Born: 21 May 1855 at Isleworth, Middlesex
Parents: George Wagstaff Russell 1834-1891 and Eliza Day 1828-1899
Siblings: Henry William Wagstaff Russell 1857-1930; Elizabeth Russell 1861-83; Alice Elizabeth Russell 1863-?; Grace Marion Russell 1866-1941; Eleanor Sarah Russell 1869-1933
Married: 1. Rosa Kate Throssell 1859-1898 on 29 October 1884 at Hitchin, Hertfordshire
2. Rosa Armstrong 1864-1952 in 1900 at Royston, Cambridgeshire
Offspring: 1. Twins George Herbert Russell 1885-1967 and Arthur Lionel Russell 1885-1965; Alice Kathleen Russell 1888-1893; John Kingsley Russell 1889-1970; Helena Marjorie Russell 1895-1990; Doris Russell 1898-1899
2. Kathleen Armstrong Russell 1902-1996
Died: Hitchin on 21 March 1940
Notes for future text:
The best date for the family moving from Isleworth to Hitchin is May 1859 as GWR and HWWR were both baptised at Hitchin Independent Chapel on 27 May 1859.
Baptism George Wagstaff Russell baptism father: George Wagstaff
mother: Eliza 27 May 1859 Hitchin Hitchin Independent Chapel Ref: NR8/1/3 (page [9bap])
Henry William Wagstaff Russell baptism father: George Wagstaff
mother: Eliza 27 May 1859 Hitchin Hitchin Independent Chapel Ref: NR8/1/3 (page [9bap])
source: https://www.hertsdirect.org/ufs/ufsmain?ebz=2_1431880782224&ebd=0
From Vanessa’s ancestry tree:
Alice Kathleen: Born 18 July 1888; Died 6 April 1893 from Diphtheria
Doris: Born 4 August 1898; Died 2 April 1899
Rosa Kate died 17 Sept 1898.
From Reginald L. Hine’s “History of Hitchin”:
1923. Complimentary banquet given by G.W.Russell, Chairman of the H.U.D.C., to William Onslow Times to celebrate his fifty years’ service as Clerk to the Hitchin Local Board and Hitchin Urban District Council.
See ‘New building’ paragraph Tilehouse Street Baptist Chapel link
In 1925 some new model schools and an assembly hall were added [to Tilehouse Street Baptist Chapel] at a cost of £5,000 in memory of members of the Church who fell in the Great War and as a thank-offering on the part of the family of George Wagstaff Russell, a deacon of the Church, and a superintendent of the Sunday School for over forty years.
