>From what I understood, the Russells were Normans that came to the UK and Ireland in 1066. The Normans were actually Norse who had settled in Normandy. Liz -----Original Message----- From: Janet Crawford via Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 1:19 PM To: Thomas L Bohan ; cotipperary@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] Russell; Edmond Tom, I don't think it was English. There is a family of Russell from Adare and Limerick City and theirs is an anglicization of Creevagh or Creagh. Janet On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Thomas L Bohan via < cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Liz—Your comment about “Edmond” has struck a bell. The only other > person in my generation of the family who was an ardent family historian > argued that our grandfather’s name must have been “Edmund” rather than > “Edmond,” based on her theory that the former was the Irish spelling and > the latter the English. I was pleased to be able to clinch my contention > that “Edmond” was the correct spelling when I came across a letter written > by our grandfather in 1875 in which he quotes his mother (Anastasia > Russell, 1795-1874) addressing him by name. I have always thought that > the name entered the Bohan line (I had a number of Bohan first cousins and > descendants given the name) because of Anastasia Russell and that it was > long a Russell family name before that. > > That thought leads to another one. One of my father’s first cousins was > named Michael Bohan Russell (son of one of my grandfather’s two sisters > who > married Russells who traveled across the Atlantic with them). He grew up > in > Blue Earth County, Minnesota, and his bio is featured in the county book > published around 1910. It reported him to be a strong supporter of > Ireland, which won over his Irish neighbors who had initially been > suspicious of him because of “his English surname” (Russell). —Tom > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. Thank You. All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message