14 Sep 2002
Husband: Christian Carl Gottfried RUSS Current name Charles RUSS died at age: 51
Born: 10 Feb 1842 in Brandis Saxony 1,2
Baptized: 13 Feb 1842 in Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brandis 3
Emigrated: 1862 to London via Edinburgh 4
Naturalized: 17 Feb 1870 5
Resided: 1869 in 30 Northampton Sq, Clerkenwell 6
Resided: in 70 New Bond Street London
Census: 1881 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 7
Died: 4 Nov 1893 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 8,9,10
Buried: 9 Nov 1893 in West Hampstead Cemetery 11,12
Probate: Cheque for £1320 written out 13
Occupation: 1858 Furrier: Paris - after Leipzig 14
Occupation: Furrier to Queen Victoria 15,16,17
Cause of death: Stroke 18,19
Father: Christian Karl Gottfried RUSS
Mother: Frederika Wilhelmina RUDIGER
Wife: Emily CALLAWAY 20 died at age: 68
Family home: 27 Feb 1878 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood
Married: 25 Jan 1872 in Albany Street Regents Park 21,22
Born: 29 Dec 1849 at 69 Stanhope St St Pancras 23,24
Died: 3 Oct 1918 in 23 Mowbray Road Kilburn 25
Buried: 7 Oct 1918 in West Hampstead Cemetery 26
Event: Nov 1893 in Germany for birth of Carl Godfrey Muller 27
Event: 4 Nov 1893 in Husband's death 28
Event: Brief biography 29
Resided: 5 Feb 1906 sold 27 Clifton Hill 30
Resided: Hillside, Lowlands Road, Harrow Middx 30a
Cause of death: Diabetes; coma 24 hrs 25
Occupation: 23 Mar 1898 bought a confectionery business at 187 Kilburn High Road 31
Father: Henry CALLAWAY
Mother: Elizabeth BLAND
F Child 1: Emily RUSS died at age: 56
Born: 21 Nov 1872 in London
Baptized: 29 Dec 1872 32
Died: 28 Jun 1929 in Spokane Washington
Emigrated: 1893 to Germany
Emigrated: 1905 to Brandon Manitoba
Emigrated: 1920s to Spokane Washington
Event: 5 Jul 1897 in witness to Edith's marriage 33
Resided: Summer 1893 in Germany
Resided: 1927 in Spokane Washington
Resided: 1920 in Regina Saskatchewan
Spouse: Otto George MULLER b. 8 Aug 1867 d. 25 Mar 1950
Married: 21 Jul 1891 in England 34,35
F Child 2: Pauline RUSS Nickname Lena died at age: 24
Born: 8 Mar 1874
Died: 9 Jun 1898 at Foreness Point, Cliftonville Kent 36
Christened: May 1874 37
Buried: in Family grave in Hampstead Cemetery 38
Cause of death: fell over cliff edge 39
F Child 3: Edith RUSS died at age: 64
Born: 17 Jun 1875 at 3.15 am 40
Died: 10 Feb 1940 in Middlesex Hospital
Baptized: 18 Sept 1875 at St George's Hanover Square 41
Spouse: Percy Charles HARTE b. 3 Aug 1873 d. 4 Jan 1947
Family home: at Glen Wathen, Finchley North London
Married: 5 July 1897 in St John's Wood Presbyterian Church 42,43
M Child 4: Charles RUSS died at age: 78
Born: 11 Nov 1876 at 70 New Bond Street London 44,45
Died: 26 Feb 1955 in Ealing 46
Buried: 1955 in West Hampstead Cemetery 47,48
Graduated: 1903 from St Mary's Hospital 49
Resided: 1914 in Walden, Packhorse Rd Gerrards Cross Bucks 50,51
Resided: 1917? at 10 College Road Harrow 52
Resided: 1918 at 276 Willesden Lane 53
Event: May 1925 declared bankrupt
Resided: 1926 at 10 Priory Crescent Lewes 54
Resided: 1928 in London 55
Resided: 1930 in Sutherland Ave Maida Vale 56
Resided: 1940 in Crowborough Sussex 57
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square 41
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Education: 1888 Shebbear College, North Devon 58
Occupation: Medical doctor and inventor 59
Occupation: 1903 bacteriologist at Queen Anne Street London 60
Occupation: 1913 bacteriologist at 25 Beaumont St London 61
Occupation: 1916 Published 'A New Treatment of Gonorrhea' 62
Occupation: 1923 bacteriologist at 63 Wimpole Street London 63
Spouse: Jessie Naylor GODDARD b. 1877 d. 30 Mar 1918
Married: 1902 in St Luke's Hampstead 64
Spouse: Zoe CENTER b. 9 Apr 1878 d. 16 Apr 1964
Married: 20 Dec 1922 in St Pauls Knightsbridge 65,66
M Child 5: Emil RUSS died at age: 80
Born: 2 Nov 1877 at 70 New Bond Street London 67
Died: 1958 in East Grinstead Sussex
Baptized: 2 Jan 1878 at St George's Hanover Square 41
Emigrated: May 1902 to India 68
Resided: 1905 in India
Event: 1920 Winner of Calcutta Sweepstake 69,70,71
Resided: 1921 [?] - 1940[?] in South London 72
Retirement: in Peacehaven Sussex
Cremated: 9 May 1958 ashes scattered at family graves Hampstead Cemetery
Education: Shebbear College, North Devon 73
Occupation: 1905? Court tailor 74
Spouse: Helen FERGUSON
M Child 6: Percy RUSS died at age: 78
Born: 10 Nov 1878 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 75
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square
Died: 23 Jan 1957 in Hawera NZ
Emigrated: 1901 to New Zealand 69,76
Resided: in Wanganui North Island NZ 49
Education: 1888 Shebbear College, North Devon 73
Occupation: 16 Jan 1895 apprenticed as cabinet maker to Frank Praill of Tottenham Court Road, London 77
Occupation: Cabinet maker, picture framer and photographer in New Zealand 78,79,80
Cause of death: Bronchopneumonia - 12 hrs before death 81
Spouse: Agnes Maud ARMSTRONG b. 12 Apr 1880 d. 30 Jul 1965
Married: 24 Apr 1902 in Wanganui North Island NZ
M Child 7: Sidney RUSS Nickname Beany died at age: 83
Born: 2 Dec 1879 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 82
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square 41
Died: 27 Jul 1963
Resided: 1912 at Walden, Packhorse Rd Gerrards Cross Bucks 51
Event: CBE DSc 83
Event: 1950 published "Cancer. Where We Stand"
Education: 1888 Shebbear College, North Devon 73
Apprenticed: 18 Sep 1897 G Poland & Co - furriers 84
Education: trained under Lord Rutherford 49
Education: studied under Roentgen in Germany 85
Occupation: Scientist 86
Occupation: 1944 Emeritus Professor of Physics 69
Spouse: Mary PRIESTLEY b. 1889 d. 1959
Married: 1917 87
F Child 8: Bertha RUSS died at age: 91
Born: 9 Mar 1881 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 88
Died: 1973 89
Religion: Quaker
Spouse: Frank WELCH
Married: 1906 in Pinner Middlesex 90
M Child 9: Ernest RUSS Current name Ernest RUSSELL died at age: 89
Born: 10 May 1882 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 91
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square 41
Died: 23 Oct 1971 at Battle Hospital, Reading Berks
Resided: 24 Jul 1905 at 85 Ardgowan Rd Hither Green Londdon 92
Resided: 7 Nov 1908 at 118 Spring Bank Hither Green London 93
Event: 15 Jun 1968 attended Kathy BEvan's wedding
Education: Shebbear College, North Devon 73
Military: Boer War 94
Military: Jul 1902 Pietermaritzburg SA
Military: 8 Mar 1915 Commissioned 2nd Lt Territorial Army Royal Engineers
Military: 1919 ended the war as a Captain
Spouse: Kate Ellen PLUMMER b. 16 Sep 1885 d. 4 Oct 1971
Married: 16 Sep 1904 in Bath Somerset
M Child 10: Albert RUSS
Born: 23 Dec 1883 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 95
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square 41
Occupation: Draper 96
Health: had a problem with his eyes 49
Education: Shebbear College, North Devon 73
Health: 9 Oct 1894 had an operation 97
Apprenticed: 4 Apr 1900 to J Rigg 98
Spouse: Maude Lucy EAGER b. 1880
Married: 28 Oct 1907 in Register Office, St Pancras
M Child 11: Frederick Valentine RUSS died at age: 68
Born: 14 Feb 1885 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 99
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square 41
Died: 3 May 1953
Resided: during WW II in Stevenage Herts
Resided: 22 Jun 1910 at The Orchard, Murray Rd Northwood
Resided: 22 Oct 1912 at Kilncotes, Bennetts End Hemel Hempstead Herts
Resided: 1914 - 1953 at 73 Kingsley Ave West Ealing
Cause of death: Cerebral haemorrhage
Education: Shebbear College, North Devon
Occupation: Civil Servant HM Ministry of Works 100
Military: 1914 - 1918 Army and Royal Flying Corps 101
Education: 21 Jun 1902 apprenticed as cabinet maker 102
Spouse: Helen Caroline BLISS Nickname Nellie b. 20 Nov 1885 d. 10 Mar 1971
Married: 5 Mar 1910 at St George's Hanover Square 103,104
M Child 12: Walter RUSS died at age: 0
Born: 13 Jul 1886 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 105,106
Died: 13 Dec 1886 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 107
Buried: in Hampstead Cemetery 41
Cause of death: Burnt in cot 108
M Child 13: William RUSS Nickname Will died at age: 82
Born: 22 Mar 1888 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 109
Baptized: at St George's Hanover Square 41
Died: July 1971
Education: Shebbear College, North Devon 73
Military: 1914 - 1918 Artillery 110,111
Occupation: Geologist in Nigeria 112,113
Spouse: Florence WRIGHT
Sources:
(1) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'He was born at Brandis, near Leipzig on the 10th
of February 1842. The fourth child and second son of Christian Karl Gottfried
Russ citizen, houseowner, furrier and cap manufacturer at Brandis and of his
wife Frederika Wilhelmina geb. Rudiger'.
(2) DK, 'Carl Russ's good friend Carl Muller, a ropemaker seven years his senior,
...wandering from the town of Taucha, six miles north-east of Leipzig, in
Saxony, ll the way down to Bavaria and back. In 1858, at the age of sixteen,
Carl....the second son of a furrier in Taucha, set his sights a bit higher.', 9.
(3) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'baptized on the 13th of the same month and the
following were his godfathers and godmothers:-
1, Gustav Arudt - tanner in Brandis.
2, Eleanor Rost, wife of Karl Rost shoemaker in Brandis.
3, Friedrich Hansmann junr., ropemaker in Brandis.', from the Register 16 vol
1842 - certified by the Mayor of Brandis Mr Dobler.
(4) DK, 'he and an older cousin caught a ship bound for Edinburgh......As family
lore has it, after the two cousins disembarked, they were walking along and saw
a sixpence lying on the ground. They picked it up. A little farther along,
they found a half-crown, which they also collected. 'There's money in this
city,' the cousin said to Carl. 'I'm staying. You go down to London.' Russ
dutifully headed south', MJH: who is the cousin? Is he the F.H. Russ, furrier
of Glasgow and uncle to R. Russ Winkler of Russ & Winkler, furriers to the Queen
of 132 Princes St Edinburgh?, 10.
(5) Certificate, Passport of 7 Jun 1889 mentions Certificate of Naturalization,
17 Feb 1879.
(6) DK, 'By 1869, Russ had settled in Clerkenwell....where he anglicized his name
to Charles.....leasing a residence and shop on Northampton Square for ten years
at £50 per year.', 10.
(7) Census 1881, Dwelling: 27 Clifton Hill
Census Place: St Marylebone, London, Middlesex
Source: FHL Film 1341036 PRO Ref RG 11 Piece 0164 Folio 53 Page 19
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
Charles REESS M 39 M Saxony
Rel:
Head
occ: Master Furrier
Emily REESS M 31 F London
Rel: Wife
Emily REESS 8 F London
Rel: Daur
Paullina REESS 7 F London
Rel: Daur
Edith REESS 5 F London
Rel: Daur
Charles REESS 4 M London
Rel: Son
Ernest REESS 3 M London
Rel: Son
Percey REESS 2 M London
Rel: Son
Sidney REESS 1 M London
Rel: Son
Bertha REESS 4 m F London
Rel: Daur
Jesse G. GOLLENCOVE U 21 F Leeds
Rel: Serv
occ: General Servant
Clara DEERSLEY U 19 F London
? DURSELY Rel: Serv
occ: Nursemaid
Mary A. DACELESS W 57 F Surrey
Rel: Serv
occ: Monthly Nurse.
(8) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'my dear husband and our good father died at 27
Clifton Hill, St John's Wood N.W. on Saturday Nov. 4th at 4:35 pm'.
(9) Newspaper, from Morgenblatt und Anzeiger - Wed Nov 8 1895:
"Taucha. We received the news privately that on Saturday in London Mr Charles
Russ after a long illness fell asleep. Our town loses in him one of her most
successful sons abroad, who preserved for his native town a warm attachment and
who benefited it by many benevolent acts. After he went to England Mr Russ was
a fatherly friend and adviser to the children of Tauscha, and many are indebted
to him for an esteemed position abroad. Peace be unto him.".
(10) Newspaper, from Kurchner-Zeitung, Leipzig 3 Dec 1893
"Charles Russ, Furrier, London, died suddenly on the 4th of November at the age
of 51, lamented by his wife, twelve children and numerous friends there and on
the continent. The deceased was born at Brandis near Leipzig and left Germany
shortly after the termination of his apprenticeship in order to go to Belgium &
France. Only equipped with modest means he finally came to London where good
fortune soon followed him. After he had worked several years as chambermaster
for City houses he established in 1874 in 70 New Bond St a business of his own,
which he was soon able to bring to a splendid position. At the Exhibition of
Paris 1878 he received the Golden Medal, which is a proof to what ability &
capacity his house had reached. The following shows in what respect of private
life he rejoiced that he was commissioned with the management of the German
Hospital for one year, as also that he occupied the office of Master of the
Freemasons Lodge. For the last 3 years he saw his uncertain health would compel
him to sell his business through which his family is well provided for, as he
has left behind him considerable wealth. Mr Russ is a self made man in the
fullest signification of the word & can be placed before the eyes of the growing
generation as a pattern of an active persevering business gentleman. Peace be
to him!".
(11) Emily Callaway, Day Book, '9th November 1893
The Funeral was decided for & took place on the 9th of November at Hampstead
Cemetery in a new brick vault, family grave, situated next to our dear little
Walter's grave in the centre path on the right hand side of the cemetery through
the chapel. The service was conducted by Rev Dr Swanson D.D. of 19 Greencroft
Gardens, South Hampstead, and attended by the widow of the deceased, our dear
Mother, the four eldest children Lena, Edith, Charles and Emil, Mr Otto George
Muller of Chemnitz, son-in-law of the above, Mr R Winkler of Edinburgh, nephew
of the above, Mr Callaway, father-in-law of the above; Mr W.G. Schoof, Mr
Muhlberg and Mr Bailey, Trustees of Mr Charles Russ' Will and several other
friends. After the ceremony the Will was read in the presence of Mrs Russ,
Executrix and her four eldest children, and Messrs Schoof & Mulhberg the two
trustees, Mr Robert Bailey of 51 Clifton Hill, N.W. having resigned. The Will
was drawn up by Messrs Dod Longstaffe Son & Fenwick of 16 Berners Street and the
signature was witnessed by Mr Preston, clerk in the late Mr Russ' business', W G
Schoof - 1881 Census Return:
"Dwelling: 99 St John St
Census Place: Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex, England
FHL Film 1341077 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0357 Folio 15 Page 23
Wm. Geo. SCHOOF Unmarried Age 50 Birthplace Hensburg, Germany
Rel: Lodger (Head)
Occ: Watch Springer Maker".
(12) ABR, Photo of gravestones nos WC234 and 235 West Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune
Green Road, London N 6 -, 239.
(13) Emily Callaway, Day Book, '27th November 1893
A cheque for Probate was written out for £1320 in favour of Messrs Dod
Longstaffe Son & Fenwick & advanced by the Manager at the rate of 5% Interest
until it can be repaid'
'30th November 1893
Mr Fenwick wrote for a cheque for Estate Duty which we sent on the above date
£437'
'4th December 1893
Valuation at market price of Bonds £35,379 - 1 - 2
Shares in Ships 'John Redhead', 'Carl Rahtkens', 'Fernbrook', 'Baron Clyde'
Valuation for Probate of 27 Clifton Hill by Higgins & Son 12 Finchley Road, St
John's Wood, NW £395, 'His account was held at the London & County Bank Hanover
Square branch'.
(14) DK, 'He had already worked in Leipzig, one of the fur centres of Europe. He
now travelled to Paris', 9.
(15) DK, 'he set up a shop on New Bond Street.....his furs caught the eye of Queen
Victoria', 11.
(16) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'After his childhood at
Taucha he had learned the furrier trade at Leipzig. Later on he went to Paris
and then to London where he opened a furriers shop at New Bond Str. He made
excellent goods and was soon one of the leading furriers of London. I have
admired him always and to this day am thankful to him for having given me that
polish of education which is so essential in life and which I did not have from
my parents, being plain folks.
He was a stout gentlemen and rather stern although kind never the less. He
always laid great stress upon good appearance and one of his oft repeated words
to me was: "Never forget - a top-hat, a clean collar and clean boots make a
gentleman." He had bought a nice house, called Clifton Villa at 27 Clifton
Hill, St. John's Wood, N.W. with a fine garden attached to it where in summer we
used to sit after luncheon smoking our pipes or cigarettes. The Russ's lived on
a rather grand style and always had 2 female servants. When I came there for
the first time at Easter 1890 I was a boy of 16 and was greatly impressed by the
style of living of the Russ family. On every Sunday they went to church twice
and no meal was served without prayers and saying grace. I was always greatly
pleased when he offered me one of his fine Egyptian cigarettes. He gave me many
a hint especially valuable for a boy of 16 and was like a second father to me.
In 1892 he retired from business and together with his wife and eldest son
Charles made a trip to Vienna, Venice, Budapest and Dresden. It was on this
trip that the first symptoms of his disordered mind were noticed. After
returning to London his condition grew gradually worse ending in his death in
1895. Just as much as I admired Mr. Russ, I worshipped his wife'.
(17) R Russ Winkler, Furs and Furriery, (MacNiven & Wallace, 1899), 'The late
F.H. Russ of Glasgow, in his work on "Skins and Furs", and speaking from his own
experience, says: "The training of German youths to the trade is very severe and
trying, and embraces every branch of the art - dressing, dyeing, cleaning,
cutting, sewing, lining, beating, preserving from moths, and also the selling of
the goods; thus there is laid a solid foundation, not only of complete practical
knowledge of the trade, but also of commercial intercourse." The Germans are
quick workers, and they supply the demand for workmen from France, Great Britain
and America; in fact, practical furriery in the British Isles is almost
exclusively in the hands of German furriers residing in Britain. Englishmen
generally look upon the work as unhealthy, an opinion which fur-workers
themselves do not share', 9.
(18) Emily Callaway, Day Book, '4th November 1893
The cause of Mr Charles Russ' death was Cerebral Appoplexy & Coma, as certified
by Dr William Neale M.D. of 24 Loudon Rd. N.W. He was fairly well in health &
bright in spirits up to Thursday evening Nov 2nd when at 10.30 pm he was
suddenly attacked by paralysis in the right hand and arm, which during the night
also attacked the brain rendering him unconscious for 30 hours. He passed
peacefully away without having regained consciousness'.
(19) DK, 'Carl suffered a stroke.....at the age of fifty-one, Carl died with his
son Charles ...by his side', 13.
(20) (26 Sep 1934), 3 Oct 1918 at 23 Mowbray Road, Willesden Middx.
(21) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'He was married January 25th 1872 to Emily
Callaway at Albany Street, Regent's Park by Rev. Burrows'.
DK, Daughter of manager of 'one of London's old-line furriers', 10
(22) Certified Copy, Marriage solemnized at Christ Church in the Parish of St
Pancras Jan 25 1872 - between Charles Russ age 29 Bachelor Furrier of 30
Northampton Square Clerkenwell - father Charles Russ Furrier
and Emily Callaway age 22 Spinster of 51 Park Village East - father Henry
Callaway Furrier
Witnesses Henry Callaway and C M Dybahl [?] - by Licence by Rev H Burrows,
Certified Copy held by CSF.
(23) Certified Copy, 'Twenty ninth December 1849 69 Stanhope Street Hampstead -
Emily - girl - Henry Callaway - Eliza Callaway formerly Bland - Furrier - H
Callaway Father 69 Stanhope St Hampstead St Pancras - Eighteenth January 1850 -
Charles Hy Spong Registrar', Stanhope is best deciphering.
(24) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'She was born in London December 29th 1849'.
(25) Certified Copy of Death Certificate.
(26) ABR, Photo of gravestones nos WC234 and 235 West Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune
Green Road, London N 6, 239.
(27) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'Your grandmother,
Mrs.Russ, was in Germany at the time with Emily as she had just had a baby
(Carl).'.
(28) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'About the beginning of
Nov.93, Lena sent me a telegram to come to 27 Clifton Hill, Mr.Russ's home and
was told after celebrating one of the children's birthday the night before,
Mr.Russ had a stroke. Your grandmother, Mrs.Russ, was in Germany at the time
with Emily as she had just had a baby (Carl). I was led into his bedroom and
found Mr.Russ still living but breathing very heavily. In about ¼ of an hour he
gave three deep sighs and it was all over. He was the first man I had ever seen
die and it shocked me very much. We wired Mrs.Russ and she came to London
immediately.'.
(29) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'To the best of my
knowledge she had been a lady-help in his furrier shop at New Bond Str, and
later on Mr. Russ had married her. She must have been a very pretty girl with
her sparkling black eyes and curly black hair and her well-developed figure.
She was always very well dressed and was a stately woman when I first saw her in
1890. She had a surprisingly deep voice and the way she moved about in public
and her household and the way she spoke was always impressive and suggested that
she came from a very respectable family accustomed to giving orders and to live
on a high standard. She always spoke kindly to the servants but a few words
from her were sufficient to make the servants obey immediately and always very
demurely. I have never seen her in a temper although by nature she was very
lively.
I shall never forget how composed she was when we met her at Victoria station on
her return from Germany after her husband's death. During those years 1890-2 I
had seen how dearly she loved her husband. Her son Charles was with me and she
said "What terrible news" and we took a cab home. On arrival there she said
"let us have supper first and then I will go, and see my husband." After supper
she went to see the corpse and stayed with him an hour or more and although she
had shed her tears freely she was quite composed when she returned to her home.
At his death Mr. Russ left his widow the house on Clifton Hill and £10,000 and
to each of his children £3500, as near as I can remember.'.
(30) Emily Callaway, Day Book, Lease of 27 Clifton Hill sold at £700
S. Higgins & sons auctioneers - comm £20
Dod Longstaffe Son & Fenwick (fees) £11, 141.
(30a) Will of Emily Russ Widow dated 8 July 1913 - certified copy
(31) Emily Callaway, Day Book, Mrs. & Miss Russ called on Mr. Fenwick Wednesday
- about 12 o.c to instruct him to prepare Draft of Assignment of a confectionery
business about to be purchased by Mrs. Russ from a Miss Haynes at 187 High Rd.
Kilburn at a cost of £85, 38.
(32) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Christened Dec 29th 1872 registered Jan 1st
1873 in parish of Clerkenwell'.
(33) Certified Copy.
(34) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'married July 21st 1891 to Otto George Muller,
Chemnitz second son of Carl Gottfried Muller'.
(35) DK, 'Emily married Otto Muller, Carl Muller's second but more enterprising
son', 18.
(36) DK, 'At twenty-four, Lena, as she was called, was purportedly suffering from
long-standing acute indigestion, which had led to low spirits. Her doctor
recommended sea air, so she and Mater went to a boarding house in Cliftonville,
on the coast of Kent. Soon Lena seemed to perk up, and Mater relaxed her
vigilant watch over her daughter. One rainy, blustery morning, Lena slipped out
of the boarding house to post a letter, or so Mater later rationalized when she
discovered the girl was gone. In fact Lena had wandered out to the edge of the
forty-foot cliff at Foreness Point, where she sat wild-eyed in the pouring rain.
Upon seeing Lena, a startled walker cautioned her: "It is a silly thing to sit
so near the edge of the cliff, especially on such a day as this is; the cliff
has been falling away lately, and the cliff might go down, and you might go with
it." Lena made a show of moving back. The man continued on the path down and
around the cliff. But when he was below, Lena called out to him, 'Please pick
up my umbrella!'
The man found the umbrella lying on the rocky beach beneath the bluff and began
to climb back up the path with it. But, at a bend, he looked up and saw a
ghastly sight: Lena was teetering on the brink of the cliff, her arms raised in
front of her, as if she were being beckoned into the precipice. As he raced up
the path, he heard a dreadful scream. At another bend, he caught a glimpse of
the girl. She was lying on the ground and slowly pushing herself over the
ledge. The man, Mr Stephen Brown Balcome, a holidaying stockbroker from West
Kensington, continued his frustratingly slow ascent. Jogging around a corner,
he lost sight of Lena. When he finally arived at the top, only the wind and
rain greeted him. Lena had fallen to the beach below. Panicked, Balcome ran to
a nearby restaurant for help. But when they reached Lena, she was barely alive.
She died on the way to the hospital', 14.
(37) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Paulina born March 8th 1874 christened May 1874
registered April 20th 1874 Parish of Clerkenwell'.
(38) Ind, Tombstone reads: Lena - Loved of all. She was most fair and gracious.
All her ways lightened the noon-day with love's purer light. Dark now, because
our eyes behold no more the loveliness God gave her: this white soul is but
withdrawn to sing with ceaseless praise Love's song so sweet upon her lips of
old. March 8th 1874 June 9th 1898
"It seemed as the ceasing of exquisite music".
(39) Ind, Family legend: she was madly in love with a Catholic priest, who would
not leave the Church to marry her - she jumped
Death certificate records: "Committed suicide whilst temporarily insane".
(40) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Edith born June 17th 1875 at 3.15 am registered
June 28th Parish of Clerkenwell, christened at St George's W. September 18th'.
(41) Emily Callaway, Day Book.
(42) DK, 'Edith had married a bank clerk', 23.
(43) Certified Copy, 'aged 23 - bank clerk, residing at 7 Gladys Road, Hampstead
to Edith Russ aged 21 spinster; of 27 Clifton Hill, Marylebone at St John's Wood
Presbyterian Church, Marlborough Place by certificate by J M Gibson'.
(44) DK, 'Charles, at the age of eleven,....left home in 1888', 12.
(45) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Charles born November 11th 1876 at 70 New Bond
Street W. registered Dec 21st & christened at St George's Hanover Square, W'.
(46) DK, 'On 18 February 1955.....eight days after its publication, his
seventy-eight year old father Charles Russ, died of pneumonia in Ealing', 176.
(47) ABR, Photos of the RUSS tombstones in West Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green
Road, London N 6 - graves no: WC 234 and 235, 239.
(48) John Cole - 2000: Turning then to my sister's recollections of attending our
grandfather
Charles Russ's funeral, Daphne says that Victor, Bun (Bernard), Connie and Joan
were there, along with our mother Olive. Daphne says the
coffin remained open to show the deceased with a neatly clipped beard.
She has no recall of meeting Zoe, although Zoe surely must have been present.
After the funeral Bun took Olive and Daphne to the ballet in London's West End
and booked them into his expensive hotel that night [it probably was Brown's
Hotel; Bun usually stayed there when in town].
Mother insisted on paying her and Daphne's hotel bill, rather than have it paid
by Bun!.
(49) ABR, 5. Albert had poor eyesight - Findell tree
(50) DK, 'The house the Russes called Walden lay in a wooded area in rural
Buckinghamshire, halfway between the towns of Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards
Cross.', 18.
(51) ABR, 7.
(52) DK, 25.
(53) DK, 'Charles could not bear to live in the house where Jessie had died, so he
uprooted the family once again, moving to a terraced house at 276 Willesden
Lane, in Willesden Green, also north-west of London.', 26.
(54) DK, 'In May 1926....around this time Charles moved what was left of the
family to Lewes ...10 Priory Crescent', 39.
(55) DK, 'The Russes did not last long in Lewes. They soon moved back to London',
40.
(56) DK, 'By now, the Russ family had moved again, to Sutherland Avenue in the
Maida Vale area of London', 44.
(57) DK, 'By Easter 1940......Charles, Zoe and Joan now lived in Crowborough', 80.
(58) DK, 'Soon thereafter [death of Walter 13 Dec 1886] the eight surviving boys
were dispatched to Shebbear College, a long-established boarding school in north
Devon. Charles, at the age of eleven, and his younger brothers Emil, Percy and
Sidney (who was just eight years old) left home in 1888. Ernest, Albert,
Frederick and William soon completed the Russ contingent at Shebbear, a school
founded by a Low Church group and later affiliated with the Methodist Church.
The brothers often remained at school even during the holidays.
Boarding school was primarily a privilege of the rich, but conditions at
Shebbear did not betray the fact. The boys took to eating their peach stones to
stave off hunger, a habit that little Sidney would maintain for the rest of his
life. When at home, the brothers proved that they had absorbed their Latin
lessons, calling their mother 'Mater'. But they were not coddled at home
either. 'Pater' would not tolerate idleness or airs in his boys, who during
holidays were put to work learning the furrier trade', 12.
(59) DK, 'On 12 December 1927, he applied for a patent for an electric heater that
prevented the water in car radiators from freezing, a device that Barney helped
him demonstrate at an exhibition of inventions and which he apparently sold to
an automobile manufacturer, who unfortunately ended up shelving it. In the fall
of 1928, Charles would apply for a patent for winding and constructing
electrical heating elements, the description of which filled three pages. Three
months after that, he patented an 'improved protector for venereal discharges'',
40.
(60) DK, 'Charles, a bacteriologist, worked as one of two qualified assistants in
Dr G. L. Eastes's laboratory of pathology and public health', 18[US]
(61) DK, 'Charles then set up his own lab less than a mile away, on Beaumont
Street, igniting a bitter dispute. Claiming Russ had violated a noncompete
clause in his contract, Eastes sued his former assistant. The Chancery Court
sided with Charles, deeming the contract, which he had never actually signed,
flawed.', 18[US]
(62) DK, 24.
(63) DK, 'Although he hoped the eye study would pay off, his practice was failing.
He abandoned this office at 25 Beaumont Street, his only consistent address over
the previous decade, and set up at 63 Wimpole Street. To save money during the
school holiday, the boys cleaned the office and washed the glass vessels and the
instruments that Charles used in his bacteriological practice. But within a
year, he would close this office as well.', 34[US]
(64) DK, 'In 1902, when he had married his sweetheart, Jessie Naylor Goddard, at
St Luke's Church in Hampstead', 19.
(65) DK, 'On 20 December 1922, at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge, Charles Russ,
now forty-five, married Zoe Center, a year younger', 31.
(66) ABR, 'During our [ABR] sojourn at Marylebone, Father met and married a
wonderful lady. Zoe performed marvels in the household', 24.
(67) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Emil born November 2nd 1877 at 70 New Bond St W
registered Dec 11th christened at St Georges Jan 5th'.
(68) Emily Callaway, Day Book, May 23 1902: Gave Cheque to Emil Russ to settle
his expenses & on his departure for India Advance a/c £75, 128.
(69) Carolyn FINDELL, (24 Jun 2001).
(70) DK, 'Uncle Emil, who had worked as a tailor in India until he won the
Calcutta Sweep in 1920. He pocketed £15,800 and hied it back to England. There
he liked to swim in the sea and hold court in the pubs, where he was known to
spin a yarn or two. Emil lost his fortune almost as quickly as he made it.
According to Major H. Hobbs, who wrote 'The Romance of the Calcutta Sweep': In
1927 the news was broadcast through the British Empire, possibly right round the
world, that he, a prize winner in the Derby Sweep, had made his appearance in
the Canterbury Bankruptcy Court, where it was stated that he had been living at
the rate of £2,000 a year.', 73.
(71) ABR, 'Having apprenticed as a tailor, he went to India to make uniforms for
the British Army. One day he and three friends decided to take equal shares for
the "Calcutta Turf" - the Indian equivalent of the English Derby. We were never
able to find out how much he won, but he gave up tailoring, and India, returned
to England and purchased a large house in South London, with more than enough
room for our brood during school holidays, and where we were always welcome.
His wife disapproved of his fondness for alcohol and left him - which was,
perhaps, just as well, as the house was flattened not long after during one of
the first bombing raids of World War II! Not only was the house demolished, but
so was Emil's life of financial independence. Undaunted, he took a job with the
Post Office, delivering mail. The end of his route used to take him close to
"The Prince of Wales' Feathers" - a pub just off Oxford Street, and although
having tempered his preference for alcohol considerably, he still enjoyed a pint
or two. The story goes that on this particular day he only had sufficient funds
for one pint, after which he set off to report to Headquarters. He was hardly
out of sight of the pub when one of the first V-2 bombs made a direct hit on the
building. Uncle used to tell us that since he had won the Sweepstake, escaped
unscathed from his demolished home and from certain death in the pub, it was
obvious that he lived a charmed life! And, he would add with a twinkle, had he
been less temperate and stayed for the extra pint, he might not have lived to
tell the tale.', 4.
(72) ABR, 4.
(73) DK, 12.
(74) DK, 'the gregarious Emil, who was said to have had a talent for writing when
younger. In 1905, he had moved to India and, as William recorded on the back of
a family photograph, became 'court tailor.....and friend of Maharajah X', 23.
(75) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Percy born November 10th 1878 at 27 Clifton
Hill, St John's Wd. Christened at St George's Reg. Dec 18th 1878'.
(76) Emily Callaway, Day Book, Nov 6 1900: Advance to Percy Russ cycle £20
Dec 9 1901: Percy to start in business £280
per Charles to buy camera £20
Feb 4 1901: Cash advanced to Percy £223.2.6
Feb 7 1902: Percy Russ £200 & Cabling charges £1.16.2, MJH: suggests he left for
New Zealand around the end of 1901; as he married 24 Apr 1902, he presumably did
not go out in 1902!, 116, 117, 122, 124.
(77) Indenture, This Indenture Witnesseth, that
Percy Russ
of 27 Clifton Hill, St John's Wood
in the parish of St Marylebone
son of Mrs Emily Russ, widow
of the above address
of his own free will and accord, and by and with the consent and approbation of
his mother testified by his executing these Presents, doth put him
self
Apprentice to Frank Praill
Trading as Edward Praill
of 12 New Inn Yard Tottenham Court Road
in the parish of St Pancras
to learn the Art, Trade or business of Cabinet Making
and to be with him after the manner of an Apprentice from the
fifteenth
day of October One thousand eight hundred and ninety- four
until the full end and term of -- four years from thence next following
and fully to be complete and ended ; during which time the said Apprentice his
Master faithfully shall serve, his secrets keep and his lawful commands
obey ; he shall do no damage to his said Master or his goods, nor suffer
it
to be done by others, but shall forthwith give notice to his said Master of
the same when necessary;-- he shall not waste the said Goods, nor lend them
unlawfully, nor shall he do any act whereby his said Master may sustain
any
loss with his own goods or others during the said term ; he shall not buy nor
sell during
his Apprenticeship, nor absent himself from his said Master's service day or
[night]
unlawfully ; but in all things as a faithful Apprentice shall behave himself
towards his
said Master and others during the said term
and the said Frank Praill in consideration
of the sum of thirty pounds premium -
Fifteen pounds on the execution of these presents
And the remaining fifteen pounds this day
Six months - shall pay to the said Percy Russ
First twelve months - Two and sixpence per week
Second twelve months - Five shillings per week
Third twelve months - Seven and sixpence per week
Fourth and last twelve months - ten shillings per
week
And the said Frank Praill
his said Apprentice in the Art, Trade or Business of Cabinet Making
by the best means in his power shall teach and instruct or cause to be taught
and instructed
The said Percy Russ
[finding the said Apprentice sufficient Meat, Drink, Lodging and all other
necessities during
the said term]
All the branches of what is known as
Cabinet making
And for the true performance of all and every the said Covenants and agreements
the said
Parties bind themselves by these Presents IN WITNESS whereof they have to this
Indenture interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the sixteenth day of
January
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety - five
SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED Percy Russ
in the presence of Emily
Russ
W G Schoof
Frank Praill
text between [ ] crossed out in original.
(78) DK, 'Percy, a photographer, who lived in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand', 23.
(79) ABR, 'Percy became a photographer and emigrated to New Zealand, settling in
the Hawkes Bay, Napier District of the North Island in Wanganui. One of his
sons was killed in the earthquake of 1934', Wanganui is not in Hawkes Bay, 5.
(80) Ind, Lenore Amos: 'Percy was a cabinet maker even when he had a picture
framing business. It appears that Percy paid his own way to NZ. His death
certificate shows he had been in NZ for 56 years so he presumably came in 1900
or 1901. When he married in April 1902 his occupation was "cabinet maker".
Later he became a picture framer. If he was a photographer, it cannot have been
for long.
His first picture framing business was in Wanganui and sometime after the
Second World War he sold that and moved to Hawera where he set up a new
business.' [17 July 2001]
(81) Ind, and Disseminated sclerosis - 10 yrs and fractive neck right femur - 1
month.
(82) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Sidney born Dec 2nd 1879 at 27 Clifton Hill
christened at St George's Hanover Square W'.
(83) Ind, 'Cancer. Where We Stand' by Sidney Russ CBE DSc F Inst P, Professor
Emeritus University of London; formerly Physicist to the Middlesex Hospital;
Fellow of University College London. Published by the Oxford University Press
1950
also by the same author: 'Radium, X-Rays and the Living Cell' [Geo Bell & Sons]
with H A Colwell
'Physics in Medical Radiology' [Chapman & Hall] with L H Clark and B D
Watters
'Radon - Its Technique and Use' [John Murray] with W A Jennings.
(84) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 18 Sep 1897: Sent cheque to G Poland & Son for
apprenticing Sidney Russ as a furrier and received on the 20th inst a receipt
for the same £80.-.-, Dwelling: 100 Oxford St
Census Place: St Marylebone, London, Middlesex, England
Source: HL Film 1341030 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0134 Folio 4 Page
2
George E. POLAND M 31 St Marylebone, Middlesex
Furrier, 95.
(85) Ind, Dr Muffet Collins:'To clarify my father's occupation, no he was not
medically qualified. He was a Professor of Physics at London University but his
main love & abiding interest was radiology, on which he was an authority. He
went to study under Roentgen in Germany from whence he brought back both
technical knowledge & radioactive material, & was a pioneer in this field in
England. He collaborated with medical colleagues to study the effects of
radiation on human tissues - differences in dosage & so on & so he became an
expert in this branch of mediciine chiefly of course for the treatment of
cancer'
See also Frederick Basil Russ.
(86) DK, 'Charles's brother Sydney, also a London medical doctor and scientist,
and two servants, also lived in the big house', MJH: DK was wrong. Sidney had
no medical qualification. 18.
(87) DK, "before the end of the war", 25.
(88) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Bertha born March 9th 1881 at 27 Clifton Hill
christened at St George's registered'.
(89) Ind, Margaret Neill says 'aged 92'.
(90) DK, 'Bertha had married a Quaker stationer in 1905', 23.
(91) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Ernest born May 10th 1882 at 27 Clifton Hill
christened at St George's registered June'.
(92) Ind, Postcard from Minnie [his niece?] of Camerton Court: "Dear Erney, this
is Camerton Court not very far from where we live. When is mother coming back.
This is the cornation [sic] at Miss Jarrots . Goodbye with love xxxMinnie xxx
hope all is well'.
(93) Ind, Post card - of Ashgrove Peasedown St John 'Dear E Tthis is a PC of
Ashgrove our [?] house is where I have put the X' signed with intials -
undecipherable.
(94) DK, '..Ernest, a soldier who had joined the military at the age of sixteen
and during the Boer War had changed his name to Russell to hide the German
link', DK is wrong - Ernest changed his name in 1920, 23.
(95) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Albert born December 23rd 1883 at 27 Clifton
Hill christened at St George's registered Jan'.
(96) DK, 23.
(97) Emily Callaway, Day Book, Cheque for operation (Albert) £45.-.-
Julius [?] 31.10.-
An[?anaesthetist] 2. 2.-
Nursing Home 9.15.-
, 139.
(98) Emily Callaway, Day Book, Sent Cheque to J. Rigg to refund cash laid out
for Albert Russ £2.1.-
20/5/1900 114 Cheque to Thomas Rigg a/c Albert Russ £25.-.-
" " J. Rigg (a/c Albert R) £25.-.-
.
(99) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Frederick Valentine born February 14th 1885 at
27 Clifton Hill christened at St George's registered April'.
(100) DK, 'Frederick, following the war, as a civil servant in Her Majesty's [sic]
Office of Works', 'Frederick Valentine Russ was employed by the Office of Works,
after his discharge from the Armed Forces in 1919-20, as a technical officer.
His office/department had responsibility for the 'English Heritage' -
including Wales & Scotland'
ABR has on p5: 'Uncle Fred trained as an architect'. This is incorrect. 23.
(101) DK, 'Frederick, who was still living at home, volunteered for the army. He
would fight in the trenches in Belgium. After his second bout of pneumonia,
however, the army refused to send him back to the front, so he became a
balloonist in the Royal Flying Corps', Dean King is wrong - Fred was married by
the start of the War; he moved from Hemel Hempstead [poultry farming] to Ealing
probably close to the outbreak of the War.
[CSF], 17.
(102) Emily Callaway, Day Book, Jun 21 1902; Fred entered apprenticeship at Mr
Thomas Owen Cabinet Maker 18 Oldbury Place Marylebone, Premium £50, £25 on
signing and £25 in 6 months repayable as wages 1st year 4/- wk, 2nd 7/- 3rd yr
10/-, 128.
(103) Carolyn Findell, Notes, (2001).
(104) Ind, Married from Hillside, 60 Lowlands Road, Harrow, Middx.
(105) DK, 'Emily delivered Walter, her twelfth and next-to-last child, on 13 July
1886.', 12.
(106) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Walter born July 13th 1886 at 27 Clifton Hill
christened at St George's Hanover Square and registered August'.
(107) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Died Sunday evening Dec 13th 1886 at 27 Clifton
Hill: interred at Hampstead Cemetery'.
(108) DK, 'Five months later - on the evening of 13 December - a cinder sparked
from the fireplace and set fire to the linen in his crib. Walter burned to
death', 12.
(109) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'William born March 22nd at 27 Clifton Hill
christened at St George's Hanover Square & registered April'.
(110) DK, 'William, the baby of the family, joined an artillery unit and was
stationed outside London, not far from the home of his brother Charles.', 17.
(111) ABR, 'He served in the First War as an Artillery Officer', 5.
(112) DK, 'rugged, raw-boned William, who became a geologist and explored Nigeria',
23.
(113) ABR, 'William, the youngest, was also a favourite of ours. His work as a
geologist took him to Nigeria for six months of the year, but the other six
months he would spend in London recording his field work and we would see quite
a bit of him', 5.
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