Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

John Russell

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ernest Hemingway — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 156 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Russell 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Whiting   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jan 1686/1687 
  • Birth Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1757 
  • Death Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Trowbridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Dec 1707 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Abigail Russell

  Rebecca Russell

  Samuel Russell (Ahnentafel No:78 )

• Sources for John Russell

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 158, Birth record for daughter Abigail Russell.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 160, Marriage record for John Russell and Sarah Trowbridge.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 160, Birth record for John Russell.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 160, Death record for John Russell.
  • ⁵ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 161, Birth record for daughter Rebecca Russell.
  • ⁶ Barker, Elizabeth Frye, Barker Genealogy, New York: Frye Publishing Co. (1927), 110.
  • ⁷ Chapman, Rev. F. W., The Trowbridge Family, of the Descendants of Thomas Trowbridge One of the First Settlers of New Haven, Conn., New Haven: Punderson, Crisand and Co., Printers and Lithographers (1872), 27, 30-31.
  • ⁸ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 433.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 551.
  • ¹⁰ Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth, An Account of Some of the Descendants of John Russell, The Emigrant from Ipswich, England, Who . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1910), 131-132.