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From: Ada Ackerly <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] Bush
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:31:59 +1000
In-Reply-To: <005d01c220ad$31cc5160$4a618690@peterbrown>


Hello Helen,

I can't be much help, but in "Shipping Arrivals & Departures Tasmania
1803-1842" collected by Ian Nicholson, there is only one entry for "Bush",
the following:

BUSH, Eleanor Miss : note (17.9.1840) for "Lady of the Lake" in port at
Melbourne note of marriage to Capt H.B. HARBURGH. But the note says "neice
of D.W. BUSH of Hobart Town". (Index page 41)

Now if, as you say, this is his DAUGHTER Eleanor marrying in 1840, then he
was not a young man on his arrival, having a daughter of marriageable age 3
years later
and then, being made a captain, as you say, in 1883, 46 years after his
arrival, makes him a very old man, indeed, to be made captain.

Do you need to sort out your chronology?

And, since the ship was back in Hobart Town by 28 January 1841, one wonders
why married in Melbourne, where the churches were quite primitive, barely
established, why not in well-established Hobart, with her family?

Regards Ada

At 20:12 30-06-02 -0700, Peter Brown wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>One last attempt at Bush.
>
>Does anyone have any information about a brother of David Watson Bush, a
>master mariner, who came to Tasmania from Norfolk, with his wife and three
>children, in January 1837?
>
>One daughter, Eleanor, married Henry Briner Hurburgh.
>
>Other than that, all I have found is that "Mr. Bush was promoted Captain
>1883".
>
>Any help gratefully received,
>
> Helen Brown
>
>p.s. Thank you for the help already received about D.W. Bush.
>
>
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>Tasmanian Sites of Interest
>"Lady Nelson"
>http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/ladynel/history.htm

regards,
Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia
formerly Ackerly DocuSearch


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