John RUSSELL:
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Born 1820
Died 4 May 1893
Artist
John Russell was brought up by Jean, and Jean stayed with him when he was an adult.
John Russell died in Fochabers, Spey Cottage 4/5/1893.He was buried in a plot of James Russell in Bellie Graveyard.
Since Uncle John Fraser's Failure the Bank, where my credit is, have come upon William Russell for the money and I am struggling hard to pay it off. I have one lot of three large paintings with rich frames all but ready to send away to assist in the affairs. I will get at least from 20 to £30 for them and others will be ready to supply their place when sold.
[John Fraser could be a brother of his mother or his mother's cousin at Kintore; William Russell could be his grand father or uncle]
Extract from article by James Russell in Scalan News:
John Russell moved about a lot on painting contracts - astride a big white horse, according to Jeannie his youngest daughter. At various times he worked atAberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inver-ness, Port Glasgow, Buckie and Foch-abers. Russell wrote regularly to Bishop Kyle between 1847 and 1856. Subjects covered included his mother's state of health; the financial difficulties of an artist waiting to be paid; his first marriage to Margaret Bennet; and the children, John and Charles, who became the responsibility of his mother when their mother died.
John Russell selfportrait
John Russell
Isabella CRAIGEN:
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Born ABT. 1841
Died 1872, Edinburgh
died smallpox
Children taken to island in the Forth
Isabella Craigen 2nd wife of John Russell
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