When Joseph Busby was born on 29 July 1832, his father, Samuel Busby, was 24 and his mother, Mary Anne Johnson, was 22. He died from 1847 to 1848.
English: habitational name from Busby in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse buskr ‘bush, shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + bȳ ‘homestead, village’. Alternatively, a habitational name from Bushby in Leicestershire.
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Busby in Carmunnock (Renfrewshire).
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