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THE ANCESTRY OF JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL RUSSELL


1  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
   b 18 Aug 1792, Mayfair, Middlesex
   d 28 May 1878, Pembroke Lodge, Surrey

Parents


2  John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
   b 6 Jul 1766, Bloomsbury, Middlesex
   d 20 Oct 1839, Doune of Rothiemurchus, Perthshire
   m 21 Mar 1786, Brussels
Georgiana Elizabeth Byng
   b 20 Feb 1768, Piccadilly
   d 11 Oct 1801, Bath

Grandparents


4  Francis Russell, styled Marquess of Tavistock
   b 27 Sep 1739, Bloomsbury
   d 22 Mar 1767, Hertfordshire
   m 8 Jun 1764, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
5  Elizabeth Keppel
   b 15 Nov 1739, Mayfair
   d 2 Nov 1768, Lisbon
6  George Byng, 4th Viscount Torrington
   b 9 Oct 1740
   d 14 Dec 1812, Ham Common, Surrey
   m 10 Jul 1765, St Margaret, Westminster
7  Lucy Boyle
   b 27 May 1744, Marston, Somerset
   d 18 Mar 1792, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Great-grandparents


8  John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
   b 30 Sep 1710, Streatham, Surrey
   d 14 Jan 1771, Bloomsbury
   m 2 Apr 1737, Mayfair
9  Gertrude Leveson-Gower
   b 15 Feb 1714/15, bap 11 Mar 1714/15, St Anne, Soho
   d 1 Jul 1794, London
10 William Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
   b 5 Jun 1702, Westminster
   d 22 Dec 1754, Paris
   m 21 Feb 1722/23, Caversham, Oxfordshire
11 Anne Lennox
   b 24 Jun 1703
   d 20 Oct 1789, Westminster
12 George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington
   bap 21 Sep 1701, Southill, Bedfordshire
   d 7 Apr 1750, Southill
   m 10 Aug 1736, Mereworth, Kent
13 Elizabeth Daniel
   bap 6 Apr 1713, Fawkham, Kent
   d 17 Mar 1759, London
14 John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery
   b 13 Jan 1706/07, Westminster
   d 23 Nov 1762, Frome, Somerset
   m 30 Jun 1738, Dublin
15 Margaret Hamilton
   b 24 Jul 1710
   d 24 May 1758, Westminster

 

Great-great-grandparents


16 Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
   b 1 Nov 1680, St Giles in the Fields
   d 26 May 1711, bur 30 May 1711, Chenies
   m 23 May 1695, Streatham, Surrey
17 Elizabeth Howland
   bap 4 Aug 1682, Streatham
   d 29 Jul 1724, Streatham
18 John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower
   b 10 Aug 1694, bap 21 Aug 1694, Lilleshall
   d 25 Dec 1754, London
   m 13 Mar 1711/12, Soho, Middlesex
19 Evelyn Pierrepont
   b 6 Sep 1691
   d 26 Jun 1727, London
20 Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle
   b 1670
   d 19/30 May 1718, The Hague
   m 15/26 Jun 1701, The Hague
21 Geertruid Johanna Quirina van der Duyn
   bap 9 Dec 1674, The Hague
   d Dec 1741, The Hague
22 Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
   b 29 Jul 1672, London
   d 27 May 1723, Goodwood, Sussex
   m ca 8 Jan 1692/93
23 Anne Brudenell
   b ca 1672
   d 9 Dec 1722, Westminster
24 George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington
   b 27 Jan 1663/64, Wrotham, Kent
   d 17 Jan 1732/33, Westminster
   m 5 Mar 1690/91, Covent Garden, Middlesex
25 Margaret Master
   b 22 Feb 1669/70, bap 10 Mar 1669/70, East Langdon, Kent
   d 1 Apr 1756, Southill
26 Lionel Daniel
   b
   bur 30 Dec 1725, Mereworth
   m 3 Dec 1710, Kingsdown, Kent
27 Martha Master
   b
   bur 28 Feb 1750/51, Mereworth
28 Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
   b 28 Jul 1674, Little Chelsea, Middlesex
   d 28 Aug 1731, Westminster
   m 30 Mar 1706, Burghley House, near Stamford
29 Elizabeth Cecil
   b 1687
   d 12 Jun 1708, Westminster
30 John Hamilton of Caledon, co. Tyrone, MP for Dungannon and Augher
   b 1656
   d Jan 1713
   m 17 Feb 1708/09, St Bride, Dublin
31 Lucy Dopping
   b
   d ca 1717


Sources

The Complete Peerage (2nd edition)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland (1754)

Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 (Belfast, 2002)
The Scots Magazine, 12(1750):205, 18(1756):198, 21(1759):159, 29(1767):167, 56(1794):442
The Northampton Mercury, 22 Jan 1732/33
F.A. Crisp, ed., Visitation of England and Wales, Notes, vol. 6 (London, 1906)
George Streynsham Master, Some Notices of the Family of Master (London, 1874)

Richard K. Evans, The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales (Boston, 2007)

St George, Hanover Square, Westminster, parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

Streatham parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)

The Stamford Mercury, 3 Mar 1768

The Derby Mercury, 4 Oct 1739

The Stamford Mercury, 22 Nov 1739

The Stamford Mercury, 7 Jun 1744

The Derby Mercury, 7 Apr 1737

St Anne, Soho, parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Lilleshall parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Mereworth parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Fawkham parish registers (online at cityark.medway.gov.uk/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=files&value=P147-01-01.pdf)

D.A. Chart, ed., Marriage Entries from the Registers of the Parishes of St. Andrew, St. Anne, St. Audoen, & St. Bride (Dublin) (Exeter and London, 1913), 130

Betham Genealogical Abstracts (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)