'Bush2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Bush of Beach, Bush (Bushe or Busshe) of Bitton, Bushe of Dylton, Busshe (Bushe) of Ubley

                               
Visitation identifies the arms of the following family, quartered with those of Strange of Gloucester, as "Azure, a wolf rampand argent, armed and langued gules, collared and chained (the chain passing over the front of the body in bend sinister) or, in chief three cross pattée fitchée fesswise of the second", identifying them as being for "Bushe alias Duyland (Kydwelly)".
_ Duyland alias Bushe of co. Carmarthen
m. Cicely Ryde (dau of Thomas Ryde of Rodes Court by Cicely, dau/heir of Meredith son/heir of Griffith son of Radgan Vaughan son of Radgan Vaur of Kydwelly)
1. William Bushe of Dylton, Wiltshire
m. _ Strange (dau/heir of _ Strange of Gloucester)
  A. Paul Bushe or Busshe, Bishop of Bristol (b c1491, d 11.10.1558)
  B. John Bushe of Dylton (a 1558)
  m. Elizabeth ffernefolde (a 1558, dau of Richard ffernefolde of Steyning)
  i. John Bushe of Dylton (a 1558, 1595)
  m. Elizabeth Banfylde (dau of John Banfylde (Bampfield) of Hardington)
  a.+ issue (a 1558) - Peter, Thomas, Robert, Dorothy
  ii. Edward Bushe (a 1558)
  m. Isabel (a 1558)
  iii. William Busshe or Bushe of Ubley, Somerset (bur 23.11.1598)
  m. Johan (d before 30.01.1615/6)
  a. John Busshe or Bushe of Ubley, later of Dundry, Somerset (d by 1637)
  (1) Mary Bush
  m. Henry Hill
  (2) Susan Bush
  m. (before 07.12.1636) _ Brooke
  (3)+ other issue (a 1612, 1636) - Edward , Luke, John, William,
  b. William Busshe or Bushe of Kelston, Somerset (a 1612)
  (1) Joan Busshe or Bushe (bpt 13.03.1609/10)
  c. Thomas Busshe or Bushe of Ubley (a 1612)
  (1) William Busshe or Bushe of Bitton, Gloucestershire (bpt 05.04.1607, d 05.11.1680)
  m. Mary (b c1612, d 16.12.1681)
  (A) William Bushe of Noad in Cold Ashton, Gloucestershire (b 1639, d 05.12.1711)
  m. Martha Bertram (b 1647-8, d 03.05.1733)
  (i) William Bush of Beach in Bitton (b 1676-7, d 21.04.1754)
  m. (before 1715) Eleanor England (bpt 13.08.1692, d 26.07.1759, dau of William England of Bath Easton by Anne)
  (a) James Bush of Beach in Bitton (bpt 18.07.1736, bur 10.01.1802)
  The following is supported by Visitation (Howard & Crisp, England & Wales, vol 1 (1893), 'Bushe of the Manor House, Great Cheverell, co. Wilts', p216).
  m. (c04.1771) Susanna Whittington (b 04.06.1732, bur 29.11.1801, dau of Robert Whittington of Beach BHouse by Elizabeth)
  ((1)) John Bush of Bitton (b 17.03.1776, d 31.03.1840) had issue
  m. (11.09.1804) Anne Harris (b c1782, d 20.121848, dau/heir of Joseph Gregory Harris of Bitton)
  ((2))+ other issue
  (b)+ other issue
  (ii)+ other issue
  (B) John Bushe or Bush (b 1642-3, d 25.04.1711)
  m. Elizabeth (b 1641-2, d 23.05.1705)
  (i) son (bur 08.06.1680)
  (C) Mary Bushe (a 1676)
  m. John Burnell
  (D) Elioner Bushe (a 1676)
  m. John Holben
  iv. Walter Busshe or Bushe of Stoford then Rowley, Wilshire (d before 23.08.1599)
  m. Mawde Horton (a 1596, dau of Thomas Horton of Iford, widow of Christopher Baylye of Stoford)
  a. Walter Bushe (a 1565, 1596)
  (1) Alice Bushe
  b. Paul Bushe of Sotuhampton (d c11.1596)
  m. Margery (a 1596)
  (1)+ issue - Walter, Mary
  c. James Bushe (a 1565, 1599)
  (1)+ 5 children (a 1599)
  d. Alice Bushe (a 1565, 1599)
  v. Elizabeth Bushe (a 1558)
  m. (before 1599) Richard Gowdridge or Goderidge of Ham (a 1599)
  C. Margery Bushe (a 1558)
  m. John Jaques of London (a 1558)
  D. Margaret Bushe (a 1558)
  m. _ Hawles of Dorset (a 1558)

Main source(s): Visitation (Howard & Crisp, England & Wales, Notes, vol 3 (1898), 'Pedigree of Bushe', p63+)
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