A link with Busselton

Anyone consulting the parish registers for St Mary’s, Portsea in the early years of the 1800s will be grateful to the curate William Bussell for his neat handwriting. His death in 1820 however left his widow and large family facing hardship resulting in, like so many others at the time, their emigration to Western Australia. Here they became established as prosperous farmers leading to the founding of Busselton, one of the oldest settlements in the area. There is a plaque commemorating this family still in St Mary’s church, Portsea. To find out more about Busselton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussell_family