CHRISTIAN CHARLES GOTTFRIED RUSS, 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 p.m.
He was born at Brandis, near Leipzig—on the 10th of February 1842. The fourth child and the second son of Christian Karl Gottfried Russ, citizen, houseowner, furrier and cap manufacturer at Brandis and of his wife Fredericka Wilhelmina geb. Rüdiger; baptized on the 13th of the same month and the following were his godfathers and godmothers:—
Gustav Arudt, tanner in Brandis.
Eleanor Rost, wife of Karl Rost shoemaker in Brandis.
Friedrich Hansmann junr., ropemaker in Brandis. The above details have been taken from the register of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brandis, 16 vol. 1842 according to birth and baptismal certificate[s] sent by M.A. Müller, Pastor, and countersigned and certified by Mr. Döbler, Mayor of Brandis with the official stamp of the Council attached.
He was married January 25th 1872 to Emily Callaway at Albany Street, Regent’s Park by Rev. Burrows. She was born in London December 29th 1849. There was issue of this marriage 13 children, four daughters and nine sons; of whom twelve were alive at the day of his death.
—from the ledger of Emily Callaway Russ, grandmother of Patrick O’Brian