RUSSELL family

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Hi Alison, I am afraid I don't have much time at the moment. Please check the Australia Resources Board for links 2 Australian States.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,399.0.html

Thomas was James Brother

Theres are some of the baptisms in Lincombe and Widcombe and in Walcot

http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl

Thomas son of John and Charlotte was baptised 12 Sep 1824 Walcot St Swithin

Thomas RUSSELL died Vic 1872 aged 47 parents John RUSSELL and Charlotte WEAVER #10317

http://users.ncable.net.au/~jburrell/gen/hutchins/rus_coe.html

Isaac Weaver RUSSELL died Vic 1891 aged 54 parents Jno RUSSELL and Charl WEAVER #3719

It would pay you to download some of these death certs. They may provide quite a bit of information.

You can download them immediately for $17.50 from

https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=purchaseImage

Information contained in Vic Certificates

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,373754.0.html

Vic Assisted and Unassisted Immigration

http://210.8.122.120/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=24

http://210.8.122.120/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=23

I read Charlottes birthplace as Saich = Norfolk is not a county I am terribly familiar with -  the nearest I could find is Setch/Setchey

http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/places/s/setchey/

Cheers Kris 

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An update - recently found Thomas Russell as a convict - went to Van Diemans Land 1842 for 10 years for stealing 8 sheep at aged 17yr - he was a butcher!

And just found Isaac and Jane Russell coming to Australia 1866 "Chariot of Fame" which fits with marriage in Axbridge Somerset (don't have confirmation only an index) and child (James William Russell) born in Australia 1867

............... Alison

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/129575082?searchTerm=%22James%20Henry%20Weaver%20Russell%22&searchLimits=

Obituary
MR. J. H. W. RUSSELL
James Henry Weaver Russell. Mr. Russell was born in Berrow, Somersetshire  (England), in 1830, and was within a month or two of his eighty-fourth year. Determined to go to sea, he travelled to London as a boy of thirteen years, in attendance on the six horses of a stage-carrier. He wanted to join the navy at the time of the Crimean War, but could not obtain his parents consent. He sailed to Sydney in the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Moravian, and later took similar voyages in the Lincolnshire and in the Kent (under Captain Clay- ton). He settled in Lancefield in 1864.

This sounds like the same man? Looks like he was a sailor - he brought the rest of the family out because he told them about Australia after his trips? Now you just have to find them all arriving but you know how he got here
Case solved, lol

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http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp?offset=1800&index=99382

Daily News, 08/01/1859:
"MORAVIAN", British ship, from London for Sydney N.S.W., November 19 at Lat. 1N, Long 28W [off Brazil].

(Date of first trip?)

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WOW - that was so wonderful to read - thanks heaps for the link - and to think I know how to use trove a little - but never found that article - so much rich history and personal information from his early days, thanks again - I am so glad I updated the post about Isaac, to receive your post was a huge bonus.
I am having doubts now about 1866 shipping for Isaac and Jane - there are references to Isaac Russell in 1864 - but of course there could be more than one Isaac Russell in the area
Again, thanks ............... Alison

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Just come into possession of a photo book (no names) however suspect they are the Russell family Willie Henry Russell (Lancefield, Victoria, Australia) - his parents James Henry Weaver Russell and Mary Ann Thompson
JHW born 1830 Berrow, Winscombe, Axbridge, Somerset and his parents John Russell and Charlotte Weaver  ........... Alison

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After a long time I decided to carefully removed the old photos to see if any information on the back of photos. The albumn was in poor condition and torn on many pages and some photos missing. I have labelled them so I know in which order they were in the book (dark brown carved leather album)  Many are faded but others look fabulous
A name or two but nothing useful at the moment except names of photographers in Kyneton, Melbourne, Daylesford, Creswick, Inglewood, Fitzroy, Paris, Dublin - all postcard size
Most adults but some children and a couple with adults and children
One of a brick house with 2 adults and a boy out the front
One man in a uniform
One of a brick 2 storey shop and woman in coat outside
One of a pub and 2 woman out the front - I think I have seen this before on a website (maybe Ballarat)
Wedding photo of couple
Some look like they are woman in black 'morning' dress
A woman outside a 2 storey house
11 larger size - one of the large photos is a cottage and 1 man and 2 woman out the front - could this be the Lancefield house (Dunsford Street)
A man wearing a medal
A postcard with a woman on the front - on the back to Miss Russell from Jean  19 Jan 1917
Two mid size photos
One of the large photos (very faded) is a large family group on rocks - think I have also seen this before on a website
There are two from Atelier Photographique L Buvelot (sounds French) - on the back it says H. Doran from H. Hollow and the other says  Joseph Hollow
Could anyone connected to Russell family please make contact - I am going to have the photos scanned and could share the digital images
Hope to hear from interested perhaps distant relatives of this family .......... Alison

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Forgot to say there is a medium size photo and written on the back is Mary Ann Thompson - have already scanned this photo and can share with others