Margaret (Dickson) Russell (1834 - 1922)

Born 24 Jul 1834 in Lieth Scotland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of George Frederick Russell — married 13 Nov 1856 in John Knox Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Descendants

Died 14 Sep 1922 at age 88 in Preston, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Margaret Dickson was the seventh of eleven children born to Margaret Dickson and her husband, Andrew. Margaret's father, Andrew, was a Game Keeper on a large estate near Rosslyn, Midlothian, Scotland. At the age of about eighteen years, Margaret emigrated, and arrived in Melbourne, Australia. There she met and married a Canadian mariner named George Russell. They raised a large family in the suburb of Footscray. She lived for another 25 years after her husband died, and ended her days living with the family of her daughter Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Joseph Orton ^[1]

Sources

• Old parish registers, Carrington, Midlothian, Scotland... gives the date of her baptism as 11 August 1834

• Marriage Registration in the Colony of Victoria, giving the date of the marriage as 13th November 1856. The Registry entry provides details of ages, place and date of this marriage, and their parents' names & occupation. Celebrated in John Knox Presbyterian Church, Swanston Street, Melbourne. [This building was later used as the worship place for the Churches of Christ.] [NOTE: In the first column, the entry is numbered 230. In the gutter between the double-page entry it is numbered 3829. In the top right-hand corner of the page there are the figures 1819, which could be mistaken for the year. The page includes details of two other marriages celebrated by the same Minister in November 1856]

• Death notice in newspaper: "Independent" (Footscray, Vic., 1883-1922) published on on 30 Sept 1922, on page 3

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Al Orton.

Acknowledgments

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