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NICHOLAS BUSBY (c. 1582–1657)

BRIDGET COCKE (c. 1584–1660)

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Nicholas Busby was born about 1582, probably near or in Claxton, Norfolk. [1] He died on 28 August 1657 in Boston. [1][3] He married Bridget Cocke on 24 June 1605 in St. Mary Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk. [1]

Bridget Cocke was born about 1584. She died in July 1660. [3] She was possibly the daughter of Christopher and Margaret (___) (Allen) Cocke. [1]

The passengers who went to New England on 15 April 1637 on the John and Dorothy of Ipswich with Captain William Andrews and the Rose of Yarmouth with Captain William Andrews, his son, were examined on 8 to 13 April 1637. The Busby family was examined on 8 April and desired to go to Boston to inhabit. Nicholas's household included Nicholas, weaver of Norwich, 50 [!], his wife Bridget, 53, and their four children, Nicholas, John, Abraham, and Sarah. They were traveling their daughter Anne, her husband, and four of her children. [2] They arrived in New England on 20 June 1637. [3, 57]

Nicholas first settled in Newbury, then Watertown. [4] On 22 August 1646 he bought a dwelling house and garden in Boston. [4]

Nicholas made a bequest to his daughter Anne Nickerson. He appointed his three sons in New England—Abraham Busby, William Nickerson and John Grout—to gather up debts owned him and pay the proceeds to his wife. [3]

Power of administration on the estate of Bridget Busby was granted to her son Abraham on 5 July 1660. [4]

Children of Nicholas Busby: Births and baptisms from Bush [1]

i. Richard Busby was baptized on 19 November 1606 in St. Mary Coslany. He was buried there on 25 June 1608. [1]

ii. Thomas Busby was born say 1607 probably in St. Mary Coslany. He married Anne Reade on 10 September 1626 in All Saints, Norwich. [1]

iii. Anne Busby was baptized on 2 February 1607/8 in St. Mary Coslany. She married William Nickerson.

iv. Nicholas was baptized on 9 September 1610 in St. Mary Coslany. He married Bridget Cocke on 9 September 1610. [1]

Nicholas and Bridget went to Boston, Massachusetts. [1]

v. John Busby was baptized on 12 January 1611/2 in St. Mary Coslany. He was buried there on 23 September 1614. [1]

vi. Susanna Busby was baptized on 5 December 1613 in St. Mary Coslany. She was buried there on 24 September 1614. [1]

vii. Catherine Busby was baptized on 6 August 1615 in St. Mary Coslany. She married William Savory on 20 October 1636 in Colegate, Norwich. [1]

viii. John Busby was baptized on 9 February 1616/7 in St. Mary Coslany. He was buried on 10 April 1669 in All Saints, Norwich. [1] He married Elizabeth Rogers on 7 October 1643 in All Saints. [1]

John went to New England but soon returned. [1]

ix. Abraham Busby was baptized on 7 September 1618 in St. Mary Coslany. He married, perhaps second, Abigail (Compton) Brisco, the daughter of John Compton of Roxbury and widow of Joseph Brisco of Boston. [1]

Abraham and Abigail settled in Boston. [1]

x. Sarah Busby was baptized on 9 September 1618 in St. Peter Parmentergate. She married as his second wife John Grout of Watertown. [1]

xi. Amy Busby was baptized on 22 April 1622 in St. Peter Parmentergate. She was buried there on 1 September 1625. [1]

xii. Livewell Busby was baptized on 31 January 1627/8 in St. Peter Parmentergate. He/she was buried on 2 August 1629 in St. Clements, Norwich. [1]

References:

1. Richard L. Bush, "The English Ancestry of William and Anne (Busby) Nickerson of Chatham, Massachusetts and Nicholas and Bridget (Cocke) Busby of Boston," The American Genealogist 85 (2011): 242–53.

2. John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ... who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600–1700, reprinted (New York: Empire State Book Co., n.d.), 289, 290.

3. William C. Smith, A History of Chatham, Massachusetts (Hyannis: F.B. & F.P. Goss, 1909), 55–77.

4. "New Englanders in Nova Scotia," database with images, American Ancestors, 65–66.

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26-Dec-2022