RUSSEL, John (Grimwade p.649)

[silverly]

23 August 1766 John Russel of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex aged twenty-three years Batchelor and Gold Worker bound in marriage to Ann Surmont of the same Parish aged twenty-one years Spinster. Ann the daughter of John De Surmont School Master and Mary Mile End Old Town who was baptized 26 August 1745 is a possibility for this Ann Surmont.

[buckler]

20 February 1776
Will of John Russel, Gold Worker of St Martin's in the Fields proved at PCC (TNA/PROB 11/1016/261 - the National Archives record him as Gold Maker instead of Gold Worker ).

Silverly has kindly examined a copy of the will and informs us that, along with the legal problems Grimwade notes about this gentleman, Russel also states in his will that he was not successful in business.