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Rushens Overseas!
This page is the starting point for finding your relatives and ancestors in far off lands.
On the 30th January 1654 James Rushen married Ursula Wathmoll at Christchurch on the island
of Barbados. On 21 September 1657 Ursula gave birth to a son James and on 5 August 1659 she gave birth to a daughter, Ursula.
Richard Rushing to Australia
On the14th April 1790 at the Old Bailey Proceedings he was indicted for stealing one ewe lamb, value one shilling, the property of Joseph Ekins. Sold the lamb to John Wells for a shilling and a share of a pint of beer in the parish of Finchley.
Prisoner lodged in Hornsey at John Burrs. Tried by the First Middlesex jury at the Old Bailey before Mr Recorder, 7 years transportation.
Transported with the Third Fleet on board 'Active' 300 tons, John Mitchinson master. Sailed from Portsmouth on 27th March 1791 with 175 convicts, all male. Arrived
Port Jackson after 183 days on 26th September 1791. Twenty one died at sea, reported that prisoners grossly underfed.
On the 9th June 1792 fine weather was reported and also the burial of William Russion, a convict, at St. Johns, Paramatta.
United States of America.
Link to Births.
Link to Marriages - Able to Lula.
Link to Marriages - Mack to Zeta.
Link to the Civil War.
Ellis Island records give an un-named male Rushen, aged 29 years, as arriving in the United States on July 20th 1895 on board the ship "New York", which had come from Southampton.
South America
My son Neil and his family emigrated to the San Rafael area of Argentine in 2005 where they bought a "finca" or farm.
The 1895 census for Gallapegos in Santa Cruz province gives Eduardo Rushen, aged 30 as a shepherd, married and British. This is almost certainly Edward J. Rushen, born 1865 in Wiltshire.
8 November 1896 Edward Rushen (born 17 June 1892) & Ellen Rushen (born 21/4/1895)
27 November 1898 Alfred Rushen (born 24/8/1897)
Parents Edward and Jane Rushen.
The Punta Arenas Consular records for 1911 give a new arrival from England as Perey Rushen. He was 20 years old and his birth date was given as 14th August 1891. It was stated that he was living at Estancia Cullen, Tierra del Fuego. Percy Rushen was another immigrant from Wiltshire to seek his fortune in South America.
South Africa
Jacob Samuel Rushen, was born on the 19th December 1870 at the Cape of Good Hope.
His parents were William and Caroline Rushen. 