David,
Yes David, Wrington in Somerset is certainly one of the places my Bush family were from.
I am in New Zealand and am in constant contact with another of my Bush cousins who lives in the same city as I do and he has a lot of information about the Bush's from Wrington. They are on his particular line.
I am sure they will be of the same line - after all how big would Wrington have been to have had unrelated people of a name as unusual as Bush.
Our family has been reseached thoroughly by several very knowledgeable people on the same line who have been to the universities who hold the actual history, studied the Wiltshire notes and all the relevant documents. They are very thorough and do not claim any of the history until it is proven beyond doubt through actual documents.
The family originally came from Carmarthenshire, Wales in the 1400's to Dylton in Wiltshire, they were in the cloth business. The name was Deulwyn and was then anglicised to Busshe, then Bushe and finally Bush.
Paul Bushe was the first Bishop of Bristol being appointed by King Henry V111.
His parents were William Busshe and a Miss Strange and her coat-of-arms prove she was descended from the very noble family of le Strange of Knockyn in Shropshire - google them and see how well recorded they are!
All our Bush lines come from John Bushe, the brother of Paul Bushe, John married Elizabeth Ffernefolde of Steyning in Sussex.
Our Deulwyn family of Carmarthenshire go back to Cadwgan Fawr ap Cadwgan and his wife Alice Cydifor and she was descended from the kings of Wales through her mother's line. Cadwgan goes back to the very early kings of Dyfed.
The Queen is descended from Cadwgan and Alice through the Queen Mother's line.
Another well recorded line from Carmarthenshire is the Rede line with Cecily Rede (Ryd) and her father Thomas Rede being pivotal ancestors. The father of Thomas, another Thomas Rede, was one of the two top early international traders and was involved with the skirmishes of the Welsh Owain Glyndwr - the grandmother of Owain was Elizabeth le Strange, another of the le Strange line of ours I mentioned above.
if you send me a private email I will forward you my Bush history so that you will have the early bits and I can then forward your email to my cousin for the Wrington bits and establish exactly where your line fits in.
My Bush line came to New Zealand with Sarah Bush who married John King and emigrated in the 1840's, there was a family row of some sort so some of us are Bush (me), some are King and some are Bush-King.
I look forward to hearing from you on a private email and will be able to send you heaps of stuff on all our lines.
Robin
