'Russell07'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Russell of Isle of Nevis, Russell of Norwich
[We are not aware of any connection between the families shown below. They share the page for our convenience.]

                               
Randolph Russell of the Island of Nevis (Colonel)
m. Frances Keynell (dau of Edmund Keynell of Haslebury, sister of Christopher Keynell, Governor of Antigua)
1. Sir James (or John) Russell, Governor of Nevis
m. Penelope Tirrell (dau of Sir Timothy Tirrell of Oxfordshire)
  A. Frances Russell who married ...
  m. (23.01.1696/7) Sir William Stapleton, 3rd Bart (d 12.1699)
  B.+ other issue - Elizabeth, Penelope
2. Valentine Russell
  m. Mary Warner (dau of Col. Philip Warner of Antigua)
  A. Anne Russell
3. Randolph Russell
4. Anne Russell (d 08.07.1722)
  m1. (by 1672) Sir William Stapleton, Governor of the Leeward Islands, 1st Bart
  m2. Walter Hamilton, Governor of Nevis (d 18.04.1722, Colonel)
5. Frances Russell
  m. Joseph Jory of Nevis (Major)
  A. Randolph Jory

 

 

William Russell of Norwich (b c1665, d 31.01.1718, ironmonger)
m. Ann Repps (b c1676, d 23.03.1766, dau of Francis Repps of Mattishall)
1. Thomas Russell of Norwich (d 1748, ironmonger)
  m. Hannah Harwood (sister of Bartholomew Harwood)
  A. Hannah Russell (dsp 1760)
  m. John Chambers
  B. Mary Russell
  m. John Beevor of Norwich (brother of Sir (Thomas), 1st Bart)
2. Frances Russell (b 1697-8, d 26.07.1780)
  m. Bartholomew Harwood (b 1697-8, d 11.08.1768, Alderman of Norwich)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (originally shown under Keynell) : MGH ((NS5 vol 9 (1937)? (to be confirmed)), 'Pedigrees and Heraldic Notes of Gregory King') with input/support from TCB (vol 4, 'Stapleton of the Leeward Islands', p111)
(2) For lower section : The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley' (G.A. Carthew, 1877, Part 3, p402)
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