Died
at age 80
in Steventon, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
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Biography
This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.
Reference
Reference: HLC4196
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↑ Kussell-1 was created by Alan Randell through the import of Randell.ged on Jan 25, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
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Mary Russell (1765-1845), daughter of Robert Russell (b.1736?) and Elizabeth Crutewell (b.1736?). Sister of Martha (b.1759), Robert (b.1761), Elizabeth (b.1767) and James (b.1770).
"Kussell" is almost certainly a mistranscription in scanning. A broad search on Ancestry or FindMyPast picks up around 2,300 cases of "Kussell" and a random check of the some original documents confirms that they have been mistranscribed in the OCR process. More telling is a search of the British Phone Books on Ancestry (1880-1894). If you check for London in this 100-year period, you get 68,647 entries for "Russell", two cases of "Kussell" cases as part of a hyphenated name, and 124 "Cussell". Similar results for the counties of interest, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
The name "Kussell" cannot be ruled out, especially as a homophone of "Cussell", but a simple mistranscription of the letter R for K is more likely.
"Kussell" is almost certainly a mistranscription in scanning. A broad search on Ancestry or FindMyPast picks up around 2,300 cases of "Kussell" and a random check of the some original documents confirms that they have been mistranscribed in the OCR process. More telling is a search of the British Phone Books on Ancestry (1880-1894). If you check for London in this 100-year period, you get 68,647 entries for "Russell", two cases of "Kussell" cases as part of a hyphenated name, and 124 "Cussell". Similar results for the counties of interest, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The name "Kussell" cannot be ruled out, especially as a homophone of "Cussell", but a simple mistranscription of the letter R for K is more likely.