When Frances Bush was born in 1744, in St. Thomas Parish, Orange, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Phillip Bush Sr, was 34 and her mother, Mary Catherine Bryan, was 35. She died on 1 June 1745, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived by a bushy area or thicket, from Middle English bush(e) ‘bush’ (probably from Old Norse buskr, or an unrecorded Old English busc).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Busch .
Americanized form of Czech and Slovak Buš, Búš (see Bus ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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