RUSSELL, Margaret

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Peg
• Residence: Nov 1946, Wyncote, Montgomery, PA USA

Family/Spouse: HEDGES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Amelia Byrne Williams: What I know about him (Charles) is minimal. He supposedly as a young man (maybe teenager) worked for a variety store in Jackson(?) and suggested that they put a table outside with things costing 5 & 10 cents and it was a big hit and continued by the store , starting the theme “5 & dime”. He was one of the first 5 employees of a hardware company (American Fork & Hoe) which took him to NY {Plainfield NJ) . . where he worked the rest of his life, traveling in to NY on the train each day.

Charles married BYRNE, Marion Josephine on 15 Aug 1893 in 146 Lansing Ave, Jackson, Jackson, MI, USA. Marion (daughter of BYRNE, Charles Benjamin and ROBINSON, Josephine) was born on 3 Dec 1870 in Van Buren, MI USA; died on 10 Nov 1946 in Plainfield, Uniion, NJ USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Marian / Mamie
• Residence: 1878, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
• Census: 6 Jun 1880, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
• Will: 13 Sep 1946, Plainfield, Union, NJ USA

Notes:

Residence:
Living with maternal grandmother

Census:
Name Marion Burn-Event Type Census-Event Date 1880-Event Place Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States-Gender Female-Age 9-Marital Status Single-Race White-Race (Original) W-Occupation At School-Relationship to Head of Household Granddaughter-Relationship to Head of Household (Original) GDau-Birth Year (Estimated) 1871-Birthplace Michigan, United States-Father's Birthplace Michigan, United States-Mother's Birthplace Michigan, United States-Sheet Letter A-Sheet Number 88-Person Number 1-Volume 1

Notes:

From the Jackson Weekly Citizen, 22 Aug 1893:

Russell-Byrne - Tuesday evening, Aug 15, 1893 at the residence of the bride’s cousin, Mrs. G. W. Scotford, 146 Lansing avenue, by Rev E. R. Curry, Charles H Russell and Marion J Byrne, both of Jackson.

The wedding was a quiet, but pretty affair, none but relatives of the contracting parties being in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Russell will reside at 146 Steward Ave.

Married:
Evening wedding at the house of bride’s cousin, Mrs. G. W. Scotford

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: 1900 Census shows Charles Byrne giving his date of birth as Nov 1847. This is problematic, in that his father, George Byrne, supposedly died on Oct 2, 1844. On the 1910 Census, taken in April 1910, his age is listed as 67. This would make sense had he been born in 1842, and for the moment I’m going to assume there is an error in the reading of the 1900 census, and am theorizing he was born in Nov, 1842.
• Hobbies: Member of Jackson, Michigan Baseball club, “The Central”, (May, 1865)
• Occupation: Principal in hardware firm Heath & Byrne, Santa Cruz, and City Superintendent of Waterwork, Santa Cruz.
• Residence: 1850, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan
• Census: 1860, Jackson Ward 2, Jackson, Michigan
• Military: 23 Jun 1863, Jackson, Jackson, MI, USA
• Census: 24 Aug 1870, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan
• Voter Registration: 26 Jul 1875, Ventura, Ventura, CA USA
• Misc. Event: 2 Jul 1877, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Arrival: Aug 1877, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
• Residence: 1880, 101 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
• Residence: 1892, Maple & Pacific, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
• Residence: 1900, 72 Plymouth Street, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
• Residence: 1907, 299 Mission, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
• Residence: 1910, Santa Cruz Ward 4, Santa Cruz, California

Notes:

“Copper teakettles were manufactured in Santa Cruz in 1888. Cook stoves also were turned out. Partners in the hardware venture were Charles Henry Heath, who established a hardware store in Santa Cruz in 1874, and Charles Benjamin Byrne. Byrne was a former superintendent of Hihn Water Company. He and Heath set up their business next to the southwest corner of Pacific and Locust street..

Census:
Name: Charles Byrne-Age: 17-Birth Year: abt 1843-Gender: Male-Race: White-Birth Place: Michigan-Home in 1860: Jackson Ward 2, Jackson, Michigan-Post Office: Jackson-Dwelling Number: 354-Family Number: 364-Occupation: Gass Plumber

Military:
Registered for draft but no record of serving

Census:
Byrne, C. B. / 27 years old / Male / Occupation: Tinner / No real estate / Value of personal estate: $300 / Place of birth: Michigan / Father of foreign birth: Blank / Mother of foreign birth: blank / Male citizen of 21: yes

Voter Registration:
Charles Benjamin Byrne-Event Type-Voter Registration-Event Date-26 Jul 1875-Event Place-Town Of San Buenaventura, Ventura, California, United States-Age-32-

Misc. Event:
“Accidentally he met in San Francisco Mr. Charles Byrne, who married a sister of his brother's wife.”

Arrival:
Two unclaimed letters on Aug 2nd in Santa Cruz indicate Charles is due or has arrived

Residence:
Boarder in the home of A. E. Bolton, Attorney at Law

Charles married ROBINSON, Josephine on 24 Feb 1870 in Johnstown, Barry, MI USA. Josephine (daughter of ROBINSON, Unknown and Susan) was born in 1844 in Johnstown, Barry, MI USA; died before 1878. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 24 Aug 1870, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan

Notes:

Census:
Byrne, Josephine / 26 years old / Female / Occupation: Keeping house / No real estate / Value of personal estate: $125 / Place of birth: Michigan / Father of foreign birth: Yes / Mother of foreign birth: blank

Notes:

Name
Charles B. Byrn
Birth Date
1843
Birthplace
Jackson, Mich.
Age
27
Spouse's Name
Josephine M. Robinson
Spouse's Birth Date
1844
Spouse's Birthplace
Johnstown, Barry, Mich.
Spouse's Age
26
Event Date
24 Feb 1870
Event Place
Johnstown, Barry, Michigan

Other Events and Attributes:

• Physical Description: Semi-disabled
• Research Notes: Found verification of death on 2 Oct 1844. A document from 10/1/1844 transferring assets to his children is in the Jackson County records department, and I hope to be able to transcribe my photos of it at some point. The date used in my records comes from another tree on Ancestry.com. DNA tests and comparison with descendants from other children of John Byrne of Windham, CT (notably descendants of Samuel Hazard Byrne), indicate George was not a biological child of John. Whether he was a son of Ann Powers is unclear.
• Occupation: Register of deeds
• Religion: Baptist (was also first clerk, of the First Baptist Church in Willimantic, as well as Baptist Church in Norwich, CT)
• Residence: 1830, Windham, Windham, Connecticut
• Possessions: 7 Nov 1837, Land Patent granted of 74.5 acres, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA
• Occupation: Bef 1838, Ran a store, combined with dwelling in Windham (Willimantic)
• Occupation: 1838, Schoolteacher, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1838, Jackson County MI
• Occupation: Between 1840 and 1842, Register of Deeds, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1 Jun 1840, Columbia, Jackson, Michigan, USA
• Occupation: Aft 1842, Justice of the Peace, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA

Notes:

From History of Jackson Michigan: George Byrne settled in Jackson in 1838. He was elected register of deeds in 1840, and served two years. He also served very acceptably as justice of the peace for several years. His son, Gilbert R. Byrne, has been in the banking-house of Cooper, Thompson & Co., and with the Jackson City Bank for many years. He is now assistant cashier of the last-named institution.

From A Modern History of Windham County Connecticut:

Page 582: “First Baptist Church, WIllimantic… a number of bretheren met in council at the house of Elder Chester Tilden on Thursday, the 20th of October, 1827…. Brethren:…George Byrnes…Records of December 11, 1827, show that the first clerk of the church was George Byrnes.”

Buried:
Headstone incorrectly reads 1841, and was placed at some point in the 20th century, probably by either daughter Susan or Josephine, who have similar markers, and died in the early 1960s

George married GRIFFING, Sarah S on 23 Jan 1828 in Albany, Albany, NY USA. Sarah (daughter of GRIFFING, Benjamin and MATHER, Clarissa) was born on 24 Sep 1801 in Lyme, New London, CT, USA; died on 3 Jan 1887 in 137 Maple Avenue, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA; was buried on 6 Jan 1887 in Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, Jackson, MI, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: Obituary from the Jackson Weekly Citizen, 11-Jan-1887: Mrs. Sarah Byrne, who has been suffering from a stroke of paralysis for a week, died yesterday about noon at the residence of her oldest son, George G Byrne, 137 Maple avenue, aged 85. Being one of our oldest settlers, and the oldest member of the First Baptist Church of this city, a short biographical sketch of her long busy life will be appreciated by her legion of intimate friends and of interest to those who knew her but slightly. She was born at Lyme, Conn, Sept 24, 1801, of Puritan extraction, being a descendant of the celebrated Puritan leader, Cotton Mather. She experienced a change of heart in her girlhood and embraced the Christian religon, being baptized and connecting herself with the Baptist church at Pleasant Valley, Conn. She was married to George G Byrne at the residence of Erastus Corning, Esq., in Albany, N.Y. on Jan 23, 1828. The family moved to Brooklyn, this county, in 1837. Her husband being elected Register of Deeds for Jackson county on the Whig ticket in the fall of 1838, the family moved to this city when Mr. Byrne took his office, on Jan. 1, 1839, and have lived here since, a period of forty-seven years. On their arrival here, Mrs. Byrne and husband united with the First-Baptist Church. Mr. Byrne died in 1844, leaving his wife and five small boys to mourn the loss of a kind husband and affectionate father. Being a woman endowed with an abundance of spiritual strength, she reared her family of boys and has had the supreme pleasure, allotted to few, of seeing her children and grandchildren uniting with her church, and to hear great-grandchildren lisping the blessed truths of the gospel. She leaves a legacy to her descendants a beautiful Christian character. Her five sons are Gilbert R and George G of this city, Rufus H of Buffalo N.Y., (who is here to attend the funeral), Charles B., of Santa Cruz, Cal., and John H, who died in Jackson in 1878. The funeral will be held at residence, 137 Maple avenue, to-morrow (Thursday) morning, at 10:30.
• Religion: Puritan, later converted to Baptist
• Cause of Death: Paralysis following a stroke
• Residence: 1850, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan
• Residence: 1860, Jackson Ward 2, Jackson, Michigan
• Residence: 1867, 41 Washington, Jackson, Jackson, MI, USA
• Residence: 1870, Jackson Ward 2, Jackson, Michigan
• Residence: 1872, Corner Blackstone & Wilkins, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA
• Census: 8 Jun 1880, 137 Maple Avenue, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Census:
Maple Ave / Byrne, Sarah / White / Female / Age 78 / Mother / Widowed / / Birthplace Conn / Birthplace of Father Conn / Birthplace of Mother Conn

Notes:

Per Albany Argus, ceremony was performed by Rev (Bartholomew) Welch. (Welch was a Baptist minister who was successful in growing the Albany parish). Per Sarah’s obituary, George and Sarah were married at the residence of Erastus Corning, Esq (a noted Albany businessman, politician, and Baptist).

Unknown married Susan. Susan was born about 1802 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1878, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
• Census: 6 Jun 1880, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States

Notes:

Census:
Susan Robinson-United States Census, 1880-Name: Susan Robinson-Event Type: Census-Event Date: 1880-Event Place: Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States-Gender: Female-Age: 78-Marital Status: Widowed-Race: White-Race (Original): W-Occupation: Keeping House-Relationship to Head of Household: Self-Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Self-Birth Year (Estimated): 1802-Birthplace: New York, United States-Father's Birthplace: ----Mother's Birthplace: New York, United States-Sheet Letter: A-Sheet Number: 88-Person Number: 0-Volume: 1-Household Role Sex Age Birthplace-Susan Robinson Self Female 78 New York, United States-Marion Burn Granddaughter Female 9 Michigan, United States