded to the young architect Septimus Hird of Darlington, who drowned in the sea in July 1861, aged 17, before the building was completed.

[34][29] The original inscription on the clock tower said, "Erected by William Scott, Esq., of London, and presented to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Tynemouth, 1861".

Along with his corporation, the mayor celebrated the occasion by drinking some of the water from a silver cup, while a 21-gun salute was fired from the Castle Yard by the Northumberland Artillery Corps, after which the NSRC band played the National Anthem.

[29] This celebration incurred a cost to the town corporation of £8 8s 9d (equivalent to £994.8 in 2023), for 117 suppers, 29 gallons of beer and 11 bottles of soda water.

[37] Costing £4,400 (equivalent to £492,453 in 2023),[34][38][39] It was restored to designs by architect John Wilson Walton,[nb 11][40][41] and re-opened and consecrated by the Bishop of Ripon, on 16 October 1873, after three hundred years of neglect.

The heads at the intersection of the pediment are surmounted with finials of the Early English Period, carved in a very rich manner.

The central pediment rises above the clerestory string course [its niche and side panels were not yet filled with the intended crucifixion and saint figures] ...

It is a water fountain with trough and pump, made of Sicilian marble, and funded by the financier Albert Grant.

[45] Around that time, Beall carved the Uttoxeter marble pulpit with its alabaster figures, designed by architect Robert James Johnson for the cathedral.

[48] At some point between 1873 and 1887, Beall carved the decorative framework and smaller figures of the reredos in Uttoxeter marble and alabaster, in the same building.

[21] James Sherwood Westmacott carved the sixteen larger Caen stone figures in the niches of the reredos.

[47] Beall erected a "beautifully polished grey granite" memorial cross for a young man in the churchyard of Blanchland Abbey Church, in 1882.

[49] Farmers Robert Snowball and his father, and their servant Jane Barron aged 27, lived in a lonely farmhouse on the moor at Belmount.

After Robert Snowball told Barron at dinner that he "knew about her lad", he was found dead the next morning in the farm loft on 1 January 1880, his skull battered from behind with a stone-breaking hammer.

[20] St George's Church, Jesmond, was designed by architect Thomas Ralph Spence and consecrated by the Bishop of Newcastle on 16 October 1888.

[20][57] As viewed from the nave, it frames the west window of the church, and a bronze statue of St George by Spence.

[55]In 1888, Robert Beall (as Emley & Co) erected a "neat grey granite monument, all polished, standing 9 feet high".

[22][23] Under Robert Eusebius Beall, the company reconstructed the Acca’s Cross in St. Andrew’s cemetery in Hexham and, in 1896, repaired the Grace Darling memorial in Bamburgh.

[62] Another such memorial is at St George's churchyard, Cullercoats, Northumberland,[60][63] and another was at Fatfield, Sunderland, but is now in Bonemill Lane, Washington, Tyne and Wear,[60][64] and is a listed building.