Surname Saturday -- LNU (Martha, wife of William Russell, England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2079 who is Martha LNU (1610-1694). [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 9th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through one generation in this LNU family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

32. Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825)
33. Abigail Gates (1797-1869)

64. Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)
65. Martha Whitney (1764-1832)

128.  Norman Seaver (1734-1787)
129.  Sarah Read (1736-1809)

258.  Isaac Read (1704-1780)
259.  Experience Willis (1709-1787)

518.  Samuel Willis (1675-1758)
519.  Susannah Gleason (1676-1756)

1038.  Joseph Gleason (1640-1715)
1039.  Martha Russell (1647-1684)

2078.  William Russell, born about 1605 in Hertfordshire, England; died 14 February 1662 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1633 in England.
2079.  Martha LNU, born bout 1610 in England; died 1694 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of William Russell and Martha are:
*  Joseph Russell (1636-1694), married 1662 Mary Belcher (1638-1691).
*  Benjamin Russell (1638-1691), married 1665 Rebecca LNU.
*  Phebe Russell (1642-1642).
*  John Russell (1645-1737), married Elizabeth Fiske (1654-1730).
*  Martha Russell (1647-1684), married 1667 Joseph Gleason (1640-1715).
*  Philip Russell (1650-1731), married (1) 1680 Joanna Cutler (1661-1703); (2) 1705 Sarah Brooks (1668-1748).
*  Thomas Russell (1653-1653).
*  William Russell (1655-1744), married 1683 Abigail Winship (1656-1727).
*  Jason Russell (1658-1736), married 1684 Mary Hubbard (1665-1738).
*  Joyce Russell (1660-1719), married 1680 Edmund Rice (1653-1719).


Martha (LNU) Russell married (2) Humphrey Bradshaw (1614-1682) on 24 March 1665 in Cambridge, and (3) Thomas Hall (1610-1691) on 24 May 1683 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Some online family trees claim that Martha LNU is Martha Davies (1609-1694), born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England.  A Martha Davyes married a William Russell in St. Albans, Hertfordshire on 26 May 1636.  I have not researched this to any extent.

Information about the William Russell family was obtained from:

*  Nora E. Snow, The Snow-Estes Ancestry (Hillburn, N.Y. : 1939).

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