I too am a descendant of John Russell and Rachel Hobbs. I descend from their son Vincent Russell. I checked out your familytreemaker site and you have basically the same info that I do. I do have more information from Vincent down if your are interested. Let me know. Pat Davis d6506@juno.com This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell & Hobbs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3988 Message Board Post: Please go to the following address: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/u/s/Betty-L-Russell-davis/in dex.html? then click on:User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Russell Sr.. If you are connected to this line, please write to me. Thank you ______________________________ ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL/FARRAR/POTTER/BUTLER/ Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3991 Message Board Post: Carlisle The Old Russell House. – Time, in its unceasing progression of years and decades and centuries, aided often by the vandal hand of man, has effaced many of the landmarks established by the early settlers of Carlisle. Few now exist, that date back beyond the commencement of the seventeenth century. The traditionary stake has decayed and fallen, and the stones have become imbedded In the earth. The long-lived oak, “blazed” in its sapling stage by the hatchet of the surveyor, has grown old, borne its “crests of ovenwood” and died, and the firm rock has been removed out of its place. A depression in the earth, a foot-worn slab, or an “aged-elm,” are the only monuments left to mark the site of many of the rude dwellings of those hardy pioneers. Some still stand whose antiquity has been disguised under a modern finish, and which have little to identify them with their past except the capacious chimneys and their solid almo! st indestructible framework. Here and there one still stands and retains enough of its original style and finish to render it an object of veneration and instruction and to teach us where and how they who reared them lived an toiled to provide and transmit so many of the privileges that we know enjoy. Among the spared relics there is not, perhaps, one more interesting and worthy of a visit, than the Russell house, now owned and occupied by Mr. E. J. Carr. It is situated in the south part of the town about one fourth of a mile east of the road leading to Concord, and stands on a sand bluff on the left bank of a small stream named in the early Massachusetts records Alewife river, and later called Spencer brook. Probably the first name given to it was suggested by the large quantity of the fish of that name that annually descended the stream and were used not only as an article of food but also as a fertilizer for the farms on its banks. The house was built about 1680. As originally constructed it was a single two-story house with two rooms on each floor about 20 feet square, with an entry between, 8 or 10 feet in length and as much in width. Subsequently a lean-to upon the back side of the main house of one story was added, and the roof on that side extended down ov! er the addition. There was a single chimney which was ten feet square at the bottom, and five at the top. The dimensions of the fire-places in each of the lower rooms were five feet in height, eight feet in width and four feet deep. The mantels over the fire-places and other main timbers are ten to twelve inches square of solid oak and as sound today as when drawn from the forest nearly two hundred years ago. The rooms were scaled up with boards two and three feet wide and in the space between the outer and inner boarding up to the second floor was filled with brick as a defence against the attack of Indians. The builder of the house was Benjamin Russell, who was born in Cambridge in 1643. He removed to that part of Concord now Carlisle in 1680, and commenced work on his house in that same year. He died in 1713, and his son James, born in 1695, succeeded him. He married Susannah Farrar, and died in 1773. James, his oldest son, inherited the estate. He was born 1723! ; married Mary Potter in 1750 in 1760, and died Aug 17, 1801. He was succeeded by a third James, who was born May 9 1775, and married Mary Butler. He disposed of the old homestead in 1826, and removed to Lowell, where he died in 1862. His surviving children are Dr. William Lambert Russell, a practicing physician of Barre, Professor James Sullivan Russell, the distinguished teacher of mathematics in the Lowell High School, and George Washington Russell, a well known carriage maker of Worcester. Several descendants of the Russell family, in the female line, still reside in this town, but the male line is unrepresented. The five generations of Russells that successively occupied the old place were respectable farmers; contented to fulfil the duties of good citizens, and never aspiring to places of responsibility or distinction. The second James Russell held a lieutenancy in the French and Indian War of 1755, and did good services in the war of the Revolution. A few years subsequent to its sale by Mr. Russell the old place fell into the possession of “Ai,” a well known sportsman, who fired the famous shots that made him so well known to the readers of the Journal, during the years of its occupancy by him he extended a welcome hospitality to his brother sportsmen of the vicinity, and many sense of mirth and high wassail by the “Old Minrods” of Lowell were witnessed in his spacious rooms. The present owner of the place is a progressive man. He has built a capacious and convenient barn, renovated some of the dilapidated fences, and is fast bringing back the neglected fields to their original fertility and productiveness. We hope his energies may find sufficient scope in this direction, to divert for many years to come the hand of improvement from being laid too heavily on the venerable old mansion. Since its massive timbers were joined together, the Indian has gone to other hunting grounds, the bear has disappeared with the forests that gave him shelter, and the men and women of many generations have passed its portals never to return. An elm planted more than a century after it was reared has grown to giant proportions, and thrown its protecting arms over the old roof tree to guard it from the assaults of elements and men. Let us accept the omen and hope and pray for the preservation of the Old Russell House. (Note) The old Russell house did not survive the 20th century and was torn down.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bartshe>Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/1374.1 Message Board Post: This is an old message seeking Sally and Stue Russell. I believe that would be Sarah L (Sally) and Steve Russell. Sally would be Elva Bartshe's sister. I'd love to see those pictures. Sally and Steve Russell are my maternal gparents.

Jacqueline, I have about 5 William Russells, but they're the children of siblings of my direct line, and I don't have a lot of info on them. Let me know if you want them anyway, please. Barbara in MO (but originally from NYC)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3990 Message Board Post: Looking for information on: Cathern A. Russell and Stephen S. Buck married at Paris Texas, July 14, 1859. Cathern's dob oct. 29, 1840, Illinois, Stephen's dob May 27, 1834, Virginia.

Does anyone have a Robert Christopher Russell who was a labourer in Hamilton in 1883? He was married to Mary Blanche (or Lablanche) Wilson and in July of 1883 he had a son named William Edward Russell. He was probably born in the late 1850's or early 1860's. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tammy LaForme wlaforme@sympatico.ca

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Shoup Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3989 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Robert Christopher Russell b. approx. 1850's-1860's. He was in Hamilton, ON in 1883 working as a labourer and he had a son named William Edward or Edwin Russell born in July of 1883 in Hamilton. Robert was married to Mary Blanche or Lablanche Wilson. In 1889 they had another child Elizabeth Viola Russell born in Strong Twp., ON who married George Shoup and lived in Charlton, ON. They may have also had a child named Leonard who drove for Greyhound in the US. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell & Hobbs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3988 Message Board Post: Please go to the following address: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/u/s/Betty-L-Russell-davis/index.html? then click on:User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Russell Sr.. If you are connected to this line, please write to me. Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL POTTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3987 Message Board Post: LOOKING FOR THE BOOK WRITTEN BY JAMES SULLIVAN RUSSELL OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS. Last in the possession of his daughter, Mrs. Hiram J. Potter of Brookline (Dec. 1921) This book is the history of the Russell family descended from William Russell of Cambridge, B. England D. 1661. =========information on family===================== JAMES RUSSELL 111, B. 9 May 1775 Concord, Massachusetts D. Lowell, Massachusetts 5 Jun 1858. M. 27 Aug 1797. Mary Butler B. 1779 D. 1863. Daughter of Joseph and Mary (Kidder) Butler. THE CHILDREN OF JAMES AND MARY ALL BORN IN THE OLD RUSSELL HOUSE IN CARLISLE, MA. 1. William Lambert B. 27 Oct 1799 D. Barre, Ma. 6 May 1899. A centenarian. He went to the Concord Schools, Groton Academy and Harvard College where he graduated in 1826. M. 2 June 1836 Mary Ann Warren B. 1816. Daughter of Calvin and Caroline (Carter) Warren of Hubbardston, Ma. He became a physician in Barre, Ma. He wrote the description of the old Russell house in Carlisle, Ma. 2. Emerson B. 13 Sept 1802 3. Mary Ann B. 3 Oct 1804 4th child of James and Mary (kidder) Butler: JAMES SULLIVAN RUSSELL B. 23 Mar 1807 D. 14 Jan 1903. M. 4 Oct 1842, Elizabeth Chapin Bartlett (1813-1866) daughter of Waitt and Martha G. (Chapin) Bartlett. James studied at Brown University from which he received the honorary degree of A.M. He taught schools in various towns in the state, finally becoming teacher of mathematics in Lowell (Ma.) High School. Continued there for forty-three years, retiring in 1881. He was the person who gave us the only description, in words, that we have of the Rev. Paul Litchfield, first minister of Carlisle. Children of James Sullivan and Elizabeth (Bartlett) Russell: 91) James B. 5 June 1850 D. Lowell, Ma. 8 Jun 1936, aged 86 years, 3 days. Unmarried. (2) Mary Bartlett B. 5 Apr 1846 D. Lowell 25 May 1937. (3) ____________? (Mrs. Hiram J. Potter) Children: Leslie Potter of West Newton, Ma., and Stanley B. Potter of Suncook, New Hampshire. 5. (Hon) George Washington Russell B. 9 Aug 1809 M. (1) 1 Jan 1835 Susan Faulkner (1811-1847) Daughter of Nathaniel Faulkner. M (2) 16 May 1849 Catherine Emily Smith (1828-1861) daughter of Solomon and Catherine Smith. M (3) Lydia (Baker) Waite (1819- ?) Would like to hear from any William Russell or Potter descendants re: family genealogy and this book. Jacqueline Sleeper Russell

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3986 Message Board Post: David Spiegel Will you please email me at Ruthbsh@aol.com Thomas and Bessie are my grandfather and my stepgrandmother ,my grandmother was Olive. Ruth Russell Bush

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3985 Message Board Post: Born abt 1869 in Clarion Co., Pa. to John A. Russell and Hannah Tippery of Callensburg Pa., He migrated to Juneau Alaska before 1907. Is anyone researching this line of Russell?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3984 Message Board Post: Born abt 1869 in Clarion Co. Pa., son of John and Hannah Russell of Callensburg Pa., Oren Migrated to Old Mexico before 1907 but returned to Chester Pa. abt 1916. Is anyone researching this Russell line?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3983 Message Board Post: Bron Pa. abt 1862, Westmoreland or Clarion Co.'s migrated to San Antonio Cal. b4 1907 and later to Bakersfield Cal. before 1916. Son of John A. Russell and Hannah Tippery of Callensburg Pa. Is anyone researching this Russell family in California.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3982 Message Board Post: I am looking for any links to any of the following. All were children of Mary Hutchings and Joseph Russell born 1861 Crewkerne. Mary Russell born 1872 Crewkerne. Thomas Russell born 1875 Crewkerne. Also Bessie Russell and Harry Russell born 1900 died 1980 both children of Henry Russell and Alice Harwood. Last known to be living in Warlingham Croydon. Also Bessie Garrod daughter of Elizabeth Russell born 1876 in Crewkerne and Fref Garrod. Last known address Camilia street South Lambeth.

Our Northern Ireland adventure is over, the answers found and it is time to move on; to Stirling in Scotland with the prospect of new "finds"and more adventures. For almost six years I have researched the Presbyterian Ulsterman and in doing so found four obscure out of print publications that should be included in every library. Before my focus changes to Scottish research I am offering to interested researchers ONE last time the opportunity to purchase (cost of copies and postage) the following items. All items have either expired copyrite provisions or in the case of the Hagy thesis I have the authors permission to reproduce the document. They are: The Laggan and its Presbyterianism and In the Days of the Laggan Presbytery, 1905, 1908, by the Rev. Alexander Lecky, B.A. member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Belfast, Davidson & McCormack, 54 King St. 211 pages. On our trip we met JB Shannon age 90, who assisted in the 1975 reprinting and he was a window to the past. He is the last living person who had anything to do with these books and says they are still the BEST source for Ulster presbyterian research. From Lecky I quote, "The lists of names of former generations of Lagganeers, and their places of abode, that are given in the Appendixes, and which NEVER before appeared in print, whilst they may of necessity prove dull reading to those who have no acquaintance with the locality, will not, I hope, be altogether uninteresting to those who bear the same name, or live in the same places...." If I send this post to your list it means your surname is listed in the appendix. Cost: $25.00 Fighters of Derry, Their Deeds and Descendants, being a Chronicle of Events in Ireland during the Revolutionary period 1688-1691, by William R. Young, 1932, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 350 pages. Contains the following biographical sketches: (1500) 1. The leaders of the County Associations, who with their levies took part in the Preliminary operations and contributed much of the man power for the Defence. 2. The Apprentice Boys and those responsible for shutting the gates on the 8th Dec. 1688. 3. The actual Defenders during the 105 day siege (over 1200 genealogical sketches) 4. Those engaged in the relief of the city. One of the most difficult sources to locate, in fact almost impossible. Months worth of reading and packed with great genealogy. Cost: $25.00 A History of the Siege of Londonderry and Defense of Enniskillen in 1688 and 1689, with Historical Poetry and Biographical Notes, by the Rev. John Graham, M.A. Rector of Magilligan in the Dicese of Derry. Includes the Battles of the Boyne, Athlone, and Aughrim and the siege and Capitulation of Limmerick by Lord Macaulay, Toronto, 1869 The historical poems are family genealogies about those who were at Derry and where they came from. Along with "Fighters of Derry" these two sources contain more actual genealogical information than any others that I have seen. 311 pages Cost: $25.00 Castle's Woods: Frontier Virginia Settlement, 1769-1799, A thesis presented to the Faculty of the Department of History, East Tennessee St. University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, by James W. Hagy, 1966, 150 pages. The most popular of the documents offered it covers the families who settled in Russell county, Virginia when it was considered the frontier. If your ancestors came through southwest Virginia this document is the history of your family. Contains information of specific families as well as the farmers, speculators, artisans, and preachers who resided there. Lots on the Indian battles that were a daily feature of life on the frontier. Names like Russell, Walker, Porter, Cowan, Houston, Boone, Montgomery, Fraley, Thompson, Anderson, Kilgore and 50 or so other "Scotch-irish" families make this an invaluable resourch for your family history. Cost: $25.00 I only post these offerings to a tiny fraction of the lists and only to those lists where your surnames are mentioned. After I make the offering I insubscribe because my e-mail box will fill up in about ten minutes. I am always on the Cowan and Wigton-Walker lists and you can e-mail me at cscunc@aol.com and ask any question you like. I will always attempt to answer your questions although it is unlikey I hold the key to who your great grandma was. If you are interested in the results of our trip to Donegal and Belfast please check the COWAN-L archives and you will see the posts we made during the last week or so. Thanks for your interest and I hope making this information available has helped some of you. I always enjoy getting e-mails from fellow researches. Also a big thanks to those of you who sent family information to us before our trip. It was appreciated and a special thanks to Alex Latta from Canada who turned us on to James Fleming. The trip would not have been the same without that piece of the puzzle. Regards, Robert Cowan 525 Harrogate Rd. Matthews, North Carolina 28105 (704)847-4081

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3981 Message Board Post: Hello, I am looking for information on a Frances Russell who was the second wife of my g grandfather Christopher Radford Eskins. She was 35 when they married on Christmas day of 1900. The only other piece of info I have is that she had been divorced when she married Christopher Radford Eskins. If anyone has any information to share with me, I would appreciate it greatly.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RUSSELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oZEBAIB/3980 Message Board Post: Hi, I just posted an old newspaper story that reported the move of the J. G. RUSSELL family from Alvord (Wise Co.) to Electra (Wichita Co.). This was scanned from an original issue of the Alvord News dated April 22, 1926, and you can see it online here: http://theoldentimes.com/jgruss26tx.html I hope it's helpful! Barbara http://theoldentimes.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, Claxton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3979 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on my ggg grandmother Ophelia Melinda Russell 1846-1940. She married (7 Feb 1865) Noah Claxton 1835-1915. They're both buried in Wright Co MO. Does anyone know anything of her family? Ruth Kerr Mytty

Well, Mary Jo, I have the same brick wall to contend with. I have a John in my Russell family, but I'm not sure when he was in Texas. I'm guessing about mid 1800's and he was in Ellis County. None of the names you have given are familiar to me, though. I don't know who my John was married to. The only names I have are John 2, Houston, Tull, Thomas,Hallie, German, Alie Mae. Do any of these sound familiar. Barbara McAdams---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mary Jo Fraley" <mfraley@calpha.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:22:01 -0500 >I keep seeing messages with Russells in the state of Texas. How far back do you all have your Russell ancestors accounted for in this state? What county? I have Russells that I still have not found any other Russell connection to. Nancy G. Russell, b.1817TN was the widow of a man named John Russell. Their son, Joseph M. Russell, was born in MO in 1835. He and his mother were in Texas prior to 1840. They had land in at least three counties; Henderson, Nacodoches, and Cherokee. After Nancy remarried in 1840 to a minister named Samuel C. Box, they relocated to Houston County for a time. Joseph died of pneumonia in 1860 at the age of 25. He left behind a wife, and at least one surviving child, a son named Samuel, my ggrandfather. Anyway, I am wondering if any of these names sound familiar to anyone. If John passed away prior to the migration to Texas, who did she make the trip with? A young widow with a little baby would probably not make such a trip alone back the! n! >, would they? Can ya'll here my questions bouncing off that same old brick wall of mine? Oh, WHY couldn't Nancy have married Ferdinand Deefendorfer, or something! > >Mary Jo >Moody, TX > > >==== RUSSELL Mailing List ==== > >To contact the list manager write to >Mary Russell bird@glasgow-ky.com > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses at TNWEB LLC] > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell, James Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3978 Message Board Post: Hello, Searching for Descendents of: John W. Russell who married Abt. 10-18-18?? To: Mary E. James. John W. Russell was born Abt. 1838 or may be earlyer he was born in Kentucky and died February 05, 1914 excate location is unknown. My Mary E. James is the Daug. Of: John J. James & Malinda Welch. Mary E. James was born October 18, 1838 in Muhlenberg County., Kentucky and she died in 1921. I don't have information on children or John W. Russell parents. Would like to find a descendent{s} of this line. If your Russell Family was in Muhlenberg County., Kentucky around the 1830's- to late- 1840's please contact me. I'm having trouble of trying to find information and willing to share Mary E. James Family Line..... Thanks Andrew James JamesFamily_2002@hotmail.com