I am the 9th generation in a line of Russell males descended
from my great*6 grandfather, Robert Russell, who came to this country from
Scotland around 1750, and I’ve blogged extensively about most of the men in
this line. In this post, I’d like to look at the wives of each of these men,
what their family names were and where they came from.
Some of these individuals were married more than once, so this list
contains information on the 13 women whom these Russell men married.
1 – Robert Russell (abt.
1730-1811)
Mary Kipp (1734-1808)
Robert married Mary
Kipp in 1754 (*1). She was a descendant of several generations of Kipp
ancestors who had been in NY since 1635. Kipp was an anglicized version of de
Kype. This family name had originated in France, but they then moved to Amsterdam
which is why they were immigrants into New Holland during the time the Dutch
settled there.
2 – John Russell (1756-1833)
Abigail (?) (1754-1798)
John’s family tree
is documented in (*2), and Abigail’s grave is in Hitchcock Hill Burying Ground,
but her maiden name is unknown.
Anna Wixon (1769-1848)
When Abigail died in
1798, John married again and had seven more children with Anna. Anna was
descended from an English family who came to America during the Great Migration
in 1620-1640.
3 – Caleb Russell (1775-1830)
Parmea Smith (1780-1872)
Parmea was the
daughter of Edward Smith and Demeous [Worden] (*1). Edward was a Revolutionary
War veteran. Because this is a rather common name I have not been able to trace
the ancestral line of the Smith family, however it is likely English.
4 – Silas Russell (1803-1886)
Hester Disbrow (1807-1898)
The Disbrow family,
like many of the others in this list, came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony during
the Great Migration in 1620-1640.
5 – Walter Russell
(1852-1895)
Lois Ann Cook (1855-1883)
While I know that
Lois was the daughter of Morgan Lewis Cook and Sally [Barton] (*3), I have been
unable to trace the Cook family line back any farther.
Cornelia Sutphin(?) (1858-1897)
Because her marriage
to Silas occurred after the 1880 census and she died before the 1900 census,
nothing more is known about her.
6 – Louis Russell (1871-1946)
Anna Pauline Merchant (1871-1903)
Anna was believed to
have been born to a French father and an Irish mother. However, I have not been
able to verify this through any of my research.
Helen Waldron [Madigan] [Lewis] (1868-1945)
Helen was the granddaughter
of Irish immigrants who came to this county because of the potato famine in the
1840s.
7 – Erskine Russell (1894-1970)
Vera Levy (1895-1963)
My grandmother Vera
was of Jewish ancestry (*4). Her great-grandfather, Louis Levy came to the US
from England in 1851. The family lived in Brooklyn, NY, which is where Vera was
born. She married my grandfather in 1914, but they divorced in 1928.
Elizabeth Evans (1885-1970)
My grandfather
remarried in 1933. Elizabeth had been born in England and came to the US in
1923 (*5).
8 – Vernon Russell
(1920-2006)
Sylvia Pierpont (1924-2012)
The Pierpont family
came to America as part of the Great Migration (1620-1640), but their family
line can be traced back to Normandy over 1000 years ago.
9 – Alan Russell (1948-)
Donna VanDeCar (1947-)
The VanDeCar family
is of Dutch origins (*6). They came to America about 1630 and settled in New
Holland. But the family name only dates from the 1660s, when the English took
over the Hudson River valley and required all the residents to adopt the
English patronymic naming convention. So the family has deep roots in America,
but not the typical English ones like many others in my family.
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