James Bushby

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• Biography: Immigrated to Australia 1880. Built sandstone house "Claraville" with sons in Wallace Street, Marrickville and named it after his youngest daughter. "Claraville" was demolished c.2006 to make way for units. The sandstone wall still remains. Prior to this, the large family home was turned into a nursing home. James moved to the coutry with lung disease and died in Maitland, NSW, aged 61.
• Occupation: 1874-1876, Barrow in Furness, Cumbria; James' occupation, as shown his son George's baptism record (1874): "Mason" James's occupation, as shown on his son Wilfred's baptism record (1876): "Mason"

Notes:

Birth:
Gravestone indicates age at death 61 years, so date of birth would be approximately 1832. Baptism record dated 16 Sep 1832.

Name:
Referred to as "James Bush" on baptism record.

James married Martha Aitken on 25 Aug 1857 (After Banns - Church of Scotland) in Killearn, Stirling, Scotland. Martha (daughter of Walter Aitken and Martha McGavin) was born on 02 Aug 1839 in Killearn, Stirling, Scotland; was christened on 25 Aug 1839 in Killearn, Stirling, Scotland; died on 16 Oct 1922 in Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia; was buried on 17 Oct 1922 in Lithgow Cemetery, Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 24 May 1917, Sydney, Australia; In military medical history, Robert Bushby's "trade or occupation" is described as Bridge Inspector. This was also shown on his Application to Enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (same date). In a subsequent medical report dated 28 Aug 1917: "No disability, never remembers being ill, never has colds and is confident he could carry out all work. A little shortwinded on heavy exertion. Claims to be skilled at mining, all railway works, bridge building, etc. Has always been teetotal and does not smoke." On this examination his former trade is shown as "overseer of railway works."
• Physical Description: 25 Feb 1918, Victoria Barracks, New South Wales; Age: 59 years 8 months Height: 5 feet 9.75 inches Weight: 166 pounds Chest measurement: 35.5 - 40.5 inches Complexion: Medium Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown Religious Denomination: Cong.
• Military Service: 25 Feb 1918; Full service records can be downloaded in PDF file (below) - from the National Archives of Australia. Regimental Number: 1280 Religion: Congregational Occupation: Clerk of Works Marital status: Married Rank on enlistment: 25 Feb 1918 Unit name: Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps AWM Embarkation Roll Number: 23/112/5
• Residence: 25 Feb 1918, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; Address:
  36 Toxteth Road
  Glebe
  Sydney, New South Wales
  Australia

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Buried:
Died at age 87 at Willandra Private Hospital, late of 11 allace Street, Marrickville. Informant on death certificate: Raymond Dodd, nephew (Robert's brother Walter's daughter's husband)

Robert married Amy Elizabeth Hayton about 1914 in Sydney, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Martha Johnson about 1890 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1909-1912, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; Address:
  39 Bellevue Street
  Glebe, New South Wales
  Australia

Walter married Theresa Lily Milvinia Peck in 1892 in Glebe, N.S.W., Australia. Theresa was born about 1862; died about 1959 in Sydney, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice Christina McMahon in 1892 in Glebe, N.S.W., Australia. Alice was born about 1867; died in 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 28 May 1907, Sydney, Australia; Lived Glen Street Marrickville at time of death. Died of Pneumonia/Pleurisy - youngest child at time of death 4 months (Jean Isabelle)

Martha married John Brady in 1891 in Glebe, N.S.W., Australia. John was born about 1865 in Sydney, Australia ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 08 Oct 1904, Carisbrook, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia; Occupation shown as "carpenter" on Violet Alice May Bushby's birth certificate
• Residence: 1909, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia; Address:
  Thornley Street
  Marrickville, New South Wales
  Australia

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Buried:
Grave location: Section MON DD, Gravesite 0108. Application FB00018772.

William married Sarah Jane Buhl on 19 Feb 1895 (The rites of the Wesleyan Church) in Elgin Street, West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. Sarah (daughter of Elizabeth Bull) was born in 1872 in Stanhope, West Maitland, New South Wales; died on 12 Jun 1958 in Victoria Park, Western Australia; was buried in Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 19 Jan 1942; Electrician (as shown on daughter Phyllis' death certificate)

Family/Spouse: Sybil Blanche Dwyer. Sybil was born about 1875 in New South Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harrison married Mary Elizabeth Blanche Brady in 1895 in Glebe, N.S.W., Australia. Mary was born about 1875; died in 1956 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Margaret Fearn on 15 Aug 1924 in Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales. Margaret was born on 25 Jan 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland; died on 29 Dec 1968 in Sydney, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Biography: Wilfred "Wift" Bushby was born in England in 1876 and emigrated to Australia as a four year old with his siblings and parents Martha and James. Wift was a blacksmith and his brother George "Jordie" Bushby was a carpenter. As young men, they traveled to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, to find their fortune mining in the gold rush. They lived in tents in Kalgoorlie. Jordie had a loyal dog that scared off an aboriginal gentleman in his tent who was holding a nulla nulla over him while he slept. At age 40 (1915) Wift enlisted in the 10th Light Horse Regiment, 18th Reinforcement. He served in Egypt, and return to Western Australia on 17 Jul 1919. Wift returned to the gold mines after the war. It is thought Wift never had any children and died alone in Leonora District Hospital, Western Australia, on 30 Aug 1948 aged 72.
• Physical Description: 13 Mar 1916, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Military examination shows: Height: 5 feet 10 inches Weight: 147 pounds Chest: 38.5 inches Complexion: Dark Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown Religious Denomination: Church of England Scar on forehead over left eye
• Military Service: 1915-1919; Wilfred BUSHBY Regimental number: 2637 Religion: Church of England Occupation: Blacksmith Address: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Marital status: Single Age at embarkation: 40 Next of kin: Mother, Mrs Martha Jane Bushby, Canada, address unknown Enlistment date: 13 March 1915 Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll: 16 March 1916 Rank on enlistment: Private Unit name: 10th Light Horse Regiment, 18th Reinforcement AWM Embarkation Roll number: 10/15/3 Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board RMS Morea on 6 June 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll: Private Unit from Nominal Roll: 10th Light Horse Regiment Fate: Returned to Australia 17 July 1919

Notes:

Birth:
Born at 30 Cheltenham Street, Barrow-in-Furness.

Buried:
See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westaust/Leonora/LeonoraCem7.htm Listing indicates: "BUSHBY Wilfred age 72 bur 31 Aug 1948 Anglican - Mt Marg death cert 16/48" Mt Marg = Mt Margaret Registration District

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• Death: 03 Nov 1918, Tacoma, Washington; She is shown as age 37 (born 14 Aug 1881 in Australia), a nurse, and a widow. The informant is Lewis J. Raby -- who we believe is her husband.; Address:
  1551 South 35th Street
  Tacoma, Washington 98418
  United States

Notes:

Birth:
Death certificate shows date of birth as 14 Aug 1881, born in Australia. Baptism record for Emmanuel/Abbey Road Church, Barrow-in-Furness (dated 20 Aug 1878) shows date of birth as 26 Aug 1878.

Died:
Washington Death Certificates 1907-1960. Film Number 1992537 Digital GS #4220907 Image #1200 Reference #1264

Alice married Arthur S Barrington in 1898 in Newtown, Sydney, New South Wales, and was divorced in 1907 in Sydney, Australia. Arthur was born about 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Lewis Johnston Raby on 03 Oct 1911 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Lewis (son of John Raby and Mary Cruickshank) was born on 17 Mar 1881 in Ontario, Canada; died on 26 Feb 1964 in Neenah, Wisconsin; was buried on 29 Feb 1964 in St. Margaret Cemetery, Neenah, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: 10 Sep 1883, Sydney, Australia; Cause of death: diptheria

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Died:
Death BDM: 35183/1965 BUSHBY GRAHAM ROBERT MARTHA GOSFORD

Family/Spouse: Nita Mannes. Nita was born about 1893; died about 1962 in Sydney, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Herbert married Frances Robinson in 1942. Frances was born about 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ullysuss G. Hopkins. Ullysuss was born in 1893 in Sydney, Australia ?; died about 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married George Harding in 1923. George was born in 1898 in New South Wales; died on 22 Jan 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Daphne Devine in 1926 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia. Daphne was born about 1905 in Sydney, Australia ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married Thomas Hooper in 1929 in Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia. Thomas was born about 1905 in Sydney, Australia ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Physical Description: 08 May 1917, Fremantle, Western Australia; Age: 21 years 2 months [Mar 1896] Height: 5 feet 7 inches Weight: 126 pounds Chest measurement: 33/36 inches Complexion: Fresh Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown Religious denomination: Cong.
• Military Service: 14 May 1917, Fremantle, Western Australia; Enlisted in 12/r 2nd Pioneer Battalion (48th Battalion). Embarked Melbourne 30 Oct 1917, wounded in action in France, returned to Australia 12 Jul 1919, discharged 16 Sep 1919.
• Occupation: 1917-1922, Fremantle, Western Australia; WW1 enlistment papers show occupation as "cooper." Birth certificate of Roy Terence Bushby [1922] also shows occupation as "cooper."

William married Effie Eileen Meldrum on 04 Jul 1921 (Rites & Ceremonies - Seventh Day Adventist Church) in East Fremantle, Western Australia, and was divorced on 13 Jul 1928 in Perth, Western Australia. Effie (daughter of Henry William Meldrum and Mildred Davis) was born about 1904 in Fremantle, Western Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Turbett on 04 Oct 1930 (District Registrar's Office, after declaration) in Perth, Western Australia. Elizabeth (daughter of David Turbett and Elizabeth Ann Donald) was born about 1909 in Brunswick, Western Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Service: Harold Sydney BUSHBY Regimental number: 4162 Place of birth: Sydney, New South Wales School: Public School, Sydney, New South Wales Religion: Congregational Occupation: Civil servant Address: 14 South Street, Fremantle, Western Australia Marital status: Single Age at embarkation: 18 Next of kin: Father, Mr W J Bushby, 14 South Street, Fremantle, Western Australia Enlistment date: 23 September 1915 Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll: 17 September 1915 Rank on enlistment: Private Unit name: 11th Battalion, 13th Reinforcement AWM Embarkation Roll number: 23/28/4 Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A30 Borda on 17 January 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll: Private Unit from Nominal Roll: 11th Battalion Fate: Killed in Action 26 January 1918 Age at death: 19.9 Age at death from cemetery records: 19 Place of burial: Messines Ridge British Cemetery (Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 41), Belgium Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial: 61 Miscellaneous information from cemetery records Parents: William and Sarah BUSHBY, 14 South Street, South Fremantle, Western Australia. Native of Marrickville, New South Wales. Family/military connections Cousin: 6236 Pte Arthur Harrison BUSHBY, 3rd Bn, killed in action, Ypres, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Other details: War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=41107

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• Death: 26 Jan 1904, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia; Cause of death: Scarlatina. Definition of Scarlatina (from www.Medicine.Net): "Scarlatina: Also called scarlet fever, a disease caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria. [...] The strep bacteria produces a toxin that causes a rash that appears 1 to 2 days after the onset of illness. The rash initially appears on the neck and chest, then spreads over the body. Typically the rash begins as small red macules which gradually become elevated. The redness fades over a few days and the patient is left with a rough 'sandpaper' feeling rash. While the rash is still red the patient may develop what are called Pastia's lines, bright red coloration of the creases under the arm and in the groin. The rash usually lasts for 3 days. As the rash fades, desquamation (peeling) may occur around the finger tips, toes, and groin area." Dr. Alfred E. Perkins (registered) attended from 24 Jan 1904. Duration of illness: 7 days.

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• Residence: 18 Mar 1925, East Fremantle, Western Australia; Address:
  15 Sewell Street
  East Fremantle, Western Australia 6158
  Australia

Notes:

Birth:
Born on Birtley Street, now Livingstone Road, Marrickville, NSW.

Violet married John David Robertson on 18 Mar 1925 (After oath and special license) in Fremantle, Western Australia. John (son of John Robertson and Hannah Stanton) was born about 1903 in Bunbury, Western Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George William Auburn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 04 Jan 1928, East Fremantle, Western Australia; Address:
  130 Sewell Street
  East Fremantle, Western Australia 6158
  Australia

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Buried:
Fremantle Cemetary Record Information:
First Names: Vera Lillian
Last Name: Piper
Application Number: FB00010403
Aged (Years): 21
Date of Death: 22 Sep 1930
Suburb: East Fremantle
Grave/Memorial Location: Fremantle Cemetery
Cemetery Area/Denomination: SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
Section: MON SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST R
Gravesite: 0075
Grant Number: F0004627
Grantee: ALBERT JOSEPH PIPER
Grant Status: CURRENT
Grant Expiration: 02 Jul 2012

Vera married Albert Joseph Piper on 04 Jan 1928 (After banns - Seventh Day Adventist Church Rituals) in East Fremantle, Western Australia. Albert (son of Albert Henry Piper and Hester Elizabeth Newcombe) was born on 06 Jun 1902 in Fitzherbert Road, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ruth Mary Anderson. Ruth (daughter of Charles Percival Anderson and Martha Lydia Lowe) was born on 07 May 1921 in Mannum, On the River Murray, South Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 1936, Ashbury, Dulwich Hills, New South Wales; Occupation on 1936 electoral roll shown as "home duties."; Address:
  6 Hutton Street
  Cantebury, New South Wales
  Australia
• Residence: 19 Jan 1942, Canley Vale; Address:
  26 Pevensey Street
  Canley Value, New South Wales 2166
  Australia

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Died:
Death from acute dilatation of stomach (2 days), Caesarean section (3 days), contracted pelvis (years), Infantile paralysis (many years). Attending physician: S. R. Peters.

Phyllis married William James Lawrance in 1936 in Cantebury, Sydney, New South Wales. William was born on 28 Oct 1904 in Auburn, New South Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 1936, Ashbury, Dulwich Hills, New South Wales; The 1936 electoral roll shows occupation as "boot operator"; Address:
  6 Hutton Street
  Cantebury, New South Wales
  Australia

John married Mary Rudge in 1936. Mary was born about 1905. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 1936, Ashbury, Dulwich Hills, New South Wales; Occupation shown on 1936 electoral roll: "traveller"; Address:
  6 Hutton Street
  Cantebury, New South Wales
  Australia

George married Marie Jones in 1935. Marie was born about 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Edward Byrnes in 1928. Edward was born about 1907. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fowler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1936, Ashbury, Dulwich Hills, New South Wales; The 1936 electoral roll shows Dulcie Alma Bushby, a textile spinner, living with George Allen Bushby, a traveller, John James Bushby, a boot operator, and Phyllis Agnes Bushby, with "home duties."; Address:
  6 Hutton Street
  Cantebury, New South Wales
  Australia

Family/Spouse: Charles Eric Baldwin. Charles was born about 1908; died in 1973. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Service: Arthur Harrison BUSHBY Regimental number: 6236 Date of birth: 8 October 1896 Place of birth: Glebe, New South Wales School: Marrickville West Superior Public School, New South Wales Religion: Methodist Occupation: Dye maker Address: Carlyle, Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales Marital status: Single Age at embarkation: 19 Next of kin: Father, H Bushby, Carlyle, Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales Previous military service: Served in the Compulsory Military Training scheme, Sydney, New South Wales. Enlistment date: 17 March 1916 Rank on enlistment: Private Unit name: 3rd Battalion, 20th Reinforcement AWM Embarkation Roll number: 23/20/3 Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 9 September 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll: Private Unit from Nominal Roll: 3rd Battalion Fate: Killed in Action 20 September 1917 Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll): Lewis gunner at the time of his death Place of death or wounding: NE of Ypres, Belgium Age at death: 20 Age at death from cemetery records: 20 Place of burial:No known grave Commemoration details: The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 35 Miscellaneous information from cemetery records Parents: Harrison and Mary BUSHBY, 'Carlisle', Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales. Native of Sydney Family/military connections Cousins: 11 Corporal Francis Anthony ANGELINETTA 36th Bn, killed in action, 22 January 1917; Pte R. BRADY [cannot be further identified]; 4162 Pte Harold Sydney BUSHBY, 11th Bn, killed in action, Messines Ridge, Belgium, 26 January 1918. Other details: War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal. http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=41098 See also Commonwealth War Graves Commission website: http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1598067

Norma married John McDonnell [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edwin Joseph Desmond Bush. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Pamela Robyn Eltis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Meroly Robyn Cook. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wilfred married Helen Oster [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wilfred married Cathleen Louise Wilson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lynette Marie Pullman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]