Joseph Vernon Bussell (1813 - 1860)

Born 12 May 1813 in Portsea, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Phillips) Bussell — married 11 Feb 1853 in St. John's Church, Albany, Western Australia, Australia

Died 3 Sep 1860 at age 47 in Busselton, Western Australia, Australia

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Biography

JOSEPH VERNON BUSSELL (Bussell-254)

PARENTS.
William Marchant Bussell & Frances Louisa (Yates) Bussell

BIRTH. 12 May 1813, Portsea, Hampshire, England

CHRISTENING.

Name Joseph Vernon Bussell

Gender Male

Christening Date 22 Jun 1813

Christening Place SAINT MARYS, PORTSEA, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND

Birth Date 12 May 1813

Father's Name William Marchant Bussell

Mother's Name Frances Louisa

IMMIGRATION. 1829/30. On the WARRIOR. ^[1] Departed London and Portsmouth 23 Oct 1829, via St Jago and the Cape of Good Hope to the Swan River Colony, Hobart Town and Sydney. Captain John Stone, 27 officers, 4 guards,166 passengers. Berthed in Fremantle 12 Mar 1830.

Bussell Family Passengers on the Warrior:

Alfred Pickmore Bussell ^[2]

Charles Bussell ^[3]

John Garrett Bussell ^[4]

Joseph Vernon Bussell ^[5]

MARRIAGE. 11 Feb 1853, St. John's Church, Albany, King George's Sound, Western Australia, Australia

MARRIAGE. 11 Feb 1853, Mary Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of John Randall Phillips & Martha (Smith) Phillips

MARRIAGE. WA BDM Marriage Reg: #527: 1853, Phillips Mary Elizabeth; Bussell Joseph Vernon ; District of Albany

MARRIAGE. On the 11th instant, at St. John's Church, Albany, King George's Sound, by the Venerable Archdeacon Wallaston, Vernon Bussell, Esquire, of Reinscourt, Vasse, to Mary, second daughter of the late J. R. Phillips, Esquire,, J.P., Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and Sub-Guardian of Natives King George's Sound.

Children:

(1) William John Bussell, b. 23 Aug 1854, d. 6 Jun 1936, m. 13 Jul 1909, Susan Harmer, daughter of Rev George Harmer & Kate (Kitching) Harmer

(2) Charlotte Georgiana Bussell, b. 1856, d. 19 Apr 1871

(3) Evangeline Bussell, b. abt. 1858, d. 27 Jul 1899

(Feb 1854), PERSONAL. VASSE. We regret to hear that on the 22nd ultimo, the house and premises of Mr J. V. Bussell, at the Vasse, were destroyed by fire. It appears that Mr and Mrs Bussell were at Church, and the servant was lighting a fire in the oven with some brush-wood, when the wind caught the flame as it came out of the oven door, and carried it to the thatch of the roof of the detached kitchen, which caught immediately and communicated the flames to the dwelling house and other houses which were all consumed. The man servant instead of attempting to prevent the flames catching the dwelling which he might readily have done, and saved some hundreds of pounds worth of property, jumped upon a horse and gallopped off to the Church, leaving a servant girl and one or two natives to do what they could, which of course was nothing.

DEATH. 3 Sep 1860, Busselton, Western Australia, Australia

DEATH. WA BMD Death Reg: #1506: 1860, Bussell Joseph Vernon; Age: 47

BURIAL. BUSSELL , J Vernon. Died 1860 aged 47 years. St Mary's Church, Busselton

OBITUARY. At his residence near Busselton, on Monday, the 3rd instant, Joseph Vernon, son of the late Rev. W. M. Bussell of Portsea, aged 47 years. Having attained barely the meridian of human life, he was yet one of the earliest pioneers of Western Australia, for he entered the colony as a lad in the year 1829.

Isolated in the remotest district, with a small community, an army severed from its base, he experienced in exaggeration all the difficulties and dangers that attend the first settler. By penury, and famine through defective communication, by losses though fire and wreck, by peril from hostile tribes, by crushed hopes and disappointed aspirations, his companions suffered as he did : but the genial spirit, joyous in difficulty yet temperate and laborious, was his peculiarly, and constituted him ever the favourite of the young and light-hearted, whose society he always affected, and whose amusements he promoted with the zeal of an equal and the zest of participation.

He has left to deplore his loss a widow, Mary, the daughter of the late J. Phillips, Esq., Chairman of Quarter Sessions at Albany, his devoted nurse in his lingering and helpless decline, and three children too young to appreciate their bereavement. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi cum meis. [Horace, Odes, Carm.1.24]

Death of Spouse: 15 Jun 1902, Jeffcott street, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

(1929). TABLET UNVEILED. A MEMORABLE GATHERING. . . . When John Bussell arrived in the "Warrior," at the age of twenty-six years, he was accompanied by his brother Charles, aged nineteen, Vernon, sixteen, and Alfred, fourteen. In 1832, Lennox Bussell and his sisters, Francis and Bessie, embarked on the old sailing ship "Cygnet," and arrived in Gage Roads on 26th January, 1833. . . .

Sources

1. ↑ THE WARRIOR: https://perthdps.com/shipping/warrior.htm
2. ↑ On the Warrior: Alfred Pickmore Bussell: https://perthdps.com/shipping/warrior.htm#BUSSELL-1
3. ↑ On the Warrior: Charles Bussell: https://perthdps.com/shipping/warrior.htm#BUSSELL
4. ↑ On the Warrior: John Garrett Bussell: https://perthdps.com/shipping/warrior.htm#BUSSELL-2
5. ↑ On the Warrior:Joseph Vernon Bussell: https://perthdps.com/shipping/warrior.htm#BUSSELL-3

• Christening: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5KL-T5P

• Marriage: WA BDM Marriage Reg: #527: 1853

• Marriage Notice: Inquirer (Perth, WA : 1840 - 1855) Wed 23 Feb 1853 Page 2: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65484850

• (Feb 1854), PERSONAL: The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848 - 1864) Fri 3 Feb 1854, Page 1: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3174968

• Death: WA BMD Death Reg: #1506: 1860

• Burial: St Mary's Church, Busselton: http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Busselton/busselsm.htm

• Obituary: The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901) Wed 19 Sep 1860, Page 2: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66009615

• (1929). TABLET UNVEILED: The South-Western News (Busselton, WA : 1903 - 1949) Fri 5 Jul 1929, Page 5: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147573904