Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Jacob Hansson Busk

Wool Merchant
Male 1688 - 1755  (67 years)

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  • Name Jacob Hansson Busk 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth 1688  Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Occupation Wool Merchant 
    Death 26 Oct 1755  [2] 
    Last Modified 10 Nov 2020 

    Wife Rachael Wadsworth
              b. [J] 11 Mar 1689, Horbury, Yorkshire West Riding, England Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Oct 1766 (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Marriage [J] 2 Feb 1715  Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3] 
    Age at Marriage Jacob was ~ 27 years old - Rachael was 25 years old. 
    Children 
     1. Hans Busk
              b. 1718  
              d. 1792 (Age 74 years)
     2. John Busk
              b. 1720
     3. Jacob Busk
              b. 1722
     4. Phoebe Busk
              b. 1724
     5. Thomas Busk
              b. 1725
     6. Barbara Busk
              b. 1726
     7. Mary Busk
              b. 1727
     8. Rachel Busk
              b. 1729
     9. Sir Wadsworth Busk
              b. Abt [J] Jan 1730  
              d. 15 Dec 1811, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years)
    Last Modified 17 May 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Ancestry trees have a baptism record (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLPC-C46) for Jacob on the 6th of January 1688 at Fritsla in Ålsvborg (a suburb of Gothenburg), Sweden but I've no idea how they pick this as the right record because the name is shown, literally, as "and". I suspect it is not the right record as Jacob was more likely born in Kongelst (see below) which is a distinct city north of Gothenburg. These same trees have his father being Hans Hansson Busk and mother Barbro Jonsdotter Holst.

      Burke's 9th Edition1 has him born at Kongelf (Kungälv/Kongelst) in Sweden in 1668 "of parents resident in Sweden".

      Familiae Minorum Gentium3 has:
      he was son of Hans-Hansson Buske, by his wife; b. at Kongelst in Sweden


      The History of Parliament Online5 has this:
      [William] Busk’s grandfather Jacob Hans Busk, himself the grandson of a French immigrant to Sweden, settled in England in 1712.
      This is part of a theory/fantasy that the Busks descended from French nobility (the de Buscs) which seems fanciful (see the Swedish document 7.22 below for more discussion on this).

      Hans Hansson Busk (a councillor in Kungälv who later moved to Gothenburg) definitely existed and definitely married Barbro Holst: the document at http://www.gbgtomter.se/Rote_7/7.22.pdf indicates that Han Hansson had at least 3 sons:

      • Jacob (resident at Han's property in 1715), possibly the Jacob Hansson Busk subject of this profile. This date of 1715 conflicts with the information below that he moved to England in 1712 and was married in 1715.
      • Sven
      • Anders, who took over Han's church(wardenship?) in July 1720, presumably following Han's death

      It seems that in early records, Hans was referred to as Hans Hansson, rather than Hans Hansson Busk.

      For the time being we leave Jacob as a tree-top, but with a strong hint that possibly he was the child of Hans Hansson Busk and Barbro Holst; certainly born in 1688, but not the baptismal record noted at the top which is in a completely different part of Sweden.

      Career
      Jacob came to England early in 1712 and setted at Leeds as a wool merchant. He was naturalised by Act of Parliament in 17222. This whole side of the family tree (Busk, Lupton, Parish) were all involved wool, cloth, flax etc.

      Again, from Familiae Minorum Gentium3:
      Wilson of Leeds6, in his MSS, says that Jacob Hans Busk came from Dantsick to be a bookkeeper at Leeds, became a merchant and acquired a large fortune."
      Note that Dantsick (Gdansk) is in Poland, not Sweden. Perhaps he had been engaged in trade between Gothenburg and Gdansk?

      Family Life
      Jacob married Rachel Wadsworth on the 2nd of February 1715/164 at Hooton Pagnell in Yorkshire West Riding. They had nine or possibly ten children but only their youngest son, Wadsworth (b.1730) had male descendents.

      Death
      Jacob died in 1755.

      Footnotes
      [1] Burke's Landed Gentry, 9th Edition (1898), Busk of Ford's Grove, Colume 1 page 210
      [2] Burke's Landed Gentry, 6th Edition (1879), Busk of Ford's Grove, Volume 1 page 242
      [3] Familiae Minorum Gentium, Joseph Hunter, Volume 3, London (1895); Wadsworth-Priestley, Halstead, Busk, page 10
      [4] Burke's suggests incorrectly that they married in 1717.
      [5] William Busk (1769-1849): https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/busk-william-1769-1849
      [6] See https://theleedslibrarycollections.blogspot.com/2012/09/wilson-manuscripts.html

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1688 - Sweden Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - [J] 2 Feb 1715 - Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0104] Bernard Burke, Burke's Landed Gentry 6th Edition, (1879), 1879, Busk of Ford's Grove; Volume 1, pages 242-243.

    2. [S0331] Joseph Hunter, Familiae Minorum Gentium, (London, 1895), Wadsworth - Preistley, Halstead, Busk; Volume 1, pages 8-11.

    3. [S0170] Ancestry, England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973, (ancestry.co.uk), 2 Feb 1715, Jacob Hannson Busk; FHL Film Number0496916 IT 2.