Agnes (Douglas) Bushby (abt. 1841 - 1928)

Born about 1841 in Victoria British Columbia, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Arthur Thomas Bushby — married 8 May 1862 (to about 1875) in Victoria, British Columbia

Descendants

Died 1928 at about age 87 in England

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Biography

Agnes (1841-1928) m. Arthur Thomas Bushby May 1862^[1]

In April 1859, Arthur Bushby, travelling with his employer Judge James Begbie, stopped at a natural hot springs on the Harrison-Lillooet route to the Caribou gold fields . The springs were referred to as T'seks by local people, but the two men decided to name the hot springs "St. Agnes' Well" as a complement to Governor Douglas' daughter Agnes.

Agnes, because of her age, was engaged for three years to Arthur Bushby, an Englishmen who was private secretary and clerk of the court to Judge Begbie. In 1862, Bushby was promoted to Registrar General of British Columbia. They lived in New Westminster.^[2]

Agnes was much admired by Bushby, who described her as "a stunning girl - black eyes and hair and larky like the devil." She broke a previous engagement to marry him. Their thirteen years of happy marriage was ended prematurely by Bushby's premature death at the age of forty. Agnes lived to the age of eighty-seven, dying in England where she had gone to live with her youngest daughter. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Royalengineers Douglas Family
2. ↑ bcheritage Helmcken House Virtual Tour Family Album.
3. ↑ Book: People of the Harrison by Daphne Sleigh, printed by Abbotsford Printing, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, 1990. Page 127

• "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV63-SS9 : 30 June 2017), Agnes Bushby in household of Amelia Douglas, James Bay Ward, Victoria (City), British Columbia, Canada; citing p. 78; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13285, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,921.