Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

Ellis Russell

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 244 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Russell 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Hibbard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Nov 1730 
  • Birth Location:
  • Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1802 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane Catherine Wolcott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1751 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Russell

  Oliver Russell (Ahnentafel No:122 )

• Sources for Ellis Russell

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windsor, Page 298, Marriage record for Jane Wolcott and Elles Russell.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Reading Births, Vol. 1, Page 201, Birth record for Ellis Russell.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 327.
  • ⁴ McGhan, Judith, Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2006), 266.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 925.
  • ⁶ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Windsor, Page 252, Birth record for daughter Mary Russell.

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