Leonora Russell

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Leonora Russell (Pigot)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: India
Death: December 24, 1829 (60-69)
Place of Burial: Greater London, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot Bt and N.N. Unknown
Wife of Claud Russell
Mother of Claude Russell; Leonora Russell; Sophia Russell; George Edward Russell; John Williams Russell and 3 others
Sister of Sophia Monckton
Half sister of Major George Pigot, SV/PROG; Richard Pigot and Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, KCH, KCB

Managed by: Sheila Gordon
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About Leonora Russell

Leonora received a fortune under her father's will and married 17 Oct. 1777 Claud Russell, member of the Madras Council; to the memory of her and her husband there is a tablet in Marylebone Church.

the following is from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2000-04/0957131940 -

"Claud Russell's wife was Leonora Pigot, one of the two illegitimate daughters of Lord Pigot, the Governor of Madras who was later disgraced and died in illegal confinement. The mother of these daughters (but not of Pigot's natural sons, who had a different mother) was Mrs Joanna Eleanor Jackson, wife of Robert Jackson, Naval Captain and Country Trader and daughter of Samuel Hepburn (as explained in a letter to me from the India Office Records, 28 September 1973, citing "Vestiges of Old Madras", vol II, p 489)."

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Leonora Russell's Timeline

1764
1764
India
1779
1779
1780
1780
Madras, India
1783
1783
Binfield, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1787
1787
Madras, India
1792
1792
India
1796
1796
Marylebone, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
1800
1800
Binfield, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1804
February 19, 1804
Binfield, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)