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From: Joan Norstedt <>
Subject: [MAMIDDLE] MRS. GEORGE R. DUREN, CARLISLE, MA. 1931
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:05:12 -0800
In-Reply-To: <163.1d2eca50.2b9f9c28@aol.com>
Have you tried contacting the New England Historical and Genealogical
Society?
Joan in CA
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:08 PM, wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> My late mother did a lot of RUSSELL research in the 1930s in CARLISLE,
> MA.
> where my RUSSELL family once lived for five generations in the same
> house,
> known as the RUSSELL place. It is pictured in a book on CARLISLE as is
> a
> listing of my RUSSELL ancestors.
>
> I had no idea that my mother did this research until my mother's
> brother's
> wife sent it to me two Christmases ago. What a Christmas gift! That
> got me
> going on genealogy research. My problem is this. My mother states at
> the
> beginning of listing the generations and siblings of the RUSSELL line
> the
> following:
> RUSSELL
> By Sally Sleeper Russell, Worcester, Ma. Circa 1931
>
> DESCENDED FROM A NORMAN FRENCH FAMILY, FOUNDED AS EARLY AS 1016. THE
> ENGLISH
> REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS FAMILY WAS JOHN, EARL OF BEDFORD, AND TO HIM
> WILLIAM
> RUSSELL, THE FIRST AMERICAN ANCESTOR, TRACED HIS ANCESTRY. HE CAME FROM
> ENGLAND AND SETTLED IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS ABOUT 1640.
>
> Now my problem is this. There was no source cited for this ancestry in
> the
> notes I have from my late mother. (I wish to find where WILLIAM
> RUSSELL
> stated that he traced his ancestry back to JOHN, EARL OF BEDFORD) I
> wonder
> where in the 1930s she would have found this information and the
> entire line
> of our RUSSELLs through GEORGE WASHINGTON RUSSELL b. 1809 Carlisle, Ma.
> complete with all children and some spouses? She also copied old
> papers of
> MRS. GEORGE R. DUREN, CARLISLE, MA. 1931. I wonder if anyone on this
> list
> would have any idea of where the papers of MRS. DUREN would be now.
> Did my
> mother copy papers from her that stated this English ancestry for
> WILLIAM
> RUSSELL?
> Since beginning this genealogy project (the most fun project of my
> life) I
> have been contacted by many other WILLIAM RUSSELL descendants (he had
> ten
> children) and we all would love to learn where my mother found this
> information.
>
> I would appreciate any ideas or suggestions on this quandary?
>
> Regards,
> Jacqueline Sleeper Russell
> Northern California
>
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