Paul Bushell

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iain Frazier on 5th May 2025

Family connections for Paul (Bushell) are: BUSHELL Paul (Bushell) was born about 1766 & baptised CofE. He was tried for burglary at Warwick Assizes, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship SURPRIZE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. He became a farmer. He had a first relationship with Jane (Sharp/e) with whom he helped found the Ebenezer church (Scots/Presbyterian Kirk Portland Head?) with the Coramandel settlers group of Calvinistic Methodists in 1795; he also pledged contributions to the Minister. He was Free by Servitude by 1800 & was issued his Conditional Pardon on 1 8 1801. He may have married Jane (Sharp) in the period 1806-10 (not shown in Smees records). In 1807 he helped establish the Wilberforce school. In the 1820s he became a member of the CofE (St Johns?) at Wilberforce.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Jane (Sharp) was born about 1774. She was tried for housebreaking w/1other & stealing cotton of Patrick (Kilgore) at Old Bailey, sentenced to death commuted to Life, held at London Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 18 11 1792 after a voyage of 10months on KITTY. She was Free by Servitude by 1800. She died on 10 12 1820 age46 & was buried at (St Johns CofE?) Wilberforce Hawkesbury-not shown in Smees records. [Some details taken from this Website] Paul (Bushell) & (Jane (Sharp) produced 2children: 1.Richard (Bushell) was born in 1800. 2.William (Bushell) was born in 1805. He died on 30 4 1807 age18m & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramatta. .. >>>Paul (Bushell) & Jane (Sharp) fostered Isabella Jane (Forrester born 1806) when her mother died before 1822.>>> [Details of Isabella Jane (Forrester)s family are given in entry for Robert (Forrester SCARBOROUGH 1788) on this Website.] .. >>>Paul (Bushell) was an emancipist living at Wilberforce when he married secondly Isabella (Brown) of Wilberforce on 3 6 1822 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He was described as a farmer in 1824, a settler in 1825 & a farmer in 1828 & 1830. He died on 5 2 1853 age87 father of 12children. Isabella (Brown) was born in 1802. She was Free by Servitude by 1819. She was living at Wilberforce in 1822. She died on 14 8 1883 age about80. Details of Isabella (Brown)s family are given in entry for David (Brown PITT 1792) on this Website. Isabella (Brown) & Paul (Bushell) produced perhaps 11children: many boys 1.David Oscar (Bushell) was born in 1819. He died on 6 6 1891 age about71. [.Noted William H (Rowe) son of an Isabella (Brown) & William (Rowe settler in 1821) defacto was born on 1 2 1821 at Wilberforce & baptised on 17 6 1821 w/Henry (Brown) at St Matthews CofE Windsor,] 2.Joshua (Bushell) was born in 1822. He died on 18 6 1889 age about66. 3.George Thomas (Bushell) was born on 24 4 1823 at Wilberforce & baptised on 16 5 1824 age1 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 13 4 1892 age69-. 4.David (Bushell) was born on 4 7 1825 at Wilberforce & baptised on 7 8 1825 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 14 5 1897 age71. 5.Alfred/Abraham (Bushell) was born on 2 12 1827 at Wilberforce & baptised, as Abraham, on 8 6 1828 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. 6.Mary (Bushell) was born on 29 12 1829 at Wilberforce & baptised on 7 2 1830 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. She died on 6 3 1904 age74. 7.-10.??? (Bushell) Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.

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D Wong on 3rd January 2015

This from: © Louise Wilson . For more information, see her book ‘Paul Bushell, Second Fleeter’. Copies are available at the Ebenezer Church bookshop,or online via www.louisewilson.com.au Paul Bushell, Jane Sharp and the Kitty Connection Contributed by Louise Wilson Although they had both arrived as convicts, Paul Bushell and his first wife Jane Sharp are eecognized as members of the group which founded the Ebenezer church. Their connection with Ebenezer was rather intriguing. It began in 1792 aboard the ship Kitty. Three months after the Kitty arrived in Sydney with its load of stores and about 30 mostly-female convicts, a baby fathered by the ship’s captain, George Ramsay, was born to Charlotte Stroud, one of the convicts in his charge. The baby was named Jane, possibly in honour of Charlotte’s fellow transportee, 17-year-old Jane Sharp, who may have helped care for Charlotte’s other two children during the long sea voyage. Later in the 1790s Jane Sharp formed a permanent relationship with Paul Bushell and Charlotte Stroud teamed up with the private soldier George Loder, based at Windsor. Charlotte’s small daughter, who became known as Jane Loder, and two other children fathered by men aboard Kitty lived near the Bushells, and Jane Sharp remained friendly with their mothers. Paul’s life in Australia was exemplary, yet for many years after his arrival in Sydney with the Second Fleet in 1790 he avoided the religion presented by Rev Richard Johnson (from 1788 to 1800) and Rev Samuel Marsden (from 1794). Things changed, and Paul’s need for acceptance and fellowship was satisfied, with the advent of Rev Rowland Hassall as a preacher at Ebenezer. Hassall, an age peer of Paul’s, from the English Midlands like Paul, and sharing Paul’s interest in horse-breeding, helped the ‘Coromandel Settlers’ group of Calvinistic Methodists and Presbyterians build the chapel and school at Ebenezer. Paul and Jane mixed with this group from at least April 1808. Hassall continued to preach at Ebenezer until Rev John Youl was appointed in 1809. Youl was an Anglican at this time, but was later involved with the Congregational Church. Documentary proof does not survive, but Paul Bushell married Jane Sharp some time between August 1806 and April 1810, and it’s more than likely that they were married at Ebenezer by Hassall or Youl, either under the ‘great spreading tree’ or in the new church. Early in 1810 Rev Youl married Jane Sharp’s young namesake from the Kitty, Jane Stroud/Ramsay/Loder, who had come into regular contact with Youl when he was teaching at Windsor from 1808. Through the Kitty connection, the Youls were most likely personal friends of the Bushells. When William Pascoe Crook became a full-time evangelist in 1814, his wide-ranging circuit included the church at Ebenezer, and on one of these trips he visited the home of Paul Bushell, and the school at Wilberforce which Paul had helped James Kenny establish around 1807. Crook’s diary implies that this was his first meeting with Paul Bushell, and Crook completely ignored Mrs Bushell’s presence in her own home. Both being ex-convicts, the Bushells did not receive the deference shown by Crook to Mrs Youl a few days later. The irony of the long-standing connection between the Bushells and the Youls was clearly lost on Crook. Evangelists of the ‘fire and brimstone’ variety, like Crook, may not have appealed to the Bushells but they continued to enjoy the ongoing, genuine Christian fellowship of their friends at Ebenezer. Although the Bushells lived at Wilberforce, some distance from the church, in March 1817 Paul pledged an annual contribution of ?2.10.0 towards the support of the Minister at Ebenezer, the other thirteen supporters each pledging ?5 annually. Religious affiliations at this time were very fluid. By 1820, as the church at Ebenezer drifted closer to Presbyterianism, Paul turned back towards the Church of England, into which faith he’d been baptized in 1766. The attraction may have been the new chaplain working at Windsor from December 1819, Rev John Cross, a recent immigrant holding broad and liberal views. Cross had taken over from Rev Robert Cartwright, who tended to be very critical of ex-convicts and disinclined to think of them as respectable or moral. Rev. Cross buried Jane Bushell née Sharp at Wilberforce in December 1820 and married Paul to his young second wife Isabella Brown at St Matthew’s Windsor in June 1822. Once Cross moved on from Windsor in the late 1820s, Paul became a regular member of the Church of England congregation in the schoolroom at Wilberforce, his wife Isabella’s home parish. © Louise Wilson .

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Keith South on 31st December 2014

Conditional Pardon issued 18 January 1801.

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Keith South on 1st June 2014

Arrived in Sydney June 1790 on the Surprize. Partner Jane SHARPE died 10th December 1820. Married Isabella Brown 3rd June 1822 in St Matthews Windsor.They had ten children.