Francis James (Frank) RUSSELL
Date of Birth:
c 1856
Date of Death:
14 Oct 1917
Frank was born at Teston, Kent, England.
He married Anne (Fanny) Holland (born at Nova Scotia, Canada in 1868) at Foxton in 1885.
They had 5 sons & 3 daughters & adopted a daughter.
One son, Claud, and 3 son-in-laws, Clarence Jeffares, Stanley Gordon & Albert Purcell servced in WW1.
Frank left England at age 18 arriving in Wellington in 1874. he started as a bullock driver at Oroua, then moved to levin around 1896 as a labourer.
He is recorded on the 1905 unofficial census as a labourer with 10 people & 1 building.
He and Anne and two sons & one daughter & a son-in-law are all buried in Levin.
Relatives mentioned in profile:
Francis James (Frank) Russell, Richard Hodges Russell, Eliza Dale, Anne Elizabeth (Fanny) Holland, Michael Holland, Louise Dougherty, Michael Richard (Richard) Russell, Minnie Ellen Watts, Francis Roland Russell, Alice Maud Finch, Edward Shirley, William Edward Russell, Rosina Eliza (Rose) Russell, Clarence Thomas (Tad) Jeffares, Claud Alfred Russell, Ellen Ruth Burnett, Mildred Maud Louise Russell, John William Hayfield, Fanny Florence Isabella (Flo) Russell, Stanley Albert James Gordon, Myrtle Evelyn Russell, Albert Douglas Purcell, John Cook, hHenry Raymon (Harry) Russell, Elsie Boon Foote, Lyall McKenzie Grainger.