Robert RUSLING
(1665-)

 

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Robert RUSLING

  • Born: 4 Mar 1664/65, Flixborough, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
  • Marriage: Anne

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The RUSLING name---

From the "Historical Research Center" we learn the following:
It was not until the early Middle Ages that surnames were first used to distinguish between numbers of people bearing the same personal or Christian name. With the growth of societies and the development of documentation in the later Middle Ages, such names became essential, and a person whose distinguishing name described his trade, his place of residence, hid father's name, or some persomal or physical characteristic, passed that name on to his children, and the surname became hereditary.

The English surname RUSLING is of patronymic origin. Patronymic names are those surnames which derive their origin from the first name of the father of the initial bearer. In this instance, the surname RUSLING means simply "son of Rocelin" from the Old french name "Roscelin". At a very early period, this name was very popular in County Lincoln as a personal name and later a surname.

References to the surname RUSLING include a record in the Lincolnshire Survey: Three carucates which the sons of Rocelin hold, 1109". One Rocelin de Riggesbi was recorded in the "Transcripts of the Charters relating to the Gilbertine Houses of Lincolnshire" in 1150, while one Johanna Roscelin is recorded in the Hundred Rolls for County Lincolnshire in the year 1273. Variants of the surname RUSLING include Rosslyn and Rosling.

James Fowler Rusling writes:
The Ruslings are of English origin. The name has been written"Rusling" during the past century and longer. But in previous centuries (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth) it has also been written "Rustling", "Ruslyng", "Ruslinge", "Ruslin", "Russlin", and "Russelin" according to the old parish registers of England. Possibly descended from the Rosslyns of Scotland, or the Rosselyns, Rosselynes, Rocelines, or Rosselines of England. Perhaps of old Saxon origin. The Saxon kings had a body-guard, called "Rustlingas," an hence the name, possibly.

The first Rusling in America was JFR's grandfather, James Rusling. He came from Hull, England in 1793. He first settled in New York, but soon removed to New Jersey, and his descendants are now found in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Texas, and Canada.

The earliest Ruslings I have been able to discover are " William Ruslyng and Alice his wife." In the manor records of Scotter, near Kirton-in-Lindsey, a town about four miles from Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Lincolnshire, or about fifteen miles from Winterton, in the year 1563 these " Ruslyngs" made complaint against William Freeman and Isabella his wife for detaining " one aumbrey, value 6S and 8d." An "aumbrey" is a cupboard! So, in the parish registers of the same place appears the following entry:

“1588 ANNAS RUSLINGE XXIst of August, (baptized)."

Doubtless these were far-away kin of ours. The above, sent me in 1881, by Edward Peacock, Esq., of Bottesford Manor aforesaid, who also then wrote, that: "In the Lincolnshire Directory of 1868 there are two Ruslings, both farmers-James Rusling of Epworth, and S. Rusling of Wroot. Both of these places are in the Isle of Axholme."

Next is the following:

Extracts from the Registers of the Parish of Winterton, Lincolnshire.

1600 Marche The 15 daye was ANNAS RUSLINGE daughter of BRIAN baptised.
1602 October The eight daye was ROBERT RUSLINGE sonne of BRIAN baptised. 1603 February The first day was ROBERT RUSLINGE sonne of BRIAN buried.
[Note.-This would be 1604 by our reckoning. The year then began with March 25.]
1606 Julie The 20th day was MARIE RUSSELIN the daughter of BRIAN baptised."
1609 Aprill the i day was ELIZABETH RUSSELIN the daughter of BRIAN baptised. October the rath day was ELIZABETH RUSSELIN the daughter of BRIAN & ELLEN buried.
1610 November The 25th day was ANTONIE RUSSELIN the sonne of BRIAN & ELLEN baptised.

CHRISTNINGS ANNO DNI 1613.
ROBERT the sonne of BRYAN RUSLIN and HELLIN his wife September the XVIIIth.

CHRISTNINGS Ao DNI 1614. [Name omitted] the sonne of BRYAN RUSLIN and HELLIN his wife October 15.

MARRIAGES, 1618. JOHN ABYE & AN. RUSSLIN were married the Maii 20.

MARRIAGES, 1628. MATHEW BROWNE and MARY RUSLING. Aprill XX. BURIALS, 1636. ELLIN Wife of BRIAN RUSLIN. Mar VI. BURIALS, ANNO DOMINI, 1638. BRYAN RUSLIN. March [date illegible].

The Register is missing from 1639 to 1653. The family seem to have left Winterton, as the name does not appear again until I724.

MARRIAGES, 1724.
May 25. EDWARD RUSSLIN & ANN LABRAM were married May ye twenty fifth.

1763 Banns of Marriage between WM. STEPHENSON of this parish Widow [sic] and ANN ROSSLING of the Parish of Broughton-wid" were published on the three Sundays underwritten-viz-April 10-17~& 24.

1763. A. WEATHERHEAD-Vicr , (They are "underwritten" in ye book. The Marriage probably was/ at Broughton.)

1773 GEORGE MICKELFITCH1 of this parish Batch1 and SARAH RUSLING of this parish Spinsf were Married in this Church by Banns this 25 Day of November in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy three by me A. WEATHERHEAD Vicr This Marriage was solemnized Between us In the Presence of: GEORGE X MICKLEFITCH'S Mark SARAH RUSLIN JOHN FOWLER-JN° STEPHENSON.

1773 JOSEPH RUSLING of this Parish Batchr and SARAH BROADLEY of this Parish Spinsr were Married in this Church by Banns this 25th Day of November in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy three by me A WATHERHEAD-Vicr This Marriage was solemnized between us in the Presence of JOSEPHPH X RUSLING'S Mark SARAH X BROADLEY'S Mark WM. PARKINSON. RICHARD ATKINSON

1787 JAMES RUSLING of the Parish of Winteringham and MARY FOWLER of the Parish of Winterton were Married in this Church by Banns this fifteenth Day of May in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty-seven by me BIRKETT FORREST Curate This Marriage was solemnized between us in the Presence of JAMES RUSLING MARY FOWLER MARY WHITEHEAD Jos. FOWLER

1808 SAMUEL ANDREW of this Parish and ELIZABETH RUSLING of this Parish were Married in this Church by Banns this seventeenth Day of May in the Year One Thousand eight Hundred and eight by me WM. HARRISON-Vicar This Marriage was solemnized between us in the Presence of SAMUEL ANDREW ELIZABETH RUSLING JAMES BRAWCK JOHN ANDREW ELIZABETH ANDREW Copied from the Registers of Winterton Parish by Edwd S. WILSON Vicar-May20,1881.

Next is the following: " From ye Registers of Winteringham, Lincolnshire, 1738 to 1791":
JAMES, son of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 23 Aug. 1762.
ANN, daughter of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 30 Mar.1764.
ANN, daughter of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-burd 7 Aug.1769.
ROBERT, son of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 30 Ap. 1766.
HANNAH, daugh: of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 6Nov. 1767.
THOMAS, son of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 19 Ap.1771.
GEORGE, son of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 17 Oct.1773-
ANN, daugh: of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-bapt. 17 Ap.1776.
ANN, daugh: of ROBERT & CHRISTIANA RUSLING-burd 9 Feb. 1777.
CHRISTIANA, Wife of ROBERT RUSLING-burd 13 Dec. 1776.
ROBERT RUSLING, Shoemaker, & SARAH CHIMNEY, Spinster, Mard 16 Dec. 1779. KATHERINE, daugh: of ROB'& SARAH RUSLING, bapt. 29 Sep. 1780.
EDMOND, son of ROB' & SARAH RUSLING, bapt 6 Nov. 1781.
Extracted by E. S. WILSON And J. T. FOWLER, Dec. 1881.

WINTERTON VILLAGE
" Winterton, the home of our ancestors,anciently Winterington the town of the Winterings, an Anglian or Saxon tribe who have left their name also at Winteringham close by, and at Winterton on the coast of Norfolk -is a place of considerable though uncertain antiquity. Its situation around a place of springs, .... and the frequent discovery of implements of stone and bronze in the neighborhood, render it probable that there was a settlement here in prehistoric times, while the Romans have undoubtedly left their mark on every side of us. We cannot point to any beginning of Winterton, as we can to the beginnings of Durham, Hull, Middlesborough, and some other places. We cannot be quite sure that the Romans settled any nearer to where we now are than Roxby and the Cliff. The tun or farm-enclosure of the Winterings is the first thing that we can feel any certainty about. There is no mention of our town, so far as I know, in any writing earlier than the Domesday Survey. But its history would be that of other English settlements where the Danes came, and after them the Normans.

The first Angles or Saxons who came over would be worshippers of Woden and Thor, and their posterity would continue in heathenism until the light of the Gospel began to shine in the dark places. This may well have been not long after the conversion of King Edwin at Godmundham, close to Market Weighton. We all know how Coifi, the heathen priest, was also converted, and how he set fire to the heathen temple and the hedge round about it. The glow of that fire would be seen in the sky from ' Winterington,' as we now see the glow from the Scunthorpe Iron Works. Sooner or later the heathen folk on this spot would hear of the burning of the great temple, and very possibly Paulinus may have preached here, and have baptized the first converts at the place of springs.

And here, as everywhere, the good seed sown in faith soon bore much fruit. 'Winterington' became Christian, and some rude church, probably of wood, like the log houses of our settlers in the far West, or the ancient church at Little Greenstead in Essex, or of wattles of osier or hazel plastered, a mode of building not yet extinct in Hampshire, would be built, doubtless on the site occupied by our present church, namely, the top of the 'Wire Hill.' After a while arrived the heathen Danes, burning and destroying churches and houses wherever they came, but in their turn, too, at a later period, converted to the faith of Christ, and rebuilding or repairing the churches which they or their fathers had destroyed. But to whom or to what time the first ecclesiastical foundation here is due, we have no knowledge; we can only conjecture that there would be a church soon after the people became Christians. 1


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Robert married Anne.


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Sources


1 The Rusling Family, James F. Rusling, The Rusling Family (J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1907), Page 1.


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