Saturday, January 6, 2018

Genealogy Story – The Russell Wives

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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