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I am searching for ALEXANDER RUSSELL b.1880, died 1936? [this date was given to me with the question mark]. Alexander was my grandfather and his death has always been a mystery - no-one ever used to talk about him, the scuttlebut was that he was taken into the Glasgow Asylum but I am not sure whether this is fact or fiction. His wife's [my grandmother] name was ISABELLA HOLMS RUSSELL b.15/3/1887, Lanarkshire, Glasgow - died 30/7/1977, Palmerston North, New Zealand. They were married on 12 April 1911 at Govan, Lanarkshire, Glasgow.
My brother and I were brought to New Zealand by our parents in 1954, my father's name was also Alexander, ALEXANDER HOLMS RUSSELL, b. 24/6/1919 at Glasgow, died July 1968, Palmerston North, NZ - and my mother's name was MARGARET SILLARS BAIRD RUSSELL b. 19/3/1919, Glasgow, died 25/4/73 Palmerston North, NZ.
I am pretty new at genealogy but I have managed to get this information from various places, if anyone has heard of my family I would be very excited to hear.
Thank you
Sheila
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