Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

Betsey Russell

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Ernest Hemingway — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 39 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Russell 
  • Mother:
  • Elisabeth Linsley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1765 
  • Birth Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ebenezer Linsley Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Oct 1789 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Branford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Harriet Linsley (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  • Notes: 

  • Patricia Hemingway's book The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families incorrectly gives the parents of Betsey Russel as Nathaniel Russell and Elizabeth Willard. According to Patricia Hemingway, Betsey would have been only 10 when she was married and 11 when she had daughter Harriet.

• Sources for Betsey Russell

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 176, Marriage record for Anson Tyler and daughter Harriet Linsley.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 107, Birth record for daughter Harriet Lindsley.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 106, Marriage record for Ebenezer Lindsley Jr and Betsey Russell.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Branford, p. 159, Birth record for Betsey Russell.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/28/2014).
  • ⁶ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 571, 761.
  • ⁷ 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), 142.