Thanks for replying so quickly.
Mary Bush is my 2 x great grandmother I believe she was the sister of your Isabella. Your research is much more detailed than mine, so thank you. On the bush side I got as far back as John Bush and Mary Teasdale and have Sarah Majors parents as Issac Major and Sarah Compston.
I was interested to read you also have Bousfields in your tree. I am a descendent of Hannah Bousfield (1816) also from Kendal. Hannah married William Shepherd (1816) their son Robert Shepherd (1851) married Mary Ann Bush. So Hannah is my 3x great Grandmother. I have not been able to find any more info on the Bousfields. I wonder if they’re the same family your linked to?
As your previous post mentions most of our anscestors lived on Captain French Lane. I grew up less than 500m from Captain French Lane!
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, it looks like Mary Ann was Isabella's sister so if either of us finds out anymore on that family perhaps we could share our findings.
It's really interesting as I don't often get to share research with anyone. I have just done some checking into my Bousfields. My ancestor was Mary Bousfield who married Thomas Lee (stonemason) She was born in 1822 the daughter of William Bousfield(1791-1856) and Eleanor Jennings(1795-1862)William and Eleanor were married in Kendal in 1816.
It seems your Hannah's parents were William Bousfield b1796 and Phoebe Dodds b1792 In the 1851 census your William is a wheel Wright living in Highgate
and my William was a street labourer living in cockbeck
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A generation back shows that your William was the son of Thomas Bousfield and Margaret Simpson. Mine could be the son of Philip and Isabella but I'm unsure of that as the baptism was 1794 and the names were never replicated within the family(well not Philip).
I will keep digging as they were living a few streets apart at roughly the same time and with the same name. There is very likely to be a common ancestor somewhere.
I will be in touch if I discover anything.
Kind Regards
B