Marrying my Cousin – Part 5

I have previous documented many instances where individuals in my immediate family have married distant cousins (unbeknownst to them at the time). There have included:

·       My wife and I were 10^th cousins (*1).

·       My parents were 9^th cousins (*2).

·       My mother’s parents were 7^th cousins (*3).

·       My father’s mother and step-father were 8^th cousins, once removed (*4).

·       My wife’s parents were 10^th cousins, once removed (*5).

Now I have one more such connection – my son and daughter-in-law are 8^th cousins, twice removed. Here are their lineages back to a common ancestor.

Pamela [Coulter] Russell

Marva [Walton] Coulter

Kenneth Walton (1910-1998) to Indiana

Harriet [Benton] Walton (1882-1976)

Frances [Merrill] Benton (1840-1898) to Kansas

Lloyd Merrill (1804-1854) to Ohio

Theodore Merrill (1761-1832)

Elijah Merrill (1720-)

Abel Merrill (1680-1759) to West Hartford, CT

John Merrill (1636-1712) to Hartford, CT

Christopher Russell

Alan Russell

Sylvia [Pierpont] Russell (1924-2012)

Harold Pierpont (1898-1969)

Annie [Merrill] Pierpont (1858-1898) died in childbirth

Nathan Merrill (1823-1909)

Elijah Merrill (1788-1852)

Ichabod Merrill (1754-1829)

Caleb Merrill (1735-1812)

Nathaniel Merrill (1702-1772) to Waterbury, CT

John Merrill (1669-1748) to West Hartford, CT

John Merrill (1636-1712) to Hartford, CT

My daughter-in-law informed me that this cousin connection is not a blood relationship because her great-great-grandmother, Frances Merrill, was adopted by the Merrill family

Notes

*1 – http://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/02/marrying-my-cousin.html  

*2 – http://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2017/02/marrying-cousin-part-3.html

*3 – http://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/09/genealogy-story-grandparent-cousins.html

*4 – http://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/02/marrying-my-cousin-part-2.html  

*5 – http://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2017/03/marrying-cousin-part-4.html