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R         Menke, Sandra Skaggs, compiler.

1163                Russell Family history, 2004.

                                    Two folders, photocopies.

 

 

 

This is a copy of a history of the family of Cyrus Russell and Rebecca Pease, compiled by John Steele McCormick, ca. 1932-1934.  It also contains additional material and photographs up to 2004, supplied by the donor and representing her line of descent from Cyrus Russell and Re­becca Pease.

 

 

FOLDER 1

                                                                                                                                    beginning page

Part I

The Origin of the Russells                                                                                                          10

Ancestry of Margarete St. John, wife of Sir Francis Russell                                                20

The Russell Family in America                                                                                                  25

The Cooley Family                                                                                                                       48

The Families of Griswold, Wolcott, and Beckwith                                                                  61

The Early Family of Wolcott                                                                                                      84

 

Part II

The Peases                                                                                                                                    89

Descendants of Giles and Jerusha Pitkin Pease                                                                    102

The Pitkin Family                                                                                                                       107

Ancestors of Elizabeth Stanley, wife of William Pitkin                                                        120

A Sketch of the Hadley, Connecticut Family of White                                                        124

Cyrus Russell                                                                                                                             135

 

FOLDER 2

 

                    Part III

Children of Colonel Cyrus Russell & his wife, Rebecca Pease                                           150

Theodore Pease Russell                                                                                                           166

Brief Survey of the Ancestors of Willard Guild                                                                    173

Children of Theodore Pease and Emily Wilder Guild Russell                                             175

 

Part IV

Addition to “Old Book” by Sandra Skaggs Menke, following the line of William Russell (son of Cyrus and Rebecca) and Martha Keach Russell.                                                                                                                        226

Theodore Giles Pease Russell and Bess Idella Boyd                                                           244

Marjorie Bess Russell and Thomas Martin Skaggs                                                             246

Photographs and miscellaneous

 

 

 


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